Religion Midterm Review
A quiz on the religion midterm
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- conversion
- turning back to God with all one's heart
- conscience
- the ability to know the difference between good and evil, right and wrong
- blasphemy
- a thought, word, or act that makes fun of or shows contempt or hatred for God, the Church and the saints, or sacred objects.
- social sin
- unjust situations and conditions that negatively impact society and its institutions
- natural law
- teh law of God within us, which is known by human reason
- transubstantiation
- the term used to describe the changing of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ that takes place during the consecration of the Mass, by the power of the Holy Spirit through the words and actions of the priest
- excommunication
- a sever penalty imposed by the Church for serious sins against the Catholic religion: it brings exclusion from participation in the sacramental life of the Church
- poor in spirit
- depending on God and making God more important than anyone or anything else
- indulgence
- the remission of the temporal punsihment due to sins already forgiven by God. Indulgences can be obtained from the Church for ourselves or for the souls in purgatory through certain good works and prayers
- Evangelical counsel
- poverty, chastity, and obedience
- humanism
- a Renaissance philosophy that placed an increased emphasis on the importance of the person
- temperance
- a cardinal virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and helps us to bring our desires into balance