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Cardinal Virtues of the Catholic Church

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In the paragraph titled "Inclusive in Membership," it is stated that “the Catholic Church is an inclusive community open to all and appealing to all.” The church is a place where all are welcomed regardless of race, gender, political views, or economic status. There are few religious groups that restrict who is allowed membership, which is limited to the spiritually elite and perfect. Ethics plays a role in our everyday choices and actions, which then form our character. The church teaches us to how to understand the concepts of right and wrong behavior from a Christian perspective, which is similar to what ethics is all about. What I believe it means to say that the Church should be as catholic as applied to the development of a moral theology or ethics is the idea that with the ideas of morality and the ideas of what is right and wrong should remain within the same judgment that the Catholic Church has toward everyone. The Catholic Church is very accepting of all people and the idea of ethics and what moral is theologically speaking should apply to all people within that church maintaining the ideas of the church. As stated in the paragraph labeled meditation “Mediation refers to the fact that the divine is mediated in and through the human and the natural” in order to understand what is right and wrong the main idea of ethics is meditating is becoming one with oneself to truly understand themselves. The theology behind the ethics is figuring out whether the correct decision was made religiously. The biggest component of meditation in theology is the understanding of grace, and by that we are ultimately saved by grace alone. In the Catholic Church it is said that everyone is called to holiness, but to want extent does that apply is what is causing tension between Catholic practice and Catholic teaching. We are taught that everyone is called to holiness, but everyone does not practice this lifestyle. The tension caused is how

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