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Unit 4: Respecting Life and Sexuality

Transfer

Understandings

Questions

Knowledge

Skills

Explain the values underlying the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Commandments and how those values can be lived out.

The Fifth Commandment calls us to respect and protect all human life, from conception to natural death, because all human life is sacred, created by God for eternal life.

The Sixth and Ninth Commandments to a life of chastity, using the great gift of sexuality for the nuptial and generative ends God intended.

How can I show my respect for life?

Why is sex okay in marriage only?

The Fifth Commandment is about more than murder; it calls us to a deep and radical respect for the sacredness of the human person.

Jesus' teaching helps us understand that any word or action that causes harm to another is a sin against the Fifth Commandment.

Abortion is a serious sin and strongly forbidden by the Law of God.

Euthanasia, suicide, and the death penalty are sins against the sanctity of life.

Christians are called to be peacemakers and should avoid all violence except as a last resort in self-defense.

War is a great evil and can only be permitted when all the conditions for a just war are met.

Sexuality is a great gift, allowing human beings to share in God's life-giving power; when used wrongly, it has great power to harm people and relationships.

Pope St. John Paul II taught that our bodies have a nuptial (creating intimacy) and generative (creating new life) meaning.

The Sixth and Ninth Commandments call all people to practice chastity, a life of sexual integrity.

Sexual sins such as fornication, cohabitation, prostitution, masturbation, and pornography are all sins because they treat people as objects and do not use sex in the loving and life-giving way God intends.

Sins committed by married people against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, such as adultery, divorce, artificial contraception, and artificial means of conception, separate the nuptial and generative purposes of sex from the natural act.

Identify personal experiences that testify to the sacredness of life.

Conduct academic research on theological topics.

Explain why abortion, artificial conception, and euthanasia are morally wrong.

Discuss the moral implications of suicide and approaches to prevent suicide.

Provide logical reasoning for the Church's moral teaching on self-defense, war, and the death penalty.

Distinguish between immoral acts of violence and legitimate self-defense.

Explain the two ends of sexuality taught by Pope St. John Paul II in his theology of the body.

Identify the values, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to sexual integrity and the values, attitudes, and actions that lead to sexual disintegration.

Define the connection between chastity and sexual integrity.

Provide logical reasoning for the Church's moral teaching on the true purpose of marriage, the permanence of marriage, and artificial contraception.

Identify and explain the sins against marriage.