1. Respect for Justice and Truth
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Respect for Justice and Truth

2. Right-On Justice
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Justice is demanded in the seventh, eighth, and tenth commandments.

3. Be upfront and truthful
Understanding Justice
7th Commandment
8th Commandment
Be upfront and truthful
with others
Respect the property
of our neighbors
10th Commandment
Refrain from coveting
the goods of others

4. Understanding Justice
Commutative Justice
Distributive Justice
Individual Individual
government authorities Individual
Regulates relationships and exchange
Seeks fair distribution of the goods of creation that God intends for us all to use and share
Legal Justice
Social Justice
Individuals social whole
Gospel of Jesus Christ structures of society
Applies the gospel message of Jesus to the structures, systems, and laws of society in order to protect the dignity of persons and guarantee the rights of individuals
Governs what individuals owe society as a whole

5. Social Justice Doctrine of the Church
Key Themes:
Profit cannot be the only norm and sole goal of economic activity.
The economy exists to serve the people; people do not exist to serve the economy.
Richer nations must work hard for international solidarity.
We must imitate Jesus by having special love for the poor.

6. Seventh Commandment
You shall not steal.
This commandment outlaws theft, that is, taking someone else’s property against his or her will.
Seventh Commandment calls for respect for the property rights of others.

7. Seventh Commandment
You shall not steal.
This commandment also requires us to respect the beautiful creation God gave us for the use of all humans – past, present, and future.
Seventh commandment outlaws anything that leads to the enslavement of people.

8. Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
This commandment deals with the inner desires, the “lust of the eyes” which is at the root of theft, robbery, fraud, etc.

9. Tenth Commandment The Tenth Commandment outlaws:
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
The Tenth Commandment outlaws:
Greed - desire to accumulate unlimited goods
Avarice - the passionate desire for riches and the power that comes with them
Envy - sadness over another person’s possessions and the desire to get them for oneself.

10. Eighth Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Keep any promises you make, and be faithful to the truth.
This commandment rejects the vices of:
Duplicity – being deceptive or misleading
Dissimulation – hiding something by pretense
Hypocrisy – the false claim or pretense of having admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings

11. Violations Against the Eighth Commandment

12. Violations Against the Eighth Commandment
Seriousness of a lie:
The nature of the truth that is distorted
The circumstances
The intentions of the one who lies
The harm suffered by the victims of the lie

13. An Honest Society
Individuals must listen to the truth, speak the truth, and live the truth.
Citizens have the right to information based on the truth, freedom, and the virtues of justice and solidarity.

14. An Honest Society
The media have a serious duty to communicate information honestly.
Government officials have a serious obligation to defend and safeguard the just and free flow of information, to enact laws that protect citizens’ rights to a good name and privacy, and that public morality is not assaulted by pornography, propaganda, and other serious misuses of the media.
A society can do much to promote truth by encouraging people to express themselves in fine art.

15. Vocabulary Commutative justice Distributive justice Legal justice
Social justice
Duplicity
Dissimulation
Hypocrisy
Perjury
Detraction
Calumny
Complaisance