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Course description:Morality is a foundation course presented in the light of Catholic Christian faith and Church teaching.  The course provides a background in conscience formation and in the process of Christian moral decision making.  Specific moral issues are researched and discussed from the standpoint of Scripture and Church documents.  The students are encouraged to become knowledgeable about and responsive to these issues.  In studying its meaning, history and practice, students will explore how morality shows us how to be “fully human,” modeling ourselves on the incarnate God in Jesus Christ, both fully God and fully Human.

We will be using this class blog to help "unpack" the material of our course work together. Videos, links to web pages, homework assignments, resources, news reports, class discussions, prayer, and questions for considerations are just some of the items that will be posted on this blog. It should serve as a helpful tool and resource for the course of study. More to come!

 Thursday, August 30th - Day 2

Prayer - Habakkuk 1
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Habakkuk+1&version=NIV


Opening up our Course - The Trolley Car Dilemma
Here is a link of what we did in class as conducted by Professor Michael Sandel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSH-m5GtrzE

What is the "right" thing to do? What would you do?

Looking Ahead to Next what will be due

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You may start the work for Tuesday over this weekend. Note responses in what will be your "Notes" section of your binder. Thank you! 

Tuesday, Sep 4, 2018

Read Catholic Ethics in Today's World (course text) pp. 7-13. Answer (typed or written) Review Questions #1-7 (pg. 27).

Wednesday, Sep 5, 2018

Read Catholic Ethics in Today's World (course text) pp. 13-19. Answer (typed or written) Review Questions #8-12 (pg. 27).

Friday, Sep 7, 2018

Summer reading assignment DUE

"As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.  It was a place . . . [where]  teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were."  But were they?  Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, Never Let Me Go, struggles with the question, "What does it mean to be human?"  This very question begins our study of Christian Morality.  

Four qualities traditionally define humanness.  They include the abilities to think, to create, to choose, and to love.  Collect evidence in writing of these qualities in the lives of Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy.  Include the page references for your examples.  As you finish, express in the form of a question the moral dilemma faced by Miss Emily and Madame Marie-Claude, as well as the rest of the society in which they lived.  This typed assignment will be due the week we return to school.