This series will break down its 16 documents into a clear hierarchy of constitutions, decrees, and declarations.

Explore the unmerited gift of God’s own life and how His "grace upon grace" bridges the infinite gap to transform us into adopted children of the Father.

The councils get their name from the Greek word oikoumene, meaning “the whole inhabited world.”

Including the passion, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, the Paschal Mystery encompasses all that Christ did to redeem us.

The final theme of Catholic Social Teaching that we will examine in this series is care for creation.

St. John Paul II described the common good as both the good of the whole of humanity and each individual.

Let us consider the Catholic Social Teaching themes of the dignity of work and the rights of workers.

Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes the equal dignity and value of every human person.

With this image of the bridge in mind, let’s turn our attention to what CST posits about the rights of each person.

To understand the Call to Family, Community, and Participation, it might be helpful to first reflect on the truth that we exist in relationship with others.

Life and Dignity of the Human Person.

The virtue of chastity falls under the cardinal virtue of temperance.

For when man becomes his own God…this self-idolatry becomes so arrogantly irrational that it demands the life of every human being as its victim.”

In this column, we’ll explore the ill effects of envy and the antidote we find in its contrary virtue, charity.

This month, we’ll examine the virtue of generosity and how it helps us conquer another “deadly” (so-called because it gives rise to other vices) sin: avarice.

Patience, or forbearance, is the virtue we need if we are going to overcome the deadly sin of wrath.