the seventh commandment
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The Seventh Commandment
“YOU SHALL NOT STEAL”
MEANING:
It forbids us from stealing.
It condemns the unjust taking or damaging of the goods and property of another.
The commandment demands the practice of justice and charity in the administration of earthly goods and the fruits of labor, and the right to a just wage.
It calls for respect for the goods and resources of the earth.
the respect of the property of others is part of the virtue of justice.
THREE KINDS OF JUSTICE
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE
LEGAL JUSTICE
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE
Regulates exchanges between
persons
LEGAL JUSTICE
Regulates the individual towards
the community.
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Obligations of the community to
citizens.
Part of the restoration of justice violated by a sin against
the seventh commandment demands that stolen goods be
returned to their rightful owner.
In this commandment, the principle- the end does not justify the means will be applied.
means that if you are stealing even if your purpose is for good of the human race, your act is still sinful.
SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH
The Church makes moral judgments about economic and
social matters when these issues affect the fundamental rights of
people or the salvation of the souls.
(1) Any economic system must be in
accord with moral order and
social justice.
CRITERIA
(2) Work is the right of every
person.
(1)A special burden of concern for the
functioning and the effect of the
economic system falls on the
government and on business leaders..
CRITERIA
(2)Rich nations bear a special
moral responsibility
towards the poorer and undeveloped
nations.
PROHIBITION
STEALING
The unjust taking or withholding from another what rightfully belongs to him, against his will.
One who cooperates willfully in such act is also guilty of sin.
THEFT
It is usurping another property against the reasonable will of the owner.
EXAMPLESBurglaryPick pocketingShopliftingTaking of items from others
THEFT
Deliberate retention of goods or objects lent
Business fraudPaying unjust wagesForcing up prices by taking
advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another.
OTHER EXAMPLES
THEFT
Contriving to manipulate the price of goods artificially
CorruptionAppropriation and use for
private purposes of the common goods of an enterprise
Worked poorly done
OTHER EXAMPLES
THEFT
Tax evasionForgery of checks and invoicesExcessive expense and wasteWillful damage of private or
public property
OTHER EXAMPLES
ROBBERYIt is an open and
forcible taking of another person’s property.
EXAMPLESBanditsBank robbersHold-upperslooters
FRAUDOR
CHEATING
Taking another’s property by means of trickery or deceit.
ISSUING COUNTERFEIT MONEY
FRAUDOR
CHEATING
FORGERY
USING FALSE
WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES
OVERCHARGING
FRAUDOR
CHEATING
ADULTERATING
FOOD AND OTHER
PRODUCTS FOR
SALE
USING DISHONEST
MEANS TO ESCAPE
THE OBLIGATIONS
OF A CONTRACTBRIBERY
USURY
Exacting for a loan of money an interest above the legal and reasonable rate; the usurer takes advantage of another’s need and fails both in justice and charity.
WILLFUL DAMAGE OF ANOTHER’S
GOODS
SabotageArsonCulpableNeglect of
employer’s valuable property
Schoolboy’s pranks as breaking a neighbor’s fence or window
GRAFT AND CORRUPTION
It is the use of dishonest or questionable means for private gain.
It is a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system’s original purpose.
OBLIGATIONS
The Seventh Commandment commands us “to respect what belongs
to others and to give and grant to everyone what is
his due.
It calls for respect for the right to private property
and the duty to promote its fair distribution for the
common good of all.
It enjoins the practice of temperance, justice, charity
and solidarity in the administration of earthly goods
and the fruits of men’s labor.
It demands the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy to aid our neighbors in their bodily
and spiritual needs.
Both in economic and social matters, the fundamental rights of the person or the salvation of souls must be respected and
safeguarded.
Integrity in public service
Respect for the
integrity of creation
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
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