Catholic values
Roman faith tenets
Catholic values are moral principles associated with Roman Catholic teaching, emphasizing sanctity of life, traditional family structure, charitable works, and obedience to Church doctrine.
The phrase often appears in political contexts, signaling opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception: He campaigned on Catholic values.
More broadly, it can encompass social justice concerns like care for the poor and opposition to capital punishment, though the term skews conservative in American usage.
- prayerAddress to deity
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- love thy neighborScriptural mandate for kindness
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
faith · subsidiarity · humility · solidarity · love · service · patience · chastity · prudence · cross · fortitude · environmental stewardship · natural law · moral compass · free will · common good · holiness · integrity
- Catholic educationparochial schools, parish schools, parochial school, parish school, faith schools
- Catholic Familyfamily prayer, family altar, religious education, bedtime prayers, grace before meals
Catholic valuesSatanism
Veneration of the devil
secular humanism · antitheism · atheism · anti-clericalism · secularism
Catholic valuessexual liberation
Freedom in intimate matters
libertinism · moral relativism · hedonism · free love · reproductive rights
Catholic valuesMarxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
communism · anarchism · Bolshevism · anticlericalism · Freemasonry
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