Unit quiz: Vocation and the States of Life: Work, Marriage, Consecrated Life and Creation

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Question 1

A company defends paying its warehouse staff a rate that leaves full-time workers below what is needed for housing and food, on the ground that the rate is the market clearing wage and every worker accepted it freely. Using the material from this unit, which analysis is correct?The defence fails the norm: because the person is the subject of work, remuneration must sustain a dignified life for the worker and dependents (GS 67), and CCC 2434 states that to refuse or withhold a just wage can be a grave injustice, so the workers' consent does not repair the terms.The defence succeeds, because the Church teaches that wages are determined by the labour market and that a freely accepted contract settles the moral question.

Question 2

A couple married in the Church for eleven years separate, obtain a civil divorce, and one of them asks a parish catechist whether the marriage "no longer counts" now that the state has dissolved it. Which answer best reflects the Church's teaching?The civil dissolution ends the marriage in the Church's eyes as well, since the Church recognises the authority of the state over marriage contracts and the pastoral question is now simply one of a new union.A ratified and consummated marriage between baptized persons cannot be dissolved by any human authority, since the bond is established by God and the Church does not have the power to contravene that disposition (CCC 1640; GS 48), so the civil dissolution does not end it, though a tribunal may examine whether a valid marriage ever came into being.

Question 3

A speaker tells a youth group that the Church's teaching about the body is defined doctrine because the pope delivered it in the theology of the body, and that the phrase "the nuptial meaning of the body" comes from Genesis. Which correction is accurate?The catecheses are acts of the ordinary papal magisterium with real authority but not definitions; "the nuptial meaning of the body" is John Paul II's reading of Genesis 2:23-25 rather than a phrase of Scripture, and the doctrinal claims about marriage, chastity and the conjugal act stand on their own in the Catechism and in Gaudium et Spes.The speaker is right, since everything a pope teaches in general audiences is defined doctrine, and the nuptial meaning of the body is a revealed truth of Scripture.

Question 4

A young Catholic is told that he cannot be considered serious about his faith if he does not support abolishing the discipline of priestly celibacy, because the discipline is merely human and married clergy in the Eastern Catholic Churches show the Latin rule is a mistake. Which assessment of the argument is correct?The argument is correct in both parts: because celibacy is only a discipline, a Catholic who does not work for its abolition is being inconsistent with the Church's own recognition of married Eastern clergy.The premise that celibacy is a discipline rather than a doctrine is correct (CCC 1579-1580), which makes the question legitimately arguable, but the conclusion that a Catholic must support abolition does not follow, since a changeable discipline still calls for a judgement of fittingness and no doctrine requires that judgement to go one way.

Question 5

A diocese issues a teaching note saying that because the Church teaches the earth is God's, Catholics are bound in conscience to support a specific carbon tax bill. Using the unit's material, which response is best?The note overstates the act: the doctrinal claims about creation, the universal destination of goods and intergenerational justice bind (CCC 339, 2415, 2456; LS 159), but the encyclical itself says the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics (LS 188), so a particular tax is a prudential proposal that Catholics may support, reject or modify.The note is correct, because an encyclical's specific policy recommendations are part of the Church's social doctrine and carry the same authority as its moral principles.

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