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

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