Skill A Definitions

• Conscience

  The inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action.
• Evil

  Profoundly immoral or wicked.
• Free Will

  Humans have the ability to make their own choices 
• Good/Goodness

  That which is morally right/the quality of being good 
• Incarnation

  The union of the divine nature of the Son of God with human nature in the person of Jesus Christ 
• Moral Evil

  Evil which is caused by the actions of humans e.g. murder 
• Natural Evil

  Evil which has not been caused by humans e.g. earthquakes 
• Natural Law

  A body of unchanging, inbuilt moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct 
• Nicene Creed

  A profession of faith by Catholics first adopted in Nicaea by the First Council of Nicaea 
• Original Sin

  The inbuilt tendency to evil in all human beings inherited from Adam due to the Fall  
• Pilgrimage

  A special journey to a holy place e.g. Lourdes 
• Privation

  Evil is the absence or lack of good
• Suffering

  The state of undergoing hardship, distress or pain 
• Trinity

  God is three consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons"