Natural Law

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  • Key part of Catholic moral teaching is a belief in natural law
  • It’s the idea that above all human legal systems there is a moral law that every human understands + should live by
  • It was put forward by Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • Same idea in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - which suggests there’s some natural rights every human should have
  • Catholics believe in natural law because as humans all share the same human nature
  • Natural law suggests that there’s moral laws of right and wrong which are universal + no dependent on human laws