Natural Law

• • Key part of Catholic moral teaching = belief in natural law
• • The idea above human legal systems, there's a moral law every human understands + should live by
• • Put forward by Saint Thomas Aquinas
• • Universal Declaration of Human Rights has same idea (suggests there’s some natural rights every human should have)
• • Catholics believe in natural law as humans share the same human nature
• • Natural law suggests there’s moral laws of right and wrong which are universal + not dependent on human laws