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 and should live by it.
• 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 and not dependant on human laws.