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Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality
Directed Reading Worksheet
Chapter 9. Respect for the Gift of Sexuality
Directions: Read through the chapter and fill in the missing information. All the questions run sequentially with the
chapter — the first questions relate to material presented first in the chapter, etc. If a true/false statement is false,
correct it.
1. Sex is _______________ as proclaimed in the story from the book of __________________ about the creation of
man. God created man and woman with the capacity for _________________ and communion. He empowered
them to share with him his _____________________ activity by bringing new life into the world.
2. The second creation account says that Adam was unhappy being alone and ______________________. God
created Eve to be Adam’s _______________________, and completed his yearning for ______________ and
companionship.
3. True or False? God made us male and female with equal dignity and equal worth.
4. Men and women are __________________ beings who display God’s power and tenderness in ________________
ways. God implanted in us a longing to _________________ with a beloved “other” for the purpose of tenderly
celebrating their ________________ and sharing the gift of _______________.
5. True or False? Being a sexual being merely refers to the sex act which we, as Christians, should reject.
6. What aspects of the human person is our sexuality linked with?
7. What are the Sixth and Ninth Commandments?
8. The Sixth and Ninth Commandments safeguard God’s ____________________ for human sexuality and warn
against those disrespectful and ___________________ actions involving sex that are contrary to our own
_______________. They encourage the practice of ________________ that help us respect our sexuality and that
of others.
9. True or False? God intended sexual intercourse, and all the actions leading up to it, to be shared exclusively by a
man and a woman in the union of marriage.
10. What two gifts does God bestow on couples who use the sexual faculty according to God’s plan?
11. In what ways does the marriage covenant imitate Christ?
12. What are the two purposes of sexual union?
13. True or False? Church teaching holds that sexual intercourse can only be moral and according to God’s plan if
most of the time the “marriage act” remains open to the transmission of life.
14. True or False? Couples may not regulate the number and spacing of children even for moral or unselfish reasons.
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15. Moral means of birth _________________ must be open to _______________ and the sharing of
_____________. Acceptable methods include periodic __________________ from sexual relations and
________________ family planning.
16. True or False? It is sometimes sinful to practice birth control out of selfish motives.
17. What are examples of contraceptive methods contrary to God’s plan for sexual sharing? What is wrong with
artificial means of birth control?
18. True or False? The Church opposes moral medical methods to help couples overcome fertility.
19. True or False? No couple has an absolute right to have a child.
20. What is adultery? Why is it sinful?
21. Why can’t the Church endorse divorce and remarriage?
22. Why is polygamy wrong?
23. What is immoral about incest?
24. What are free unions?
25. True or False? Research shows couples who engage in pseudomarriages and later marry have a significantly lower
divorce rate than couples who live apart before marriage.
26. Most teens and healthy adults learn that ____________________ their sex drive in God-intended ways is a
_________________ task. Church teaching agrees with human _______________ which concludes that the best
way to express sexual activity is in the context of the ________________, loving, committed and
________________ relationship of marriage.
27. What is the playboy/playgirl mentality? Why is it irresponsible?
28. __________________ helps us control our sexual desires and use them ___________________ according to our
situation in life. It enables us to ___________________ our own sexuality and the sexuality of ________________.
29. True or False? Husbands and wives do not have to practice the virtue of chastity.
30. What is abstinence?
31. Summarize some things we can do to strengthen the virtue of chastity.
32. What virtues help us to combat the vice of lust?
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33. Purity of heart means wanting to do the ______________ thing at all times to please God in all areas of our
____________. We cannot be pure if we are not ______________, a virtue which respects our own and
_____________ sexuality.
34. ________________ tends to make sexual pleasure its ___________. It is a sign of maturity to admit one’s
________________ and to take steps to strengthen our wills to __________________ temptations.
35. What actions does lust engender?
36. Why is masturbation wrong?
37. True or False? Fornication is sexual intercourse engaged in by unmarried people.
38. True or False? Premarital sex is wrong unless a man and woman say, “But we love each other.”
39. What is immoral about pornography? Who is harmed by it?
40. _______________ is always a serious, _____________________ evil act because it violates another’s sexuality
and violently assaults their _______________ as a child of God.
41. What is date rape?
42. ___________________ genital activity is objectively sinful because it frustrates the _____________ of God’s gift
of sexuality. It is wrong for the same reasons that ________________ or _________________ sexual activity is
wrong.
43. True or False? The Church recognizes that while homosexual activity is sinful, having a homosexual orientation is
not.
44. Christians must be willing to _______________ persons with a homosexual orientation as ____________________
and _____________________, worthy of our respect and love. In the pastoral letter titled ____________________
_____________________, the American bishops state that we must never convey the idea of
__________________ persons.
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