• The Tenth Commandment: Embrace Poverty of Spirit (CCC 2534–2557)

• You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbour’s Goods   The Tenth Commandment extends the meaning of the Seventh and Ninth Commandments as it urges poverty of spirit and generosity of heart. These virtues free ... [read more]

• The Ninth Commandment: Practise Purity of Heart (CCC 2514–2533)

• You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbours’s Wife  The Ninth Commandment teaches us to guard ourselves against impurity of heart. The heart is the seat of moral acts, and the grace of the sacraments stren... [read more]

• The Eighth Commandment: Tell the Truth  (CCC 2401–2463)

• You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbour God is the source of all truth. Christ Jesus not only taught truth, he spoke of himself, saying, ‘I am Truth’ (Jn 14:6). The Eighth Commandment... [read more]

• The Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal – Act Justly (CCC 2401–2463)

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• You Shall Not Steal  The Seventh Commandment prohibits theft – the taking of another’s goods against the reasonable will of the owner. Every form of theft is contrary to God’s will and constitutes an... [read more]
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• The Sixth Commandment: Marital Fidelity (CCC 2331–2400)

• You Shall Not Commit Adultery The Sixth Commandment calls spouses to permanent and exclusive fidelity to one another, a countercultural value in contemporary society. Fidelity in marriage flows fro... [read more]

• The Fifth Commandment: Promote the Culture of Life (CCC 2258–2330)

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• You Shall Not Kill  The Catholic Church defends the sanctity of human life as a gift from God. Human life is sacred because it originates in God’s creative love. God alone is the Creator of L... [read more]
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• The Fourth Commandment: Strengthen Your Family (CCC 2196–2257)

• Honour Your Father and your Mother  The Fourth Commandment, ‘Honour your father and your mother’, focuses on family life in all its dimensions – the duties and responsibilities of parents and child... [read more]

• The Third Commandment: Love the Lord’s Day (CCC 2168–2195)

• Remember to keep Holy the Lord’s Day In Genesis, God rests on the seventh day after his work of creating the world. God builds into human nature a balanced rhythm of work and rest, whereby we are ... [read more]

• The Second Commandment: Reverence God’s Name (CCC 2142–2167)

• ‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in Vain’  God has first loved the world; the first of the Ten Commandments speaks of our response to God’s love. To believe in the One Triune... [read more]

• The First Commandment: Believe in the True God (CCC 2083–2141)

• ‘I, the Lord, am Your God … You shall not have other Gods besides me’ (EX 20:2-3) God has first loved the world; the first of the Ten Commandments speaks of our response to God’s love. To believe i... [read more]

• Life in Christ – Part Two (CCC 1691–2082)

• The Principles of the Christian Moral Life  Respect for the dignity of each human person involves respect for the rights that flow from that dignity. Created in the image and likeness of God (Gn 1:... [read more]

• Life in Christ – Part One (CCC 1691–2082)

• The Foundations of the Christian Moral Life  To be human is to be faced with moral choices: ‘to do what is good and avoid evil.’ The Sacraments of Initiation, Healing and Service strengthen us with t... [read more]