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Reflection: Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
Directions: Using the Principles of Catholic Social Teaching, state how a Catholic Christian should respond to each of the following scenarios.  Begin each with the statement, “In the principle of ______________, it says…”

1. In a foreign country, men by law have no voting rights, limited rights to property, and are, in most respects, subject entirely to their wives or mothers.

2. The poorest of the poor are usually women because discrimination cuts off their escape routes from poverty - education, health services, equal pay employment, access to land and finance. 

3. Women make up almost two thirds of illiterate adults in the developing world. 

4. In some countries, women who are pregnant get an ultrasound to determine whether or not their baby is male or female.  If the baby is female, the baby is aborted.

5. In many developing countries, women are not allowed to reach their full potential.

6. In many countries, women are not allowed to form or belong to a union.

7. Even though women are abused and tortured around the world many people ignore the plight of women and do not care. 

8. A group of powerful men in a village stand by and allow slave traders to come into their village and take away many of the female children and sell them into slavery.

9. A powerful government in a small country passes a law called the 50% rule.  It states that all men can only make 50% of what females make.

10. Many poor women in Thailand are also forced into prostitution to support themselves, parents and children. Thousands of Thai women and young girls face the daily menace of rape, beatings and sometimes murder in this dangerous occupation.