The Seventh Commandment prohibits stealing, demanding respect for others' property and fair distribution of goods. It emphasizes the practice of justice, charity, and social responsibility, calling for the return of stolen goods and moral economic systems. The commandment underlines the importance of integrity and the need for stewardship over earthly resources.

1. The Seventh
Commandment

3. MEANING:
It forbids us from stealing.
It condemns the unjust
taking or damaging of the
goods and property of
another.

4. The commandment
demands the practice of
justice and charity in the
administration of earthly
goods and the fruits of
labor, and the right to a
just wage.

5. It calls for respect for
the goods and resources
of the earth.
the respect of the
property of others is
part of the virtue of
justice.

6. THREE KINDS OF JUSTICE
COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE
LEGAL JUSTICE
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

7. COMMUTATIVE
JUSTICE
Regulates
exchanges between
persons

8. LEGAL JUSTICE
Regulates the
individual towards
the community.

9. DISTRIBUTIVE
JUSTICE
Obligations of the
community to
citizens.

10. Part of the restoration of
justice violated by a sin against
the seventh commandment
demands that stolen goods be
returned to their rightful
owner.

11. In this commandment, the
principle- the end does not
justify the means will be
applied.
means that if you are stealing
even if your purpose is for good of
the human race, your act is still
sinful.

12. SOCIAL TEACHING OF
THE CHURCH
The Church makes moral
judgments about economic and
social matters when these issues
affect the fundamental rights of
people or the salvation of the
souls.

13. (1) Any economic
system must be in
accord with
moral order and
social justice.
CRITERIA
(2) Work is the
right of every
person.

14. (1)A special burden
of concern for the
functioning and the
effect of the
economic system
falls on the
government and on
business leaders..
CRITERIA
(2)Rich nations
bear a special
moral
responsibility
towards the poorer
and undeveloped
nations.

15. PROHIBITION

16. STEALING
The unjust taking
or withholding from
another what
rightfully belongs to
him, against his
will.
One who
cooperates
willfully in such
act is also guilty
of sin.

17. T
H
E
F
T
It is usurping another
property against the
reasonable will of the
owner.
EXAMPLES
Burglary
Pick pocketing
Shoplifting
Taking of items
from others

18. T
H
E
F
T
Deliberate retention of goods or
objects lent
Business fraud
Paying unjust wages
Forcing up prices by taking
advantage of the ignorance or
hardship of another.
OTHER EXAMPLES

19. T
H
E
F
T
Contriving to manipulate the
price of goods artificially
Corruption
Appropriation and use for
private purposes of the common
goods of an enterprise
Worked poorly done
OTHER EXAMPLES

20. T
H
E
F
T
Tax evasion
Forgery of checks and invoices
Excessive expense and waste
Willful damage of private or
public property
OTHER EXAMPLES

21. ROBBERY
It is an open and
forcible taking of
another person’s
property.
EXAMPLES
Bandits
Bank robbers
Hold-uppers
looters

22. FRAUD
OR
CHEATING
Taking another’s
property by means
of trickery or
deceit.

23. FRAUD
OR
CHEATING
FORGERY
OVERCHARGING

24. FRAUD
OR
CHEATING
BRIBERY

25. USURY
Exacting for a loan of
money an interest above the
legal and reasonable rate; the
usurer takes advantage of
another’s need and fails both
in justice and charity.

26. WILLFUL DAMAGE
OF ANOTHER’S
GOODS
Sabotage
Arson
Culpable
Neglect of
employer’s
valuable property
Schoolboy’s
pranks as
breaking a
neighbor’s fence
or window

27. GRAFT AND
CORRUPTION
It is the use of
dishonest or
questionable
means for
private gain.
It is a general concept
describing any organized,
interdependent system in which
part of the system is either not
performing duties it was
originally intended to, or
performing them in an
improper way, to the detriment
of the system’s original purpose.

28. OBLIGATIONS

29. The Seventh
Commandment commands
us “to respect what belongs
to others and to give and
grant to everyone what is
his due.
It calls for respect for the
right to private property
and the duty to promote its
fair distribution for the
common good of all.

30. It enjoins the practice of
temperance, justice, charity
and solidarity in the
administration of earthly goods
and the fruits of men’s labor.
It demands the practice of
the corporal and spiritual
works of mercy to aid our
neighbors in their bodily
and spiritual needs.

31. Both in economic and social matters, the
fundamental rights of the person or the
salvation of souls must be respected and
safeguarded.
Integrity in
public
service
Respect for
the
integrity of
creation

32. THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING
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