1. IT’S SO NATURAL… NATURAL LAW
Day 14, Q3—RS3

2. JOURNAL QUESTION:
If you have travelled to another country, what’s one law (or even one custom) that you just don’t get? Or if you haven’t had that experience, what have you HEARD about customs or laws in other countries?

3. WHAT IS NATURAL LAW?
It is not a LAW, and it doesn’t take place in NATURE
Natural Law IS:
A core set of beliefs
Shared by all human beings
That can be accessed by all through REASON and GOOD WILL
That tell us how to live our lives

4. Natural Law rests on these assumptions:
That reality is orderly
That Natural Law is understandable by humans
Natural Law is understandable to people with good reason and good will

5. “New Way to Be Human” by: Switchfoot
CHORUS: There's a new way to be human It's nothing we've ever been New way to be human

6. “New Way to Be Human” by: Switchfoot
And where is our inspiration? When all the heroes are gone Hey kids, could we be the ones? 'Cause nobody's famous And nobody's fine We all need forgiveness We're longing inside

7. “New Way to Be Human” by: Switchfoot
There's a new way to be human It's nothing we've ever been It's spreading under my skin Where divinity blends With a new way to be human New way to be human

8. “New Way to Be Human” by: Switchfoot
You're a new way to be human Where my humanity bends To a new way to be human Redemption begins You're the only way to be human

9. Natural Law…
Natural Law is not “dependent on a single individual’s or group’s interest.”
Natural Law looks at what humanity experiences, not necessarily just what individuals experience.
Natural Law can be universalized. This is a great contrast to the contemporary idea of _________________. Natural Law argues for some objective moral order.

10. How Natural Law is Natural:
Everything in Natural Law is there to lead people to realize their human potential.
Much of what the Church teaches is based on Natural Law.
Jesus Christ was the most human experience that this world has ever had.

11. IN YOUR GROUPS:
Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN.
Select five of the articles and:
1) quote what it says,
2) describe its connection to Natural Law, and
3) describe how our country supports/doesn’t support this right.