SUBJECT INDEX
Jealousy: 1852
Jesus Christ
and the Church:
communication through the sacraments: 947, 1115
following of Jesus: 520
imitation of Jesus: 520
Jesus acts through the sacraments: 1084
Jesus as Head of the Church: 669, 792
liturgy of the Church: 662, 1069, 1084-90
mystery of Christ as something that perdures: 1085
preservation and transmission of Jesus' legacy: 3, 126
as Word of God: 102
Ascension of Jesus: 659-64, 665-67, 670, 673
as the final apparition of the Risen One to the disciples: 659
as the beginning of Jesus' lordship over creation: 668
as the beginning of Jesus' lordship as Messiah: 663-64
despite the Ascension, Jesus remains present in his Church; 669
with the Ascension, the final age is with us: 670
Christian confession of Jesus: 202, 422-24
death of Jesus:
as real death: 619, 627, 629
burial of Jesus: 624-26, 630
descent to the underworld: 624, 631-35, 636-37
God turns murder into salvation: 312, 622
interpretation of Jesus' death: elevation on the Cross and the Ascension: 662
God "made him to be sin": 602-3
in the mystery of God's plan: 599, 620
self-sacrifice of Jesus: 605-18, 621, 623
the death of the "Servant of God": 601, 713
divine Sonship:
Jesus as Son of God and of the Virgin: 724
Jesus declares himself to be the Son of God: 443
significance first realized in the Paschal mystery: 444-45
the Father gives witness to it: 444
divinity:
"homoousios" 465
Jesus as true God and true Man: 464-69, 480-82
the two natures in the Church's confession: 469
interpretation and significance:
"Amen" of God's love for us: 1065
center of angelic world: 331
center of Christian life: 1618
deliverer from Satan and from sin: 1708
end of the law: 1953
eschatological judge: 679
heart of catechesis: 426
illuminator of the mystery of creation: 280
liberator of men for freedom: 908, 1741
Lord over history: 450, 668
model: 520-21
model of the Beatitudes: 459
new creation: 349
perfect man: 520
physician: 1503-5
priest: 1544-45
restoration of man to the Father: 518
revelation: 516
Risen One: 625
Servant of God: 555, 580, 601, 608, 615
teacher: 427
"Jesus event," the:
preparation in salvation history: 522-24
the Gospel account: 514-15
Jewish protest against his teaching:
attitude toward the law, the Temple, and monotheism: 576
contact with "tax collectors and sinners": 588
mercy toward and forgiveness of sinners: 589
relation with the Sabbath law: 2173
reproach of blasphemy: 591
role in forgiving sins: 587, 594
statements about himself: 590
life of Jesus:
agony in Gethsemane: 612
as mystery of Redemption: 517, 561-62
Baptism by John the Baptist: 535-36, 556, 565, 1223-25, birth of Jesus: 437, 525
call of the apostles: 551, 858
entry into Jerusalem: 559-60, 570
events of childhood: 527-30, 534, 563
exorcisms: 517
healings as sign of his divinity: 517, 1507
hidden life of Jesus:
daily life: 531, 533
obedience in life of the family: 517, 532, 564
Incarnation: 461-63, 479, 483
faith in Incarnation as distinguishing sign of Christian faith: 463
Incarnation in relation to salvation: as preparation for the marriage of the Lamb: 1612
Incarnation and Ascension: 653-54
Incarnation and Resurrection: 653-54
mystery of man: 359
preparation:
in God's plan of salvation: 522
through John the Baptist: 523
questions with respect to the Incarnation: full humanity of Jesus: 470
Jesus' divine ability to know: 473
Jesus' human ability to know: 472
Jesus' human body: 476
Jesus' human will: 475
thesis of Apollinaris of Laodicia: 471
Incarnation, reasons for:
according to the Creed: 456
that men might come to know the love of God: 458
to be our model of holiness: 459
to inaugurate the new creation: 504
to make men partakers of the divine nature: 460
to save and reconcile mankind: 457, 606-7
Last Supper: 610-11
main mysteries of the life of Christ: 429
preaching of Jesus in Galilee: 541
temptation in the desert: 538-40, 566
Transfiguration of Jesus: 554-56, 568
trial against Jesus:
accusation: 574, 575, 585
divisions among the Jewish authorities about him: 595-96
Jesus' suffering: 572
question of guilt:
no "collective guilt"
of the Jews in Jesus' death: 597
sinners are guilty of the death of Jesus: 598
way to Jerusalem: 557-58, 569
names and designation:
significance of the name "Jesus": 430, 432, 434, 435, 452
titles:
"Christ": 429, 436, 453
"Lord": 209, 429, 446-51, 455
"Son of God: 429, 441, 454
see also: Messiah
designation:
"Lamb of God": 608
"messianic Son of David": 439, 727
"New Adam": 411, 504
"Rabbi": 581-82
"YHWH": 211
pictorial representation: 477
prayer of Jesus:
as model for the prayer of disciples: 2601
as prayer of the Son of the Father: 2599
before important salvation events: 2600, 2602
high priestly prayer: 2746-51
important prayers of Jesus: 2603-6
Jesus hears prayers: 2616
Jesus teaches to pray: 2607-15
"Our Father": 2759
Resurrection of Jesus:
apparitions of the Risen One: 641
as proof of divine omnipotence: 272
as transcendent event: 647, 656
interpretation:
as basis for our resurrection: 655, 658
as fulfillment of the promises of the Old Covenant: 652
as the final confirmation of Jesus' authority: 649-51, 653
as work of the Trinity: 648
Jesus' resurrected body: 645-46
meaning and significance: 651-55
message:
apostles' living tradition of the Resurrection: 639
as the central theme of Christian preaching: 638
significance for the apostles: 642-44
significance of the empty grave: 640, 657
Sunday as the day of the Resurrection: 2174
Second Coming:
before Christ's return, the Antichrist will come: 675
Church remains universal until Christ's return: 830
could occur at any moment: 673
Jesus' messianic kingship: 440, 680, 1060
Kingdom of God on earth not yet achieved: 671
Last Judgment: 677-78, 681-82, 1038-41, 1051-52
Christ as Judge: 679, 1040
message of the Last Judgment:
as call for conversion: 1041
in Jesus' preaching from the beginning: 678
resurrection of the dead: 988
significance for the Church:
liturgy focused on Christ's return: 1107, 1130
missionary task of the Church until the end of time: 849
the "hardening" of Israel and the endtime: 674
waiting for the definitive reign: 672
sent by the Father: 422
signs and wonders:
accompany his preaching: 547
as messianic signs: 549
bear witness to his mission:
exorcisms: 550
themes of Jesus' preaching:
abandonment to God's providence: 305
Beatitudes as central: 1716
Decalogue: 2052-55
Jewish law: 577-82, 592
Kingdom of God: 542-46, 567
Last Judgment: 678
Marriage:
indissolubility of: 1614-15
original meaning of conjugal union: 1614
significance of the wedding at Cana: 1613
the "marriage of the Lamb": 1612
message and mission of the Holy Spirit: 728-30
parables of Jesus: 546
"peace of Christ": 2305
prohibition against murder: 2262
resurrection of the dead: 994
Temple of Jerusalem: 583-86, 593
the poor: 544, 2444
Jesus Prayer: 2616, 2667-68
Jews: see Israel
John the Baptist
Baptism of Jesus: 535-37
Baptism of repentance: 720, 1224
filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother's womb: 717
fire of the Holy Spirit glows in him: 696, 718
role in salvation history: 523, 719
witness given to Jesus: 608
Journalists: 2497
Joy: 301, 523, 1829
as fruit of the Holy Spirit: 736, 1832
see also: Happiness
Judgment, rash: 2477
Justice: 1807
legal commutative and distributive: 2411
as cardinal virtue: 1805
see also: Virtues: cardinal virtues
Justification: 1987, 2018-19
as most excellent work of God's love: 1994
as receiving of God's justice: 1991
as sanctification of the whole human being: 1995
collaboration between God's grace and man's freedom: 1993
conferred through Baptism: 1266, 1992
grace of conversion
precedes justification: 1989
in the Paschal mystery: 654
made possible by God's grace: 1987
merited by Christ's Passion: 1992, 2020
possibility to rediscover grace of justification in Penance: 1446
Kidnapping: 2297
Killing
concern for eugenics never justifies: 2268
failure to give assistance: 2277
forbidden in Jesus' preaching: 2262
forbidden in the Old Testament: 2261
legitimate defense: 2263-67
Murder as sin that cries out to heaven: 2268
stopping or omitting medical treatment: 2278
suicide: 2280-83, 2325
unintentional killing: 2269
Kindness
as fruit of the Holy Spirit: 736, 1832
God's kindness: see God: attributes
Knowledge
as gift of the Holy Spirit: 1831
Knowledge of God
and human soul: 33
God lets himself be known: 31, 34, 54-55
in historical circumstances: 37
natural knowledge of God: 32, 47
through grace: 35
through reason: 35, 36
through revelation: 35, 38
Laity: 897
civil duties: 912
importance:
in catechesis: 906
in governing the Church: 911
in secular institutes: 928-29
in the Church's teaching office: 906
in the mass media: 906
in the preaching of the Gospel: 900, 905
mission in the Church and in the world: 873-75
participation in Christ's priestly office: 901-3
participation in Christ's prophetic office: 904
right and duty to manifest opinions: 907
vocation: 898
Last Judgment: see Jesus Christ: Second Coming
Last Supper: see Jesus Christ: life of Jesus
Law; commandment; Church precept; natural moral law: 1951, 1975-76
as "scandal": 2286
in God's salvation pedagogy: 707-10, 1980-82
Law of the Gospel:
and the evangelical counsels: 1973-74, 1986
as fulfillment of the Mosaic Law: 1968, 1984
as fulfillment of the divine promises: 1967
as Law of love, grace, and freedom: 1972, 1983, 1985
Christ as "end of the law": 1953, 1977
expressed in the Sermon on the Mount: 1965
"golden rule" and "new commandment": 1970
practices the acts of religion: 1969
transmitted through the moral teaching of the apostles: 1971
Law of the Old Covenant:
as expression of truths accessible to reason: 1961
as preparation for the Gospel: 1964
as sign of the Covenant: 709
Decalogue: 1962
to be interpreted in the light of the Gospel: 1963-64
love as fulfilments of the law: 2055
natural moral law: 1954, 1978-79
and revealed law: 1960
and sin: 1949
application: 1957
as "work of divine Wisdom": 1950
as basis for other laws: 1959
forms of expression: 1952
functions: 1955
immutable: 1958
universality: 1956
precept of the Church:
and the natural law: 1952
celebration of Sunday: 2180
confession: 2042
feast days: 2043
meaning: 2041
participation in the Eucharistic celebration: 2042
reception of Communion: 2042
times of fast and abstinence: 2043
see also: Decalogue
Laws of nature: 341
Laying on of hands
as sign accompanying the administration of a sacrament:
at Confirmation: 1288
at ordination: 1538, 1568, 1569, 1573
at the Anointing of the Sick: 1507
as sign accompanying the administration of sacramentals: 1668
as sign of authorization of the apostles' successors: 1556
Lectern: 1184
Lectio divina: 1177, 2708
Lectors: see Readers
Lent: see Liturgy: liturgical seasons
Lie: 2482
and culpability: 2485
gravity: 2484
importance: 2483
violation of the virtue of truthfulness: 2486, 2505
Life
as God's gift: 2260
God as sole Lord over human life: 2258
intentional murder: 2261, 2320
society has the duty to protect: 2273
threats to freedom from bodily harm: 2297
to be protected from the moment of conception: 2270
Light
as symbol of the Holy Spirit: 697
Liturgy: 1069-70
as constitutive element of Tradition: 1124
catechesis in the liturgy:
liturgy and catechesis: 1074-75, 1095
use of images: 1159-62, 1192
celebration:
adaptation in different cultures: 1204-6
basic form: 1101
elements:
music and song: 1156-58, 1191
sign and symbol: 1145-52, 1189
word and action: 1153-55
how one should celebrate: 1145-62
in community preferred to private: 1140
Jewish liturgy as aid in understanding: 1096
ministers: 1142-44
choir: 1143
commentators: 1143
Eucharistic ministers: 1348
readers: 1143
servers: 1143
modifications of the rite: 1125
of Christ's Paschal mystery: 1067-68
of entire assembly: 1141, 1188
of saints as examples of Christian holiness: 2030
place: 1179-86, 1197-99
who celebrates: 1136-44
comments:
Christ's Paschal mystery made present: 1104
meeting of Christ and the Church: 1097
unity of Christ's Paschal mystery in diverse forms: 1200-1201
different traditions: 1202-03, 1208-9
God in the liturgy:
Christ and the liturgy: 1084-90, 1111, 1187, 1188
Holy Spirit and the liturgy: 1091-1109, 1112
presence of Christ in the liturgy: 1088
the Father and the liturgy: 1077-83, 1110
"heavenly liturgy": 1090, 1137-39
interpretation:
act of the whole Christ: 1136, 1187
action of the Church: 1071-72
carried out by the community: 1140
exercise of Christ's priestly office: 1070
expression of the mystery of Christ: 1068
memorial in the mystery of salvation: 1099
participation in Christ's prayer: 1073
response of faith: 1083
source of prayer: 2655
work of the Trinity: 1077-1109
liturgical seasons: 1163-78
liturgical year: 1168-73, 1194
as unfolding of Paschal mystery: 1171
commemoration of Mary: 1172
commemoration of saints: 1173, 1195
liturgical interpretation from Easter on: 1168
liturgical meaning shapes the seasons: 1095
Liturgy of the Hours:
and other forms of devotion: 1178
contents: 1176-77
participants: 1175
purpose: 1174, 1196
Sunday:
as Day of Lord: 1166-67, 1193
importance of Sunday Eucharistic celebration: 2177-79
occasion for the celebration of Sunday: 1166
purpose of Sunday: 1167
mystery of the liturgy: 1100-02, 1190
Word of God in the liturgy: 1100-02, 1190
Liturgy of the Word
and the Sunday obligation: 2183
function: 1103
Lord's Day: see Sunday
Love: 1766
(see also Charity)
conjugal love: 1604, 1643
interpretation and place:
and freedom: 1828
and the law of Christ: 1824
as "soul of sanctification": 826
as "soul of the apostolate": 864
as fundamental passion: 1765
as most important social commandment: 1889
as source of prayer: 2658
as virtue:
love of enemies: 1825
new commandment of love: 1823
love of God and love of neighbor:
Christ's love as source of all human merit before God: 2011
commandment to love one's neighbor: 2196
consecrated life as expression of God's love: 914-30
God created man out of love: 1604
relationship of love of God to love of men: 2069
sin as offense against love: 1849, 1855
Lukewarmness: 2094
Lust: 2351, 1866, 2514, 2529, 2530, 2542
Magic: 2117, 2138
Magisterium: see Church
Man
as creature:
as a good creation: 374
recognition of limitations as creature: 396
with body and soul: 327, 355, 362-65, 382, 1703, 1711
with reason: 1704
with understanding and free will: 311
characteristics and actions:
action of man: 16, 2085
capacity for natural knowledge of God: 32, 46
desire for happiness: 1718
desire to do good: 1706-07
endowed with freedom: 1705
expresses himself in signs and symbols: 1146
is a religious being: 28, 44-45
constant struggle to decide in favor of the good: 409
needs social life: 1879-80
obligation to follow his conscience: 1706, 1713
striving of man for truth: 2467
virtuous man: 1803-4
Christ's right to judge men: 679
Church proclaims full revelation about man: 2419
consequence of sin:
according to Sacred Scripture: 399-400
choice between eternal life and eternal death: 1470
deprived of resemblance to God: 705
every man affected from birth on: 403
freedom and original sin: 396-401
harm through the activity of the devil: 395
temptation of man: 394
through sin, the devil has a certain power over man: 407
woundedness of human nature: 405
consummation at the end of time: 1045
duty to protect and help the sick or handicapped: 2276
end: 16, 356, 260
equality of men:
according to nature, origin, and goal: 1934
human dignity as fundamental element: 1935
unjust inequalities: 1938
with differences in aptitudes: 1936-37
God-man relationship:
profession of faith: 199
question of God's existence: 33, 41
human dignity, rights, and duties:
basis for and importance of human dignity: 1700
dignity of the creature's cooperation with the Creator: 306-8
human dignity: 27
human dignity manifested in moral life: 1706
origin of human rights in human dignity: 1930
human sexual identity:
created as "male and female": 355, 383
difference and complementarity of the sexes: 369-73, 1605, 2333
equal dignity of both sexes: 369, 2334, 2393
vocation to love and communion: 2331-32
in creation:
goal of creation: 358
hierarchy of creatures: 342
importance of the order of creation: 346
interdependence of creatures: 340
original harmony: 374-79, 384
respect for the order of creation: 339
responsibility for the world: 373
unique place of man: 343, 355
in humanity:
brotherhood of all men: 361, 1947-48
origin and goal of the whole human race: 842
unity of mankind: 360
not abandoned by God after the fall: 410
origin:
created out of love by God: 1, 315, 1604
promise to restore man's likeness to God: 705
sin and the rejection of God: 29, 398, 1739
sin as offense to human nature: 1849, 1714
resemblance to God:
before and after redemption by Christ: 1701
created in the image of God: 356-61, 380, 1702
whole of man willed by God: 362
respect for personal dignity: 1738
right to a good reputation: 2479, 2507
right to act in accord with one's conscience: 1782
right to freedom of religion: 2106
search for God:
god calls man first: 2567
knowledge of God:
God speaks in human words: 101, 109
through reason: 50
through revelation: 35, 50, 52, 208
ways: 31
man always in search of God: 30, 2566
sexuality:
importance: 2332, 2362
importance of conjugal union: 2335
integration in the human person: 2337
twofold purpose of Matrimony: 2360-63
see also: Matrimony
transmission of life: 372
vocation: 710, 1878, 2133
divinization of man as Jesus' goal: 460
to communion with God: 27
to cooperation in God's creation: 307, 378
to eternal beatitude: 1703
to free submission to God: 144, 396
to friendship with God: 355, 396
to life in the Holy Spirit: 1699
to manifest God: 2085
Manichaeanism: 285
Market economy
within the state's responsibility: 2431
Marriage: see Matrimony
Martyrdom
as bearing witness to the truth: 2473, 2506
importance for the Church: 2474
Mary
and the Church:
in Mary the Church is all-holy: 829
Marian dimension of the Church: 773, 973
Mary supports the beginning of the Church through her prayer: 965
place of Mary in the mystery of the Church: 963-72
place of Mary inseparable from Christ: 964
as example and model:
Christian example of holiness: 2030
example of faith in God's Omnipotence: 273
Assumption into heaven: 966, 974
beliefs about Mary based on beliefs about Christ: 487
conceived and gave birth to the Son of God: 485, 509, 723
devotion to Mary:
in the liturgy of the Church: 971
in God's plan of salvation: "full of God's grace": 490
God's choice of Mary: 488-93, 508
"Immaculate Conception": 491-92
preparation in the Old Covenant: 489
interpretation:
dwelling of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 721
"Mother of Grace": 968-70
as mediator, not source, of God's grace: 970
in restoration of supernatural life to souls: 968
intercessor before God: 969, 975
only through the mediation of Christ: 970
"Mother of the Church": 963
"Panagia": 493
personification of the Church: 507
"Theotokos": 495
"Throne of Wisdom": 721
"Type" of the Church: 967
obedience of faith of Mary: 144, 494, 511
prayer of Mary: 2617-19
prepared by the Holy Spirit: 722
prophecy of Jesus' birth: 484
sinless during her life: 411
virginity of Mary: 494-507, 510
as sign of her faith: 506
in God's plan of salvation: 502-6
in the faith of the Church: 499
in the Gospels: 497-98, 500
in the Tradition of the Fathers: 496
Mass: see Eucharistic celebration
Masturbation: 2352
Materialism: 285
Matrimony, sacrament of marriage; wedding: 1601
and consecrated virginity: 1620
and the unmarried: 2230
as one of the seven sacraments: 1113, 1210
as sacrament:
administration: 1623
as sign of Christ's presence: 1613
bridge and bridegroom receive the Holy Spirit: 1624
grace of the sacrament: 1615, 1641-42
main effects: 1638-40
obligatory form in the Church: 1630-31
of covenant between Christ and the Church: 1617, 1661
preparation for: 1622, 1632
special consecration: 1535
characteristics of conjugal love: 1643
conjugal chastity: 2349
disparity of cult in Matrimony: 1633, 1637
in Holy Scripture: 1602
in the order of creation: 1603-05, 1660
in the preaching of Jesus: 1612-17
in the preaching of Paul: 1616, 1659
indissolubility:
as required by spousal love: 1644, 1664
foundation: 1646-7
in Holy Scripture and Tradition: 1610, 2382
in the preaching of Jesus: 1614-15, 2336
lifelong duration of marriage: 1648
matrimonial consent: 1625
as the essential element of marriage: 1626, 1662
nature of the consent: 1627-28
receipt by the priest or deacon: 1630, 1663
significance for the family: 2201
significance of witnesses: 1630-31, 1663
mixed marriages: 1633-36
monogamy: 1644-45
offenses against the dignity of Matrimony: 2400
"Free union" and concubinage: 2390
incest: 2388
premarital sexual relations: 2391
"trial marriage": 2391
polygamy: 2387
purpose:
original meaning: 1614
as a state of life in the Church: 1631
ordered to the procreation and education of offspring: 1652, 2249
marriage union of man and woman: 2335, 2363
fruitfulness: 1653-54, 2366-67, 2398-99
and adoption of children: 2379
and regulation of births: 2368
artificial insemination: 2376
as human vocation: 1604, 2371
infertility and medical techniques: 2375-77
infertility as a great suffering: 2374
periodic continence and contraception: 2370
Media
and civil authorities: 2498-99
critical use of mass media: 2496
importance: 2493
in the service of public welfare: 2494-95
obligations and limitations: 2497
Medical treatment
amputation or sterilizations as threats to bodily integrity: 2297
organ transplants: 2296
scientific experiments on human beings not permissible: 2295
stopping or omitting medical treatment: 2278-79
Medicine
abuse: 2290
Meditation: 2705-08
Men
man created as "male and female": 355, 383
see also: Man: human sexual identity
Mercy: 1829, 2447
Merit: 2006
Christ's love as source of all merit before God: 2011
merit of grace: 2010, 2023-25
no merit on man's part in God's sight: 2007-08
Messiah
anointing as sign of the Messiah: 695
Ascension as beginning of Messiah's reign: 664
characteristics: 712-16
first announcement after the fall: 410
in Judaism and Christianity: 840
Jesus Christ, the Messiah: 436-40, 528-29, 535, 540, 590, 674
messianic kingship of Jesus: 440
preparation for his arrival by the Holy Spirit: 702
suffering of the Messiah "according to Scripture": 572
see also: Jesus Christ
Millenarianism: 676
Misappropriation of funds: 2409
Missions; missionary work
and consecrated life: 931
and unity of the Church: 855
Christ's missionary mandate in the Church: 849, 858-59
discrepancy between the message proclaimed and human reality: 853
Holy Spirit as principal agent: 852
importance of inculturation: 854
love of God as motive: 851
origin and goal: 850
respectful dialogue with other cultures: 856
Modesty
as fruit of the Holy Spirit: 1832
different forms of expressions: 2523-24
purity requires modesty: 2521
task: 2522
Monophysitism: 467
Moral Law: see Law
Morality
and sin: 407
Mortal sin: see Sin: mortal sin
mother: see Parents; Church; Mary
Murder: see Killing
Music
importance of songs and music: 1158
liturgical music as Church's treasure: 1156
sign function in the liturgy: 1157
Muslims: see Islam
Mutilation: 2297
Myron: see Chrism
Mystagogy: 1075
Name
baptismal name: 2156, 2165
name of God: see God
Natural sciences: 284
Neighbor, love of
and truth: 2488
as Christ's commandment: 2196
in the parish: 2179
love for the poor as special form of love of neighbor: 2443-49
"to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away" 1825
New Covenant
Law of the Gospel: 1965-74
relationship between the people of the New and Old Covenants: 839-40
sacrifice of the New Covenant: 612-14
New Testament
contents: 124
Gospels as center of the New Testament: 125-27
relationship between Old and New Testaments: 128-30
revelation of the Trinity: 684
Oaths
breaking an oath: 2152
conditions for refusing an oath: 2155
false oaths: 2150-51
in the preaching of Jesus: 2153
in the Tradition of the Church: 2154
perjury: 2152
Obedience
civil obedience and disobedience: 2242
duty of obedience to government authorities: 1900
Jesus' obedience: 615
obedience in war: 2313
as evangelical counsel: see Evangelical counsels
Oikonomia: 236
Oil: see Chrism
Old Covenant
Law of the Old Covenant: 1961-64
the Church and Judaism: 839-40
priesthood of the Old Covenant: 1539-41
Old Testament
as indispensable: 121
theophany in the Old Testament: 697, 707
unity of Old and New Testaments: 128-30
use in the Church's liturgy: 1093, 1156
Orders, sacrament of Holy: 1536
administration: 1575-76
as one of the seven sacraments: 1113, 1210
as commission to guide the Church: 1119
celebration:
essential rite of all three degrees: 1573, 1597
external signs of consecration: 1538
place and time of the consecration: 1572
consecrated state: 897
obligation to celibacy: 1579, 1599
designations:
"consecratio": 1538
"ordinatio": 1538
"ordo": 1537
effects:
received as unmerited gift: 1578
effected through the grace of the Holy Spirit: 1585
confers full power to forgive sins: 1461
empowers to act as representative of Christ: 1581
confers indelible spiritual character: 1582
not impaired by unworthiness: 1584
grace granted to bishops: 1586, 1594
grace granted to priests: 1587, 1595
grace granted to deacons: 1588, 1596
priesthood of the Old Covenant: 1539-41
priesthood of Christ: 1544-45, 1591
reception:
fundamental: 1577-80
no one has the right to receive: 1578
only men: 1577, 1598
practice in the Eastern Churches: 1580
three degrees: 1536, 1554, 1593
consecration of bishops:
as conferral of the mission of the apostles: 1556
as incorporation into the college of bishops: 1559
confers the office of sanctification, teaching, and ruling: 1558
requires approval of Pope: 1559
see also: Bishop
consecration of deacons:
consecrated to: service of the bishop": 1569
laying on of hands by the bishop alone: 1569
stamped with indelible character: 1570
see also: Deacon
consecration of priests:
anointing: 1563
conferral of the priestly ministry by the bishop: 1562
importance of the promise of obedience to the bishop: 1567
incorporation into the priestly state: 1568
meaning and tasks: 1564
presupposes reception of sacraments of initiation: 1563
stamped with indelible character: 1563
see also: Priest
Original justice: 379
Original sin: see Sin
Orthodox Churches: 838
Our Father
eschatological character: 2771
importance: 2761-64, 2774
in the sacraments of initiation: 2769
in the Eucharistic celebration: 2770
"Lord's Prayer": 2765-66, 2773, 2775
prayer of the Church: 2767-68, 2776
seven petitions: 2803-54, 2857-65
Palliative care
as exemplary form of selfless love: 2279
Pantheism: 285
Parables
in the preaching of Jesus: 546
Paraclete
as name for the Holy Spirit: 692
see also: Holy Spirit
Parents; children; childbearing
childbearing:
basic right and duty to educate children: 2221
duty to provide for physical and spiritual needs: 2228
duty to educate children in the faith: 2225-26
fundamental right to choose a school: 2229
substance of childbearing: 2222-24
children as a sign of God's blessing: 2373
commandment to honor parents:
addresses and scope: 2199
as foundation of the Church's social teaching: 2198
in the Decalogue: 2197, 2247-48
observance of: 2200
duties of parents: 2221-31, 2253
duties of children: 2214-20, 2251
God's fatherhood and human fatherhood: 2214
"right to a child": 2378
see also: Matrimony; Family
Parish: 2179
Particular Church: 833
as richness of the Church: 814, 835
presidency of the Church of Rome: 834
Passions: 1763-64, 1771
and the imputability of an action: 1735
and sin: 1860
consummation of the passions of Christ: 1769
contribution of the passions to actions: 1762
diversity in: 1765
influence of love on the other passions: 1766
love as most fundamental passion: 1765, 1772
moral perfection: 1770, 1775
moral determination of: 1767, 1773, 2552
Passover of Christ; Paschal mystery: 571
as foundation of Christ's Reign: 671
as center of Christ's Good New: 571-72
for the salvation of men: 1067
fullness in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit: 731
Passover of Israel: 1164
Sunday as the fulfillment of Christ's Passover: 2175
see also: Easter
Patience
as on of the fruits of the Holy Spirit: 736, 1832
Patriarch: 61, 205, 707
Patriarchate: 887
Peace: 2304
as fruit of the Holy Spirit: 736, 1832
as fruit of love: 1829
disorders threatening freedom to be eliminated: 2317
earthly pace as "image of the peace of Christ": 2305
Penance: see Penance, sacrament of; Contrition as of reconciliation in daily life: 1435
and Baptism: 1425-26, 1427, 1429
and the Eucharist: 1436
as liturgical celebration:
absolution:
does not dispense from reparation: 1459
formula of absolution: 1449
in danger of death: 1483
of sins: 1424
confession of sins: 1456, 1458
essential parts: 1491
fundamental structure: 1480
historically: 1447-48
penance imposed by the confessor: 1460, 1494
preparation: 1454
as sacrament of reconciliation with God and the Church: 980, 1440, 1486
called:
"sacrament of confession": 1424
"sacrament of conversion": 1423
"sacrament of forgiveness": 1424
"sacrament of Penance": 1423
"sacrament of reconciliation": 1424
effects:
basic effects: 1422, 1496
reconciliation with God: 980, 1468
reconciliation with the Church: 980, 1469
eschatological sense: 1470
further means to obtain forgiveness of sins: 1434
prayer and the reading of Scripture: 1437
in communal celebration: 1482
instituted by Christ: 1446, 1485
meaning of contrition: 1430-33, 1452-53, 1492
minister:
through the bishop and priest: 1461, 1495
necessity for salvation:
as liturgical expression of conversion and forgiveness: 1440
for reconciliation with God and the Church: 1484
for forgiveness of mortal sin: 1395
for satisfaction: 1459
for preparation to receive Communion: 1385
to attain the grace of justification: 1446
obligation to receive: 1457, 1493, 2042
sacramental seal of confession: 1467, 2490
Penance, works of
conversion as precondition: 1430
meaning: 1460
on behalf of the dead: 1032
Pentateuch: 702
Pentecost
and Confirmation: 1287
beginning of the "age of the Church": 1076
completion of Christ's Passover: 731
opening of the Reign of God: 732
revelation of the Church in the world: 726, 830, 1076
revelation of the entire Trinity: 732
Perfection: see Holiness
Perjury: 2476
see also: Oaths
Permissiveness: 2526
Person: see Trinity; Society; Man
Peter
as foundation of the Church: 442
as witness to the Resurrection: 640-42
authority: 552-53, 765, 816, 862
commissioned by Christ: 881
confession of the Messiah: 440, 442-43, 554-56
power to bind and to loose: 1444
Piety
as gift of the Holy Spirit: 1831
Piety, forms of
as expression of the Christian life: 1674, 1679
significance of these forms and manners of expression: 1674-76
Plants
exploitation forbidden: 1415
Politics: 407
Polygamy: 1610, 1645, 2387
see also: Matrimony
Polytheism: 2112
Pope: see Apostolic succession; Church:
structure: hierarchical constitution
Pornography: 2354
Poverty: the poor
active love for the poor: 2443-49, 2462-63
moral responsibility of wealthy nations: 2439-40
poverty as evangelical counsel: 915, 944
poverty of heart in imitation of Christ: 2455-47
see also: Development aid; Evangelical counsels: Justice
Praise: see Doxology; Prayer, forms of
Prayer
and ordained ministers: 2686, 2695
as always possible: 2743
as vital necessity: 2744
bound up in the history of man:
between the fall and restoration of man: 2568
conversation at the burning bush: 2575
in creation: 2569
in Judaism: 2577, 2579, 2586
in the Old Covenant: 2568-89, 2592-97
prayer of Jesus: 2598-2616, 2620
prayer of Mary: 2617-19, 2622
prayer of the Church: 2623-25
Christian prayer: 2564-65
as cooperation with God's providence: 2738
providence: 1738
as man's answer to God's call: 2560-62
as precondition for obeying God's commandments: 2098
different traditions: 2650-51, 2684
Lord's Prayer: 17
meaning of the word "Amen": 1061-65
prayer and life as inseparable: 2725, 2745, 2752
relationship to God in: 2592, 2786-88
special place of Jesus in:
Jesus' name as heart of Christian prayer: 435
possible only in Christ' name: 2664
efficacy: 2738-41
family prayer: 2685, 2694
for the dying: 2299
God's thirst and human thirst: 2560
heaven as God's place": 2794-96
humility as foundation: 2559
importance of catechesis: 2688
in communion with Mary: 2673-79, 2682
in the community of believers: 2790-93
Jesus teaches how to pray:
by means of his own prayer: 2607, 2621
conversion of heart: 2608
in order to do the will of the Father: 2611
in three important parables: 2613
prayer in faith: 2609
prayer in filial boldness: 2610
prayer in the Holy Spirit: 2615, 2661
to ask in his name: 2614
vigilance in prayer: 2612, 2730
meaning and importance: 17, 2590
necessary for Church unity: 821
objections to: 2726-27
saints as masters of prayer: 2683-84, 2692
sources of: 2662
every day: 2659-60
faith: 2098, 2656
Holy Spirit: 688, 741, 2652
hope: 2098, 2657
liturgy of the Church: 1073, 2655
love: 2098, 2658
Word of God: 2653-54
to Jesus: 451, 2616, 2665-69, 2681
to the Father: 2680, 2779-85, 2788, 2792, 2797-2802
to the Holy Spirit: 2670-72
trust in prayer: 2777-78
"without ceasing:: 2742
Prayer, difficulties in: 2728
inner dryness: 2731
distractions: 2729
doubts: 2735-37, 2756
Prayer, forms of
adoration: 2628
blessing: 2626-27
ecclesial forms of prayer: 2625
great range of forms of Christian prayer: 2644, 2663, 2684, 2693
petition: 2629
for the "coming of the Kingdom of God": 2646, 2816
in every need and occasion: 2633
in Holy Scripture: 2630
intercession: 2634-36, 2647
praise of God: 2639-43, 2649
as foundational movement of Christian prayer: 2626
the "hallowing" of God's name: 2807-15
request for daily bread: 2828-37
request for deliverance from evil: 2850-54
request for forgiveness: 2631, 2838-41
request for love of neighbor and of enemies: 2842
request for the spirit of discernment and power: 2846
thanksgiving: 2637-38
see also: Doxology
see also: Prayer, ways of
Prayer life of: 2697
Prayer, places of: 2691, 2696
Prayer, temptations at
acedia: 2733, 2755
lack of faith: 2732, 2755
Prayer, ways of
contemplative prayer: 2709-19, 2721, 2724
meditation: 2705-08, 2721, 2723
vocal prayer: 2700-04, 2721-22
Prayer groups: 2689
Precepts of the Church: 2041-43, 2048
Prenatal diagnosis: 2274
Presumption: 2091, 2092
Pride
capital sin: 1866
root of envy: 2540
sin against love: 2094
Priest; priesthood; presbyterate
Christ's priesthood: 1551
common priesthood of the baptized: 1546-47, 1591
human weakness: 1550
ministerial priesthood:
acts "in persona Christi": 1548
acts "in the name of the whole Church": 1552-53
as Christ's means for the building up of his Church: 1547
as connection to Christ and the apostles: 1120
as service to the common priesthood: 1120, 1547, 1592
complete dependence on the priesthood of Christ: 1544-45
connection to the bishops: 1564
for the sake of men and the community of the Church: 1551
presence of Christ: 1088, 1548-49
presbyterate:
as degree of ordination: 1536
collegiality with bishop: 877
importance of the promise of obedience to the bishop: 1567
priesthood of the Old Covenant: 1539-41
subordinate to the office of the bishop: 1562
unity of: 1568
prohibition or release from priestly obligations: 1583
tasks of the priest:
administers the Anointing of the Sick: 1516
administers the sacrament of Penance: 1461-67
cooperation of the laity: 900
co-worker of the bishop: 1562
exercise of obligations and functions: 1583
Liturgy of the Hours: 1175
presides at Eucharist4: 1142, 1566
receives marital consent: 1630
represent the bishop in local assembly: 1567
see also: Orders, sacrament of Holy
Private revelations: 67
Proclamation of the Gospel
and catechesis: 6
as liturgy: 1070
Church's obligation to evangelize: 848
command to proclaim the Good News: 2, 3, 58, 74
fulfillment at Christ's descent into hell: 634
motive and source: 49, 429
transmission of Christ's legacy: 3
Profession
access to employment: 2433
free choice of profession: 2230
profession secrets: 2491
Promises: 2410
in God's name: 2147
to God: 2101
see also: Vows
Property
administration of goods: 2407, 2451
appropriation of goods: 2402
right to private property: 2401, 2403
and political authority: 2406
universal destination of goods: 2402, 2452
use of goods: 2404-5
Prophet
as author of Sacred Scripture: 702
Christ's function as prophet: 436
John the Baptist as "more than a prophet": 719
prophecy of the Holy Spirit: 715
task of the prophets in Israel: 64, 218
veneration of the prophets: 61
Prostitution: 2355
Providence
and evil: 309-14, 324
and the cooperation of the creature: 306-7, 323
God can reveal the future: 2115
God's disposition in creation: 302, 321
jesus asks for abandonment to providence: 305, 322
testimony of Sacred Scripture: 303
Provinces: see Ecclesiastical provinces
Prudence
as a cardinal virtue: 1805-6
Psalms
as prayer of the People of God: 2586
as school of prayer: 2587
importance for daily prayer: 2589
in the Church's liturgy: 1093
in the liturgy of the Old Covenant: 2588
People of God as expressed in the Psalms: 716
Psalms as book of the Old Testament: 2585
"Psalms of David": 2579
Punishment
death penalty:
imposition according to the traditional teaching of the Church: 2266
nonaggression as mark of love: 2306
preference for punishment without bloodshed: 2267
limitations on punishment: 2267
meaning and effect: 2266
right of society to protect itself: 2265
see also: Torture
Purgatory: 1030-32
Purity of heart: 2518
demands purification of the social atmosphere: 2525
goal: 2519, 2531
in the struggle against carnal desires: 2517, 2530
means of preserving purity: 2520, 2532
requires modesty: 2521, 2533
Rape: 2356
Readers: 1143
Reason
and faith: 156-59, 286
and Law: 1951
as ability of man: 286
sin as offense against: 1849
Redemption
as center of the Christian message: 571, 601
as source of Christ's authority over the Church: 669
continues in the liturgy: 1069
meaning ascertainable only in faith: 573
requires perseverance in charity: 837
Religion, virtue of
duty of religious worship: 2105
oaths of religious worship: 2105
oaths as lack of respect for God: 2149
offenses against virtue of religion: 2117-22
sacrilege: 2120
simony: 2121
tempting God's name: 2143
use of words with respect to holy things: 2142
Religious life: religious: see Church: structure; Evangelical counsels
Reparation
in the New Testament: 2412, 2424
for offenses against the truth: 2487, 2509
Reproduction: see Matrimony: purpose
Resistance
against unjust authority: 2242
with force of arms: 2243
Responsibility
and participation in the common good: 1914
for the sins of others: 1868
imputability: 1735-36
in virtue of man's freedom: 1734
role of conscience: 1781
Resurrection of Christ: see Jesus Christ: Resurrection of Jesus
Resurrection of the dead: 988-1004
already risen with Christ in Baptism: 1002-4
and Jesus: 994-5, 1019
as work of the Trinity: 989
in Christianity: 991
in the Old Testament: 992-93
on the last day: 1001
"resurrection of the flesh": 686, 990, 1015, 1017
the transfigured body of the resurrected: 999-1000
Revelation
can appear obscure: 157
complete with Jesus Christ: 65-66
contents:
revelation of:
Decalogue in the context of the Covenant: 2060
definitive truth: 124
future: 2115
God's love: 1701
God's plan of salvation: 50
law of the Old and New Covenants: 1952
man: 2419
Mary's virginity: 502
mercy of God with sinners: 1846
reason for choosing Israel: 218
resurrection of the dead: 992
sinfulness of man: 386-90
the Church: 726, 1076
revelation of God:
God as liberator: 2084
in Israel: 2085
of the Decalogue: 2059, 2070-71
of the Father: 238-42
of the Holy Spirit: 243-48, 688
of the name of God: 203-14, 2143
of the Son: 152, 240, 647-48, 651
of the Trinity
as mystery of faith: 237
on Pentecost: 732
through the Holy Spirit: 684, 687
faith as response: 142-43, 153-65
God willed to reveal himself: 35, 50-53, 68-69
in human words: 101
in Sacred Scripture: 80-83, 124
in salvation history:
after the fall: 55
in Abraham: 59, 72
in Israel: 60-64
in Jesus Christ: 65-67, 73
in Noah: 56-58, 71
in our first parents: 54, 70
in Tradition: 80-83
natural knowledge of God possible: 36
private revelations: 67
transmission of revelation:
through the apostles: 75
through the bishops: 77
through the Church: 74, 79, 82
through the evangelists: 76
through the teaching office: 78
Revenge: 2262
Rite
different rites within the universal Church: 1203
modification of rite: 1125
Rosary: 971, 2678, 2708
Sabbath; Sabbath rest
as center of Israel's Law: 348
as end of God's work of creation: 345, 347
distinguished from the Christian Sunday: 2175, 2190
holiness of the Sabbath: 2168
Jesus and the Sabbath commandment: 2173
meaning and importance of the third commandment: 2168-73, 2189
meaning of the Sabbath:
as sign of God's irrevocable covenant: 2171
day of rest based on God's example: 2172
for the praise of God: 2171
memorial of God's act of creation: 2169
memorial of Israel's deliverance: 2170
Sacrament: 1084, 1131
as masterpieces of God": 1116
concept: 774
ecclesial dimension of the sacraments:
belong to the Church: 1118
communicate growth and healing: 798
communicate riches of Christ: 947
form the bond of the Church's unity: 815
role of the sacraments:
in catechesis: 6
in liturgical catechesis: 1074-75
in the dialogue for Christian unity: 1126
sacramental mission of the Church: 738-40, 1132
effects:
acts "ex opere operato": 1128
confers the grace it signifies: 1127
fruit benefits all believers: 950
sacramental grace: 1134, 2003
stamps with an indelible mark: 698, 1121
foundation in mysteries of Jesus' life: 1115
importance of sacramental signs: 1130
in the life of the Christian:
administration of sacraments in danger of death: 1401
as preparation for death: 1680
Baptism as the first sacrament of the forgiveness of sins: 977-78
conferral of ministry in the Church: 875
end of sacramental life at death: 1682
for strength on the way to Christian holiness, 1133, 2030
importance of the sacraments of Christian initiation: 1212, 1275, 1425, 1533
sacrament of Holy Orders and Matrimony
as sacraments of singular mission: 1534-35
sacraments of healing: 1420-21
instituted by Jesus Christ: 1114, 1210
necessity for salvation: 1129
prefigured by signs of the Old Covenant: 1150
presence of Christ in the sacraments: 1088
purpose: 1123
"sacramental economy": 1076
seven in number: 1113, 1117, 1210
unique place of the Eucharist: 1211
"Sacrament, Most Blessed"
as name for the Eucharistic elements: 1330
Sacramentals
forms:
blessings: 1669, 1671, 168
consecration of things and people: 1672
exorcism: 1673
instituted by the Church: 1667
meaning and purpose: 1667-68, 1670, 1677
Sacrifice
as sign of adoration and thanksgiving: 2099
inner and outward acts of sacrifice: 2100
Sacrilege: 2120
Sadness: 1765, 2553
Saints: see Holiness
Salvation
and faith: 161
comes from God alone: 169
in the New Testament: 124
in the Old Testament: 122
promised by God: 55
see also: Beatitude; Economy of salvation
"Sanctus": 559
Satan: see Devil
Scandal
by persons commanding respect: 2285
nature and meaning; 2284, 2326
provoked by laws,
institutions, or public opinion: 2286
responsibility for: 2287
Schism: 2089
as destruction of the unity of the Church: 817
Science
values and dangers: 2293-94
Scripture, Sacred: 81
and Tradition: 78, 80-84, 95
authorship and inspiration:
Christ as the only Word of the Father: 102, 134
God as author: 105, 136, 304, 688
men as inspired authors: 105, 702
Sacred Scripture as Word of God: 103, 104, 135
meaning and interpretation:
exegesis: 109, 119
free access necessary: 131
fundamental principle of the interpretation: 111, 137
multiple senses of Scripture: 115-19
study of Sacred Scripture: 132, 133
task of exegetes: 119
typology: 128-30
Scripture as a whole:
Christian canon of Scripture: 120, 138
Christian reading of the whole Scripture: 129, 140
Jewish arrangement of Scripture: 702
New Testament: 124-27
Christ as central theme: 124
significance of the Gospels: 125, 127, 139
Old Testament: 121-23
indispensability of: 123
special place of the book of Genesis: 289
significance:
as nourishment for Christian life: 141
as source of prayer: 2653-54
as source of strength for the Church: 104, 131
teaches the truth: 107
see also: New Testament; Old Testament
Seal
as symbol of anointing: 698
of the Holy Spirit at Confirmation: 1295-96
of the sacraments: 1121
sacramental seal: see Penance, sacrament of
Seat, cathedra
of priest or bishop in the liturgy: 1184
Secular institutes: see Evangelical counsels; Church: structure
Self-control
as fruit of the Holy Spirit: 736, 1832
Self-knowledge: 2340
Self-mastery
as life-long task: 2342
means for self-mastery: 2340
see also: Ascesis; Self-control
Servant of God
features of Messiah
revealed in the songs of the Servant: 713
Jesus as "Servant of God": 555, 580, 601, 608, 615
Servers: 1143
Sexual abuse: 389
see also Rape
Sexual identity: see Man: human sexual identity; Matrimony; purpose
Sickness
charism of healing as gift of the Holy Spirit: 1508
Christ's healing mission: 1503-05
in the Church: 1509
in the disciples: 1506-07
interpretation of sickness in the Old Testament: 1502
significance in human life: 1500-01
Signs
from the world of men: 1146-48
liturgical signs: 1149
of the Covenant of the People of Israel: 1150
sacramental signs of the New Covenant: 1145, 1152
sign function of music in the liturgy: 1157
taken up by Christ: 1151
Simony: 2121
Sin; fall; original sin: 387, 1440, 1871-72
and involuntary ignorance: 1860
and lies: 2484
and the Law: 1949
consequence of:
death: 1008
harm to the community of believers: 953
injury to the unity of the Church: 817
punishment:
as purification of the bad consequences of sin: 1472
for mortal sins: 1861
for venial sins: 1863
in the communion of saints: 1474-75
"temporal" and "eternal": 1472
robs man of resemblance to God: 705
separation of people from each others: 845
sickness: 1505
vice: 1865
differentiation of:
according to their object: 1853, 1873
diversity of sins: 1852
grave sins:
capital sins: 1866, 1876
difference between mortal sins and venial sins: 1854
grave matter of a sin: 1854, 1858
loss of eternal life: 1472
mortal sins: 1855, 1874
and forgiveness: 1856
as radical possibility of human freedom: 1861
conditions: 1857-59
consequences: 1861
"sins that cry to heaven": 1867
individual grave sins:
anger: 2302
blasphemy: 2148
"blasphemy against the Holy Spirit": 1864
envy: 2539
hatred: 2303
malice: 1860
murder: 2268
neglect of Sunday obligation: 2181
sins against faith: 2088-89
sins against hope: 2091
sins against love: 2094
venial sins: 1855, 1875
consequences: 1863
nature: 1862
explained by revelation: 388
fall of the angels: 392
gathering together of the People of God: 761
in the Church: 827
interpretations:
personal act: 1868
"social sin": 1869
threat to the unity of the Church: 814
"work of the flesh": 1852
Jesus "died for our sins": 601, 654
man and sin:
afflicted by sin from birth: 403
man sins freely: 1739, 1874
sin as rejection of God: 398, 415, 1487
mankind not abandoned by God after the fall: 410, 1609, 1870
nature: 1849-50
necessity of Baptism: 1250
original sin: 390, 397, 416-17
and the history of mankind: 390
concupiscence as most important consequence: 405
consequences: 55-58, 399-400, 402-09, 418-19
meaning of the teaching about original sin: 389
seduction by the devil: 391, 414-15
transmission to all men: 404
permitted by God: 412
reality: 386-87
responsibility for the sins of others: 1868
sinners are to blame for Christ's suffering: 598
Sins, forgiveness of
absolution during confession: 1424
and profession of faith in the Church: 976
and profession of faith in the Holy Spirit: 976
as "treasury of the Church": 1476-77
as reconciliation with the Church: 1443
exercised by the Church at God's command: 986, 1442
God alone can forgive sins: 1441
God gives the power to forgive sins to men: 984, 1441
Gospel as revelation of God's mercy with sinners: 1846
importance of the power to bind and loose: 1444-45
in the course of the Anointing of the Sick: 1520
justification through Jesus' death: 421, 615, 1708
mandate of punishment for sin: 1473
role of confession of sins:
as essential component in sacrament of Penance: 1456
importance: 1455, 1847, of mortal sins: 1456, of venial sins: 1458
supported by grace: 1848
see also: Penance, sacrament of
Slander: see calumny
Slavery
forbidden: 2414
Sloth: see acedia
Social Communications: see Media
Social Doctrine of the Church
concern with temporal aspects of the common good: 2420
contents: 2422-23
critique of capitalist and communist social theories: 2424-25
occasion for development: 2421
Societies of apostolic life:
see Evangelical counsels; Church: structure
Society: State: 1880
authority in society:
function: 1897-98, 1918-21
obedience toward: 1899, 2238
stipulations for various forms of government: 1901, 1922
duties of citizens:
armed resistance: 2243
defense of one's country: 2240
duty of obedience: 1900
exercising the right to vote: 2240
limitations on civil obedience: 2242, 2256
participation in public life: 1915, 2255
payment of taxes: 2, 240
receiving foreigners: 2241
duties of the state:
concern for the health of citizens: 2288
defense: 2310, 2265
promotion of the common good: 1927, 2237
protection of the life of every innocent person: 2273
provision for conscientious objectors: 2311
provision for religious worship: 2104-8, 2137
recognition of neighbors: 1931-33
respect for the dignity of the person: 1907, 1930, 1926, 1943, 2254
responsibility for the economy: 2431
fundamental principles:
charity as the most important social commandment: 1889, 1896
common good: 1924-25
conditions for a society of fraternal harmony: 1931
just hierarchy of values: 1886-87, 1895
right to information: 2494, 2512
rule of law: 1904
solidarity: 1948
subsidiarity: 1883-85, 1894
human person as subject and end: 1881, 1892, 1929, 2459
natural societies: 1882, 1891
necessity of life in society: 1879
primary and subsidiary societies: 1883-85
relationships within society:
Church and State:
fundamental relationship: 2244-46
dangers of socialization: 1883
State and family:
duty to protect the family: 2209-11
family as the original cell of society: 2207
subsidiary support for the family: 2208
State and its impact on population growth: 2372
State and mass media: 2498-99
State and social justice: 1928
State and the common good: 1905-12
State and the renewal of society: 1888
social order: 1912
voluntary associations: 1882, 1893
Soldiers: see Armed forces; soldiers
Solidarity
in brotherhood: 1939
in Church's role: 1942
in the communion of love: 953
in the distribution of goods and work: 1940
in the economy and politics: 1941
Son: see Trinity; Jesus Christ
Sorcery: 1852, 2117
see also: Magic
Soul: 363
and "heart" of man: 368
and "spirit" of man: 367
created directly by God: 366
immortal: 366
one nature with the human body: 365
Speculation: 2409
Speed: 2290
Spirit: see Holy Spirit
Spiritism
forbidden: 2117
State: see Society
Sterilization
and integrity of the human body: 2297, 2398
see also: Matrimony; Medical treatment
Strikes: 2435
Subsidiarity, principle of
and collectivism: 1885
contents: 1883-85
in the relationship between society and family: 2209
see also: Social doctrine of the Church
Substance: 252
see also Trinity; Transubstantiation
Suffering
as consequence of original sin: 1521
as participation in Jesus' work of salvation: 1508, 1521
experience of suffering: 164
Suicide
as contrary to love of self, neighbor, and God: 281, 2325
eschatological importance: 2283
factors that can diminish responsibility: 2282
responsibility for one's own life: 2280
voluntary cooperation in suicide: 2282
Sunday; Sunday rest
as "the Lord's Day"; 2174, 2191
as the day of Jesus'
Resurrection: 2174, 2190
celebration:
as Church precept: 2043, 2192-93
as fulfillment of the commandment of the Old Covenant: 2176
assembly for Eucharistic celebration: 1343
early Church practice of assembly: 2178
importance of sharing in the Sunday Eucharist: 2182
Sunday Eucharist as center of the Church's life: 2177
Sunday Eucharist as foundation of Christian life: 2181, Sunday obligation: as precept of the Church: 2180
deliberate failure to fulfill: 2181
in absence of minister: 2183
obligation for and dispensation from: 2181
Sunday rest:
as commandment: 2185-86, 2194-95
protection of sunday as day of rest: 2187-88
as opportunity for family, cultural, and religious life: 2184
Superstition: 2110-2111, 2138
Surrogate motherhood: 2376
"Symbolon"
as term for a formula of faith: 188
see also: Creed; Faith, profession of
Symbols
from the world of men: 1146-49
in the celebration of a sacrament: 1145
Tabernacle: 1183, 1379
Tax evasion: 2436
Technology: 2293-94
Temperance
as cardinal virtue: 1805
assures the will's mastery over the instincts: 1809
Terrorism: 2297
Theft: 2408, 2453-54
in urgent necessity: 2408
obligation for reparation: 2412
Theologal Life: 2607, 2803
see also Virtues, theological
Theology
and the economy of salvation: 236
importance for the Magisterium of the Church: 2033, 2038
Time
and creation: 338
Tobacco
abuse: 2290
Torture
as offense against mankind: 2297-98
Tradition: 81
and Sacred Scripture: 80, 83, 95, 113, 120
"depositum fidei": 84, 97
liturgy as constitutive element: 1124
most important content: 638
Transubstantiation: 1373-77, 1413
see also: Eucharist
Trinity
as central mystery of the faith: 232, 234, 237, 261, 266
concept of substance: 252
divine economy as common work of the divine Persons: 257-60
divine Persons:
concept of Person: 252
consubstantiality: 242, 253
real distinction between: 254, 267
unity of being: 685, 689
expression of the Trinity:
in Baptism: 233, 265
in philosophical concepts: 251
in the early Councils: 250
in the liturgy: 249, 1066
family as image of the communion of the Trinity
"Filioque": 246-48, 264
indwelling of the triune God in men: 260
liturgy as work of the Trinity: 1077-1109
revelation of this mystery:
of God the Father: 238, 240
of God the Holy Spirit: 243-48, 263, 731
of God the Son: 240, 242, 262, 663
of the entire Trinity: 684, 732
"Theologia" and "Oilonomia": 236
the triune God: 202
the unity of the Trinity and the unity of the Church: 813
unity of God: 228, 255
and unity of the Church: 813
Truth
and beauty: 2500
giving witness to the truths:
and martyrdom: 2473
duty of Christians: 2472
in the New Testament: 2471
God as source of all truth: 2465
"hierarchy of truths": 90, 234
in communications media: 2492
in following Christ: 2470
in relationships with others: 2464
in the virtue of truthfulness: 2468
man's striving after truth: 2467
manifestation in Jesus: 2466
offenses against the truth: 2464, 2475-87
right to truth not unconditional: 2488-92
"Two ways," parable of: 696
Understanding
as gift of the Holy Spirit: 1831
Unity, Christian: see Ecumenism
Veneration of images
new "economy" of images through Christ's Incarnation: 2131
Old Testament prohibition of the representation of God: 2129
veneration, not adoration: 2132
Viaticum: see Anointing of the Sick: reception
Vice
and capital sins: 1866
and the passions: 1768
see also: Sin
Violence; force
and imputability of an act: 1735
value of monagression: 2306
Virginity for the Kingdom of heaven
and Matrimony: 1620
as unfolding of baptismal grace: 1619
in the call by Christ: 1618
see also: Evangelical counsels; Virtues
Virtues: 1804, 1833-34
and grace: 1810
and the passions: 1768
cardinal virtues: 1805
fortitude: 1808, 1837
justice: 1807, 1836
as "virtue of religion": 1807
prudence: 1806, 1835
temperance: 1809, 1838
important for reasonable care of health: 2290
in distribution of goods: 2407
chastity:
and homosexuality: 2359
as cultural effort: 2344
as gift of self: 2346
as grace of God: 2345
as preservation of the integrity of the person: 2337-38
as process of personal growth: 2343, 2395
as vocation of all the baptized: 2348, 2394
conjugal chastity: 2349
engaged couples: 2350
importance of friendship: 2347
lust: 2351
offenses against chastity: 2351-56, 2396
relationship to temperance: 2341
self-mastery: 2339-40
gift of Baptism: 1266
moral virtues: 1839
perfection of through the gifts of the Holy Spirit: 1831
solidarity:
in the distribution of goods: 2407
virtue of solidarity: 1942
theological virtues:
and participation in the divine nature: 1812
and the virtue of religion: 1840, 2095-96
as the foundation of Christian moral activity: 1813, 1840
faith, hope, and charity as theological virtues: 1813, 1841
charity: 1822-29, 1844
faith: 1814-16, 1842
hope: 1817-21, 1843
truthfulness: 2468, 2505
in human relationships: 2469
lies as offense against the virtue of truthfulness: 2486, 2508
Vocation:
of our first parents: 54
to follow Christ: 1694
to sanctity: 825
to the catholic unity of the People of God: 836
call of all by Jesus: 3, 542-43
call of all by the Creator: 1
see also: Evangelical counsels
Vows: 2102
dispensation from: 2103
of the evangelical counsels: 915, 2103
see also: Evangelical counsels: Promises
Voyeurism: 2523, 2525
Wagers: 2413
Wages
just wages as legitimate fruit of work: 2434
unjust wages: 2409
War
and the moral law: 2312, 2328
arms race: 2315, 2329
disorders threatening peace: 2317
duty to prevent war: 2307-08, 2327
"just war": 2309
obedience in war: 2313
production and sale of arms: 2316
treatment of the wounded and civilians: 2313
weapons: 2314
Way of the Cross: 2669
Wedding: see Matrimony
Will
faith and will 143, 155
strenghening the will's mastery: 1734
see also: Man
Wisdom
as gift of the Holy Spirit: 1831
Witchcraft: see Sorcery
Women
as image of the Church: 2853
in the salvation history of the Old Covenant: 489
man "created as male and female": 355, 383
ordination of: 1577
see also: Mary; Man:
human sexual identity
Work
access to employment: 2433
just wage as legitimate fruit: 2434
meaning and value: 2427-28, 2460
strikes: 2435
unemployment: 2436
World
created by God: 295
creation of the "visible world": 325, 337
Jesus as Lord of the world: 450
"sin of the world": 408
subjegation by man: 373
transitoriness: 677
"world of men": 326
world order and natural law: 341
see also: Creation
Worship
as the first act of the virtue of religion: 2096, 2135
meaning of worship: 2097
in liturgical celebration: 1070
see also: Adoration
YHWH: see God: names of God: Jesus Christ