CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
SECOND EDITION

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Magic, 2115-17 Magisterium authority and continuous succession of, 77, 88 of the Church and its pastors, 85-87, 888-92 connection between sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and, 95 infallibility of, 2035 mission and office of, 890 moral life and, 2032, 2036 ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops, 2034 of the pastors of the Church, 2033 Man as the author, center, and goal of economic and social life, 2459 dependent on the Creator, 396 in the earthly paradise, 374-79 happy only in God, 1057 a man and a woman, 369, 371-72, 383, 400, 1605-06 as a moral subject, 1749 mystery of man becomes clear in the mystery of the Word, 359 "new man," 1473, 2475 not abandoned by God after the fall, 410 sin as an offense against human nature, 1849 ultimate end of, 260, 356, 1024 consequences from the sin of man, 399-400 all are implicated in Adam's sin, 402-03 commonality of destiny of the material world and of man, 1046 condition of weakness and insignificance, 208, 396, 150, 2448 death entered the world, 1008 destroyed harmony of creation, 400 human nature wounded, 405 invasion of sin into the world, 401 man deprived of God's likeness, 705 man injured by the work of Satan, 395 man subject to error and inclined to evil, 1714 original sin and man's abuse of freedom, 396-401 presence of sin already at our birth, 403 rupture of the original communion, 1607 struggle between the spirit and the flesh, 2516 dignity communion with God as the reason for man's, 27, 357, 1700 of creatures cooperating with God, 306-08 equal dignity of a man and a woman, 2393 manifested in moral life, 1706 requires man to act out of conscience and free choice, 2339 right to exercise freedom as a requirement inseparable from, 1738 as the source of human rights, 1930 wounded by sin, 1487 equality and diversity of men all men have the same nature and the same origin and end, 1934 diversity of talent, 1936-37 human dignity as the foundation of equality, 1935, 1945 unjust inequalities, 1938 in the image and likeness of God before and after Christ's Redemption, 1701 created in God's image, 225, 356-61, 1702, 2713 restoration of likeness with God, 705, 2809 man and humanity mutual need of all men, 361, 1947-48 origin and common end of humanity, 842 unity of the human race, 360 man and vocation, call to enter the Kingdom, 543 eternal life, 1998 form the new people of God, 804, 831 God as the common call of all men, 1878 life in the Holy Spirit, 1699 love, 1604 marriage, 1603 union with Christ, 521, 542 divine call as the ultimate call, 1260 See also Vocation man in creation creatures' interdependence willed by God, 340 God creates everything for man, 358 hierarchy of creatures, 342 laws of creation must be respected by man, 346 man as the only creature worthy to receive a law from God, 1951 man's importance in creation, 343, 355 man's respect for creatures, 339 man's responsibility for the world, 373 original harmony, 374-79, 384 man as a creature created by God's love, 1, 315, 1604 created to know and love God and to serve Him, 358 endowed with intelligence and free will, 311, 396 endowed with reason, 1704 made of body and soul, 327, 355, 362-65, 383 "Male and female he created them," 1605, 2203, 2331, 2334 was created good, 374 man's special features and his ways of acting always fighting with evil, 409 comes to a knowledge of God by knowing nature, 32, 46 desires happiness, 1718 gifted with freedom as a sign of the divine image, 1705, 1730 reason and will to seek and love what is true and good, 1704 a spiritual and immortal soul, 1703 led naturally toward the truth, 2467 listens to the voice of conscience, 1706, 1713 moved to do good, 1706-07 in need of divine help and salvation, 1949, 2090 in need of social life, 1879-80 perfections resonating something of the infinite perfection of God, 370 as a religious being, 28, 44-45 tending naturally toward the virtues, 1803-04 See also Sexuality relations between God and man communion with God in the Church, 773 faith as adherence of the whole man to God, 176 faith as man's free response, 160, 307 God has first place in the profession of faith, 199 inequality between God and man is without measure, 2007 Jesus the one intercessor with God on behalf of all, 2634 man rejecting God, 29, 398, 1739 prayer as relationship between God and man, 2564 submission of men to God, 143, 154, 341, 2712 rights of man to act on one's conscience and freely, 1782 to choose a school, 2229 to freedom of religion, 2106 to a good reputation, 2479, 2507 seeks God always seeking God and His will, 2566, 2826 difficulty of knowing God by the light of reason alone, 37 distinctive inquiry of God, 285 God calls man first, 2567 God does not cease to call man, 30 God speaks in human words, 101, 109 men in the course of history seeking God in many ways, 28, 31, 34, 285 by reason, 36, 50 in revelation, 35, 50, 52 ways of seeking God, 31, 34 sexuality (see Marriage (Matrimony); Sexuality) Manifestation of the coming of God's kingdom, 570 of God and His goodness, power, and beauty, 294, 707, 2519 of the Holy Spirit, 697, 951 of Jesus Christ, 486, 528, 535, 639, 660, 1224 Manna, 1094, 1334 Many, 605. See also Redemption Marana tha, 451 Marriage (Matrimony) bond is perpetual and exclusive, 1638 conjugal fidelity, 1646, 1648-49, 2364 consummation of, 1640 divorce of separated persons about to remarry civilly, 1650 effects of, 1638-42 freedom to contract, 1625, 1628-29 in God's plan, 1601 goods and requirements of conjugal love, 1643 greatness of, 1603 matrimonial chastity, 2349 mixed marriages and disparity of cult, 1633-37 nullity of, 1629 in the order of creation, 1603-05 in the preaching of the apostle Paul, 1616 in the preaching of Jesus, 1612-15 renouncing, 1618 in Sacred Scripture, 1602 as a sign of the covenant of Christ and the Church, 1617 under the pedagogy of the Law, 1609-11 under the regime of sin, 1606-08 sexuality in marriage and its significance, 2360-62 (see also Sexuality) See also Divorce; Sacrament(s) fecundity, 2366-72, 2373-779 and adoption of children, 2379 children as the gift of, 2378 as cooperation with the love of God, the Creator, 2367 openness to, 1652-54 periodic continence and the regulation of birth, 2370 and procreation to be regulated, 2368 sterility as a great suffering, 2374 and medical techniques, 2375-77 and significance of conjugal life, 1654 purposes of marriage cooperation with the Creator's work, 372 directed toward the salvation of others, 1534 good of the spouses, 1660 as man's vocation, 372, 1604-05 procreation and education of offspring, 1652-53, 2366 transmission of life, 372, 2363 indissolubility of marriage, 1644-45 fidelity of conjugal love, 1646-48 the marriage bond, 1639-40 marriage in the words of Jesus, 1614-15 matrimonial consent, 1625 as an essential element, 1626 as the foundation of the indissolubility of marriage, 1601, 1627, 2367 nullity of marriage, 1629 as a requirement of conjugal love, 1644 significance and nature of matrimonial consent, 1627-28 transmission of faith in the domestic Church, 1656 unity and marriage in the Old Law, 1610-11 as a sacrament, 1601-58 celebration of, 1621-24, 1627 as consecration, 1535 ecclesiastical form of celebrating, 1630-31 grace of the sacrament of, 1641-42 main effects of, 1638-40, 2365 mixed marriage and disparity of cult, 1633-37 preparation for, 1632 raised to the dignity of a sacrament, 1601 offenses against the dignity of, 2380-91 adultery, 2380-81 divorce, 2382-86 free union and concubinage, 2390 incest, 2388 polygamy, 1645, 2387 sexual relations contracted before marriage, 2391 Marriages, trial, 2391 Married couple fidelity and, 2364 harmony of the married couple and physical complementarity, 2333 human sterility and, 2374, 2377 marriage and, 1603, 1624, 1636, 1642, 2363 Martyrs acts of, 2474 behavior of, 2113 significance of martyrdom, 2473 veneration of, 957, 1173 Mary Christ's Mother by the power of the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 723-26 the Church and active example and type of the Church, 967 Church reaches towards perfection in, 829 place in the mystery of the Church, 773, 963-72 spiritual motherhood, 501 Mary in the economy of salvation Annunciation, 484, 490 assent, 148, 490, 494 Assumption, 966 conception by the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 495, 723 the Immaculate Conception, 490-93 mediatrix of grace, 969 predestination of, 488-89, 508 preserved from sin, 411 virginity, 496-98, 502-07 visitation to Elizabeth as God's visitation to His people, 717 works of the Holy Spirit, 721-26 Mary as exemplar of holiness, 2030 of hope, 64 of obedience of faith, 144, 148-49, 494 of prayer in the "Fiat" and "Magnificat," 2617, 2619 of union with the Son, 964 and witness of faith, 165, 273 titles of Mary Advocate, Help, Benefactress, Mediatrix, 969 Assumed into heaven, 966 Eschatological icon of the Church, 967, 972 Ever Virgin, 499-501 Full of grace, 722, 2676 Handmaid of the Lord, 510 "Hodigitria" or "She shows the way," 2674 Immaculate, 491-92 Mother of Christ, 411 Mother of the Church, 963-70 Mother of God, 466, 495, 509 Mother of the living, 494, 511 The New Eve, 411 "Panagia" or All Holy, 493 Seat of Wisdom, 721 veneration of Mary faith concerning the veneration of Mary based on faith concerning Christ, 487 liturgical feasts of, 2043, 2177 in the liturgical year, 1172, 1370 not adoration, 971 prayer to, 2675-79 respect for the name of, 2146 Mass. See Eucharist Mass media correct use of, 2496 laws against misuse of, 2498 misuse of, 2523 Masturbation, 2352 Materialism, 285, 2124 Matrimony. See Marriage (Matrimony) Maturity (in the Christian faith), 1248, 1308 Mediator Mary mediatrix, 969 See also Christ Meditation, 2705-08 fruits of, 2706, 2708 goals of, 2723 and growth in understanding the faith, 94-95 methods of, 2707 as one of the three major expressions of prayer, 2699 significance of, 2705 times suitable for, 2186 Meek, 716, 1716. See also Gentleness Meeting between God and men, 1153, 2299, 2560, 2563, 2567, 2591, 2626, 2710 with Jesus, 529, 995, 1021 liturgy as meeting between Christ and the Church, 1097 Memorial the Eucharist as memorial of Jesus' death and resurrection, 611, 1167, 1330, 1358, 1362-72, 1382 Jesus institutes the memorial of His free offering, 610, 1323, 1337 liturgy as memorial of the mystery of salvation, 1099 of the saving events of the Old Covenant, 1093, 2170 Mentality Christian, 2105 and the diversity of confession in marriage, 1634 of this world, 2727 Mercy acceptance of God's, 1847, 2840 Christ wills, 2100 the Church bestows God's mercy to man, 2040 the Church implores God's, 1037 as the fruit of charity, 1829 God's, 210-11, 270 Jesus shows the Father's, 545, 589, 1439, 1846 justification as the highest sign of God's, 1994 Mary, "Mother of mercy," 2677 significance and kinds of works of, 2447 sinners refusing God's, 1864, 2091 works of mercy are necessary, 1473 Merit, 2006-11 Christ as the source of our, 1476, 2011 definition and significance of, 2006 grace and, 1708, 2008-09, 2011, 2025-27 man as a participator in the merit of Christ, 2008-09 no merit on the part of man before God, 2007 of the saints, 956, 1476 Message the Church's, 2126 family as the place for the first proclamation of faith, 1666 the "Good News" of the Gospel and the "Our Father," 2763 Gospel message and catechesis, 6 Gospel message in the image of icons, 1160 of the Kingdom and the call to conversion, 1427, 1989 single message of salvation throughout the world, 174 spreading the message of salvation, 900, 2044 See also Evangelization Messiah announcement of the messiah after the fall of man, 410 the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus in Baptism, 1286 expectation of Christians for the return of, 840 expectation of the corning of the messiah in Israel, 702, 711-16 glory of Jesus as the inauguration of the kingdom of, 664 Jesus Christ, the, 436-40, 528-29, 535, 540, 547 significance of the word, 436, 695 See also Christ Messiah millenarianism, 676 pseudo-messianism, 675 Minister(s) apostles as "God's ministers," 859 choosing ordained, 1579 of Christ and of the Church, 1553 exercise of service by ordained, 1592 ordained minister as "icon" of Christ the Priest, 1142 ordained minister as responsible for formation in prayer, 2686 personal calling of, 878 purposes of the activity of ministering, 874 as "servants of Christ," 876 support of the Church's, 2122 unworthiness of the ordained ministers and the action of Christ, 1584 See also individual sacraments, ministers of Ministry apostolic, 553, 983, 1536 catechetical ministry, preaching, and the Word, 9, 24, 132, 903 of the Church, 874-79 diversity of, 873, 910 exercise of, 2039 ordained, 1120, 1142 (see also Priest/priesthood) particular, 1143 public ministry of Jesus, 583 of Reconciliation, 981, 1442, 1461-62 of serving and interpreting the Word, 119 Miracle(s) of Christ, and their significance as signs, 548-49, 1335 of Christ, as a sign of His divinity, 515 of Christ's disciples, 434 gift of working, 2003 significance of Christ's, 156, 547, 1335 Mission(s) of the apostles, 2, 551, 858-60, 1122, 1223 of the bishops, 2068 Christ's, 430, 436, 438, 440, 534, 536, 606, 608 of the Church, 6, 730, 738, 768, 782, 811, 831, 849-56, 873 of consecrated persons, 931-33 of deacons, 1570 of the Holy Spirit, 244, 485, 716, 1108 joint missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit, 689-90, 702, 727, 737, 743, 2655 of the laity, 897-913 of the Magisterium, 890 to all nations, 1122, 1533, 1565, 2044, 2419 of parents, 2226 of Peter, 552 of spouses, 2367 of the Virgin Mary, 489, 969 Missionary endeavor, 854 mandate, 849-50 sources of the missionary impetus, 828, 851 Model of life for the faithful Abraham, 144, 1819 bishops, 893 Christ, 459, 520, 896, 1618, 2348, 2620, 2740 God, 813, 2172 saints, 828 Virgin Mary, 273, 967, 2030 Modesty of the body, 2523 definition of, 2521-22 purity requires, 2521, 2533 as a sign of human dignity, 2524 Money "He who loves money never has enough money," 2536 idolatry and the divinizing of, 2113, 2172, 2424 prohibition of loans at interest, 2449 simony, 2121 Moral. See Law: moral law Moral permissiveness, 2526 Moral rule(s) Christ as the moral rule of conduct, 2074 "Golden Rule," 1789, 1970, 2510 moral law as the rule of our activity, 1951 natural law as a rule, 1957, 1959 Sacred Scriptures as the source of all, 75, 141 See also Law; Norm(s) Morality the Church and, 2420 circumstances, intention, and morality of actions, 1756 judging the morality of human acts, 1756, 1768 love for oneself as a fundamental principle of, 2264 moral conscience and dignity of the person, 1780, 1794 must be respected and safeguarded, 2210, 2294, 2498 of passions, 1762-70 sources of, 1750-54 Mortification, 2015 Murder (intentional killing) forgiveness for the sin of, 1447 only God is the Lord of life, 2258 as a grave sin, 1447 haters as murderers, 1033 intentional euthanasia as, 2324 intentional killing as a legitimate defense, 2263-65 origin of, 2517 seriousness and condemnation of intentional, 1756, 2261, 2268 sin that cries to heaven, 1867 unintentional killing, 2263, 2269 Muslims, 841 Myron. See Chrism Mystagogy, 1075 Mystery of Christ, 280, 512-60, 639, 654, 1067 of the Church, 770-76 of the Church's unity, 813-16 of creation, 287, 295-301 of the existence of evil, 309, 385, 395 of faith, 2558 of God, 42, 206, 234, 1028, 2779 of man, 359 of man's salvation, 122 Mystical life, 2014 See also the Church: the Church as the Mystical Body of Mythology/myth, 285, 498

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