United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

568 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Days: see Feast Days; Holy Days of Obligation; specific Days, e.g., Sunday Deacons; diaconate: 264-67, 270-71, 273, 509 assisting at and blessing marriages: 265-66, 271, 273 assisting the bishop or priest: 138, 218, 266, 273 baptizing: 186, 188, 265-66, 271, 273 diaconate as a degree of the Sacrament of Holy Orders: 264 65, 273 as not receiving the ministerial priesthood: 273 ordained by the bishop to the ministry of service: 266, 271, 273 permanent deaconate restored in the Latin Church after Vatican II: 267 preaching: 266, 271, 273 presiding at funerals: 266, 271, 273 proclaiming the Gospel: 266, 271, 273 public responsibility to lead people in prayer with genuine reverence: 472 serving community through works of charity: 266, 271, 273 see also Orders: Sacrament of Holy Dead, resurrection of: see Resurrection of the body Death: 162, 235 after death call to share in the life of the Trinity: 153 destiny of the just: 151-62 final purification or Purgatory: 154, 156, 160-61, 245, 537 hell (see Hell) the Last Judgment (see Final Judgment) living in heaven as “to be with Christ”: 154 no reincarnation: 525 no repentance after: 155

the Eucharist as the ever-present sacrifice of: 220-21 Sign of the Cross: 184, 232, 295-96, 299, 302, 473

the Crusades: 356 Cult: see Worship Cults: 344 Culture

bringing the Gospel into: 16-17 and Catholics, responsibilities of: 16-17 the Church proclaiming salvation to: xxiii Church teachings versus: xxiii and cultural change: 16-17, 41-43 cultural progress: 427 “culture of disbelief”: 16 evangelizing: 16-17, 442-43, 445 freedom and: 41-43 Gospel as converting and transforming: 16-17 individualism, secularism, and materialism in: 16 participation in cultural life: 426 and separation of Church and state: 16, 42-43 social pressures to restrict faith to the private sphere: 16 see also Media; Secular culture; specific topics, e.g., Gospel: culture, relationship to

Culture of death

root causes: 400 working against: 389-90

see also Abortion; Death penalty; Euthanasia; Stem-cell research: embryonic; Suicide: physician assisted; Terrorism; War

Culture of life: 387-402 Cycle of Saints: 173

Damnation

fear of: 238 see also Hell

David: 235 Day, Dorothy: 387-89 Day of the Lord: see Sabbath