United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

570 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

and the measure of every institution: 423 the media and: 434, 437 morality, as foundational element for: 422-23 moral relativism, threat of: 390 murder as gravely contrary to: 390, 400 and names, honoring: 354, 356 and natural law: 327, 355 origin of: 420 priests to promote and appreciate: 274 protecting: 390 and religious freedom: 42-43, 316 requirements for: 337, 423, 426-27, 454-55 responsibilities regarding: 423, 426 and the Seventh Commandment: 418-19 Diocese: 113, 115, 130, 133, 136, 221, 273 see also Church Disabilities, persons with: 399, 422 Disbelief: xxiii, 97 culture of disbelief: 16 see also Non-believers Disciple-making: see Evangelization; Witness, Christian Disciples of Christ; discipleship: 7, 83, 86 call to: 487 and Christian Initiation: 188 conversion experience: 196-97, 451 formed by the Church: 6 requirements and essential duties of: 86, 91, 98, 196-97, 308-9, 451, 454-55, 487 stewardship and: 451-54 what it means to become a disciple: 6-7, 173, 451 Disciples of Jesus of Nazareth: 121, 129, 509-10 sin as wounding: 245 social justice and: 337 work and: 384, 421, 423-24, 426 see also under specific topics and situations, e.g., Dying

for happiness: 8, 319, 331, 453 of the Holy Spirit: 475 human desire for God: 2, 72, 74, 464, 478 the Lord’s Prayer and: 483, 493 lust (see Lust) meditation and: 474 physical vs. spiritual: 441, 450 sexual: 405 of God’s People: 117, 500 human: 61, 69, 158, 162, 313, 335, 501-2 of the world and of creation: 158, 179 see also Providence, Divine

Despair: 343 Destiny

Detraction: 431-32 gossip: 434 Development aid: see Social justice Devils: 509 see also Demons

Devil (Satan): see Satan Devotional prayer: 509 Dialogue, inter-religious see Ecumenism Dignity, human

acts contrary to: 326-27, 390, 394, 406, 411, 423 and being made in the image of God: 310, 319, 355 equal dignity of man and woman: 68, 73, 279, 404, 411 of every person: 326, 421, 454 faith and: 44, 59-60 the Fifth Commandment: 387-401 and freedom: 316 the government and: 326 and how human society is organized: 423 of the human body: 406 human community and: 84 and human life: 310 and human rights, protection of: 423-26 inherent: 422-23 and married love: 284