United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

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Social sin: 331, 528 Social teachings of the Church: see Social doctrine of the Church Society center of: 420 duties of Catholics regarding: 380 responsibility of: 326 right and duty to participate in: 423, 430 and virtues: 326 see also Common Good; Social justice; specific topics Soldiers: see Arms; War Solidarity: 325-27, 337, 420, 529 among nations: 421, 424 brotherhood, as direct demand of: 337 and charity, as underlying the unity of the human race: 73 Christian: 325 Christ’s solidarity with us: 184 the Church’s solidarity with the poor and marginalized: 456 definition: 337, 424, 520 family: 377 as form of love of neighbor: 325, 424 forms of: 326 media communications and human: 434 moderation in our possessions as a way to improve: 419 as opening our hearts to identifying with the whole human family: 419 as wounded by sin: 312

immortality of: 60, 73, 97, 153, 161, 310, 319, 529 of Jesus: 81, 93, 99, 226 Jesus Christ as physician of: 234, 251, 258 Original Sin and: 413 prayer and: 160-61, 463, 473, 480, 491, 494 reunited with the body at the Resurrection of the dead: 529 reverence for the souls of others: 401 salvation of: 99, 331, 421 and sanctifying grace: 336 separated from the body at death: 93, 158, 161, 529 as source of physical life for our bodies: 68 unity of soul and body in the human person: 68, 73, 414 virtues and (see Virtues) see also specific topics, e.g., Purgatory human beings as body and: 55, 169, 259 meaning of the word: 104-5 see also under Poverty: of spirit “Spiritual combat”: 476 Spiritual growth: 238-39, 369 Spirituality, contemporary forms of: 477 Spirituality, schools of: see specific Schools, e.g., Benedictine; Franciscan; Ignatian Spirit, Holy: see Holy Spirit Spirit; spirits angels as: 54, 62

Son: see Jesus Christ; Trinity Sorcery: 344 Soul: 529

Spiritual works of mercy: 529 State: see Church and state; Political authority

Baptism and Confirmation as imprinting a character on: 198, 208 body and: 68 as core of our spiritual powers of knowing and loving: 68 as created directly by God: 68 as dwelling-place for Christ: 103 evolutionary theories and: 60 human beings endowed with: 68

Stealing: see Theft Stem-cell research

embryonic: 243, 392-93 moral significance: 392-93 therapeutic possibilities: 392-93

Sterilization: 409 Stewardship: 67, 424, 426

Christian stewardship: 450-54 of the Church: 452