United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

ABBREVIATIONS

Church Documents

AG

Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity ( Ad Gentes Divinitus )

HV

St. Paul VI, On the Regulation of Birth ( Humanae Vitae ) Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ) Second Vatican Council, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions ( Nostra Aetate ) St. John Paul II, At the Close of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 ( Novo Millennio Ineunte )

LG

CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church CCEO Code of Canons of the Eastern

NA

Churches ( Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium ) Code of Canon Law ( Codex Iuris Canonici ) St. John Paul II, Day of the Lord ( Dies Domini ) H. Denzinger and A. Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation ( Dei Verbum ) St. Paul VI, On Evangelization in the Modern World ( Evangelii Nuntiandi ) St. John Paul II, The Gospel of Life ( Evangelium Vitae ) St. John Paul II, On the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World ( Familiaris Consortio ) Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes ) St. John Paul II, On the Eucharist ( Ecclesia de Eucharistia )

CIC

NMI

DD

DS

PO Second Vatican Council, Decree on Priestly Life and Ministry ( Presbyterorum Ordinis ) RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RVM St. John Paul II, On the Most Holy Rosary ( Rosarium Virginis Mariae ) SC Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ( Sacrosanctum Concilium ) UR Second Vatican Council, Decree on Ecumenism ( Unitatis Redintegratio )

DV

EE

EN

EV

FC

UUS

St. John Paul II, On Commitment to Ecumenism ( Ut Unum Sint )

GS