United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

578 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

see also under specific topics, e.g., Education

perseverance in faith and its defense: 16-17 personal relationship with God: 37-38, 42, 44 “Pray in order to believe; believe in order to pray”: 491 proclamation, institution, and propagation of the: 381 professing the faith as a duty and task: 487 qualities of faith: 37-39 beginning of eternal life: 38 believes with conviction in a message: 39, 44 a free, human act: 38-39, 44 full assent to God: 37 gift of grace given by God: 38 necessary for salvation: 38, 44 only one: 127, 138 as personal and communal relationship: 37-38, 42, 44 response to God’s gift: 37 seeks understanding and is a friend of reason: 38 and reason: 38, 44 Resurrection, truth of as original fact upon which Christian faith is based: 176 Revelation, as response to: 14-15, 32, 36-39 science and: 57-61 submission as required by: 40-41, 44 teaching (see under Education) that by which we believe all that the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed: 44 as Theological Virtue: 315-17, 320, 342, 347 infused at Baptism: 317 virtue related directly to God: 317 and trust in God: 37, 44, 59 truth and: 37-39, 44-45 Virgin Mary as perfect model: 37 virtue, supplementing with: 19 and vitality in prayer: 469, 491 way of knowing: 44 witness to the (see Witness, Christian)

Faithfulness: 108, 209

to Catholic doctrine: xv to Christ: 289 of Christ to the Church: 283 the Church’s: 133, 146 to God: 146, 279 to God’s Word of God to us: 61, 215, 279, 405, 411, 414, 464, 500 in marriage: 279, 282-83, 285, 287 88, 381, 403-16 to the moral teaching of the Church: 222 to prayer: 476 see also Fruits of the Holy Spirit Faithful, the: see Believers; Christians; People of God the Fall: 68-69, 73-74, 512 cause of: 68-69 effects on our relationship with God, with others, and with ourselves: 69 Genesis, account in: 68-69, 73 God as not abandoning us after: 70 see also Original Sin False witness, bearing: 429-38 Family: 373-85, 380, 512 Baptismal priesthood: 138, 193 based on permanent and exclusive union of a man and a woman in marriage: 286, 379 basic unit of society: 383 called to be a community of love: 377 Christian: 376-77, 380-81, 383 created by God: 379 as domestic Church: 113, 284-86, 290, 376-79, 383, 510 duty to help and defend: 375-76, 422 education of one’s: 375, 377-83 filial love: 375, 377, 380, 513 the Fourth Commandment: 373-85 God’s family: 113 the Gospel, as center for: 404