United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

580 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Fertility and infertility, issues regarding: 392, 409-10 couples without children: 285 openness to fertility: 285-86, 290, 404, 408-9, 415 see also specific topics, e.g., Natural family planning Fertilization, in vitro : 392 Fidelity: see Faithfulness; Truth Filial love: 375, 377, 380, 513 Final Judgment: 156-58, 161, 517 and call to conversion: 158 Fire: 457 eternal: 157 (see also Hell) Holy Spirit, as symbol of: 107, 446, 535 images of as portraying hell: 155 Pentecost, tongues of fire at: 103, 114 purifying: 154 First Vatican Council: see specific topics, e.g., Papal infallibility Fitton, Fr. James: 362 Flesh: see Body; specific topics, e.g., Marriage (two becoming one flesh) Flock Church as: 114, 270 shepherds of: 258 Flood: 14 Following Christ: 91 in consecrated life: 135 Force: see Violence Forgiveness of others and compassion for others: 242 of enemies: 488, 494 in family: 376 given to whoever trespasses against us: 129, 482, 488 “Go, first, be reconciled to your brother”: 239

and Anointing of the Sick (see Anointing of the Sick) asking for forgiveness in prayer: 129, 467-68, 482, 488, 494 Baptism and: 47, 192, 196-97, 235, 243, 245, 505 bishops and priests as instruments to forgive sins: 236, 240 Christ as meriting justification for us: 328, 336 Christians as still needing: 129, 243, 245 and Christ’s Kingdom: 486 Christ’s mission of: 235-36 the Church’s power to forgive sins: 236 and compassion for others: 242 Eucharist and: 224, 226 forms of penance and ways to obtain (see Penance and Reconciliation) God alone as able to forgive: 83, 236, 251 as a manifestation of Jesus as Savior: 98 and mercy of God: 52, 235 offering of Christ to the Father for our sins: 92, 96 power to forgive sins imparted to the Apostles by the Risen Christ on Easter: 236, 244-45 see also Penance and Reconciliation of catechumens: 186, 188 of conscience: 314-15, 319-20, 454 spiritual formation of children: 189, 378 Fornication: 406, 410-11, 414, 441 Fortitude: 317, 513 as a Cardinal Virtue: 193 as a gift of the Holy Spirit: 108 Fortune-telling: 344 Four marks of the Church: see under Church: four marks of the Church Franciscan Order: xi, 89, 125-26, 136, 277, 472, 474 Formation

holiness and: 196 in marriage: 285 number of times a person should forgive: 243

Forgiveness of sin: 46, 234-35

of all sins, possibility of: 192, 196-97