United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

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as seeking out the deeper meaning God wants to convey to the reader: 475 Lectionary: 518 Lectors: 218 Legitimate defense: 390-91, 396, 401 Lent: 173, 192-93, 222, 238, 334, 518 Liberation, human: 333 see also Social justice Liberation of Israel: see under Israel: liberation of Lies: see Lying; Truth Life change of one’s life by conversion (see Conversion) Christian (see Christian life) consecrated life (see Consecrated life) death as end to earthly: 153 eternal (see Eternal life) the Fifth Commandment: 387-401 God alone as the Lord of: 389 human life: 400 defending: 211 dignity of (see Dignity, human) goal of: 400 respect for: 389-90 embryonic: 243, 392, 401 from the moment of conception to natural death: 391, 401 threatened by moral relativism: 389 right to: 391, 423, 426 sacredness of: 310 as a struggle against evil: 390 unity of human life found in the worship of the one God: 345 “I am the resurrection and the life”: 155, 159 new life Baptism as the source of: 103, 183-84, 187, 193, 195, 197 social dimensions of human life as a principle for moral theology: 325

as expressing the original moral sense which enables man to discern by reason the good and the evil: 327 as foundation of our basic human rights and duties: 327, 335 our rational apprehension of the created moral order: 327, 335 permanently valid: 327-28 as planted in each of us: 442 as reflection of divine law: 335 requirements of: 437 rooted in God’s plan found in human nature: 327 Ten Commandments as expression of: 327 as unchangeable: 327-28 universality of: 327 the New Law: 329-31, 521 (see also Commandments; New Testament) as fulfilling and perfecting the Old Law: 325 the Holy Spirit and: 329, 331 law of grace: 329 as Law of the Gospel: 331 Sacraments as instituted by Jesus: 165, 169 the Old Law: 522 (see also Commandments; Old Testament) fulfillment of: 325, 328, 336 of physics, chemistry, and biology revealed law: 336, 341, 526 of solidarity and charity as underlying the unity of the human race: 73 see also Authority; Commandments Law, New: see New Law Laying on of hands: 203-5, 210, 270 Laziness: 317 see also Acedia; Capital Sins; Sloth Lectio Divina : 474, 477, 517-18 meditation and: 475 as relying on guidance of the Holy Spirit within the heart: 475 as secondary causes in the unfolding of God’s plan: 56