United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

602 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

and sentimentality: 318 as Theological Virtue (see Theological Virtues) see also Charity; specific topics and descriptions, e.g., Children: parents’ love for Luigi Quattrocchi, Blessed: 278, 373-75 as Capital Sin: 317, 519 as carnal concupiscence: 443-44 chastity as excluding: 506 definition and consequences of: 406, 519 the Ninth Commandment and: 443-44 as obscuring nuptial meaning of the body and its capacity to witness to the divine image: 412-13 purity of heart and temperance as antidotes to: 443 see also Capital Sins; Concupiscence Lukewarmness: 343 Lust: 287, 317, 519

Revelation and: 13-15, 36 as stronger than death: 157 as greatest gift of the Holy Spirit: 115, 121, 127 as at the heart of all law: 309 and heaven, entrance into: 153 Holy Spirit as: 103 love for God: 61 with all one’s heart: 61, 309, 343, 347 call to love God: 5, 7, 57, 68, 73 cause of perfect contrition: 508 embracing celibacy for: 413 the faithful as to witness: 17, 23 first of the two greatest commandments: 343, 345 giving birth and raising children as a cooperation in the: 415 growing in holiness: 139 imparted to sinners in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (see Penance and Reconciliation, Sacrament of) and implications of being made in God’s image: 71 moral guidance protects the values that foster: 318 love for neighbor: 117, 139, 176, 307, 309, 321, 325, 349 as a foundation for the Ten Commandments: 345 as including love of enemies: 321 the second of the two greatest commandments: 87, 321 solidarity with the human community and commitment to social justice: 325, 424 suicide as an offense against: 398 marital love (see under Marriage) as not existing without sacrifice: 318, 321, 491 of parents for children: 377-79 for the poor: 425, 427 prayer as response of: 478 prayer, love as source and destiny of: 469 romanticization of: 318

Lying

calumny: 431-32 definition and consequences of: 431-32 and the Eighth Commandment: 429-38 as most direct offense against the truth: 431 perjury: 432 relation to skepticism: 436 see also Truth

Magic: 344 Magisterium of the Church: xvii-xviii, 25, 32, 133, 348, 519 authentic interpretation of the Word of God: 25, 27-28, 32, 133 authority of: xviii, 25, 29-30, 133, 330-31, 337 as composed of the pope and the bishops in communion with him: 25, 32, 133, 330, 519 as guided by the Holy Spirit: 25, 106, 330, 337, 519 as guiding the faithful to preserve the truth of the Gospel: 25-26