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Out-of-print for two years but still in constant demand, the "full size" Catechism of the Catholic Church is back. Only this second edition: incorporates all the final modifications made in the official Latin text of the Catechism (it's the definitive edition); provides a much more complete index (it's easier to use); contains a brand new glossary of terms (it's easier to understand); and all this new information adds up to 100 pages more than in the original edition.

Apostolic Letter Laetamur Magnopere in Which the Latin Typical Edition is Promulgated

xiii

Apostolic Constitution Fidei Depositum on the Publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

(6)

PROLOGUE

(6)

The Life of Man - To Know and Love God

(1)

Handing on the Faith: Catechesis

(1)

The Aim and Intended Readership of This Catechism

(1)

Structure of This Catechism

(2)

Practical Directions for Using This Catechism

(1)

Necessary Adaptations

(2)

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

(1)

Section One: ``I Believe'' - ``We Believe''

(38)

Man's Capacity For God

(6)

The Desire for God

(1)

Ways of Coming to Know God

(2)

The Knowledge of God according to the Church

(1)

How Can We Speak about God?

(2)

In Brief

(1)

God Comes to Meet Man

(20)

The Revelation of God

(1)

God Reveals His ``Plan of Loving Goodness''

(1)

The Stages of Revelation

(2)

Christ Jesus - ``Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation''

(2)

In Brief

(1)

The Transmission of Divine Revelation

(1)

The Apostolic Tradition

(2)

The Relationship between Tradition and Sacred Scripture

(1)

The Interpretation of the Heritage of Faith

(3)

In Brief

(1)

Sacred Scripture

(1)

Christ - The Unique Word of Sacred Scripture

(1)

Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture

(1)

The Holy Spirit, Interpreter of Scripture

(2)

The Canon of Scripture

(3)

Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church

(2)

In Brief

(2)

Man's Response to God

(12)

I Believe

(1)

The Obedience of Faith

(1)

``I Know Whom I Have Believed''

(1)

The Characteristics of Faith

(5)

We Believe

(1)

``Lord, Look upon the Faith of Your Church''

(1)

The Language of Faith

(1)

Only One Faith

(4)

In Brief

(1)

The Credo

(2)

Section Two: The Profession of the Christian Faith

(226)

The Creeds

(3)

I Believe in God The Father

(52)

``I Believe in God The Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth''

(1)

I Believe in God

(1)

``I Believe in One God''

(1)

God Reveals His Name

(3)

God, ``He Who Is,'' Is Truth and Love

(2)

The Implications of Faith in One God

(2)

In Brief

(1)

The Father

(1)

``In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit''

(1)

The Revelation of God as Trinity

(3)

The Holy Trinity in the Teaching of the Faith

(2)

The Divine Works and the Trinitarian Missions

(5)

In Brief

(2)

The Almighty

(1)

In Brief

(1)

The Creator

(1)

Catechesis on Creation

(3)

Creation - Work of the Holy Trinity

(1)

``The World Was Created for the Glory of God''

(1)

The Mystery of Creation

(3)

God Carries Out His Plan: Divine Providence

(5)

In Brief

(2)

Heaven and Earth

(1)

The Angels

(2)

The Visible World

(4)

In Brief

(1)

Man

(1)

``In the Image of God''

(1)

``Body and Soul but Truly One''

(2)

``Male and Female He Created Them''

(1)

Man in Paradise

(2)

In Brief

(1)

The Fall

(1)

Where Sin Abounded, Grace Abounded All the More

(1)

The Fall of the Angels

(2)

Original Sin

100

(4)

``You Did Not Abandon Him to the Power of Death''

104

(2)

In Brief

104

(2)

I Believe in Jesus Christ, The Only Son of God

106

(73)

``And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord''

108

(1)

Jesus

108

(1)

Christ

109

(2)

The Only Son of God

111

(1)

Lord

112

(3)

In Brief

114

(1)

``He was Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit, and was Born of the Virgin Mary''

115

(1)

The Son of God Became Man

115

(1)

Why Did the Word Become Flesh?

115

(1)

The Incarnation

116

(1)

True God and True Man

117

(2)

How Is the Son of God Man?

119

(3)

In Brief

121

(1)

``Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary''

122

(1)

Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit

122

(1)

...Born of the Virgin Mary

122

(7)

In Brief

128

(1)

The Mysteries of Christ's Life

129

(1)

Christ's Whole Life Is Mystery

129

(2)

The Mysteries of Jesus' Infancy and Hidden Life

131

(5)

The Mysteries of Jesus' Public Life

136

(12)

In Brief

145

(1)

``Jesus Christ Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, Died, and was Buried''

146

(1)

Jesus and Israel

147

(1)

Jesus and the Law

148

(1)

Jesus and the Temple

149

(2)

Jesus and Israel's Faith in the One God and Savior

151

(2)

In Brief

152

(1)

Jesus Died Crucified

153

(1)

The Trial of Jesus

153

(2)

Christ's Redemptive Death in God's Plan of Salvation

155

(2)

Christ Offered Himself to His Father for Our Sins

157

(9)

In Brief

161

(1)

Jesus Christ Was Buried

162

(1)

In Brief

163

(1)

``He Descended into Hell on the Third Day He Rose Again''

164

(1)

Christ Descended into Hell

164

(1)

In Brief

165

(1)

On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead

166

(1)

The Historical and Transcendent Event

166

(3)

The Resurrection - A Work of the Holy Trinity

169

(1)

The Meaning and Saving Significance of the Resurrection

170

(4)

In Brief

171

(1)

``He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father''

172

(1)

In Brief

173

(1)

``From Thence He will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead''

174

(1)

He Will Come Again in Glory

174

(3)

To Judge the Living and the Dead

177

(2)

In Brief

178

(1)

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

179

(98)

``I Believe in the Holy Spirit''

180

(1)

The Joint Mission of the Son and the Spirit

181

(1)

The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit

182

(4)

God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises

186

(4)

The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time

190

(3)

The Spirit and the Church in the Last Days

193

(4)

In Brief

196

(1)

``I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church''

197

(1)

The Church in God's Plan

197

(1)

Names and Images of the Church

197

(2)

The Church's Origin, Foundation, and Mission

199

(4)

The Mystery of the Church

203

(3)

In Brief

205

(1)

The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit

206

(1)

The Church - People of God

206

(2)

The Church - Body of Christ

208

(3)

The Church Is the Temple of the Holy Spirit

211

(3)

In Brief

213

(1)

The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

214

(1)

The Church Is One

214

(4)

The Church Is Holy

218

(2)

The Church Is Catholic

220

(7)

The Church Is Apostolic

227

(4)

In Brief

230

(1)

Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life

231

(1)

The Hierarchical Constitution of the Church

231

(6)

The Lay Faithful

237

(4)

The Consecrated Life

241

(6)

In Brief

245

(2)

The Communion of Saints

247

(1)

Communion in Spiritual Goods

247

(2)

The Communion of the Church of Heaven and Earth

249

(2)

In Brief

250

(1)

Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church

251

(1)

Mary's Motherhood with Regard to the Church

251

(2)

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin

253

(1)

Mary - Eschatological Icon of the Church

253

(2)

In Brief

254

(1)

``I Believe in the Forgiveness of sins''

254

(1)

One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins

255

(1)

The Power of the Keys

256

(3)

In Brief

257

(1)

``I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body''

258

(1)

Christ's Resurrection and Ours

259

(3)

Dying in Christ Jesus

262

(4)

In Brief

265

(1)

``I Believe in Life Everlasting''

266

(1)

The Particular Judgment

266

(1)

Heaven

267

(1)

The Final Purification, or Purgatory

268

(1)

Hell

269

(2)

The Last Judgment

271

(1)

The Hope of the New Heaven and the New Earth

272

(5)

In Brief

274

(2)

``Amen''

276

(1)

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

277

(3)

Section One: The Sacramental Economy

280

(31)

The Paschal Mystery in the Age of the Church

280

(14)

The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity

280

(1)

The Father - Source and Goal of the Liturgy

280

(2)

Christ's Work in the Liturgy

282

(1)

The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy

283

(6)

In Brief

288

(1)

The Paschal Mystery in the Church's Sacraments

289

(1)

The Sacraments of Christ

289

(1)

The Sacraments of the Church

289

(2)

The Sacraments of Faith

291

(1)

The Sacraments of Salvation

292

(1)

The Sacraments of Eternal Life

292

(2)

In Brief

293

(1)

The Sacramental Celebration of the Paschal Mystery

294

(17)

Celebrating the Church's Liturgy

294

(1)

Who Celebrates?

294

(2)

How Is the Liturgy Celebrated?

296

(5)

When Is the Liturgy Celebrated?

301

(4)

Where Is the Liturgy Celebrated?

305

(6)

In Brief

307

(2)

Liturgical Diversity and the Unity of the Mystery

309

(1)

In Brief

310

(1)

Section Two: The Seven Sacraments of the Church

311

(110)

The Sacraments of Christian Initiation

311

(46)

The Sacrament of Baptism

312

(1)

What Is This Sacrament Called?

312

(1)

Baptism in the Economy of Salvation

313

(2)

How Is the Sacrament of Baptism Celebrated?

315

(3)

Who Can Receive Baptism?

318

(2)

Who Can Baptize?

320

(1)

The Necessity of Baptism

320

(1)

The Grace of Baptism

321

(5)

In Brief

324

(1)

The Sacrament of Confirmation

325

(1)

Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation

326

(1)

The Signs and the Rite of Confirmation

327

(3)

The Effects of Confirmation

330

(1)

Who Can Receive This Sacrament?

331

(1)

The Minister of Confirmation

332

(2)

In Brief

332

(2)

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

334

(1)

The Eucharist - Source and Summit of Ecclesial Life

334

(1)

What Is This Sacrament Called?

335

(1)

The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation

336

(3)

The Liturgical Celebration of the Eucharist

339

(3)

The Sacramental Sacrifice: Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence

342

(7)

The Paschal Banquet

349

(5)

The Eucharist - ``Pledge of the Glory to Come''

354

(3)

In Brief

355

(2)

The Sacraments of Healing

357

(26)

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

357

(1)

What Is This Sacrament Called?

357

(1)

Why a Sacrament of Reconciliation after Baptism?

358

(1)

The Conversion of the Baptized

359

(1)

Interior Penance

359

(1)

The Many Forms of Penance in Christian Life

360

(1)

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

361

(3)

The Acts of the Penitent

364

(3)

The Minister of This Sacrament

367

(2)

The Effects of This Sacrament

369

(1)

Indulgences

370

(2)

The Celebration of the Sacrament of Penance

372

(3)

In Brief

373

(2)

The Anointing of the Sick

375

(1)

Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation

375

(4)

Who Receives and Who Administers This Sacrament?

379

(1)

How Is This Sacrament Celebrated?

379

(1)

The Effects of the Celebration of This Sacrament

380

(1)

Viaticum, the Last Sacrament of the Christian

381

(2)

In Brief

382

(1)

The Sacraments at the Service of Communion

383

(32)

The Sacrament of Holy Orders

383

(1)

Why Is This Sacrament Called ``Orders''?

384

(1)

The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Economy of Salvation

384

(4)

The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders

388

(5)

The Celebration of This Sacrament

393

(1)

Who Can Confer This Sacrament?

394

(1)

Who Can Receive This Sacrament?

394

(1)

The Effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders

395

(5)

In Brief

398

(2)

The Sacrament of Matrimony

400

(1)

Marriage in God's Plan

400

(5)

The Celebration of Marriage

405

(1)

Matrimonial Consent

406

(3)

The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony

409

(1)

The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love

410

(3)

The Domestic Church

413

(2)

In Brief

414

(1)

Other Liturgical Celebrations

415

(6)

Sacramentals

415

(3)

In Brief

418

(1)

Christian Funerals

418

(1)

The Christian's Last Passover

418

(1)

The Celebration of Funerals

419

(2)

PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

421

(3)

Section One: Man's Vocation: Life in the Spirit

424

(74)

The Dignity of the Human Person

424

(35)

Man: the Image of God

424

(2)

In Brief

426

(1)

Our Vocation to Beatitude

426

(1)

The Beatitudes

426

(1)

The Desire for Happiness

427

(1)

Christian Beatitude

428

(2)

In Brief

429

(1)

Man's Freedom

430

(1)

Freedom and Responsibility

430

(1)

Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation

431

(2)

In Brief

433

(1)

The Morality of Human Acts

433

(1)

The Sources of Morality

433

(2)

Good Acts and Evil Acts

435

(1)

In Brief

435

(1)

The Morality of the Passions

436

(1)

Passions

436

(1)

Passions and Moral Life

436

(2)

In Brief

437

(1)

Moral Conscience

438

(1)

The Judgment of Conscience

438

(2)

The Formation of Conscience

440

(1)

To Choose in Accord with Conscience

440

(1)

Erroneous Judgment

441

(2)

In Brief

442

(1)

The Virtues

443

(1)

The Human Virtues

443

(3)

The Theological Virtues

446

(4)

The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit

450

(2)

In Brief

451

(1)

Sin

452

(1)

Mercy and Sin

452

(1)

The Definition of Sin

453

(1)

The Different Kinds of Sins

454

(1)

The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin

454

(3)

The Proliferation of Sin

457

(2)

In Brief

458

(1)

The Human Community

459

(14)

The Person and Society

459

(1)

The Communal Character of the Human Vocation

459

(2)

Conversion and Society

461

(2)

In Brief

462

(1)

Participation in Social Life

463

(1)

Authority

463

(1)

The Common Good

464

(2)

Responsibility and Participation

466

(2)

In Brief

467

(1)

Social Justice

468

(1)

Respect for the Human Person

468

(1)

Equality and Differences among Men

469

(2)

Human Solidarity

471

(2)

In Brief

472

(1)

God's Salvation: Law and Grace

473

(25)

The Moral Law

473

(1)

The Natural Moral Law

474

(2)

The Old Law

476

(1)

The New Law or the Law of the Gospel

477

(4)

In Brief

480

(1)

Grace and Justification

481

(1)

Justification

481

(2)

Grace

483

(3)

Merit

486

(2)

Christian Holiness

488

(3)

In Brief

489

(1)

The Church, Mother and Teacher

490

(1)

Moral Life and the Magisterium of the Church

491

(2)

The Precepts of the Church

493

(1)

Moral Life and Missionary Witness

494

(4)

In Brief

495

(1)

The Ten Commandments

496

(2)

Section Two: The Ten Commandments

498

(115)

In Brief

504

(1)

``You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart, and With All Your Soul, and With All Your Mind''

505

(25)

The First Commandment

505

(1)

``You Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve''

505

(3)

``Him Only Shall You Serve''

508

(4)

``You Shall Have No Other Gods before Me''

512

(4)

``You Shall Not Make for Yourself a Graven Image...''

516

(2)

In Brief

517

(1)

The Second Commandment

518

(1)

The Name of the Lord Is Holy

518

(2)

Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain

520

(1)

The Christian Name

521

(2)

In Brief

522

(1)

The Third Commandment

523

(1)

The Sabbath Day

523

(1)

The Lord's Day

524

(6)

In Brief

529

(1)

``You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself''

530

(83)

The Fourth Commandment

530

(1)

The Family in God's Plan

531

(2)

The Family and Society

533

(1)

The Duties of Family Members

534

(5)

The Family and the Kingdom

539

(1)

The Authorities in Civil Society

539

(5)

In Brief

543

(1)

The Fifth Commandment

544

(1)

Respect for Human Life

544

(6)

Respect for the Dignity of Persons

550

(4)

Safeguarding Peace

554

(6)

In Brief

558

(2)

The Sixth Commandment

560

(1)

``Male and Female He Created Them...''

560

(1)

The Vocation to Chastity

561

(6)

The Love of Husband and Wife

567

(5)

Offenses against the Dignity of Marriage

572

(5)

In Brief

575

(2)

The Seventh Commandment

577

(1)

The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods

577

(1)

Respect for Persona and Their Goods

578

(3)

The Social Doctrine of the Church

581

(2)

Economic Activity and Social Justice

583

(2)

Justice and Solidarity among Nations

585

(2)

Love for the Poor

587

(4)

In Brief

589

(2)

The Eighth Commandment

591

(1)

Living in the Truth

591

(1)

To Bear Witness to the Truth

592

(2)

Offenses against Truth

594

(2)

Respect for the Truth

596

(1)

The Use of the Social Communications Media

597

(2)

Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art

599

(3)

In Brief

600

(1)

The Ninth Commandment

601

(1)

Purification of the Heart

602

(1)

The Battle for Purity

603

(3)

In Beief

605

(1)

The Tenth Commandment

606

(1)

The Disorder of the Covetous Desires

606

(2)

The Desires of the Spirit

608

(1)

Poverty of Heart

609

(1)

``I Want to See God''

610

(3)

In Brief

611

(2)

PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER

613

(1)

Section One: Prayer in the Christian Life

613

(48)

What Is Prayer?

613

(3)

The Revelation of prayer

616

(21)

The Universal Call to Prayer

616

(1)

In The Old Testament

616

(7)

In Brief

623

(1)

In The Fullness of Time

624

(6)

In Brief

630

(1)

In The Age of the Church

631

(1)

Blessing and Adoration

632

(1)

Prayer of Petition

632

(1)

Prayer of Intercession

633

(1)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

634

(1)

Prayer of Praise

635

(2)

In Brief

636

(1)

The Tradition of Prayer

637

(11)

At the Wellsprings of Prayer

637

(2)

In Brief

639

(1)

The Way of Prayer

640

(4)

In Brief

644

(1)

Guides for Prayer

645

(2)

In Brief

647

(1)

The Life of Prayer

648

(13)

Expressions of Prayer

648

(1)

Vocal Prayer

648

(1)

Meditation

649

(1)

Contemplative Prayer

650

(3)

In Brief

652

(1)

The Battle of Prayer

653

(1)

Objections to Prayer

653

(1)

Humble Vigilance of Heart

654

(1)

Filial Trust

655

(2)

Preservering in Love

657

(4)

The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus

659

(1)

In Brief

660

(1)

Section Two: The Lord's Prayer: ``Our Father!''

661

(28)

``The Summary of the Whole Gospel''

662

(1)

At the Center of of the Scriptures

662

(1)

``The Lord's Prayer''

663

(1)

The Prayer of the Church

663

(2)

In Brief

665

(1)

``Our Father Who Art in Heaven''

665

(1)

``We Dare to Say''

665

(1)

``Father!''

666

(2)

``Our'' Father

668

(2)

``Who Art in Heaven''

670

(3)

In Brief

671

(1)

The Seven Petitions

672

(1)

``Hallowed Be Thy Name''

673

(2)

``Thy Kingdom Come''

675

(2)

``Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven''

677

(2)

``Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread''

679

(2)

``And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those Who Trespass against Us''

681

(3)

``And Lead Us Not into Temptation''

684

(1)

``But Deliver Us from Evil''

685

(4)

The Final Doxology

687

(1)

In Brief

687

(2)

Index of Citations

689

(64)

Index

753

(108)

Abbreviations

861

(3)

Glossary

864

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Catechism of the Catholic Church

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