Catechism of the Catholic Church

Contents ix CHAPTER FOUR: OTHER LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS. . . . 415 Article 1: SACRAMENTALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Article 2: CHRISTIAN FUNERALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 I. The Christian’s Last Passover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 II. The Celebration of Funerals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST. 421 SECTION ONE: MAN’S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. . 424 CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON. . . 424 Article 1: MAN: THE IMAGE OF GOD. . . . . . . . . . . 424 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 Article 2: OUR VOCATION TO BEATITUDE. . . . . . . . . 426 I. The Beatitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 II. The Desire for Happiness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 III. Christian Beatitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Article 3: MAN’S FREEDOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 I. Freedom and Responsibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 II. Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation. . . . . . . . . 431 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Article 4: THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS . . . . . . . 433 I. The Sources of Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 II. Good Acts and Evil Acts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 Article 5: THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS . . . . . . . 436 I. Passions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 II. Passions and Moral Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Article 6: MORAL CONSCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 I. The Judgment of Conscience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 II. The Formation of Conscience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 III. To Choose in Accord with Conscience. . . . . . . . . . . . 440 IV. Erroneous Judgment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 Article 7: THE VIRTUES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 I. The Human Virtues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 II. The Theological Virtues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 III. The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit. . . . . . . . . . . . 450 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Article 8: SIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 I. Mercy and Sin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 II. The Definition of Sin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 III. The Different Kinds of Sins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin. . . . . . . . . . . 454 V. The Proliferation of Sin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 CHAPTER TWO: THE HUMAN COMMUNITY . . . . . . . . 459 Article 1: THE PERSON AND SOCIETY. . . . . . . . . . . 459 I. The Communal Character of the Human Vocation . . . . . . . 459 II. Conversion and Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 IN BRIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Article 2: PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL LIFE. . . . . . . . . 463