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priestly vocation of the People of God,
784
to seek God, 30
society should permit each of its
members to fulfill his, 1907, 2461
Voice
of conscience (
see
Conscience)
of God the Father (
see
God)
Vow (Religious)
definition of, 2102
dispensation from, 2103
exemplary value of, 2103
Wage
death as the wages of sin, 1006
Wage, just
, 2434
War
arms, 2314, 2316
arms race, 2315
duty to avoid, 2307‑08
economic and social injustices and
inequalities as causes of, 2317
just, 2309
obligation to resist unjust orders, 2313
peace and absence of, 2304
permanence of the moral law during
armed conflict, 2312‑13
Way(s)
of Christ, 1696‑97
of the cross, 1674, 2669
of God’s plan, 778
Gospel parable of the two, 1696
Jesus as the, 459, 846, 2664, 2674
of the Kingdom, 1967
missionary paths, 852
of Providence, 314
Weakness
the Holy Spirit as a help to human,
741, 2630
human weakness
also in the ordained ministries,
1550
and Jesus, 517, 540, 1505, 2602
and the manifestation of divine
power, 268, 1508
and the sacraments of Christian
initiation, 978, 1264, 1426
intercession of the saints as a help to
human, 956, 1053
mystery of God’s apparent
powerlessness, 272
Wedding
at Cana, 1613, 2618
feast in the Kingdom, 1027, 1335
of the Lamb, 1244, 1329, 1602, 1612,
1642, 2618
mystical betrothal, 923
Widow
, 922, 1537, 1672, 2349
Wife.
See
Marriage
Will
of God, 51, 294‑95, 541, 2059, 2822 (
see
also
God; Christ)
of man
man’s mastery of, 1734, 1809
morality of human acts and, 1755
passions and, 1767‑68
sin and, 1853
virtue and, 1834
Wine
conversion of wine into Christ’s
blood, 1375‑76, 1413 (
see also
Transubstantiation)
sign of bread and wine in the
Eucharist, 1333‑35
See also
Vine
Wisdom
of God
Christ crucified as, 272
creatures reflect a ray of, 339, 369
God created according to, 295, 299
God’s truth as wisdom, 216
man participates in God’s wisdom,
1954
moral law as the work of, 1950
of man
as an emanation of God’s power,
2500
as a gift from God, 283, 1303, 1831
Witness
of Christians, 2506
duty of bearing, 1816, 2087, 2471
of education in the faith, 2226
effects of, 30
of faith, 2472