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births, regulation of: 285-86, 391,
404, 409
as calling forth parents’ gifts: 383
conscience, formation of:
314-15, 320
couples without children: 285
duties of: 375-78, 383
duties of parents to: 189, 283-84,
378-79, 380, 383, 452
educating children in
modesty: 442
educating children in the faith:
189, 378
First Communion of: 328
grown children: 375-79
marriage, procreative aspect of:
404,
524
obligation of parents to provide
basic needs for: 278, 380, 383
parents’ best gift to: 189
parents’ love for: 378-79, 383
sexual union, as fruit of: 409
spiritual formation of: 189, 378
as supreme gift of love within
marriage: 283
vocations of grown children,
parents respecting: 378-79
what is demanded for the good of:
378, 380, 383
see also Education; Family;
Marriage; Parents; Youth;
specific topics
Children of God
adopted: 193, 207, 486
becoming a child of God: 189-90
God’s actions with respect to: 193
Holy Spirit’s presence in: 159,
161, 193
living life of, aids to: 193
as reborn in the Sacraments: 182,
193, 195, 486
see also Christians; Church; People
of God;
specific topics,
e.g., Prayer
Choice, free (free will):
see Free will
Chosen people, Israel as:
13, 131
see also Israel
“Chrismation”:
507
as name for Confirmation in
Eastern Churches: 107, 168, 186,
205, 210, 264
Chrism (Myron):
506
anointing with sacred: 186-87, 198-
99, 204-5, 210
Confirmation and: 103
consecration of: 204
Christ:
507
see also Jesus Christ
Christian faith:
see Faith
Christian Initiation:
see Initiation, Christian
Christian life
and attending Mass: 334
the Eucharist as source and summit
of (see Eucharist)
foundations of (see
Initiation, Christian)
and the sacredness of the home (see
Domestic Church)
See also Devotions; Formation;
Godparents; Moral life; Prayer;
Sacramentals; Trinity
Christians
Baptism and the new life of: 181-99
death and: 153-61
harmony among: 123
non-Catholic: 127-29, 136, 193
sins of, as undermining credibility
of faith: 4-5, 345, 356
see also Believers; Children of
God; Moral life; People of God;
specific topics,
e.g., Prayer
Christian, the term:
204
Christian unity:
See Ecumenism
Christian witness:
see Witness, Christian
Christmas:
507
the Church:
111-23, 122,
507
all members as linked to one
another: 116, 122
Apostles’ confession of faith, as
handing from generation to
generation: 42, 138
Baptism as entrance to: 113, 116-
17, 119, 122