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Beatitudes as summary: xxii
Christ as High Priest of: 216
Christ as the definitive covenant
of God: 321
the Church and: 219
the Eucharist and: 216, 219
God’s People as bound together
by: 485
Old Law and: 323, 325
prayer in: 463, 492
prophets and expectation of:
508
Sacraments and: 170
Sunday worship and: 363
Old Covenant
Abraham and the: 14, 18, 113
Decalogue and: 325
formed through God’s
revelation: 14
God and the Covenant with
His people: 14, 18, 51, 131,
235, 325
Moses and: 14, 18, 131
Noah and: 14, 18
permanent value of: 14
preparation for Christ in the:
18, 122
sabbath as a sign of:
526
our commitment to living the
Commandments as flowing from
our response to the Covenant we
have with God: xxii
see also Commandments
Covetousness:
439, 441, 444, 447,
449, 455
see also Envy; Greed
Creation:
65-75,
508
of angels: 54-55
beginning of the history of
salvation: 59, 68
Christ, new creation in: 56, 59,
364-65, 370,
508
Christ’s relationship with: 59, 68,
70-72, 74, 364-65, 370, 508
and evolution: 58-61
God’s plan and: 59
God’s Providence, creation as
sustained by: 53, 56
God’s wisdom and goodness, as
revealing: 54
God the Creator as focal point of
all the work of creation: 55
goodness of: 54
human beings as summit of:
55-56, 67
human work as collaboration
in: 452
imperfection of: 57
knowing God through: 4
new creation in Christ: 56, 59, 364-
65, 370,
508
as not “part of” God: 53
as not the result of blind fate or
chance: 53
Original Sin and: 66-67, 69-75
as “out of nothing”: 53, 62
purposes and reasons of: 62
reason and (see under Reason)
respect for: 424
science and (see under Science)
secondary causes: 56
as sustained by God’s
Providence: 56
Trinity and: 59, 62
of the visible world: 4, 55-56, 71
see also under God: as
Creator; World
Creationism:
61
Credo:
see under Faith: profession of
Creed/Symbol of Faith:
45,
244-45,
508
Apostles’ Creed: 45-46, 53, 93, 298,
500,
504
“formulas” of faith: 42
Nicene Creed: 45-47, 53,
521
as permitting us to express and
hand on our faith: 500
Cremation:
159-60,
508-9
Cross:
91-93
acceptance of one’s own: 91, 98,
254, 388, 407
effects of the sacrifice of: 75, 85, 92,
96, 100, 114, 129, 235,
252, 264