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the Eucharist as the ever-present
sacrifice of: 220-21
Sign of the Cross: 184, 232, 295-96,
299, 302, 473
the Crusades:
356
Cult:
see Worship
Cults:
344
Culture
bringing the Gospel into: 16-17
and Catholics, responsibilities of:
16-17
the Church proclaiming salvation
to: xxiii
Church teachings versus: xxiii
and cultural change: 16-17, 41-43
cultural progress: 427
“culture of disbelief”: 16
evangelizing: 16-17, 442-43, 445
freedom and: 41-43
Gospel as converting and
transforming: 16-17
individualism, secularism, and
materialism in: 16
participation in cultural life: 426
and separation of Church and state:
16, 42-43
social pressures to restrict faith to
the private sphere: 16
see also Media; Secular culture;
specific topics,
e.g., Gospel:
culture, relationship to
Culture of death
root causes: 400
working against: 389-90
see also Abortion; Death penalty;
Euthanasia; Stem-cell research:
embryonic; Suicide: physician-
assisted; Terrorism; War
Culture of life:
387-402
Cycle of Saints:
173
Damnation
fear of: 238
see also Hell
David:
235
Day, Dorothy:
387-89
Day of the Lord:
see Sabbath
Days:
see Feast Days; Holy Days of
Obligation;
specific Days,
e.g., Sunday
Deacons; diaconate:
264-67, 270-71,
273,
509
assisting at and blessing marriages:
265-66, 271, 273
assisting the bishop or priest: 138,
218, 266, 273
baptizing: 186, 188, 265-66,
271, 273
diaconate as a degree of the
Sacrament of Holy Orders: 264-
65, 273
as not receiving the ministerial
priesthood: 273
ordained by the bishop to the
ministry of service: 266, 271, 273
permanent deaconate restored in
the Latin Church after
Vatican II: 267
preaching: 266, 271, 273
presiding at funerals: 266, 271, 273
proclaiming the Gospel: 266,
271, 273
public responsibility to lead people
in prayer with genuine
reverence: 472
serving community through works
of charity: 266, 271, 273
see also Orders: Sacrament of Holy
Dead, resurrection of:
see Resurrection
of the body
Death:
162, 235
after death
call to share in the life of the
Trinity: 153
destiny of the just: 151-62
final purification or Purgatory:
154, 156, 160-61, 245, 537
hell (see Hell)
the Last Judgment (see Final
Judgment)
living in heaven as “to be with
Christ”: 154
no reincarnation:
525
no repentance after: 155