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perseverance in faith and its
defense: 16-17
personal relationship with God:
37-38, 42, 44
“Pray in order to believe; believe in
order to pray”: 491
proclamation, institution, and
propagation of the: 381
professing the faith as a duty and
task: 487
qualities of faith: 37-39
beginning of eternal life: 38
believes with conviction in a
message: 39, 44
a free, human act: 38-39, 44
full assent to God: 37
gift of grace given by God: 38
necessary for salvation: 38, 44
only one: 127, 138
as personal and communal
relationship: 37-38, 42, 44
response to God’s gift: 37
seeks understanding and is a
friend of reason: 38
and reason: 38, 44
Resurrection, truth of as original
fact upon which Christian faith
is based: 176
Revelation, as response to: 14-15,
32, 36-39
science and: 57-61
submission as required by: 40-41, 44
teaching (see under Education)
that by which we believe all that
the Church proposes for belief as
divinely revealed: 44
as Theological Virtue: 315-17, 320,
342, 347
infused at Baptism: 317
virtue related directly to God: 317
and trust in God: 37, 44, 59
truth and: 37-39, 44-45
Virgin Mary as perfect model: 37
virtue, supplementing with: 19
and vitality in prayer: 469, 491
way of knowing: 44
witness to the (see
Witness, Christian)
see also under
specific topics,
e.g., Education
Faithfulness:
108, 209
to Catholic doctrine: xv
to Christ: 289
of Christ to the Church: 283
the Church’s: 133, 146
to God: 146, 279
to God’s Word
of God to us: 61, 215, 279, 405,
411, 414, 464, 500
in marriage: 279, 282-83, 285, 287-
88, 381, 403-16
to the moral teaching of the
Church: 222
to prayer: 476
see also Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Faithful, the:
see Believers; Christians;
People of God
the Fall:
68-69, 73-74,
512
cause of: 68-69
effects on our relationship with
God, with others, and with
ourselves: 69
Genesis, account in: 68-69, 73
God as not abandoning us after: 70
see also Original Sin
False witness, bearing:
429-38
Family:
373-85, 380,
512
Baptismal priesthood: 138, 193
based on permanent and exclusive
union of a man and a woman in
marriage: 286, 379
basic unit of society: 383
called to be a community of
love: 377
Christian: 376-77, 380-81, 383
created by God: 379
as domestic Church: 113, 284-86,
290, 376-79, 383,
510
duty to help and defend:
375-76, 422
education of one’s: 375, 377-83
filial love: 375, 377, 380,
513
the Fourth Commandment: 373-85
God’s family: 113
the Gospel, as center for: 404