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Fertility and infertility, issues regarding:
392, 409-10
couples without children: 285
openness to fertility: 285-86, 290,
404, 408-9, 415
see also
specific topics,
e.g., Natural
family planning
Fertilization,
in vitro
:
392
Fidelity:
see Faithfulness; Truth
Filial love:
375, 377, 380,
513
Final Judgment:
156-58, 161,
517
and call to conversion: 158
Fire:
457
eternal: 157 (see also Hell)
Holy Spirit, as symbol of: 107,
446, 535
images of as portraying hell: 155
Pentecost, tongues of fire at:
103, 114
purifying: 154
First Vatican Council:
see
specific topics,
e.g., Papal infallibility
Fitton, Fr. James:
362
Flesh:
see Body;
specific topics,
e.g.,
Marriage (two becoming
one flesh)
Flock
Church as: 114, 270
shepherds of: 258
Flood:
14
Following Christ:
91
in consecrated life: 135
Force:
see Violence
Forgiveness of others
and compassion for others: 242
of enemies: 488, 494
in family: 376
given to whoever trespasses against
us: 129, 482, 488
“Go, first, be reconciled to your
brother”: 239
holiness and: 196
in marriage: 285
number of times a person should
forgive: 243
Forgiveness of sin:
46, 234-35
of all sins, possibility of: 192,
196-97
and Anointing of the Sick (see
Anointing of the Sick)
asking for forgiveness in prayer:
129, 467-68, 482, 488, 494
Baptism and: 47, 192, 196-97, 235,
243, 245,
505
bishops and priests as instruments
to forgive sins: 236, 240
Christ as meriting justification for
us: 328, 336
Christians as still needing: 129,
243, 245
and Christ’s Kingdom: 486
Christ’s mission of: 235-36
the Church’s power to forgive
sins: 236
and compassion for others: 242
Eucharist and: 224, 226
forms of penance and ways
to obtain (see Penance and
Reconciliation)
God alone as able to forgive: 83,
236, 251
as a manifestation of Jesus as
Savior: 98
and mercy of God: 52, 235
offering of Christ to the Father for
our sins: 92, 96
power to forgive sins imparted to
the Apostles by the Risen Christ
on Easter: 236, 244-45
see also Penance
and Reconciliation
Formation
of catechumens: 186, 188
of conscience: 314-15, 319-20, 454
spiritual formation of children:
189, 378
Fornication:
406, 410-11, 414, 441
Fortitude:
317,
513
as a Cardinal Virtue: 193
as a gift of the Holy Spirit: 108
Fortune-telling:
344
Four marks of the Church:
see under
Church: four marks of the Church
Franciscan Order:
xi, 89, 125-26, 136,
277, 472, 474