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Francis of Assisi, St.:
102, 117, 135,
242, 340, 402, 456-57, 537
Francis Seelos, Blessed:
262, 267
Fraternity:
379
fraternal charity: 427
Fraud:
419, 449, 455
Freedom:
4, 310-11, 319-20
Church and: 119-20
civic responsibility and:
507
definition of: 310, 316
faith as free human act: 38-39
false understandings of: 310-11,
316, 422
the family and: 379, 383
foundation and essentials for:
379, 383
freedom and responsibility: 310-11
and the possibility of choosing
between good and evil:
311, 320
freedom in the work of salvation:
155, 310-11
Christ as secret of: 445
of faith: 38-39
gift of: 69
God’s respect for human
freedom: 57
grace as protecting our
freedom: 329
grace does not rival human
freedom: 329
limits of: 316
and Original Sin: 69-75
and sin: 311, 313, 329
of the Virgin Mary: 145, 148,
470, 479
God as giver of: 57, 451
growth in: 311
guaranteeing, conditions for: 326
of information and communication:
433-34
internal: 405
lies in our free decision to say, “yes”
to God: 310-11
may be limited but still real: 311
and morality: 310-11
moral life and: 310-11, 316,
320, 389
more than a capacity to choose:
310-11
protection of personal freedom by
state: 326, 421, 426
religious: x, 16, 41-43, 42, 316,
367, 420, 501
right to exercise: 326
self-mastery and: 315, 405
subsidiarity, principle of: 326
violation of personal: 407
will and: 316
see also Free will;
specific topics,
e.g., Marriage: free consent in
Free will:
68, 194, 310, 319, 332
conscience, according to
(see Conscience)
as consequence of being made in
the image of God: 68
intellect and: 56-57
role in sin: 71, 194, 310
temptation and: 68
see also Freedom
Friendship:
316, 406
chastity as developed and expressed
in: 406
between Christ and man: 91, 223,
225, 292, 445
between God and man: 13, 36, 67,
73, 154, 236, 242-43, 328, 336
and making disciples: 137
in marriage: 381
solidarity, principle of: 337,
529
Fruits of the Holy Spirit:
108,
209-10,
513
Full Communion (reception into):
188,
190, 193, 206,
513
Fundamentalism:
30, 61
being born-again, Catholics and: 195
Funerals:
159, 162, 187, 266, 271, 273
Catholic: 153
and Catholic cemeteries: 159-60
Christian: 159
the Church as preferring burial of
the body: 160
and cremation: 159-60,
508-9
Jesus’ presence at: 159
see also Death