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Holy Spirit as guiding: 25, 330,
337,
519
infallibility: 133
as moral teacher: 330-31, 337
obedience to teachings of: 25,
106, 133
responsibility to teach
authoritatively handed down
by the Apostles to their
successors: 330
teaching office of the Church:
25, 133: see also Apostolic
Succession; Doctrine; Episcopal
college;
specific topics
the
Magnificat
:
148-49
Malice:
72
see also Anger; Hatred
Man and woman:
363
as complementing each other in a
communion of persons: 73
as equal in dignity: 68, 73, 279,
404, 411
marriage of (see Marriage)
mystery and dignity of: 43
see also Human persons;
specific
topics,
e.g., Sexuality
Manichaeism:
233
Man (the human race):
see Human
persons;
specific topics
Maria (Corsini) Quattrocchi, Blessed:
278, 373-75
Maria Goretti, St.:
439-40
Marks of the Church:
519
see also under Church: four marks
of the Church
Marriage:
277-92, 408-10
annulments: 288-89, 503-4
attitudes towards marriage that
contradict the natural law: 280
chastity and: 284, 405-7
and children, acceptance of and
openness to: 285-86, 290, 404,
408-9, 415
as communion of man and woman:
73, 283, 287
and contemporary society: 280,
285-86
couples without children: 285
as covenant: 279, 281, 283-85, 290
cultural changes, negative
consequences of: 280, 285-86
divorce and pastoral care: 287-88,
290, 410
domestic abuse: 410
as exclusive and permanent union:
279, 281, 290
faults of spouses, accepting: 408
fidelity obliged by: 279, 282-83,
285, 287-88, 381, 403-16
forgiveness in: 285
as foundation of the domestic
Church: 285, 290
free consent to: 282, 284-85,
288, 290
God as author: 279, 290
growth of spousal relationship in:
286, 292, 381, 405, 408
indissolubility of: 279-80, 283, 410-
11, 415,
516
interfaith marriages: 289
Jesus’ teaching on marriage: 280
liturgical act: 281, 290
love of husband and wife: 279, 281,
283, 292, 408-10
and maturity of judgment: 288
ministers of the sacrament: 282,
289-90
mixed marriages: 289
as ordered to the good of the
spouses and the procreation and
education of children: 281, 283,
290, 375, 404-5, 408, 412
origin and purpose found in
Scripture: 279
polygamy and divorce in the Old
Testament: 279
preparation for: 284-87, 291-92
procreative aspect and purpose:
281, 283, 290, 404,
524
purposes of: 283-85, 290, 404
raised by Christ to the dignity of a
Sacrament: 281
as reflecting God’s fidelity to us: 4,
279, 283