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Psychology:
344
psychological illness as not grounds
for exorcism: 297
Punishment
capital (see Death penalty)
and defending public order: 398
hell (see Hell)
“medicinal” purpose: 398
and protecting public safety: 398
in purgatory (see Purgatory)
temporal punishment due to sin:
192, 244-45
Purgatory:
154, 156, 160-61, 537
final purification of the elect: 154
place of detachment from
selfishness and
self-centeredness: 154
purifying fire: 154
those in Purgatory assisted by the
prayers of the Church: 154,
161, 245
Purification
as demanding prayer, chastity,
purity of intention and vision:
443-44
of the Elect during Lent: 191
perfection of love and holiness
needed to enter heaven: 153
prayer and: 476
Purgatory (see Purgatory)
Purity of heart:
317, 439-46
gift of the Holy Spirit: 442
need for modesty: 444
the Ninth Commandment: 439-46
role of chastity: 444
role of prayer: 443
see also Chastity; Virginity
Quattrocchi, Luigi and Maria, Blesseds:
278, 373-75
Quiet:
see Silence
Racism:
327
see also Discrimination
Rape:
311, 407
RCIA:
see Rite of Christian Initiation of
Adults (RCIA)
Real Presence of Christ:
see under
Presence: of Christ
Reason:
327
age of (for Confirmation): 205, 210
Age of Reason (see Enlightenment)
conscience as judgment of (see
Conscience)
faith and: 38, 44
faith as friend of: 38
heart and: 491
and the knowledge of God: 7-8, 12,
38, 44, 327
natural law and: 327
sin as contrary to: 312
virtues and (see Virtues)
see also Intellect
Rebirth:
195
see also Baptism; Born-again; Life:
new life
Reconciliation:
see Penance
and Reconciliation
Redemption:
420, 486,
525
of the body: 413
Christ’s death as a sacrifice of: 85,
92, 184, 243
fullness of redemption obtained for
us by Christ and indulgences: 244
promised after the Fall: 78
and the stewardship of God’s
gifts: 452
Three Persons of the Trinity
working together in: 62
the work of Redemption as carried
out in the celebration of the
Eucharist: 221
Redemptorists:
35-36, 261-62
Reductionism, historical:
30-31
the Reformation:
ix, 127, 356
Regulation of births:
see Births,
regulation of
Reincarnation:
525
Relatives:
see Family
Relativism:
389, 431,
525
Religion
Catholicism as a revealed: xx
the Church and non-Christian (see
Ecumenism;
specific Religions
)