Index • 629
Social sin:
331,
528
Social teachings of the Church:
see
Social doctrine of the Church
Society
center of: 420
duties of Catholics regarding: 380
responsibility of: 326
right and duty to participate in:
423, 430
and virtues: 326
see also Common Good; Social
justice;
specific topics
Soldiers:
see Arms; War
Solidarity:
325-27, 337, 420,
529
among nations: 421, 424
brotherhood, as direct demand
of: 337
and charity, as underlying the unity
of the human race: 73
Christian: 325
Christ’s solidarity with us: 184
the Church’s solidarity with the
poor and marginalized: 456
definition: 337, 424,
520
family: 377
as form of love of neighbor: 325, 424
forms of: 326
media communications and
human: 434
moderation in our possessions as a
way to improve: 419
as opening our hearts to identifying
with the whole human family: 419
as wounded by sin: 312
Son:
see Jesus Christ; Trinity
Sorcery:
344
Soul:
529
Baptism and Confirmation as
imprinting a character on:
198, 208
body and: 68
as core of our spiritual powers of
knowing and loving: 68
as created directly by God: 68
as dwelling-place for Christ: 103
evolutionary theories and: 60
human beings endowed with: 68
immortality of: 60, 73, 97, 153,
161, 310, 319,
529
of Jesus: 81, 93, 99, 226
Jesus Christ as physician of: 234,
251, 258
Original Sin and: 413
prayer and: 160-61, 463, 473, 480,
491, 494
reunited with the body at the
Resurrection of the dead:
529
reverence for the souls of
others: 401
salvation of: 99, 331, 421
and sanctifying grace: 336
separated from the body at death:
93, 158, 161,
529
as source of physical life for our
bodies: 68
unity of soul and body in the
human person: 68, 73, 414
virtues and (see Virtues)
see also
specific topics,
e.g., Purgatory
Spirit, Holy:
see Holy Spirit
Spirit; spirits
angels as: 54, 62
human beings as body and: 55, 169,
259
meaning of the word: 104-5
see also under Poverty: of spirit
“Spiritual combat”:
476
Spiritual growth:
238-39, 369
Spirituality, contemporary forms of:
477
Spirituality, schools of:
see
specific
Schools,
e.g., Benedictine;
Franciscan; Ignatian
Spiritual works of mercy:
529
State:
see Church and state;
Political authority
Stealing:
see Theft
Stem-cell research
embryonic: 243, 392-93
moral significance: 392-93
therapeutic possibilities: 392-93
Sterilization:
409
Stewardship:
67, 424, 426
Christian stewardship: 450-54
of the Church: 452