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Vatican I:
see
specific topics,
e.g.,
Papal infallibility
Vatican II:
see Second Vatican Council;
specific topics
“Venerable”:
xix
see also Beatification
Veneration
of angels: 62
of God’s Word: 24, 29, 32-33
of holy images: 297, 300, 344, 347
of Mary: 173, 178, 297, 344
of the saints: xix, 178, 297, 344
Vengeance:
396
see also Anger
Venial sin:
see under Sin: venial sin
Viaticum:
223, 229, 254, 400,
531
see also Anointing of the Sick
Vice:
317, 441,
531
see also Sin
Violence; force
the Fifth Commandment and: 401
people coming together in charity
to vanquish: 398
and respect for life: 501
sin as causing: 331
“The antidote to violence is not
more violence”: 395
wrong of using religion to justify:
332-33
see also
specific topics,
e.g.,
Terrorism
Virginity
consecrated: 144, 413
of Mary (see under Mary, Blessed
Virgin: perpetual virginity of)
practiced by some of Christ’s
disciples: 144
see also Chastity; Evangelical
counsels; Purity; Virtues
Virtues:
19, 315-17, 320, 441,
531
Cardinal Virtues: 193, 316-17,
320, 341
chastity as form of all virtues: 411
the Christian family and: 377,
380, 383
habitual and firm disposition to do
the good: 315-16
human virtues: 316-17
required for an effective moral life:
315, 317, 320
society and: 326
stable dispositions of the intellect
and will: 315, 320
Ten Commandments: 317, 342, 347
see also Beatitudes
Virtues, Theological:
315, 317, 320,
341, 347, 478,
530
see also Faith; Hope; Charity; Love
Visible creation:
4, 55-56, 71
Vocation:
531
of Abraham (see Abraham)
of becoming God’s adopted
sons: 329
a calling: 269, 452
Christian: 454
Christ’s blood revealing the
greatness of our: 401
Christ’s Great Commission to
evangelize as: 137
to consecrated life:
531
discerning a: 269, 452
each of us as having a personal: 452
to eternal life:
531
fostering: 273
and gift of self: 401
Holy Orders: 269, 271
human: 451, 454
of the laity: 135-36
to love: 401-2
to marriage: 279, 375
in our Baptismal commitments:
531
priestly: 126, 269, 271
religious: 379
to religious life: 126
stewardship of: 452
of women: 269
work as a human vocation: 451-52
Vote, duty to:
380, 501
Vows:
433
to God: 342, 347
marriage vows: 405
see also Evangelical
counsels; Promises