Catechism Index

This index is arranged in order of the Parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Links	Catechism Paragraphs	Topic
●	27-35	Desire for God; approaches to the knowledge of God
●	27-43	Desire for God
●	51-57	God's revelation in history
● ●	101-108	Christ, the unique word, the inspiration and truth of Scripture
●	109-119	The Holy Spirit, interpreter of the Scripture
● ●	131-133	Scripture in the life of the church
● ● ●	144-149	Obedience of Faith
● ●	144-165	“I believe” - the obedience of faith and the characteristics of faith
● ●	153-165	Characteristics of faith
●	163-165	Faith as the beginning of eternal life
●	168-169	“Look on the faith of your church.”
●	170-171	The language of faith
● ●	172-175	Only one faith through the centuries
● ●	232-248	The revelation of God as Trinity
●	249-260	Formation of the doctrine of the Trinity and Trinitarian missions
● ●	293-301	The world has been created for the glory of God; (Missionary activity “names” that God)
●	302-314	God's providence
●	328-336	The Angels
●	369-373	Male and Female equality and difference willed by God
●	391-395	Fall of the angels
● ●	410-412	God has not abandoned the human race to the power of death (after the Fall)
● ● ●	422-429	Christ at the heart of catechesis
● ●	430-435	Jesus (the meaning and significance of the name)
● ● ●	430-440	Jesus, the Christ (the anointed one)
●	446-451	Jesus is Lord
● ●	456-503	Why Did The Word Become Flesh?
● ●	464-469	Jesus, true God and true human person
● ● ●	470-478	How the Son of God is a Divine person yet man
SMMG	484-487	Conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary
●	512-519	Christ's Life a Mystery
● ●	514-521	Christ's Whole Life is Mystery
●	525-526	The Christian Mystery
●	528	The Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
●	529	Presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple
●	530	Flight into Egypt
●	535-537	The Baptism of Jesus
●	541-546	Proclamation of the Kingdom
●	577-582	Jesus and the Law
● ●	583-586	Jesus and the temple
● ●	595-605	The authorities and the death of Jesus
● ●	599-605	Christ’s redemptive death in the divine plan of salvation
● ●	606-618	Jesus offers himself to the Father for our sins
● ●	641-644	Apparitions of the Risen One
●	645-646	The risen humanity of Jesus
● ●	651-655	The meaning and salvific import of the resurrection
● ●	659-667	Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father
● ● ●	668-679	He will come in glory to judge the living and the dead
● ●	702-716	The Holy Spirit has spoken through the prophets
●	717-720	John the Baptist
● ●	721-726	Rejoice Mary! You are full of grace
●	727-730	The Holy Spirit brings the work of Jesus to completion
●	731-732	The Holy Spirit and the “Last” times
● ● ●	731-741	The Holy Spirit and the church of the “Last” times
● ●	737-741	The Holy Spirit and the church
●	759-769	The role of John the Baptist
● ●	771-801	The church as visible and spiritual; the universal sacrament of salvation; charisms
● ●	797-798	The church - temple of the Holy Spirit
● ●	830-856	The church is catholic; mission is a consequence
●	857-896	The Church is apostolic
●	880-882	The episcopal college and its head, the Pope
●	897-913	Laity in Christ's Mission
●	914-933	Consecrated life in the church
●	936-937	St. Peter the foundation of the Church & the Pope is his successor.
● ●	946-959	The communion of saints
●	976-983	I believe in the forgiveness of sins
●	988-1014	I believe in the resurrection of the body
●	1010-1014	Christian Meaning of Death
●	1020-1022	"I believe in life everlasting"
●	1030-1032	The final Purification, or Purgatory
●	1033-1037	Hell
●	1038-1041	The Last Judgement

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Links	Catechism Paragraphs	Topic
● ●	1077-1109	Liturgy: work of the Trinity
● ●	1113-1130	Sacraments of Christ; sacraments of faith; sacraments of salvation
●	1223-1225	The baptism of Jesus in the economy of salvation
●	1226-1228	Baptism in the church
●	1285-1314	Confirmation in the economy of salvation
● ●	1324-1327	Eucharist as source and summit of the church’s life
●	1333-1336	The signs of bread and wine and the new meaning given them
●	1333-1344	The Eucharist in the plan of salvation, The institution of the Eucharist
●	1373-1375	The presence of Jesus in the Eucharist by the power of his word and the Holy Spirit
● ●	1373-1381	Christ’s presence (in the Eucharist) by the power of his word and the Holy Spirit
● ●	1382-1390	The Eucharist as paschal meal
●	1383-1389	The Eucharist as paschal meal
●	1391-1401	The Fruits of Holy Communion
●	1396-1401	The Eucharist and unity
● ●	1402-1405	Eucharist as pledge of eternal life
●	1424-1425	Sacrament Penance and Reconciliation
●	1427-1429	Conversion and Repentance
● ●	1450-1460	Acts of the penitent and the forgiveness of sins (sacrament of reconciliation)
● ●	1499-1523	Prayer and healing in the anointing of the sick
●	1539-1553	The sacrament of orders in the economy of salvation
●	1554-1571	Degrees of Orders in the church
●	1602-1617	Marriage in the plan of God
●	1618-1620	Virginity for the kingdom
●	1643-1654	The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal love
●	1655-1658	The Domestic Church
●	1681-1683	Death as the Christian’s final Pass-over

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Links	Catechism Paragraphs	Topic
● ●	1716-1724	Our call to happiness
●	1718-1719	The desire for happiness
●	1720-1724	Christian happiness
● ●	1731-1738	Responsibility and imputability
●	1739-1742	Human freedom in salvation
●	1750-1756	The morality of human acts
● ●	1762-1770	The passion; the passions and moral life
●	1776-1778	The Judgment of Moral Conscience
●	1776-1785	Judgment of conscience; formation of conscience
●	1776-1794	The moral conscience
●	1816	Professing Faith in Christ
● ● ●	1817-1821	Hope
● ● ●	1822-1829	Charity
●	1830-1831	The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit
●	1846-1848	Mercy and sin
●	1877-1882	The communitarian character of the human vocation
● ●	1877-1889	The communitarian character of the human vocation, Conversion and society
●	1886-1889	Conversion and society
●	1890-1891	The Human person needs life in society
● ●	1897-1904	Authority
●	1905-1917	The Common Good
●	1913-1916	Responsibility and participation
●	1929-1938	Respect for the Human Person
● ●	1939-1942	Human solidarity
●	1950-1964	The moral law
●	1987-1995	Justification
● ●	1987-2011	Justification, grace, merit
●	1996-2005	Grace
●	1996-2016	Grace and merit
●	2006-2011	Merit
●	2012-2016	Christian holiness
● ●	2084-2094	Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God
●	2095-2109	Worship God alone
●	2110-2141	“No other gods before me”; the name Christian
●	2150-2155	Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain
●	2196-2233	The Fourth commandment
●	2214-2233	Duties of the members of the family; the family and the Kingdom
●	2232-2233	The Family and the Kingdom
● ●	2234-2246	Authority in civil society
●	2259-2283	Respect for human life
●	2284-2301	Respect for personal dignity
●	2302-2317	Safeguarding peace
●	2331-2391	The Sixth Commandment
● ●	2401-2406	The universal destination of goods and private property
●	2407-2418	Respect for people and their goods
●	2419-2436	The social doctrine of the church, economic activity, and social justice
●	2437-2442	Justice and solidarity between nations
● ● ● ●	2443-2449	Love for the poor
● ●	2464-2474	To live in the truth; to bear witness to the truth
●	2471-2492	Bearing witness to the truth
●	2514-2527	Purity of Heart (9th commandment)
●	2534-2550	The tenth commandment
●	2535-2543	Covetousness versus the desires of the Spirit
●	2544-2550	Poverty of heart; “I wish to see God”

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Part 1:	The Profession of Faith
Part 2:	The Celebration of the Christian Mystery
Part 3:	Life in Christ
Part 4:	Christian Prayer

Links	Catechism Paragraphs	Topic
●	2598-2619	The prayer of Jesus and Mary
● ●	2629-2636	Prayer of petition and intercession
●	2637-2643	Prayer of thanksgiving and praise
●	2725-2728	The struggle to pray
●	2734-2741	Child-like confidence in prayer
●	2777-2785	We dare to approach in confidence to say: Our Father
●	2786-2793	Our Father
● ●	2794-2796	Our Father in heaven
●	2816-2821	Thy kingdom come
● ● ●	2822-2827	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
●	2838-2845	Forgive us
● ● ●	2846-2854	Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil