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Catechism paragraph index

This index lists every paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that a Saints Light lesson cites, in order, with the lessons that explain it. It covers 573 citations across 182 lessons. Look up a paragraph number (written CCC 1213, for example) to find a short lesson on it in plain words.

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Prologue · Part One: The Profession of Faith · Part Two: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery · Part Three: Life in Christ · Part Four: Christian Prayer

Prologue

Paragraphs 1 to 25

CCC 1Why Were We Made?; Who Made Me, and Does God Love Me?
CCC 8Who Were the Church Fathers?
CCC 9What Happened at the Reformation?
CCC 10-11What Did Vatican II Do, and Where Is the Church Now?

Part One: The Profession of Faith

Paragraphs 26 to 1065

CCC 27Who Made Me, and Does God Love Me?
CCC 27-30Why Were We Made?
CCC 31-36Is There a God?
CCC 36Revolutions, Vatican I and the Modern Popes
CCC 50-53How God Speaks: Scripture, Tradition and the Church
CCC 54-58The Big Story: Salvation History in Seven Covenants
CCC 56Does God Keep His Promises?
CCC 59-60Does God Keep His Promises?
CCC 59-61The Big Story: Salvation History in Seven Covenants
CCC 62Does God Keep His Promises?
CCC 62-64The Big Story: Salvation History in Seven Covenants
CCC 64Does God Keep His Promises?
CCC 65-67How God Speaks: Scripture, Tradition and the Church
CCC 66The Big Story: Salvation History in Seven Covenants
CCC 66-67Guadalupe, Lourdes and Fatima: What Approval Means
CCC 74-83How God Speaks: Scripture, Tradition and the Church
CCC 80-82Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium
CCC 80-83Why Do I Need a Church? Can't I Just Read the Bible?
CCC 84Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium
CCC 85-86Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium
CCC 85-87How God Speaks: Scripture, Tradition and the Church; Why Do I Need a Church? Can't I Just Read the Bible?
CCC 86What Does Papal Infallibility Really Mean?
CCC 95Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium
CCC 103Why These Readings? The Liturgy of the Word
CCC 105-108What Is the Bible, Really?
CCC 107Hard Passages, Handled Honestly
CCC 110Hard Passages, Handled Honestly
CCC 111-114The Four Senses of Scripture
CCC 113Why Do I Need a Church? Can't I Just Read the Bible?
CCC 115-117The Four Senses of Scripture
CCC 118The Four Senses of Scripture
CCC 120How God Speaks: Scripture, Tradition and the Church; What Is the Bible, Really?; Why Do Catholic Bibles Have 73 Books?
CCC 122Hard Passages, Handled Honestly
CCC 122-123Reading the Old Testament with Christ in View
CCC 124Paul and the Letters
CCC 124-127The Gospels: Four Portraits of One Lord
CCC 128-130Reading the Old Testament with Christ in View
CCC 131-133How to Start Reading: A Realistic Plan
CCC 138What Is the Bible, Really?; Why Do Catholic Bibles Have 73 Books?
CCC 159Hard Passages, Handled Honestly; Do Faith and Science Conflict?; What Did the Middle Ages Build?
CCC 185The Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful
CCC 185-197I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth
CCC 189The Renunciation of Sin and the Profession of Faith: What Are You Really Saying I Do To?
CCC 195The Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful
CCC 221Who Made Me, and Does God Love Me?
CCC 232Who Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
CCC 232-237Who Is God? The Trinity
CCC 234Who Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
CCC 238-240I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth
CCC 239Why Call Priests "Father"?
CCC 242What Did the Great Councils Settle?
CCC 242-245Who Is God? The Trinity
CCC 246-248I believe in the Holy Spirit
CCC 247-248Why Did East and West Split?
CCC 253-254Who Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
CCC 253-256Who Is God? The Trinity
CCC 261Who Is God? The Trinity
CCC 268-274I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth
CCC 279I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; Who Made the World?
CCC 283-284Do Faith and Science Conflict?
CCC 286Is There a God?
CCC 295Who Made the World?
CCC 295-301Creation, the Fall and Why the World Is Broken
CCC 299Who Made the World?
CCC 309-314Creation, the Fall and Why the World Is Broken; Why Does God Allow Suffering?
CCC 324Why Does God Allow Suffering?
CCC 325-327I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth
CCC 334-336Why Do Catholics Pray with the Saints and the Angels?
CCC 337Hard Passages, Handled Honestly; Do Faith and Science Conflict?
CCC 339Who Made the World?; Why Care for Creation?
CCC 356-358Why Were We Made?
CCC 357Who Made Me, and Does God Love Me?; Why Does Every Person Matter?
CCC 374-375Why Is There Sin in the World?
CCC 391-395The Renunciation of Sin and the Profession of Faith: What Are You Really Saying I Do To?
CCC 396-401Creation, the Fall and Why the World Is Broken
CCC 397Why Is There Sin in the World?
CCC 404-405Creation, the Fall and Why the World Is Broken
CCC 405Why Is There Sin in the World?
CCC 410-411Why Is There Sin in the World?
CCC 410-412Creation, the Fall and Why the World Is Broken
CCC 411Mary in Scripture: New Eve and Ark of the Covenant
CCC 418Why Is There Sin in the World?
CCC 430-435and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
CCC 436-440and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
CCC 441-445and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
CCC 446-451and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
CCC 454-455and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
CCC 456Why Was Jesus Born in a Stable?
CCC 456-460Who Is Jesus? True God and True Man; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary
CCC 458Why Was Jesus Born in a Stable?
CCC 461-463Who Is Jesus? True God and True Man
CCC 464-469Who Is Jesus? True God and True Man
CCC 465-467What Did the Great Councils Settle?
CCC 466How Can Mary Be the Mother of God?
CCC 469Why Was Jesus Born in a Stable?
CCC 470Who Is Jesus? True God and True Man
CCC 484What Did Mary Say to God?
CCC 484-486who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary
CCC 487Do Catholics Worship Mary?
CCC 487-493Mary and the Saints: The Family of God
CCC 490-491What Did Mary Say to God?
CCC 490-493The Immaculate Conception
CCC 494What Did Mary Say to God?; Mary in Scripture: New Eve and Ark of the Covenant
CCC 495who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary; How Can Mary Be the Mother of God?; What Did the Great Councils Settle?
CCC 496Ever Virgin: And What About Jesus' Brothers?
CCC 496-507who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary
CCC 499-501Ever Virgin: And What About Jesus' Brothers?
CCC 509How Can Mary Be the Mother of God?
CCC 510Ever Virgin: And What About Jesus' Brothers?
CCC 525Why Was Jesus Born in a Stable?
CCC 531How Did Jesus Grow Up?
CCC 532-533How Did Jesus Grow Up?
CCC 534How Did Jesus Grow Up?
CCC 535-536How Did Jesus Grow Up?
CCC 546What Stories Did Jesus Tell?
CCC 547-548How Did Jesus Heal and Forgive?
CCC 552-553Where Is the Pope in the Bible?
CCC 571The Cross and Resurrection: How We Are Saved; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried
CCC 595-598suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried
CCC 599Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
CCC 599-605The Cross and Resurrection: How We Are Saved
CCC 606Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
CCC 609suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried
CCC 610-611What Happened at the Last Supper?
CCC 613Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
CCC 613-618The Cross and Resurrection: How We Are Saved; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried
CCC 616Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
CCC 624-630suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried
CCC 631-637He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead
CCC 638-639Is Jesus Alive?
CCC 638-644He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead
CCC 638-647The Cross and Resurrection: How We Are Saved
CCC 639-644Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
CCC 645-647He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead
CCC 647Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
CCC 651Is Jesus Alive?
CCC 651-655He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
CCC 654Is Jesus Alive?
CCC 654-655The Cross and Resurrection: How We Are Saved
CCC 659Where Did Jesus Go, and Whom Did He Send?
CCC 659-661He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty
CCC 662-664He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty
CCC 665Where Did Jesus Go, and Whom Did He Send?
CCC 665-667He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty
CCC 668-674from there He will come to judge the living and the dead
CCC 673When Will Jesus Come Again?
CCC 675-677from there He will come to judge the living and the dead; When Will Jesus Come Again?
CCC 678-682from there He will come to judge the living and the dead
CCC 681When Will Jesus Come Again?
CCC 683Where Did Jesus Go, and Whom Did He Send?
CCC 683-686The Holy Spirit and Grace; I believe in the Holy Spirit
CCC 688Who Were the Church Fathers?
CCC 691-701I believe in the Holy Spirit
CCC 731-732Where Did Jesus Go, and Whom Did He Send?; How Did the Church Begin?
CCC 731-741I believe in the Holy Spirit
CCC 750-752the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints
CCC 751-752What Is the Church?
CCC 763-766The Church: Why Did Jesus Found One?
CCC 767How Did the Church Begin?
CCC 781What Is the Church?
CCC 787What Is the Church?
CCC 789What Is the Church?
CCC 811the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints
CCC 811-816The Church: Why Did Jesus Found One?
CCC 816What Did Vatican II Do, and Where Is the Church Now?
CCC 817-818Why Did East and West Split?
CCC 817-821What Happened at the Reformation?
CCC 819Are Non-Catholics Saved?
CCC 820-821What Did Vatican II Do, and Where Is the Church Now?
CCC 823-824What About the Scandals?
CCC 823-827The Church: Why Did Jesus Found One?
CCC 823-829the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints
CCC 827What About the Scandals?; The Crusades and the Inquisition: What Really Happened?
CCC 828Mary and the Saints: The Family of God; Are Mary and the Saints Our Friends?; How Does Someone Become a Saint?
CCC 830Who Were the Church Fathers?
CCC 830-831the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints
CCC 838Why Did East and West Split?
CCC 838-839Are Non-Catholics Saved?
CCC 841Are Non-Catholics Saved?
CCC 843Are Non-Catholics Saved?
CCC 846-848The Church: Why Did Jesus Found One?; Are Non-Catholics Saved?
CCC 849How Did Monks Save the West?
CCC 849-851Missions to the World: Saints and Failures
CCC 856Missions to the World: Saints and Failures
CCC 857How Did the Church Begin?
CCC 880-882Where Is the Pope in the Bible?
CCC 881What Is the Church?
CCC 881-882The Church: Why Did Jesus Found One?
CCC 882Revolutions, Vatican I and the Modern Popes
CCC 889-891What Does Papal Infallibility Really Mean?
CCC 891Revolutions, Vatican I and the Modern Popes
CCC 918How Did Monks Save the West?
CCC 946The Communion of Saints: Why Ask Them to Pray for Us?
CCC 946-962the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints
CCC 954-957Mary and the Saints: The Family of God; The Communion of Saints: Why Ask Them to Pray for Us?
CCC 956Do Catholics Worship Mary and Statues?
CCC 956-957Are Mary and the Saints Our Friends?; Why Do Catholics Pray with the Saints and the Angels?
CCC 957How Does Someone Become a Saint?
CCC 958What Is Purgatory, and Where Does It Come From?; Is Purgatory in the Bible?
CCC 962The Communion of Saints: Why Ask Them to Pray for Us?
CCC 963Are Mary and the Saints Our Friends?
CCC 963-971Mary and the Saints: The Family of God
CCC 966The Assumption: Body and Soul into Heaven
CCC 971Are Mary and the Saints Our Friends?; How Do You Pray the Rosary?; Do Catholics Worship Mary?; Do Catholics Worship Mary and Statues?
CCC 974The Assumption: Body and Soul into Heaven
CCC 976-980the forgiveness of sins
CCC 981-983the forgiveness of sins
CCC 988Will Our Bodies Really Rise?
CCC 988-991the resurrection of the body
CCC 990Will Our Bodies Really Rise?
CCC 992-996the resurrection of the body
CCC 997-1001the resurrection of the body; Will Our Bodies Really Rise?
CCC 1002-1004the resurrection of the body
CCC 1005-1007Is There Hope in the Face of Death?
CCC 1010-1011Is There Hope in the Face of Death?
CCC 1013What Happens the Moment We Die?
CCC 1014Is There Hope in the Face of Death?; How Do We Prepare for a Good Death?
CCC 1020-1029and life everlasting. Amen.
CCC 1021-1022The End of the Story: Death, Judgment and Heaven; What Happens the Moment We Die?
CCC 1023-1025What Is Heaven Really Like?
CCC 1023-1027Is Heaven Our Home?
CCC 1023-1029The End of the Story: Death, Judgment and Heaven
CCC 1026-1029What Is Heaven Really Like?
CCC 1030Is Heaven Our Home?
CCC 1030-1032The End of the Story: Death, Judgment and Heaven; and life everlasting. Amen.; What Is Purgatory, and Where Does It Come From?; Is Purgatory in the Bible?
CCC 1033Why Does the Church Still Teach Hell?
CCC 1033-1037The End of the Story: Death, Judgment and Heaven; and life everlasting. Amen.
CCC 1034-1035Why Does the Church Still Teach Hell?
CCC 1036-1037Why Does the Church Still Teach Hell?
CCC 1038-1041from there He will come to judge the living and the dead; When Will Jesus Come Again?
CCC 1038-1042The End of the Story: Death, Judgment and Heaven
CCC 1042-1047and life everlasting. Amen.; Will Our Bodies Really Rise?
CCC 1049Will Our Bodies Really Rise?
CCC 1058Why Does the Church Still Teach Hell?
CCC 1061-1065and life everlasting. Amen.

Part Two: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery

Paragraphs 1066 to 1690

CCC 1075After Easter: How Do I Not Drift Away?
CCC 1084He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty
CCC 1088Why Does Mass Begin the Way It Does?
CCC 1095What Are the Scrutinies?
CCC 1100Why These Readings? The Liturgy of the Word
CCC 1105-1106The Offertory and the Eucharistic Prayer
CCC 1113What Is a Sacrament?
CCC 1113-1114What Happened at the Reformation?
CCC 1113-1116The Sacraments: How Grace Reaches Us
CCC 1121What Is a Sacrament?
CCC 1127-1128What Is a Sacrament?
CCC 1127-1131The Sacraments: How Grace Reaches Us
CCC 1131What Is a Sacrament?
CCC 1154Why These Readings? The Liturgy of the Word
CCC 1159-1162Do Catholics Worship Mary and Statues?
CCC 1163The Liturgical Year and Its Colors
CCC 1166-1168The Liturgical Year and Its Colors
CCC 1170-1173The Liturgical Year and Its Colors
CCC 1174-1178The Liturgy of the Hours: What Is the Church's Daily Prayer?
CCC 1194The Liturgical Year and Its Colors
CCC 1200-1203One Mass, Many Rites: East, Latin and the Older Form
CCC 1204One Mass, Many Rites: East, Latin and the Older Form
CCC 1210-1211The Sacraments: How Grace Reaches Us; What Is a Sacrament?
CCC 1212Baptism for Adults: The Easter Vigil, Already Baptized Christians and Conditional Baptism
CCC 1213What Is Baptism, and Why Does It Matter So Much?; What Happens at Baptism?; Why Does Baptism Matter So Much?
CCC 1214-1216What Is Baptism, and Why Does It Matter So Much?
CCC 1217What Will Happen at the Easter Vigil?
CCC 1217-1222Baptism in the Bible: From the Flood and the Red Sea to the Jordan and Pentecost
CCC 1223-1225Baptism in the Bible: From the Flood and the Red Sea to the Jordan and Pentecost
CCC 1226-1228Baptism in the Bible: From the Flood and the Red Sea to the Jordan and Pentecost
CCC 1229-1233What Is OCIA, and How Does It Work?
CCC 1231Why Does the Church Baptize Babies, and What Do Parents Promise?
CCC 1232What Happens at the Rite of Acceptance and the Rite of Election?
CCC 1233Baptism for Adults: The Easter Vigil, Already Baptized Christians and Conditional Baptism
CCC 1234-1237What Happens in the Rite of Baptism, Step by Step?
CCC 1237What Are the Scrutinies?; The Renunciation of Sin and the Profession of Faith: What Are You Really Saying I Do To?
CCC 1238-1240What Happens in the Rite of Baptism, Step by Step?
CCC 1241-1245What Happens in the Rite of Baptism, Step by Step?
CCC 1243-1244What Will Happen at the Easter Vigil?
CCC 1244What Is First Holy Communion?
CCC 1247-1249What Is OCIA, and How Does It Work?
CCC 1248-1249What Happens at the Rite of Acceptance and the Rite of Election?
CCC 1249Which Path Is Yours?
CCC 1250What Happens at Baptism?
CCC 1250-1252Why Does the Church Baptize Babies, and What Do Parents Promise?; Why Does Baptism Matter So Much?
CCC 1253Godparents: Who Can Be One, and What Do They Really Do?
CCC 1253-1254Why Does the Church Baptize Babies, and What Do Parents Promise?; The Renunciation of Sin and the Profession of Faith: What Are You Really Saying I Do To?
CCC 1254What Will Happen at the Easter Vigil?; After Easter: How Do I Not Drift Away?; After the Water: How Do I Live My Baptism Every Day?
CCC 1255How Do I Choose a Sponsor or Godparent?; Godparents: Who Can Be One, and What Do They Really Do?
CCC 1256Baptism for Adults: The Easter Vigil, Already Baptized Christians and Conditional Baptism; Emergency Baptism, and What About Babies Who Die Without Baptism?; Why Does Baptism Matter So Much?
CCC 1257The Sacraments: How Grace Reaches Us; What Is Baptism, and Why Does It Matter So Much?
CCC 1257-1261Why Does Baptism Matter So Much?
CCC 1259Which Path Is Yours?
CCC 1261Emergency Baptism, and What About Babies Who Die Without Baptism?
CCC 1262-1264What Does Baptism Actually Do?
CCC 1262-1274Why Does Baptism Matter So Much?
CCC 1265What Happens at Baptism?
CCC 1265-1266What Does Baptism Actually Do?
CCC 1267What Happens at Baptism?
CCC 1267-1270What Does Baptism Actually Do?
CCC 1271-1272Which Path Is Yours?; Baptism for Adults: The Easter Vigil, Already Baptized Christians and Conditional Baptism
CCC 1271-1274What Does Baptism Actually Do?
CCC 1277What Is Baptism, and Why Does It Matter So Much?
CCC 1279What Happens at Baptism?
CCC 1282Why Does the Church Baptize Babies, and What Do Parents Promise?
CCC 1283-1284Emergency Baptism, and What About Babies Who Die Without Baptism?
CCC 1285Which Path Is Yours?; What Will Happen at the Easter Vigil?; What Does Confirmation Add?
CCC 1290-1292What Does Confirmation Add?
CCC 1298Baptism for Adults: The Easter Vigil, Already Baptized Christians and Conditional Baptism; The Renunciation of Sin and the Profession of Faith: What Are You Really Saying I Do To?
CCC 1300What Does Confirmation Add?
CCC 1302-1305What Does Confirmation Add?
CCC 1308What Does Confirmation Add?
CCC 1311How Do I Choose a Sponsor or Godparent?; Godparents: Who Can Be One, and What Do They Really Do?
CCC 1322After the Water: How Do I Live My Baptism Every Day?; What Is First Holy Communion?
CCC 1324The Sacraments: How Grace Reaches Us; What Happens at Mass, Step by Step?; Is the Eucharist Really Jesus?
CCC 1332Go Forth: The Concluding Rites and Your Week
CCC 1337What Happened at the Last Supper?
CCC 1345Who Were the Church Fathers?
CCC 1346What Happens at Mass, Step by Step?; Why Does Mass Begin the Way It Does?
CCC 1347Why These Readings? The Liturgy of the Word
CCC 1348Why Does Mass Begin the Way It Does?
CCC 1349What Happens at Mass, Step by Step?; Why These Readings? The Liturgy of the Word; The Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful
CCC 1350-1351The Offertory and the Eucharistic Prayer
CCC 1352-1354The Offertory and the Eucharistic Prayer
CCC 1355What Happens at Mass, Step by Step?
CCC 1363What Is the Mass, Really?
CCC 1366-1367What Is the Mass, Really?
CCC 1368What Is the Mass, Really?
CCC 1371What Is the Mass, Really?; What Is Purgatory, and Where Does It Come From?
CCC 1374What Happened at the Last Supper?; Is the Eucharist Really Jesus?
CCC 1375The Offertory and the Eucharistic Prayer
CCC 1376What Happened at the Last Supper?
CCC 1376-1377Is the Eucharist Really Jesus?
CCC 1378Before Mass: What Should I Do (and Not Do)?
CCC 1378-1380Eucharistic Adoration: Why Sit Before the Blessed Sacrament?
CCC 1381Is the Eucharist Really Jesus?
CCC 1382What Is the Mass, Really?
CCC 1385What Is First Holy Communion?
CCC 1385-1387Before Mass: What Should I Do (and Not Do)?; How Do I Receive Communion?
CCC 1387What Is First Holy Communion?
CCC 1390-1391How Do I Receive Communion?
CCC 1391What Is First Holy Communion?
CCC 1393-1394How Do I Receive Communion?
CCC 1396How Do I Receive Communion?
CCC 1396-1397Go Forth: The Concluding Rites and Your Week
CCC 1398-1401Before Mass: What Should I Do (and Not Do)?
CCC 1399One Mass, Many Rites: East, Latin and the Older Form
CCC 1413Is the Eucharist Really Jesus?
CCC 1415Coming Home: What If I Have Been Away for Years?; Before Mass: What Should I Do (and Not Do)?; How Do I Receive Communion?
CCC 1418Go Forth: The Concluding Rites and Your Week; Eucharistic Adoration: Why Sit Before the Blessed Sacrament?
CCC 1422-1424Will God Always Forgive Me?
CCC 1424How Do I Make My First Confession?; Why Confess to a Priest?
CCC 1428What Are the Scrutinies?
CCC 1439Coming Home: What If I Have Been Away for Years?; What Stories Did Jesus Tell?
CCC 1440-1442the forgiveness of sins
CCC 1440-1445How Do I Go to Confession?
CCC 1441How Did Jesus Heal and Forgive?
CCC 1441-1442Will God Always Forgive Me?; Why Confess to a Priest?
CCC 1446the forgiveness of sins; Coming Home: What If I Have Been Away for Years?; After the Water: How Do I Live My Baptism Every Day?
CCC 1450-1460How Do I Make My First Confession?
CCC 1451Will God Always Forgive Me?; How Do I Go to Confession?
CCC 1454The Great Commandment and the Beatitudes; The Daily Examen: How Do You Review a Day with God?
CCC 1456-1457How Do I Go to Confession?
CCC 1457-1458The Precepts of the Church
CCC 1458What Is Sin? Mortal and Venial
CCC 1460How Do I Go to Confession?
CCC 1461-1467Why Confess to a Priest?
CCC 1465What Stories Did Jesus Tell?
CCC 1467How Do I Make My First Confession?; Will God Always Forgive Me?; How Do I Go to Confession?
CCC 1468Will God Always Forgive Me?
CCC 1479What Is Purgatory, and Where Does It Come From?; Is Purgatory in the Bible?
CCC 1499Is Anointing Only for the Dying?
CCC 1503How Did Jesus Heal and Forgive?
CCC 1514How Do We Prepare for a Good Death?
CCC 1514-1516Is Anointing Only for the Dying?
CCC 1520-1523Is Anointing Only for the Dying?
CCC 1521Why Does God Allow Suffering?
CCC 1524-1525How Do We Prepare for a Good Death?
CCC 1525Is Anointing Only for the Dying?
CCC 1532Is Anointing Only for the Dying?
CCC 1536Why Does the Church Have Priests?
CCC 1546-1548Why Does the Church Have Priests?
CCC 1548Why Can't Women Be Priests?
CCC 1548-1549Why Call Priests "Father"?
CCC 1554Why Does the Church Have Priests?
CCC 1577-1578Why Can't Women Be Priests?
CCC 1577-1580Why Does the Church Have Priests?
CCC 1579-1580Why Are Priests Celibate?
CCC 1581-1583Why Does the Church Have Priests?
CCC 1584What About the Scandals?
CCC 1601What Makes a Marriage a Sacrament?
CCC 1618-1620Why Are Priests Celibate?
CCC 1623What Makes a Marriage a Sacrament?
CCC 1625-1629What Makes a Marriage a Sacrament?
CCC 1629Coming Home: What If I Have Been Away for Years?
CCC 1640What Makes a Marriage a Sacrament?
CCC 1650-1651Coming Home: What If I Have Been Away for Years?; What Makes a Marriage a Sacrament?
CCC 1667-1668After the Water: How Do I Live My Baptism Every Day?
CCC 1667-1673Holy Water, Medals and Scapulars: Are They Magic?
CCC 1674-1675Patron Saints, Relics and Living with the Saints
CCC 1674-1676Holy Water, Medals and Scapulars: Are They Magic?
CCC 1680-1690How Do We Prepare for a Good Death?

Part Three: Life in Christ

Paragraphs 1691 to 2557

CCC 1694After the Water: How Do I Live My Baptism Every Day?
CCC 1700Why Does Every Person Matter?
CCC 1716-1724The Great Commandment and the Beatitudes
CCC 1721Why Were We Made?
CCC 1733Why Commandments at All?
CCC 1735What Is Sin? Mortal and Venial
CCC 1776-1782Conscience: Forming It and Following It
CCC 1776-1783Living as a Christian: Love, Commandments and Virtue
CCC 1779The Daily Examen: How Do You Review a Day with God?
CCC 1783-1785Conscience: Forming It and Following It
CCC 1790-1794Conscience: Forming It and Following It
CCC 1803-1805Living as a Christian: Love, Commandments and Virtue; The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance
CCC 1806-1809The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance
CCC 1810-1811The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance
CCC 1812-1813Living as a Christian: Love, Commandments and Virtue
CCC 1812-1816Faith, Hope and Charity
CCC 1817Is Heaven Our Home?
CCC 1817-1821Faith, Hope and Charity
CCC 1822-1823How Can I Love Others Like Jesus?
CCC 1822-1829Faith, Hope and Charity
CCC 1825What Stories Did Jesus Tell?
CCC 1830-1832The Holy Spirit and Grace; I believe in the Holy Spirit
CCC 1849-1851What Is Sin? Mortal and Venial
CCC 1854-1861What Is Sin? Mortal and Venial
CCC 1855-1857Living as a Christian: Love, Commandments and Virtue
CCC 1862-1864What Is Sin? Mortal and Venial
CCC 1865-1869The Seven Capital Sins and Their Remedies
CCC 1866The Seven Capital Sins and Their Remedies
CCC 1883Subsidiarity and Solidarity: How Do They Fit Together?
CCC 1885Subsidiarity and Solidarity: How Do They Fit Together?
CCC 1894Subsidiarity and Solidarity: How Do They Fit Together?
CCC 1905-1912What Is the Common Good?
CCC 1913-1915What Is the Common Good?
CCC 1929-1935Why Does Every Person Matter?
CCC 1939-1942Subsidiarity and Solidarity: How Do They Fit Together?
CCC 1950Why Commandments at All?
CCC 1965-1972The Great Commandment and the Beatitudes
CCC 1987Paul and the Letters
CCC 1987-1992Are Catholics Saved by Works?; What Happened at the Reformation?
CCC 1987-1995Faith and Works: What Does the Church Really Teach?
CCC 1992Paul and the Letters
CCC 1996Are Catholics Saved by Works?
CCC 1996-1999What Is Grace?
CCC 1996-2000The Holy Spirit and Grace
CCC 2000-2002What Is Grace?
CCC 2005What Is Grace?
CCC 2006-2011Faith and Works: What Does the Church Really Teach?; Are Catholics Saved by Works?
CCC 2008Paul and the Letters
CCC 2008-2011The Holy Spirit and Grace
CCC 2010Faith and Works: What Does the Church Really Teach?
CCC 2012-2016Holiness for Ordinary People
CCC 2013How Does Someone Become a Saint?; Holiness for Ordinary People
CCC 2035What Does Papal Infallibility Really Mean?
CCC 2041-2043The Precepts of the Church
CCC 2052-2055Living as a Christian: Love, Commandments and Virtue
CCC 2055What Are the Ten Commandments?; Why Commandments at All?; The Great Commandment and the Beatitudes
CCC 2056What Are the Ten Commandments?
CCC 2066-2067Why Commandments at All?
CCC 2067What Are the Ten Commandments?
CCC 2083What Are the Ten Commandments?
CCC 2084-2094The First Commandment: God Comes First
CCC 2088-2092Faith, Hope and Charity
CCC 2094The Seven Capital Sins and Their Remedies
CCC 2096-2097The First Commandment: God Comes First; Do Catholics Worship Mary?
CCC 2104What Did Vatican II Do, and Where Is the Church Now?
CCC 2104-2109The Crusades and the Inquisition: What Really Happened?
CCC 2106What Did the Great Councils Settle?; How Did Monks Save the West?
CCC 2110-2117The First Commandment: God Comes First
CCC 2111Holy Water, Medals and Scapulars: Are They Magic?
CCC 2117Holy Water, Medals and Scapulars: Are They Magic?
CCC 2129-2132The First Commandment: God Comes First; Do Catholics Worship Mary and Statues?
CCC 2131-2132Do Catholics Worship Mary?
CCC 2132Mary and the Saints: The Family of God
CCC 2142-2149The Second Commandment: A Holy Name
CCC 2150-2155The Second Commandment: A Holy Name
CCC 2156Patron Saints, Relics and Living with the Saints
CCC 2157Who Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
CCC 2158-2159The Second Commandment: A Holy Name
CCC 2165Patron Saints, Relics and Living with the Saints
CCC 2168-2176The Third Commandment: Keep the Lord's Day
CCC 2179-2182After Easter: How Do I Not Drift Away?
CCC 2180What Happens at Mass, Step by Step?
CCC 2180-2182Before Mass: What Should I Do (and Not Do)?
CCC 2180-2183The Third Commandment: Keep the Lord's Day
CCC 2181The Precepts of the Church
CCC 2184-2185Go Forth: The Concluding Rites and Your Week; What Does the Church Teach About Work?
CCC 2184-2188The Third Commandment: Keep the Lord's Day
CCC 2197What Are the Ten Commandments?
CCC 2197-2200The Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother
CCC 2214Why Call Priests "Father"?
CCC 2214-2220The Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother
CCC 2221-2231The Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother
CCC 2234-2240The Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother
CCC 2239-2240What Is the Common Good?
CCC 2258Why Does Every Person Matter?
CCC 2258-2269The Fifth Commandment: Respect for Human Life
CCC 2267Why Does Every Person Matter?
CCC 2270-2275The Fifth Commandment: Respect for Human Life
CCC 2276-2283The Fifth Commandment: Respect for Human Life
CCC 2285What About the Scandals?
CCC 2293-2294Do Faith and Science Conflict?
CCC 2299-2301How Do We Prepare for a Good Death?
CCC 2300-2301the resurrection of the body
CCC 2302-2306The Fifth Commandment: Respect for Human Life
CCC 2304How Should Christians Think About Peace and War?
CCC 2307-2311How Should Christians Think About Peace and War?
CCC 2307-2317The Fifth Commandment: Respect for Human Life
CCC 2309The Crusades and the Inquisition: What Really Happened?
CCC 2312-2317How Should Christians Think About Peace and War?
CCC 2331-2336The Sixth Commandment: Chastity and Faithful Love
CCC 2337-2347The Sixth Commandment: Chastity and Faithful Love
CCC 2351-2359The Sixth Commandment: Chastity and Faithful Love
CCC 2370The Sixth Commandment: Chastity and Faithful Love
CCC 2380-2391The Sixth Commandment: Chastity and Faithful Love
CCC 2401-2406The Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal
CCC 2402Why Care for Creation?
CCC 2402-2404What Is the Preferential Option for the Poor?
CCC 2408-2414The Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal
CCC 2414Missions to the World: Saints and Failures
CCC 2415-2418Why Care for Creation?
CCC 2419-2423What Is Catholic Social Teaching, and Where Did It Come From?
CCC 2419-2425Revolutions, Vatican I and the Modern Popes
CCC 2425What Is Catholic Social Teaching, and Where Did It Come From?
CCC 2427-2429What Does the Church Teach About Work?
CCC 2432-2435What Does the Church Teach About Work?
CCC 2443How Can I Love Others Like Jesus?
CCC 2443-2449The Seventh Commandment: Do Not Steal; The Works of Mercy; What Is the Preferential Option for the Poor?
CCC 2444What Did the Middle Ages Build?
CCC 2447How Can I Love Others Like Jesus?; The Works of Mercy
CCC 2464-2470The Eighth Commandment: Living in the Truth
CCC 2473-2474Why Did Rome Kill Christians?
CCC 2477-2479The Eighth Commandment: Living in the Truth
CCC 2482-2487The Eighth Commandment: Living in the Truth
CCC 2488-2492The Eighth Commandment: Living in the Truth
CCC 2502What Did the Middle Ages Build?
CCC 2514-2519The Ninth Commandment: Purity of Heart
CCC 2520-2527The Ninth Commandment: Purity of Heart
CCC 2534-2540The Tenth Commandment: Freedom from Greed and Envy
CCC 2539The Seven Capital Sins and Their Remedies
CCC 2541-2550The Tenth Commandment: Freedom from Greed and Envy

Part Four: Christian Prayer

Paragraphs 2558 to 2865

CCC 2559How Did Jesus Teach Us to Pray?; What Is Prayer, and Why Does It Feel So Hard?
CCC 2560What Is Prayer, and Why Does It Feel So Hard?
CCC 2564What Is Prayer, and Why Does It Feel So Hard?
CCC 2628Eucharistic Adoration: Why Sit Before the Blessed Sacrament?
CCC 2634-2635The Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful
CCC 2648The Daily Examen: How Do You Review a Day with God?
CCC 2653Lectio Divina: How Do You Pray with Scripture?
CCC 2653-2654How to Start Reading: A Realistic Plan
CCC 2654Lectio Divina: How Do You Pray with Scripture?
CCC 2676Mary in Scripture: New Eve and Ark of the Covenant
CCC 2677Are Mary and the Saints Our Friends?; How Can Mary Be the Mother of God?
CCC 2678How Do You Pray the Rosary?
CCC 2683Why Do Catholics Pray with the Saints and the Angels?; The Communion of Saints: Why Ask Them to Pray for Us?
CCC 2691Eucharistic Adoration: Why Sit Before the Blessed Sacrament?
CCC 2700-2704Vocal, Meditative and Contemplative Prayer
CCC 2705-2708Vocal, Meditative and Contemplative Prayer
CCC 2708How Do You Pray the Rosary?; Lectio Divina: How Do You Pray with Scripture?; How to Start Reading: A Realistic Plan
CCC 2709-2719Vocal, Meditative and Contemplative Prayer
CCC 2721Vocal, Meditative and Contemplative Prayer
CCC 2724Vocal, Meditative and Contemplative Prayer
CCC 2725When Prayer Is Dry: Distraction, Dryness and Perseverance
CCC 2725-2726What Is Prayer, and Why Does It Feel So Hard?
CCC 2729-2733When Prayer Is Dry: Distraction, Dryness and Perseverance
CCC 2742-2745When Prayer Is Dry: Distraction, Dryness and Perseverance
CCC 2759How Did Jesus Teach Us to Pray?; The Our Father, Petition by Petition
CCC 2761The Our Father, Petition by Petition
CCC 2765-2766How Did Jesus Teach Us to Pray?
CCC 2786How Did Jesus Teach Us to Pray?
CCC 2792How Did Jesus Teach Us to Pray?
CCC 2803-2806The Our Father, Petition by Petition
CCC 2846The Our Father, Petition by Petition
CCC 2854The Our Father, Petition by Petition

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