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“If because of the circumstances of a particular people special civil
recognition is given to one religious community in the constitutional
organization of a state, the right of all citizens and religious communities to
religious freedom must be recognized and respected as well.”36
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Faith in God the Father Almighty can be put to the test by the experience of
evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be absent and incapable of stopping
evil. But in the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty
power in the voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he
conquered evil. Christ crucified is thus “the power of God and the wisdom
of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God
is stronger than men.”111 It is in Christ’s Resurrection and
exaltation that the Father has shown forth “the immeasurable greatness of
his power in us who believe”.112
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“Faith seeks understanding”:33 it is intrinsic to faith that
a believer desires to know better the One in whom he has put his faith, and to
understand better what He has revealed; a more penetrating knowledge will in
turn call forth a greater faith, increasingly set afire by love. the grace of
faith opens “the eyes of your hearts”34 to a lively
understanding of the contents of Revelation: that is, of the totality of God’s
plan and the mysteries of faith, of their connection with each other and with
Christ, the centre of the revealed mystery. “The same Holy Spirit
constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that Revelation may be more and more
profoundly understood.”35 In the words of St. Augustine, “I
believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to
believe.”36
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The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love
infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it
confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and the sacraments; a
law of freedom, because it sets us free from the ritual and juridical
observances of the Old Law, inclines us to act spontaneously by the prompting
of charity and, finally, lets us pass from the condition of a servant who
“does not know what his master is doing” to that of a friend of
Christ – “For all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to
you” – or even to the status of son and heir.31
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618
The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the “one mediator between God
and men”.452 But because in his incarnate divine person he has in
some way united himself to every man, “the possibility of being made
partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery” is offered to all
men.453 He calls his disciples to “take up [their] cross and
follow (him)”,454 for “Christ also suffered for (us), leaving
(us) an example so that (we) should follow in his steps.”455 In
fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to
be its first beneficiaries.456 This is achieved supremely in the case
of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the
mystery of his redemptive suffering.457 Apart from the cross there is
no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.458
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The
expression covers a number of different situations: concubinage, rejection of
marriage as such, or inability to make long-term commitments.182 All
these situations offend against the dignity of marriage; they destroy the very
idea of the family; they weaken the sense of fidelity. They are contrary to the
moral law. the sexual act must take place exclusively within marriage. Outside
of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin and excludes one from sacramental
communion.
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1146
Signs of the human world. In human life, signs and symbols occupy an important
place. As a being at once body and spirit, man expresses and perceives
spiritual realities through physical signs and symbols. As a social being, man
needs signs and symbols to communicate with others, through language, gestures,
and actions. the same holds true for his relationship with God.
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THE NINTH COMMANDMENT
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