Catechism of the Catholic Church

Index 757 power of the apostles to forgive sins, 981, 983, 984, 1442, 1444, 1485, 1586 preaching of, 76 sacrament of Holy Orders and, 1087, 1536, 1565, 1576, 1577, 1594 significance of the Apostles’ mission, 858 successors of, 77, 861‑63, 892, 938, 1313, 1560, 1562, 2068 transmission of the faith and, 171, 173, 605, 815, 816, 889, 1124 transmission of the Word of God and, 3, 81, 84, 96, 126, 571 witness of the, 664, 1518 Apostolate the Church’s, 863‑64 and the Eucharist, 864, 1324 of lay people, 900, 905, 940 Apostolic. See Church Apostolic college choosing the, 1577 episcopal college and, 880 New Covenant and, 816 office of binding and loosing, 881, 1444 of the twelve and Peter, 552 Apostolic succession , 861, 1087 as the bond of the Church’s unity, 815 reason for, 77 safeguards the communion in the faith, 1209 Ark of the Covenant and prayer of the People of God, 2578, 2594 symbol of salvation and the, 2130 tables of the Testimony and the, 2058 Arms accumulation of, 2315 arms race, 2315, 2329, 2438 conditions for resorting to, 2243, 2309 indiscriminate use of, 2314 production and sale of, 2316 refusal to bear, 2311 as a threat to peace, 2317 Art likeness to God’s activity in creation, 2501 sacred, 2500, 2502‑03, 2513 See also Icon(s); Images, holy Artificial fertilization insemination or heterologous artificial fertilization as gravely immoral, 2376 as morally unacceptable, 2377 Artificial insemination as morally unacceptable, 2376‑77 Ascension of Christ celebration of, 2177 See also Christ Ascesis fidelity to the baptismal promises and, 2340 mastery of the will and, 1734 spiritual growth and, 2015 Assembly the Church as an assembly of men, 541, 751‑52, 771, 777‑78 directing an assembly and presiding over it, 1184, 1348 Eucharistic, 1329, 1348, 1383, 1566, 2777 Holy Spirit at work in, 1092, 1112 human, 1880 liturgical, 752, 1097, 1102, 1144, 1167, 1193, 2760 participation of, 1141, 1372, 2178 prayer and, 2585‑86, 2589 preparation and disposition of the assembly for the liturgy, 1098, 1112, 1154, 1236, 1688 profession of faith in, 167 of the saints, 946, 1372, 2006 Sunday, 1167, 1174, 2188 Assent of faith to the Magisterium’s definitions, 891 religious assent of the mind to the Magisterium’s ordinary teaching, 892 Assistance/assisting the Angels’ assistance to men, 332, 335 of deacons, 1369, 1570 divine assistance to the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops, 892