THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Part 3: Life in Christ
Section 1: Man's Vocation, Life in Christ

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PART 3: LIFE IN CHRIST
 SECTION 1:
MAN'S VOCATION, LIFE IN SPIRIT

   
CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
   
     Article 1 - Man: The Image of God
   
     Article 2 - Our Vocation to Beatitude
            I. The Beatitudes
   
         II. The Desire for Happiness
   
         III. Christian Beatitude
   
     Article 3 - Man's Freedom
   
         I. Freedom and Responsibility
   
         II. Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation
   
     Article 4 - The Morality of Human Acts
   
         I. The Sources of Morality
   
         II. Good Acts and Evil Acts
   
     Article 5 - The Morality of the Passions
   
         I Passions
            II. Passions and Moral Life
   
     Article 6 - Moral Conscience
            I. The Judgment of Conscience
            II. The Formation of Conscience
           III. To Choose in Accord With Conscience
           IV. Erroneous Judgment
        Article 7 - The Virtues
            I. The Human Virtues
            II. The Theological Virtues
            III. The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit
        Article 8 - Sin
            I. Mercy and Sin
            II. The Definition of Sin
            III. The Different Kinds of Sins
            IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin
   
         V. The Proliferation of Sin

   
CHAPTER TWO: - THE HUMAN COMMUNION
   
         I. The Communal Character of the Human Vocation
            II. Conversion and Society
        Article 2 - Participation in Social Life
            I. Authority
            II. The Common Good
            III. Responsibility and Participation
   
    Article 3 - Social Justice
            I. Respect for the Human Person
            II. Equality and Differences Among Men
            III. Human Solidarity

   
CHAPTER THREE: - GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
   
     Article 1 - The Moral Law
            I. The Natural Law
            II. The Old Law
            III. The New Law or the New Law of Gospels
       
Article 2 - Grace and Justification
            I. Justification
            II. Grace
            III. Merit
            IV. Christian Holiness
        Article 3 - The Church, Mother and Teacher
            I. Moral Life and the Magisterium of the Church
            II. The Precepts of the Church
            III. Moral Life and Missionary Witness

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