truth, 15.
Fathers of the Church on Confirmation, 283;
echo the words of St. Paul on the Eucharist, 297;
they are unanimous on praying for the dead, 217.
Fenelon favors liberty of conscience, 228.
Founders of various religious denominations, 46.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Lives of the Saints contrasted, 20.
Free-will--Catholics enjoy, 23.
Garbled versions of the Bible restricted, 92.
Gibbon quoted on triumphs of the Church, 53.
God--infinite in knowledge, power and goodness, 1;
governs by His Providence, 1;
created all things by His Omnipotence, 1;
three persons in One, 1;
persons equal, 1.
God commands the making of images, 301.
God requires that His ministers be respected, 388.
God works through his representatives, 341, et seq.
God's judgment impressed on the child mind, 19.
Gospel ministers are ordained and commissioned, 39.
Government--state and church compared, 7.
Governmental aid not desired for Church, 246.
Grace defined, 265;
necessary for sanctification, 265.
Graces imparted by Holy Orders and Matrimony, 21.
Graces needed by married couple, special, 408.
Great Spirit worshiped by American Indians, 309.
Gregory II, Pope, writes about images, 140.
Habeas Corpus, 223.
Hail Mary explained, 174, et seq.
Hamlet, Shakespeare's, advised by the dead, 221.
Hebrews believed in intercessory prayer, 159.
Henry VIII. excommunicated, 10;
divorce refused, 44.
Henry VIII and Elizabeth persecuted Catholics, 250.
Heresy and schism opposed to unity, 5;
likened to murder and idolatry, 5;
heresy defined, 5;
and the Church, 54;
a crime against church and state, 255.
Holy Eucharist--St. Paul's testimony on, 295.
Holiness a mark of the Church, 16.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, praises Mary, 179.
Holy Ghost sent by Christ, 3;
on Pentecost, 3;
guides the Church's teaching, 65.
Holy Scripture--depository of God's Word, 77.
Holy Orders and Matrimony--graces of, 21.
Image--Making commanded by God, 201.
Images, Sacred--advantages of, 204, et seq.;
and the Reformers, 198;
and the Council of Trent, 198, et seq.;
and the Book of Exodus, 200;
veneration of, 196;
Catacombs abound in, 196.
Immaculate Conception implied in Scripture, 171;
in our earliest history, 173;
dogma formulated in 1854, 171.
Indestructibility of the Church due to finger of God, 57.
Infallible Bible not sufficient 133, et seq.
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