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The Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: A Compendium of Texts Referred to in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This companion volume to the Catechism contains all the passages of Sacred Scripture referred to in the Catechism, arranged according to the paragraphs in which the references are made. The Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church also refers to conciliar texts, papal documents, writings of the church fathers and of the saints. There are more than 3,600 of these references extending...

The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. The invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator. Many however of our contemporaries either do not at all perceive, or else explicitly reject,