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Thesaurus of Terms - O

OATH

SEE

COMMANDMENT-SECOND

SEE ALSO

VOWED SPIRITUALITY

OBEDIENCE

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SUB

ALLEGIANCE-TO-GOD, AUTHORITY-RELIGIOUS, COMMAND, ECCLESIASTICAL OBEDIENCE, EVANGELICAL OBEDIENCE, FORMAL OBEDIENCE, GOOD-HIGHEST, OBSERVANCE, RENUCIATION, SUBMISSION, SUPERIORS-RELIGIOUS

SEE ALSO

ANGER, BISHOP, CHURCH-AUTHORITY, COMMANDMENTS-TEN, DISCERNMENT-SPIRITS, DISCIPLINE (SEE), DOCTRINE, DUTY, FAITHFUL, LIBERALISM (PERMISSIVENESS), LOVE-GOD, LOVE-NEIGHBOR, PAPACY, PRECEPTS, PRIDE, RECIDIVISM, RIGHT-ECCLESIASTICAL, SERVE-GOD'S-WILL, VIRTUOUS LIFE, VOWED SPIRITUALITY

OBJECT

SEE

END

SEE ALSO

DEHUMANIZATION (SEE)

OBJECTIFICATION

SEE ALSO

DEHUMANIZATION (SEE)

OBJECTIVE

SEE

END, REALITY-HUMAN

OBJECTIVE-MORAL-ORDER

SEE

MORALITY

SEE ALSO

MORAL-RELATIVISM (SEE), MORAL-SUBJECTIVISM (SEE)

OBJECTIVITY

SEE

CRITERIOLOGY

OBLATIONS

SEE

MASS

OBLIGATION

SEE

DUTY

OBLIGATION-CLERICAL

SEE

PRIESTHOOD

SEE ALSO

DUTY, GOOD EXAMPLE

OBLIGATION-HOLY-DAYS

SEE

LITURGICAL YEAR

SEE ALSO

COMMANDMENT-THIRD

OBSCENITY

SEE

LUST, MORALITY

SEE ALSO

FAMILY, LIBERALISM (PANSEXUALISM), MEDIA (OBSCENITY-MEDIA-BOYCOTT), MORALITY, PLEASURE-SEEKING, SELFISHNESS

OBSCENITY-MEDIA-BOYCOTT

SEE

CATHOLIC ACTION, DECENCY, MEDIA

SEE ALSO

COMMUNICATION, ECONOMICS, FAMILY, LIBERALISM (IMMORALISM), MORALITY

OBSCURITY

SEE

DARKNESS

SEE ALSO

GOD'S INCOMPREHENSIBILITY, KNOWABILITY-GOD

OBSERVANCE

SEE

VIRTUOUS LIFE

SEE ALSO

DUTY

OBSESSION

SEE

PSYCHOTHERAPY

OBSESSION-DIABOLICAL

SEE

DEVIL

SEE ALSO

DEMONIC DELUSION, PSYCHOTHERAPY, SATANISM

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE-DISORDER (OCD)

SEE

PSYCHOTHERAPY

OBSTACLE

SEE

LIFE-TRIAL

SEE ALSO

DISABILITY, MORALITY (IMPEDIMENT), POOR

OBSTINACY

*

SUB

BIGOTRY, CONTUMACIOUS, CONTUMACY, INFLEXIBILITY, INSISTENCE, INTOLERANCE, PERTINACITY, RIGIDITY, SINGLEMINDEDNESS-NEGATIVE, STUBBORNNESS, UNCOOPERATIVENESS, UNWILLINGNESS

SEE ALSO

CHURCH-AUTHORITY, COMMANDMENTS-TEN, COOPERATION, COURAGE, DISCERNMENT-SPIRITS, EVIL, HATE-NEIGHBOR, HATRED, INTELLECT (REASONING), OBEDIENCE, PRIDE, PUNISHMENT-HELL, RECIDIVISM, SELFISHNESS, SERVE-GOD'S-WILL, SIN

OBSTINACY-IN-SIN

SEE

SINS-AGAINST-HOLY-SPIRIT

SEE ALSO

BEHAVIOR-EVIL, CAPITAL SINS, CONCUPISCENCE, RECIDIVISM

OCCASION

SEE

AGENT

OCCASION-SIN

SEE

AVOIDING-SIN, TEMPTATION

SEE ALSO

DIVINE-PERMISSION-EVIL, DIVINE-PROHIBITION-EVIL

OCCASIONALISM

SEE

DISSENT-DOCTRINAL

OCCULTISM

SEE

SATANISM

OCCUPATION

SEE

WORK

OCCURRENCE

SEE

EVENT

ODD-FELLOWS-SOCIETY

SEE

AVOIDING-SIN

ODOR

SEE

SMELL

SEE ALSO

MYSTICISM

OFFENSE

SEE

BEHAVIOR-EVIL, HATE-NEIGHBOR

OFFERING

SEE

SACRIFICE

SEE ALSO

SUPPORT-RELIGION

OFFERING-COMMUNION

SEE

INTERCESSION

OFFERING-FREE-WILL

SEE

SUPPORT-RELIGION

OFFERING-IT-UP

SEE

MORNING-OFFERING

OFFERING-MORNING

SEE

MORNING OFFERING

OFFERING-TO-GOD

SEE

ADORATION-GOD

SEE ALSO

MORNING-OFFERING, SUPPORT-RELIGION

OFFERTORY

SEE

MASS

OFFERTORY-COLLECTION

SEE

SUPPORT-RELIGION

OFFICIAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

SEE

CHURCH-STATISTICS

SEE ALSO

CHURCH-ADMINISTRATION, DEMOGRAPHY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OFFICIAL TEACHING

SEE

DOCTRINE

SEE ALSO

CHURCH-AUTHORITY, MAGISTERIUM

OFFICE-DIVINE

SEE

DIVINE OFFICE

OFFICE-ECCLESIASTICAL

SEE

CHURCH-ADMINISTRATION

OFFICE OF FILM AND BROADCASTING

SEE

MEDIA

SEE ALSO

DECENCY, ETHICS, FAMILY, INTEGRITY, LIBERALISM, MORALITY, MEDIA (FILTH-MEDIA-BOYCOTT)

OFFICE-OF-THE-DEAD

SEE

DEATH, DIVINE OFFICE

OIL-BLESSED

SEE

SACRAMENTAL

OLD AGE

SEE

ELDERLY

OLD PERSON

SEE

ELDERLY

OLD TESTAMENT

*

SUB

BABEL-TOWER-OF, BABYLONIAN EXILE, BOOKS-OLD-TESTAMENT, CANTICLE-OF-CANTICLES, COVENANT-BIBLICAL, DEAD-SEA-SCROLLS, PHARISEES, PROMISED LAND, SADDUCCEES, SANHEDRIN, SAPIENTIAL BOOKS, SCRIBES, SEPTUAGINT, SONG-OF-SONGS, TALMUD, TESTAMENT, TORAH, "WISDOM LITERATURE", ZEALOTS

SEE ALSO

BIBLE, CHURCH-HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY-RELIGIOUS, NEW TESTAMENT, REVELATION

OLIGARCHY

SEE

GOVERNMENT

OMEN

SEE

SATANISM

OMISSION

SEE

DUTY

SEE ALSO

COMMANDMENT-EIGHTH (LYING)

OMNIPOTENCE

SEE

GOD'S OMNIPOTENCE

OMNIPRESENCE

SEE

GOD'S PRESENCE

OMNISCIENCE

SEE

GOD'S OMNISCIENCE

ONE

*

SUB

ONENESS-DOCTRINE, SOLIDARITY, UNITY

SEE ALSO

CATHOLIC CHURCH, COHERENCE, CREATION, FAITHFUL, GOD, GOD'S ATTRIBUTES, HUMANITY, INDIVIDUALITY, MARKS-CHURCH, ORTHODOXY, PROVIDENCE, SERVE-GOD'S-WILL, UNITIVE WAY

"ONE"-MARK-OF-CHURCH

SEE

MARKS-CHURCH

ONLINE-RETRIEVAL-SYSTEM

SEE

METHODOLOGY

ONTOLOGICAL TRUTH

SEE

REALITY-HUMAN (TRUTH)

ONTOLOGY

SEE

BEING

SEE ALSO

CAUSE, INTELLECT, REALITY-HUMAN

OPENNESS

SEE

AWARENESS

OPENNESS-MIND

SEE

AWARENESS

SEE ALSO

UNDERSTANDING

OPERATION-CHURCH

SEE

CHURCH-ADMINISTRATION

OPINION

*

SUB

PROBABILITY, PROBLEM

SEE ALSO

CHOICE, CONVICTION, INTELLECT, KNOWLEDGE, REALITY-HUMAN

OPINION-LEADERS

SEE

DEMOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY

SEE ALSO

LIBERALISM (RADICALISM), MEDIA (SECULARISM), ORTHODOXY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC OPINION (SEE), SAINTS, SPIRITUAL READING, PAPACY

OPPONENT

SEE

DEVIL, HATE-NEIGHBOR

SEE ALSO

INTELLECT (ARGUMENT), LOVE-ENEMY, LOVE-NEIGHBOR

OPPORTUNITY

SEE

BENEFIT, FREEDOM

OPPORTUNITY-EMPLOYMENT

SEE

WORK

OPPOSITES

SEE

HARMONY

OPPOSITION

SEE

HATE-NEIGHBOR

SEE ALSO

DEVIL, INTELLECT (ARGUMENT), LIBERALISM (ANTI-RELIGION), LOVE-NEIGHBOR, MEDIA (PROPAGANDA-NEGATIVE)

OPPOSITION-KNOWN-TRUTHS-FAITH

SEE

SIN-AGAINST-FAITH

SEE ALSO

ATHEISM, CHURCH-AUTHORITY, DISSSENT-DOCTRINAL, FAITH, GOD'S AUTHORITY

OPPRESSION

SEE

JUSTICE, POOR, SINS-CRYING-OUT-TO-HEAVEN, SOCIOLOGY

SEE ALSO

BEHAVIOR-EVIL (HARASSMENT), GOVERNMENT, LIBERALISM (DISTORTION-DELIBERATE), PERSECUTION, PERSECUTION-RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL JUSTICE

OPTIMISM

*

SUB

"ACCENTUATE-THE-POSITIVE,"AGGRESSION-POSITIVE, HOPE-PRACTICE, LIVE-IN-PRESENT, "LIVE-ONE-DAY-AT-A-TIME," ONE-DAY-AT-A-TIME,   POSITIVE THINKING, SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT, SINGLEMINDEDNESS-POSITIVE, TOLERANCE

SEE ALSO

BENEFIT-(SUFFIXES), CHEERFULNESS, CHRIST'S-REDEMPTION-HUMANITY, COURAGE, DEPRESSION, DIGNITY, DIVINE GUIDANCE, DIVINE INSPIRATION, DIVINE-PROHIBITION-EVIL, HARMONY, HOPE, HOPE-WHILE-SUFFERING, IMAGE-GOD, IMAGINATION, PEACE-HUMAN, PESSIMISM, PHILOSOPHY-LIFE, REWARD-HEAVEN, SELF-ESTEEM, TRUST-PROVIDENCE, VICTIM-SOUL

OPTION

SEE

METHODOLOGY

SEE ALSO

CHOICE

OPUS DEI

SEE

CATHOLIC ACTION

SEE ALSO

CONFRATERNITY, LAY APOSTOLATE, SPIRITUAL GROWTH

ORACLE

SEE

SATANISM

SEE ALSO

DIVINE INSPIRATION

ORAL TRADITION

SEE

TRADITION

ORANGE-COUNCIL

SEE

COUNCILS-CHURCH

ORATORY

SEE

WORSHIP

ORATORY-PREACHING

SEE

PREACHING

SEE ALSO

EVANGELIZATION

ORDER

SEE

COHERENCE

SEE ALSO

BEING, CANON LAW, CHURCH-AUTHORITY, CONFRATERNITY, DISORDER, DIVINE-GOVERNANCE-CREATION, DOCTRINE, GOD'S-(SUFFIXES), GOODNESS, GOVERNMENT, HARMONY, JUSTICE, LAW, LITURGY, MAGISTERIUM, MORALITY (ORDER-MORAL), NATURAL LAW (SEE), ORDERS-SACRAMENT, ORTHODOXY, PAPACY, PEACE-HUMAN (ORDER-TRANQUILITY), POLITICAL SCIENCE, PROVIDENCE, SCIENCE, SPIRITUAL ORDER (SUPERNATURAL ORDER), SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL (ORDER-RELIGIOUS), STRENGTH, TEMPORAL ORDER (NATURAL ORDER), WEAKNESS, WHOLENESS

ORDER-DEPENDANCY

SEE

DEPENDANCE-GOD

ORDER-EMOTIONAL

SEE

PEACE-HUMAN

ORDER-MORAL

SEE

MORALITY

ORDER-NATURAL

SEE

TEMPORAL ORDER

SEE ALSO

NATURAL LAW (SEE)

ORDER-NORMAL

SEE

DIVINE-GOVERNANCE-CREATION

ORDER-OF-CHRISTIAN-FUNERAL

SEE

DEATH

ORDER-OF-MASS

SEE

MASS

ORDER-RELIGIOUS

SEE

SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL

ORDER-SPIRITUAL

SEE

SPIRITUAL ORDER

SEE ALSO

SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL

ORDER-SUPERNATURAL

SEE

SPIRITUAL ORDER

ORDER-TEMPORAL

SEE

TEMPORAL ORDER

ORDER-TRANQUILITY

SEE

PEACE-HUMAN

ORDERS-HOLY

SEE

ORDERS-SACRAMENT

ORDERS-RELIGIOUS

SEE

SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL

ORDERS-SACRAMENT

*

SUB

ACOLYTE, DEFECT-IRREGULARITY, HOLY ORDERS, INDISSOLUBILITY, MINOR ORDERS, ORDERS-HOLY, ORDINATION, ORDINATION-OF-WOMAN, PERMANENCE, PROSTRATION, SACRED ORDERS, WOMAN-CLERGY, WOMAN-ORDINATION-OF

SEE ALSO

DESERTION-VOWED-SPIRITUALITY, DIACONATE, HUMILITY, LAY SPIRITUALITY, MAN-(VIR), PRIESTHOOD, SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL, VOWED SPIRITUALITY, WOMAN

ORDINARINESS

SEE

DIVINE-GOVERNANCE-CREATION

ORDINARY CARE

SEE

ETHICS, HEALTH-BODY

SEE ALSO

DUTY, MORALITY, SUFFERING

ORDINARY-JURISDICTION

SEE

BISHOP, MONASTICISM (ABBOT), PAPACY (POPE), PARISH (PASTOR)

SEE ALSO

CANON LAW, CHURCH-AUTHORITY

ORDINARY MEANS

SEE

HEALTH-BODY

SEE ALSO

COMMANDMENT-FIFTH, DEATH, ETHICS, MORALITY

ORDINARY-PROVIDENCE

SEE

DIVINE WORK

ORDINARY-RELIGIOUS

SEE

BISHOP

SEE ALSO

MONASTICISM, PAPACY

ORDINARY TIME

SEE

LITURGICAL YEAR

ORDINATION

SEE

ORDERS-SACRAMENT

ORDINATION-WOMAN

SEE

ORDERS-SACRAMENT

SEE ALSO

WOMAN

ORGAN-DONATION

SEE

LOVE-NEIGHBOR

ORGANIZATION

SEE

INSTITUTION

SEE ALSO

CHURCH-ADMINISTRATION, CONFRATERNITY, METHODOLOGY

ORIENTATION

SEE

CULTURE

ORGAN-DONATION

SEE

LOVE-NEIGHBOR

SEE ALSO

ETHICS

ORIGIN

SEE

CREATION

ORIGINAL SIN

*

SUB

ADAM, BROKENNESS, EDEN-GARDEN, EVE, FALL, FALL-HUMANITY, FALLEN NATURE, FIRST PARENTS, GARDEN-OF-EDEN, ORIGINAL JUSTICE, SIN-FIRST-PARENTS, SIN-ORIGINAL, WOUNDEDNESS

SEE ALSO

BAPTISM-SACRAMENT, CHRIST'S-REDEMPTION-HUMANITY, DISABILITY, SELF-ESTEEN, SIN, WEAKNESS

ORIGINALITY

SEE

IMAGINATION

SEE ALSO

CHURCH-AUTHORITY, INTELLECT, LIBERALISM (DEHUMANIZATION), MAGISTERIUM, MEDIA (DOUBLE-STANDARD-OF-BEHAVIOR), ORTHODOXY

ORLEANS-COUNCIL

SEE

COUNCILS-CHURCH

ORPHAN

SEE

CORPORAL-WORKS-MERCY

ORPHANAGE

SEE

CORPORAL-WORKS-MERCY

SEE ALSO

LOVE-NEIGHBOR, POOR, SOCIAL JUSTICE

ORTHODOX-EASTERN-CHURCHES

SEE

EASTERN-CHURCHES-SEPARATED-ROME

ORTHODOXY

*

SUB

ANTINOMIES, AUTHENTIC TEACHING, AUTHENTICITY, BONA FIDE, CONSERVATISM-CATHOLIC, HONORS-AND-REWARDS, LOYALTY-TO-PAPACY, NORMS-ORTHODOXY, PREMISE, RULES-FOR-THINKING-WITH-THE-CHURCH, ULTRAMONTAINE, VINCENTIAN CANON

SEE ALSO

CANON LAW, CATHOLIC EDUCATION, CATHOLICISM, CHURCH-AUTHORITY, COMMUNICATION-RELIGIOUS, DEPOSIT-FAITH, DISSENT-DOCTRINAL, ETHICS, EVANGELIZATION, FAITH, FAITH-PREAMBLES (SEE), LIBERALISM (RADICALISM), LITERATURE, MAGISTERIUM, MEDIA (ANTI-RELIGION), MORALITY, PAPACY, PUNISHMENT-HELL, REALITY-HUMAN (TRUTH), RENEWAL-CHURCH, REWARD-HEAVEN, SPIRITUALITY-SCHOOL

OTHERNESS

SEE

GOD, INDIVIDUALITY

OUIJA-BOARD

SEE

SATANISM

OUR FATHER

SEE

PRAYERS-AUTHORIZED

OUR LADY

SEE

BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

OUR-LADY-MIRACULOUS-MEDAL

SEE

VENERATION-BLESSED-VIRGIN-MARY

OUR LORD

SEE

JESUS CHRIST

OUTCOME

SEE

EFFECT

OUTRAGE-GIVEN

SEE

BEHAVIOR-EVIL

OUTRAGE-RECEIVED

SEE

LOVE-ENEMY

OUTREACH-FALLEN-AWAY-CATHOLICS

SEE

EVANGELIZATION

OUTREACH-NON-CATHOLICS

SEE

EVANGELIZATION

OUTREACH-NON-CHRISTIAN

SEE

EVANGELIZATION

OVERAGGRESSIVENESS

SEE

PERSONALITY (-OVERAGGRESSIVE)

OVERCOMING

SEE

SPIRITUAL GROWTH

OVERPOPULATION

SEE

DEMOGRAPHY, DIVINE-GOVERNANCE-CREATION

SEE ALSO

SOCIOLOGY

OVERPOSSESSIVENESS

SEE

MATERIALISM

OVERSENSITIVITY

SEE

PSYCHOTHERAPY

SEE ALSO

AWARENESS

"OWN PERSON"

SEE

INDIVIDUALITY

OWNERSHIP

*

SUB

BLESSING, BLESSINGS-GIFT, CLAIM, COUNT-BLESSINGS, DOMINION, FETUS (ITS-PROPRIETARY-RIGHT), FORTUNE, GIFT, GOOD NAME, INHERITANCE, LAST WILL, NAME, NAMES-CHRISTIAN, OCCUPANCY, POSSESSIONS, PROPERTY, PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, RENUNCIATION, REPUTATION, TITLE, TITULAR NAME

SEE ALSO

ABORTION, CHARISMS, CHURCH-ADMINISTRATION, CONVICTION (ACCEPTANCE), DUTY, DETACHMENT, DIGNITY (EQUALITY), ETHICS, FREEDOM-POLITICAL, FREEDOM-RELIGIOUS, FREEDOM-SOCIAL, GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUALITY, INTEGRITY, MATERIALISM, MORALITY, RIGHT-ECCLESIASTICAL, SELF-ESTEEM, SELFISHNESS, STRENGTH, VOWED SPIRITUALITY

OWNERSHIP-LIFE

SEE

SELF-ESTEEM

SEE ALSO

ABORTION