The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1993 and 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the second edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America, copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.—Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.—Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

1. New Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language (Danbury, CT: Lexicon Publications Inc., 1992), p. 408.

2. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 67.

3. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 65.

4. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Glossary p. 898.

5. Ephesians 1:1.

6. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 823, LG 12, Acts 9:13, 1 Cor 6:1, 16:1.

7. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1036, Mt 7:13–14.

8. New Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language (Danbury, CT: Lexicon Publications Inc., 1992), p. 958.

9. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2117.

10. Healing Hands of Light Spiritualist Church. Accessed October 1, 2018: http://www.healinghandsoflightspch.com/.

11. First Spiritualist Church of Quincy. Accessed October 1, 2018: http://www.quincyspiritualists.org/.

12. Jeremiah 44:2–4.

13. Jeremiah 44:15–17.

14. Jeremiah 44:17–19.

15. Jeremiah 44:27.

16. Acts 19:23–41.

17. Ascension Now, "Ascended Masters List." Accessed October 1, 2018: https://anow.org/ascended-masters-list/.

18. Ascension Research Center, "Ascended Masters, Angels, and Cosmic Beings." Accessed October 1, 2018: http://www.ascension-research.org/masters-angels.html/.

19. Ascension Research Center, "Immaculata." Accessed October 1, 2018: http://www.ascension-research.org/immaculata.html/.

20. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 450, Rev 11:15, Mk 12:17, Acts 5:29.

21. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 150, Jer 17:5–6. Ps 40:5, 146:3–4.

22. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 488 & 493, LG 56.

23. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1265, 2 Cor 5:17, 2 Pet 1:4, Gal 4:5–7, 1 Cor 6:15, 12:27, Rom 8:17, 1 Cor 6:19.

24. Black Witch Coven, "Sell Your Soul or Make a Pact with a Demon." Accessed October 1, 2018: https://blackwitchcoven.com/how-to-sell-your-soul/.

25. New Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language (Danbury, CT: Lexicon Publications Inc., 1992), p. 1130.

26. Louis-Marie, Grignon de Montfort, A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin (London: Burns and Lambert, 1863), p. 191.

27. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1441, Mk 2:7.

28. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 431, Ps 51:4, 12.

29. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 970 & Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 60.

30. Luke 2:43–45.

31. Luke 2:46–50.

32. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 520, GS 38, Rom 15:5, Phil 2:5.

33. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 689.

34. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 689.

35. Luke 11:27.

36. Luke 11:28.

37. Mark 3:31–32.

38. Mark 3:33–35.

39. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 436.

40. Matthew 16:13.

41. Matthew 16:16.

42. The Rheims-Douay Version of Sacred Scripture contains an Imprimatur from Most Reverend Thomas H. McLaughlin, S.T.D., Bishop of Paterson.

43. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1618, Lk 14:26, Mk 10:28–31.

44. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 260, Jn 17:21-23, Jn 14:23.

45. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2664.

46. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2664.

47. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2564.

48. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2565.

49. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 425.

50. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 426, CT 5.

51. Exodus 20:3.

52. Matthew 22:37.

53. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 888, PO 4, Mk 16:15.

54. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 890.

55. Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2088.