Catholic Word of the Day: INFIDEL, 07-23-12

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INFIDEL

One who does not believe. Formerly applied to all non-Christians, the term is now used only of unbelievers, i.e., professed atheists or agnostics. (Etym. Latin in-, not + fidelis, true, faithful: infidelis, one that cannot be relied upon, faithless.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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unbelievers -- the new "infidels?"

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Anthroposophy	Genuflection	Semites
Vow of Poverty	Erastianism	Temporal
Private Revelations	Source of Sin	Carpenter’s Square
Physical Solitude	Papal Choir	Anti-Catholicism
Meditation	Commutative Justice	Auri Sacra Fames
Anglo-Catholicism	Prophecy	Elevation of the Host
League of the Sacred Heart	External Graces	Perichoresis
Apolysis	State of Grace	La Disputa
Transcendentals	Bolshevism	Demiurge
Barsabbas	Genus	Victimae Paschali
Childermas Day	Satanism	Scholasticism
Breaking of the Host	Praises of God	Piarists
True Conscience	Infidel

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First Timothy 5:8 tells us a great definition for an infidel:

“But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”