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Sacramentals Objects or actions not directly instituted by Christ but used after the manner of sacraments in order to achieve spiritual good through the merits of the faithful Sacred The holy or divine, that which pertains to God, the eternal, the heavenly, the mysterious, the infinite. Sacrilege Deliberate violation of sacred things Sanctifying Grace Supernatural state of being infused by God, which permanantly inheres in the soul; the vital principle of supernatural life Schism Willful separation from the unity of the Church Scruple Unreasonable doubt about the morality of an act done or to be done, rooted in an erroneous conscience Secularism Closed system that affirms that human existence and destiny are fully explicable in terms of this world without reference to eternity Sempiternity Eternity considered as having neither beginning nor end; hence possessed only by God, who, unlike creatures, never began Solipism Extreme subjectivism, holding that only the ego exists, everything else being only an image of oneself, in practice, the attitude of those who only care for themselves Soteriology That part of Christology which treats of Christ's work of salvation Stylites Pillar saints. Solitaries who dwelt on the ruins of structures surmounting columns or pillars. In this way they practiced mortification, while also preaching to the people or giving spiritual advice Subsistence The existence proper to a whole and uncommunicated substance