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  1. On the Catholic faith

Topic 34: Fifth Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 05/26/2021

A revised version of this doctrinal outline, incorporating recent clarifications by Pope Francis regarding the Church's teaching on capital punishment. "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator."

Topic 9: The Incarnation

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Incarnation is the supreme demonstration of God’s love for mankind, when the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity took on our human nature while remaining a divine Person.

Topic 6: Creation

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The importance of the truth about creation comes from its being the foundation of God’s saving plans culminating in Christ. Both the Bible and the Creed begin with a confession of faith in God the Creator.

Topic 2: Revelation

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

God wished to manifest himself as a personal Being through the history of salvation. He raised up and guided a people to be the custodian of his revealed word. Through that people he prepared the world for the Incarnation of his Word, Jesus Christ.

Topic 30: Personal Sin

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Personal sin is an “action, word or desire contrary to the eternal law."

Topic 27: Morality of Human Acts

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

“Acting is morally good when the choices of freedom are in conformity with man’s true good and thus express the voluntary ordering of the person towards our ultimate end: God himself.”

Topic 24 (2): Holy Orders

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The sacrament of Holy Orders confers a participation in Christ’s priesthood. The ministerial priesthood is essentially distinct from the common priesthood of the faithful.

Topic 22: Penance (I)

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance to offer us a new possibility of converting and recovering, after Baptism, the grace of justification

Topic 19: The Eucharist (I)

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ’s Paschal mystery, making present his unique sacrifice in the liturgy of the Church.

Topic 16: I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

By this truth we affirm the immortality to which mankind is destined; it is thus a reminder of the dignity of the human person, and in particular of the body.

Topic 13: I Believe in the Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Church is a communion of saints—the community of all men and women who have received the grace of regeneration from the Spirit, making them children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.

Topic 39: Prayer

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

Prayer is absolutely necessary for our spiritual life. It is, as it were, the “breathing” that permits the life of the spirit to develop.

Topic 35: Sixth Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

"God is love" (1 Jn 4:8), and his love is fruitful. He wants human beings to share in this fecundity, by linking the procreation of each new person with a specific act of love between a man and a woman.

Topic 38: Ninth and Tenth Commandments

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

These two commandments help us to live holy purity (the ninth) and detachment from material goods (the tenth) in our thoughts and desires.

Topic 4: God's Nature and Action

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The God we come to know through faith and reason is "spiritual, transcendent, omnipotent, eternal, personal, and perfect. He is truth and love."

Topic 8: Jesus Christ, True God and True Man

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Jesus Christ took on human nature without ceasing to be God. He is true God and true Man.

Topic 5: The Most Holy Trinity

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This is the central mystery of our faith and of Christian life.

Topic 1: The Existence of God

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Can we know that God exists by reason alone? What are some of the main pathways for reaching God's existence. Can conscience and human freedom be paths to a personal God who loves us? These are some of the questions discussed in this summary of Catholic teaching.

Topic 29: The Person and Society

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

A new doctrinal outline in the "Summaries of Catholic Teaching" series. Many people have found these helpful for getting to know the Catholic faith better and explaining it to others.

Topic 26: Freedom, Law and Conscience

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

God created us with the great gift of freedom. The natural law has the force of law as the voice and interpreter of the 'higher reason' of the divine Lawgiver.

Topic 24: Anointing of the Sick

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

For a Christian sickness and death can and should be a means to seek holiness and to redeem with Christ. This is the purpose of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

Topic 21: The Eucharist (III)

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Faith in Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist has led the Church to offer adoration to the Blessed Sacrament, both during and outside the liturgy of the Mass.

Topic 18: Baptism and Confirmation

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Baptism “justifies” us in God’s sight, while Confirmation brings us the supernatural gifts of Christian maturity.

Topic 15: The Church and the State

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The salvation achieved by Christ, and hence the mission of the Church, is directed to the human person in his or her integral being.

Topic 12: I Believe in the Holy Spirit. I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Holy Spirit intimately unites the faithful to Christ so that they form a single body, the Church, with a diversity of members and functions.

Topic 37: Eighth Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

With the grace of Christ, who is the Truth, Christians can live a life governed by truth.

Topic 33: Fourth Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

The fourth commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," has a broader scope than its primary focus: the relationship between children and their parents.

Topic 40: "Our Father who art in heaven"

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

"If we pray the Our Father sincerely, we leave individualism behind, because the love that we receive frees us from it. The ‘our’ at the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer, like the ‘us’ of the last four petitions, excludes no one."

Topic 10: Passion and Death on the Cross

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Christ died for our sins, to free us from them and redeem us from the slavery that sin introduced into mankind’s life.

Topic 7: Elevation to the Supernatural Order and Original Sin

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

In creating the first man and woman, God constituted them in a state of holiness and justice. He also granted them the possibility of sharing in his divine life through the proper use of their freedom.

Topic 3: Supernatural Faith

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The virtue of faith is a supernatural virtue that enables us to assent firmly to all that God has revealed.

Topic 31: The First Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Christ taught that to be saved we must carry out the commandments, which express the core of the natural moral law. The first commandment is twofold: love for God and love for neighbor out of love for God.

Topic 28: Grace and the Virtues

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Grace “is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1999).

Topic 25: Marriage

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

“God himself is the author of marriage.” The intimate conjugal union between a man and a woman is sacred, and is structured according to laws established by the Creator and independent of human choice.

Topic 23: Penance (II)

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Priests receive from God the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Topic 20: The Eucharist (II)

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Holy Mass is a true sacrifice because it makes present, in the “today” of the Church’s liturgical celebration, the unique sacrifice of our redemption carried out on the Cross.

Topic 17: Introduction to the Liturgy and the Sacraments

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The liturgy is an “action of God” that unites us to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit (cf. "Sacramentum Caritatis," no. 37).

Topic 14: History of the Church

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

The Church continues to make Christ present in human history. In the history of the Church, we find the divine and the human closely intertwined.

Topic 11: Resurrection, Ascension and Second Coming

Doctrinal Articles 01/28/2014

Christ’s Resurrection is a fundamental truth of our faith, as St Paul tells us (cf. 1 Cor 15:13-14). Thereby God inaugurated the life of the future world and put it at the disposition of mankind

Topic 36: Seventh Commandment

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

The seventh commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one’s neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods.

Topic 32: Second and Third Commandments

Doctrinal Articles 01/27/2014

The second commandment prescribes honoring God's name, while the third requires keeping feast days holy.

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