Topic 4: God's Nature and Action
The God we come to know through faith and reason is "spiritual, transcendent, omnipotent, eternal, personal, and perfect. He is truth and love."
Topic 5: The Most Holy Trinity
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 6: Creation
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 17: Introduction to the Liturgy and the Sacraments
The liturgy is an “action of God” that unites us to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit (cf. "Sacramentum Caritatis," no. 37).
Topic 7: Elevation to the Supernatural Order and Original Sin
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 8: Jesus Christ, True God and True Man
Jesus Christ took on human nature without ceasing to be God. He is true God and true Man.
Topic 9: The Incarnation
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 12: I Believe in the Holy Spirit. I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church.
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 18: Baptism and Confirmation
Baptism “justifies” us in God’s sight, while Confirmation brings us the supernatural gifts of Christian maturity.
Topic 13: I Believe in the Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins
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.