Topic 24: Anointing of the Sick
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 16: I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting
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 15: The Church and the State
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 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.
Topic 27: Morality of Human Acts
“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 23: Penance (II)
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 10: Passion and Death on the Cross
Christ died for our sins, to free us from them and redeem us from the slavery that sin introduced into mankind’s life.
Topic 22: Penance (I)
Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance to offer us a new possibility of converting and recovering, after Baptism, the grace of justification
Topic 18: Baptism and Confirmation
Baptism “justifies” us in God’s sight, while Confirmation brings us the supernatural gifts of Christian maturity.
