Topic 26: Freedom, Law and Conscience
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 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 21: The Eucharist (III)
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 28: Grace and the Virtues
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 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 29: The Person and Society
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 30: Personal Sin
Personal sin is an “action, word or desire contrary to the eternal law."
Topic 31: The First Commandment
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 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 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.