Catholic doctrine
Rome's official beliefs
Catholic doctrine refers to the official teachings and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, encompassing matters of faith, morals, and practice as interpreted by Church authority.
These doctrines include core Christian tenets like the Trinity and resurrection, as well as distinctively Catholic teachings on the sacraments, papal authority, and the veneration of saints.
Some doctrines are considered infallible and unchangeable, while others may develop over time through papal pronouncements and Church councils.
- TrinityGodhead as three persons
- Holy SpiritThird divine person
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- GraceName or honorific
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
Heaven · Hell · papal infallibility · Mass · Immaculate Conception · Divine Office · Final Judgment · Solidarity · Ten Commandments · natural law · Nicene Creed · Hail Mary · Aquinas · Vatican II · papal · confession · creed · orthodox
- Catholic educationparochial schools, parish schools, parochial school, parish school, faith schools
- church educationSunday school teachers, Sunday schools, church school, religious instruction, Bible stories
- catechesiscatechumen, religious education, CCD, religious ed, question and answer
- Catholic textsmissal, missals, catechisms, breviaries, breviary
- Vatican documentspapal bulls, encyclicals, Holy See
- Divine ComedyInferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice, Virgil
Catholic doctrineatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · secularism · antitheism · agnosticism · rationalism
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