Catholic teaching
Rome's official positions
Catholic teaching refers to the official doctrines, moral principles, and theological positions of the Roman Catholic Church.
It encompasses beliefs about faith, ethics, and sacraments as interpreted by the Pope and Church hierarchy: Catholic teaching on contraception, according to Catholic teaching.
The phrase often appears in discussions of positions that diverge from secular or Protestant views: Catholic teaching holds that life begins at conception.
- BeatitudesEight blessings from the Mount
- MassCatholic worship service
- TrinityGodhead as three persons
- Holy SpiritThird divine person
- Ten CommandmentsScriptural moral code
Eschatology · Adoration · Immaculate Conception · Chastity · Eucharist · Grace
- Faith and Sexualitysame-sex marriage, human sexuality, blessing ceremonies, conversion therapy, religious trauma
- Christian ethicsChristian morality, Christian values, divine law, Christian virtues, natural law
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
- moral educationmoral education, moral instruction, character education, moral development, moral lessons
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
- scripture studybiblical study, concordance, cross-reference, study Bible, word study
Catholic teachingsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
atheism · secularism · agnosticism · naturalism · anticlericalism
Catholic teachingheresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
heterodoxy · apostasy · dissent · modernism · liberation theology
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