Catholic tradition
Apostolic succession's legacy
Catholic tradition encompasses the teachings, practices, and beliefs passed down through the Roman Catholic Church across two millennia—including doctrines, liturgical practices, sacraments, and ecclesiastical authority not explicitly stated in scripture but held to derive from apostolic succession.
The veneration of saints is part of Catholic tradition.
The phrase often appears in contrast to Protestant emphasis on scripture alone.
- MassCatholic worship service
- EucharistSacramental bread and wine
- AdventChristmas preparatory season
- TrinityGodhead as three persons
- BeatitudesEight blessings from the Mount
patron saint · Holy Week · Stations of the Cross · Gregorian chant · mortal sin · Grace · sign of the cross · Hail Mary · last rites · Aquinas · Dogma · religious vows · Iconography · holy water · Lent · Vatican · Pope Francis · vestments
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- QuebecQuebec City, Montreal, premier, National Assembly, premiers
- Notre DameFighting Irish, Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, Joe Montana, Lou Holtz
- Catholic Theologydogma, divine revelation, papal infallibility, infallibility, transubstantiation
- Catholic WritersFlannery O'Connor
- IrelandDublin, Cork, Irish, leprechaun, Galway
Catholic traditionIslamic tradition
Inherited Muslim practice
Jewish tradition · Buddhist tradition · Hindu tradition · paganism · animism
Catholic traditionsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
atheism · secularism · rationalism · agnosticism · empiricism