What Catholics Believe:  A Popular Overview of Catholic Teaching  by Leonard Foley, O.F.M.

 

If you are Catholic, this is post-Vatican II wrap-up and short catechism, and an invitation to deeper faith. If you are a no-longer-practicing Catholic, this is an invitation to take a fresh look at your old family.  If you come from a different religious tradition, welcome to this overview of what Catholics stand for.  If you have no religion, we hope this will be a new opening to God. 

Welcome to Our Catholic Faith!

1.  Who God is

 

2.  What God did

In a daring phrase, St. Paul said that God "emptied himself" (Philippians 2:7). The Second Person of the Trinity, the Son, abandoned his godness, as it were, and became a real human being, Jesus of Nazareth, one in flesh with the whole human race. God became forever joined to humanity.

3.  Who Jesus is

 

4.  What Jesus did

 

5.  Who the Spirit is

 

6.  Who we are as Christ’s Mystical Body

 

7.  Who we are as visible Church

 

8.  What we are called to do as followers of Jesus

 

9.  What we do as the whole Church

 

10. ‘As we wait in joyful hope…’