God
The Creator, providence, natural reason and supernatural revelation.
Faith Overview
Introduction to the Catholic Religion
The Catholic faith is the revelation of God in Christ, guarded and proclaimed by the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
Ten doors into the Catholic faith
The Trinity
Father, Son and Holy Ghost: one divine nature, three divine Persons.
Creation and Fall
Man, sin, death, grace and the promise of redemption.
Jesus Christ
The Incarnation, Cross, Resurrection and kingship of Christ.
The Church
The visible society founded by Christ, apostolic succession and the four marks.
Scripture and Tradition
One sacred deposit handed down in written and unwritten form.
Sacraments
Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing, Holy Orders and Matrimony.
Moral Life
Commandments, virtues, conscience and the life of grace.
Prayer and Liturgy
The Our Father, the Mass, the Divine Office and the sanctification of time.
Mission
Witness, evangelization, apologetics and charity in truth.
Study from the Church’s own order
Doctrine
Clear articles of faith, moral teaching and sacramental doctrine.
Study DoctrineDogmatics
Precise treatment of revelation, Trinity, Christology, grace, Church and last things.
Open DogmaticsCatechism
Question and answer formation for memory, teaching and examination.
Read CatechismsFaith is received, taught and defended
Receive
The faith is received from Christ through the apostolic Church, not invented by private judgment.
Study
Scripture, Fathers, councils, catechisms, canon law and theology illuminate each other.
Live
The sacraments, prayer, moral conversion and charity form Catholic life.
Defend
Apologetics answers objections with doctrine, history, reason and the witness of the saints.
Study the faith through its primary witnesses
Catholic formation is ordered by Scripture, Tradition, worship, doctrine, moral life, canon law and the teaching office of the Church.
Holy Scripture
Read the sacred text with Greek, Latin and selected vernacular columns.
Open ScriptureCatechisms
Learn the faith question by question through traditional catechetical order.
Open CatechismsChurch Fathers
Study the ancient witnesses of the apostolic and patristic centuries.
Open the FathersCanon Law
The visible order of the Church protects doctrine, sacraments and justice.
Open Canon Law