Twelve questions chosen at random. A new selection appears at each visit.
Q120The First Article: God
God’s purpose in creation is to share his love and to glorify himself together with his Only-Begotten Son and Holy Spirit, “that God may be all in all” (1Co 15:28; see Q236, Q378). Within…
Read the answer →Q409The Second Petition: “Thy Kingdom Come”
The Church prays, in the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, in a striking past tense: “You did not cease doing all things until You had led us up to heaven, and granted us…
Read the answer →Q266The Ninth Article: The Church
The Evangelist Matthew relates that after the death of our Lord on the cross, many bodies of the saints of the Old Covenant arose, and, after his resurrection, came out of their tombs, entered…
Read the answer →Q103The First Article: God
The invisible realm was created before the visible, and the angels before human beings. Of the difference between the two, the Apostle writes: “what we aim for is not visible but invisible: visible things…
Read the answer →Q436The Blessedness of Those Who Believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Of the highest importance for Christians, as disciples of the Lord, is the teaching known as the Beatitudes, the sentences of blessedness which open the Sermon on the Mount (see S064). Seeing the crowds,…
Read the answer →Q227The Seventh Article: The Second Coming
Holy Scripture and Tradition speak of the “dread judgment seat of Christ,” which is to be distinguished from the particular judgment, the soul’s understanding and anticipation of its eternal destiny immediately after death, as…
Read the answer →Q046The Books of the Bible
The word Gospel comes from the Greek euangelion, meaning good or joyful tidings; it carries the sense of a royal proclamation of good news, the herald announcing the victory and accession of the King:…
Read the answer →Q365Unction of the Sick
Christians have faith that God is a loving Father who in wisdom “orders all things well” (Wis 8:1). It is always legitimate to pray that the cup of bodily suffering and illness may pass…
Read the answer →Q583On the Sixth Commandment
The Holy Scriptures do not forbid the death penalty, and its lawfulness in principle is not in doubt. It is grounded in the covenant with Noah, before the Law and for all mankind, “whoever…
Read the answer →Q394On Spiritual Warfare
The Lord gave his disciples “authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out” (Mat 10:1), and promised that “in my name they will cast out demons” (Mrk 16:17). The Church exercises this authority first…
Read the answer →Q160The Third Article: The Incarnation
Eating from the tree was a sacramental act: it severed the state of communion with God and united man to a different spiritual condition. The act involved disobedience to God’s will, and so separated…
Read the answer →Q595On the Eighth Commandment
True repentance for sins against this commandment includes restitution, wherever it is possible, after the example of Zacchaeus: “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have…
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