Twelve questions chosen at random. A new selection appears at each visit.
Q162The Third Article: The Incarnation
Love implies freedom and self-determination, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2Co 3:17; see Q107, Q233), and freedom, in turn, lives by trust. Adam and Eve could listen to the…
Read the answer →Q095The First Article: God
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit share equal majesty as the eternal, uncreated Lord and Savior: the Father is true God, the Son equally true God, and the Holy Spirit true God.…
Read the answer →Q463The Fifth Beatitude
The spiritual works of mercy are traditionally listed as: By exhortation, to convert the sinner from the error of his way, the greatest of rescues: “whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save…
Read the answer →Q006According to the inspired definition given in the New Testament, “faith is the personal foundation of things hoped for, certainty about things that cannot be seen” (Heb 11:1). Faith means trusting in the unseen…
Read the answer →Q400On the Lord’s Prayer
The Holy Gospel according to St Luke recounts: “The Lord was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as…
Read the answer →Q264The Ninth Article: The Church
The Scriptures teach that the saints intercede for one another during their life on earth, and that they continue to do so from Abraham’s bosom, even as the angels always intercede and minister according…
Read the answer →Q048The Books of the Bible
No one can find better or more joyful news than encountering the divine Savior and receiving the gift of everlasting salvation. The Gospel is not first a demand but an announcement of what God…
Read the answer →Q544On the Fourth Commandment
The Great Fast of Lent continues forty days, besides the week of Christ’s Passion (Great and Holy Week), which is reckoned separately. After the example of the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who fasted forty…
Read the answer →Q076The First Article: God
To believe in God is to have a living conviction of his existence, his attributes, and his works, and to receive with the whole heart his revealed word concerning the salvation of mankind. The…
Read the answer →Q530On the Second Commandment
Every refusal to direct honor and thanksgiving ultimately to God, the source of all blessings, is akin to idolatry. As the Prophet Samuel warns: “rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is…
Read the answer →Q161The Third Article: The Incarnation
In the Bible, “knowledge” commonly implies personal and intimate experience, an experience that unites the knower with what is known (cf. Gen 4:1). Through this tree, humanity came to know by experience what good…
Read the answer →Q474The Seventh Beatitude
The sublimity both of their work and of their reward: for in what they do, they imitate the Only-Begotten Son of God, who came to earth to reconcile fallen man with God (2Co 5:18–19).…
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