Catholic Dogmas

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As some of you said that all Catholics must agree with all dogmas of Catholic Church. Then what is good book that covers all dogmas of Catholic Church? So that I want to “see” what is in these dogmas.

Another question, what are other things that Catholics must agree with? And another one,… what things can Catholics either agree or disagree with?
 
Your starting point should be the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the guide that goes with it. A good, detailed reference is *Dogma of the Catholic Church *by Ludwig Ott. This book also explains the different levels of Church teaching and each of the dogmas in the book are keyed to one of these levels.
 
Here is a link to a concise listing of all the Dogmas.

Dogmas (scroll down it’s about midpage)
 
I wouldn’t start with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is first of all not infallible and secondly, very wordy, which is confusing to someone who wants a short, concise, and clear list of what the Chuch teaches. For this, I would look to the Creeds of the Church. The most important thing to know about the Church is that She is necessary for salvation. For more information about this, you can read about the Athanasian Creed (two excerpts follow, and the whole Creed is available at the link):

"Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly."

"This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved."
newadvent.org/cathen/02033b.htm
 
EENS,

i notice your lack of putting these statements you quoted into their proper context with Lumen Gentium and The Decree on Ecumenism, though I am not surprised given your screen name.
 
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EENS,

i notice your lack of putting these statements you quoted into their proper context with Lumen Gentium and The Decree on Ecumenism, though I am not surprised given your screen name.
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I’m Baptist (internally quite Catholic) and signed up for RCIA / RCIC.

My question would be what does “EENS” mean? And I found the answer on Google:

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) – there is no Salvation outside the Church. And that a case is made against Baptism of Desire and of Blood. Obviously not an easy topic for me to understand at my present station in life.

EENS is suspended and this was his last post. I browsed all of his posts and find that I had read some of them and in part relied on what he said because it seemed true and he said he was Catholic. For example that having intention or perfect contrition was greatly difficult and makes it nearly impossible for non-Catholics to be saved. Reading that kind of stuff may have made me quite anxious and may have partly been why God had to guide me to the Crypt Church at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday August 26. So I could get over doubts and fears of imperfect contrition or whether I really did intend to confess sin when I was first able to. I had a good “practice” confession with a wonderful 83-year-old Dominican Priest in part to prove I intended to confess my sins when I am able – and he withheld his intent and merely spoke words of absolution. It was beautiful. God is so good and I am convinced that He wants to welcome my whole immediate family into the Catholic Church (and I needed to be the first to cross the Tiber).

I see a lot of the answers about EENS are at “Apologetics / EENS and the big ROCK”. Even that it is a curse to need to learn about it (and why not, I’ve already had to learn so many other very difficult things).

I am satisfied just to know that the EENS site I quickly found with Google opposes the US Bishops (USCCB). And that the site says “The bogus order in the Holy See …” so I suppose they also don’t like the Pope. Given that EENS was also fairly young as well as suspended, I conclude that an extreme EENS point of view is invalid. Those who espouse the view loudly seem to be opposed to the Catholic Church.

I am quite convinced that the US Bishops and our Pope John Paul II are on track. So I hope I can shug off the extreme EENS point of view.
 
jmm08,

How right you are! I was touched by your reference to the National Shrine. I also go there often, and it is a holy place.
But my main point: you are on the right track! hang in there.

Pax Christi
 
Stick with the Catechism of JP II for information at present.

The Catholic Faith is an open book! Nothing hidden, nothing really needs filtering, the Catechism isn’t the work of just one person, but bishops and theologians from all over the world, and all of the Faith traditions that make up the church.

If you should have more questions than the Cathechism can clearly answer, it might be time to get to know a priest or two and develop some conversations.

If you get book-bound and bury yourself in reading some of these things (like Ludvig Ott’s book) it will be more like taking a law class than becoming a Catholic Christian. You could easily lose the spirit of Catholicism that is calling to you.

One book I have been reading recently (it is very good) is the CREED by Berard Marthaler, very nicely written with explanations that aren’t repetitions of steel-wool pronouncements. It really explains the Faith and the people of the Faith, is fair to the various traditions and never goes over a layperson’s head.

ISBN 0-89622-537-2

But start with the Catechism, in my opinion if you actually read most of it, you will have more fresh knowledge of the Faith than a lot of the people posting here! 😃 including me.

After you learn more, you may wish to develop your prayer life further, thare are a lot of ways to do that (more than you could possibly imagine). Take your time.

Good luck and God bless you as you discern your place in God’s Kingdom!
 
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larryo:
Your starting point should be the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the guide that goes with it. A good, detailed reference is *Dogma of the Catholic Church *by Ludwig Ott. This book also explains the different levels of Church teaching and each of the dogmas in the book are keyed to one of these levels.
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The name of the book is Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott
 
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