Do you believe everything the Catholic Church teaches?

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The older I get the more ‘wisdom’ I see in the Church which is run by Christ himself!

Yes, as a human I struggle with some of the teachings, but I would never want to belong to a Church that LOWERED their standards/teachings.

Striving for perfection and carrying the cross associated with that struggle is what being a Catholic/Christian is all about.
 
The Church is far older and wiser than I could ever be. It has hundreds if not thousands of Biblical scholars and theologians. They have the time and resources to research all the issues, questions and moral ambiguities of the day. PLUS it has the Holy Spirit and Christ to lead her.

Every time, someone has doubt about one of its teachings, something miraculous happens to prove the dissenter wrong, and show the Church it is right.

I point to the appearance of Mary at Lourdes when the question of the Immaculate Conception was being debated. And when some priests or other doubt in the real presence, Eucharistic miracles like at Cascia and Lanciano, and Akita happen.

When God proves over and over again that He is backing the Church 100%, I believe the Chruch 100%. If the Church says it’s true, I believe it.
 
I’m a revert to Catholicism, and I want to call myself a convert, because I never ever really truly believed in Catholicism as the True Church of Jesus Christ until 2004…

The only thing that deters me is that I cannot have a chaste relationship with a person of the same sex, but that is usually refuted when it is for the better of me. There is always something better than an intimate love with a person, and that is the intimate love for Jesus Christ and the Eucharist! There are so many forms of love, and that doesn’t deter me at all, because God IS love!

Pax vobiscum…
 
I firmly believe everything the Church teaches, for a few reasons.
  1. I have enough trust in God the Father that He will not decieve me in my faith
  2. The Catholic Church is the ONLY church that can historically and theologically be called One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.
  3. The Church speaks through the Holy Spirit.
  4. I guess its because, well I have faith
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StephiePea:
I’m a new convert, and I have met many Catholics who pick and choose what they want to believe. What do you struggle with in the Church?
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Nothing.

I’m a perfectly-content Anglican.😛 👋
 
From time to time I have diffulculty with some decisions, some from my local Pastor. These decisions may affect myself, a loved one, or the church as a whole. However I willingly accept Jesus and the Catholic church that Jesus referred to when speaking with the apostle Peter. I will at times discuss my case and sometimes may overcome any objections, but I think it’s a way for the pastor to learn about intentions and convictions. Ultimately though I submit myself to the church’s authority.
The one thing I will say is that the reasons for these decisions I may disagree with but my summitting myself to the authority of the church I have learned through life , rends itself to somehow always being the right decision.
Faith and Trust
 
A great book about becoming catholic is Rome sweet Rome By Scott Hahn! I loved it!!👍
 
I Am So Happy To Have The Faith To Know That God Sent His Only Son To Teach Us The Way The Truth And The Life For Eternal Salvation.
If You Believe That God Is God And Jesus Christ Is
God The Son And God The Holy Spirit Is The Soul Of
The Church What Can’t God Do?
To Doubt The Teachings Of The Son Of God Is To Doubt God.
To Stand In Front Of Jesus Christ On Your Judgement Day And Say I Doubted You Could Be
Devestating To Your Soul For All Eternity.
Faith Than Understanding, Wisdom, Counsel,
Knowledge, Fortitude, Piety, Fear Of The Lord,
Gifts Of The Holy Spirit.
Love God, Love His Church, Love Your Neighbor,
Live In Eternal Happiness With Jesus Christ.
 
I beleive in everything they teach but the whole “purgatory” bit. I am a happy Catholic.
 
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Chazemataz:
I beleive in everything they teach but the whole “purgatory” bit. I am a happy Catholic.
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PRUGATORY IS THE LOVE AND MERCY OF GOD.
IF THERE WERE ONLY HEAVEN AND HELL AND WE HAVE TO BE SAINTS TO GET TO HEAVEN WHERE WOULD 99% OF US BE. GET THE POINT
 
YES, OUI, SI, JA. OO,

I DO BELIEVE IN THE CATHECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH… I BELIEVE IN THE DOGMA OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
 
Yes, I do !
I can’t think of one thing The Catholic Church teaches that I don’t believe.
as a matter of fact, I believe more now than I did when I first got here.

Blessed be God for ever !

gusano
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I don’t believe any one lay member even knows what all the Catholic church teaches on everything. I know I don’t. That’s why I have to ask questions or pull out my catechism book. The knowledge that is found in the catholic church and what the church offers is overwhelming and is the accumulation of some 2,000 years. The writings of the the apostles, the church fathers alone are 14 volumes. Then there are the encyclicals and the writings of the magnistarium, etc,etc. No church even comes close to the catholic church in Christian existence or teaching.
 
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RSiscoe:
Great response. I am glad to have you as a fellow Catholic. Your faith is an inspiration to everyone.
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I agree
🙂 plus, I believe it all 100%
 
Please believe me when I say that what follows is both spoken from, and meant in, the spirit of deepest humility.

I was a Catholic with many reservations.

I tested each reservation against the rock of the Church.

I found my reservations dashed to pieces on the wisdom of the Church.

It was a process at once painful and joyful, but in the end it has been unbelievably rewarding. And I came to a realization-

The Church, as Jesus Himself does, asks us all- “Who do you say that I am?” And like Jesus, there is no comfortable half way left open to you. The Church is the truth, and either you believe it, or you do not. Whether you believe or not does not affect the validity or correctness of the Church.

It took me years to come to this conclusion, but I have. It was not easy for me to understand, but Jesus did say that the gate to heaven would be narrow, and the wide gate, the one that allows all sorts of personal compromise, is the one that leads to destruction.

I understand why so many Catholics do not believe in the Church, because I have been there myself. I have felt the feelings and thought the thoughts of an unbelieving Catholic. It is truly a crisis of the heart. I did not believe the Church, back then, not really.

But also note I said I “did not believe” in the Church. I did not say that I “disagreed” with the Church. Agree and disagree are words used to describe matters of opinion and conjecture, not of truth and falsehood.

One may “disagree” with the Church only if what the Church says is an opinion. But the Church teaches the truth, and one cannot disagree with the truth. The truth just “is”. You may choose to believe the truth, or disregard it, but trying to disagree with it is a total non sequitor. When I understood that, I came to believe, and to truly believe.

I still believe that human conscience is tremendously important, and God did not give it to us for us to simply disregard it. But the truth of the Church should really help as a guide and shaper of our conscience, along with our prayer, the Word, the Holy Spirit and our community. I thank God for my conscience and ability to be a discerning Catholic every day. Discernment and good judgement are gifts from God, and they make our abiltiies of free thought even better! They are gifts to be used and refined. But I believe that if they are really attended to, they will direct you right to the Church’s front door.

I hope I have been clear. God bless you, and thanks for reading! 🙂
 
I believe a good part of what the Catholic Church teaches. I am a little leary what possibly has been changed by popes over the years. I am not sure what exactly those changes might be but during the times where popes and bishops were more concerned with becoming rich and not dedicated to God, even when Jesus says “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” Sounds like mixed priorities.
 
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FightingFat:
Or a sinner trying their best to know God.
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No, it is a protestant who remains in the Catholic Church. Every one of us Catholics is a sinner trying to know God better. Protestants refuse to believe the teachings of the church and remain trying to change it to their beliefs. Pro-abortion Catholics are cafeteria Catholics. If they want to believe that abortion is wrong, they are not Catholic, they are confused. :confused:
 
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