Doctrines and dogmas

[RobinHood]

Does anyone know of a good site where I could find a list of Catholic Doctrines and dogma?

I know Doctrines and dogma never change but people keep asking me to list a few and I’m at lost to name more than 4 or 5.

Thank you for all your help.

God Bless
Robin

 

[toaslan]

Does anyone know of a good site where I could find a list of Catholic Doctrines and dogma?
Robin

Best to go straight to the horse’s mouth, the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Church is wary of giving a list, perhaps because each teaching if understood in its context is less open to being misunderstood or even misused. So it’s a fat book, but every teaching will be in there.

Catechisms are aids to teachers, and tend to give just the conclusions of theology–theology being all the long reasonings about god-related subjects which has gone on down through the centuries, filtered through the popes and councils. The newly promulgated Catechism includes more of the background reasoning to the conclusions than the older, more compact catechisms.

 

[toaslan]

here’s a link to the Catechism online!
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

here’s a link to the shortened form of the fat Catechism, the Compendium of the Catechism!
vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html

and what about the Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed? Those are short statements of what every Catholic must believe. There is also the Athanasian Creed, longer yet.

 

[Nita]

A good book to get would be “Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma” by Dr. Ludwig Ott. It lists the teachings of our Church in bold print and gives the degree of theological certainty. It’s being put on line, but is not yet complete.

www.catecheticsonline.com/Fundamentals.php

You can go to the site and sample what the book is like. It is one of the best buys I’ve ever made.

Nita

 

[jemfinch]

A nice summary of the aforementioned Ott book is available at catholicfirst.com/thefaith/churchdocuments/dogmas.cfm

Jeremy

 

[Nita]

A nice summary of the aforementioned Ott book is available at catholicfirst.com/thefaith/churchdocuments/dogmas.cfm

Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy. Thought I had come across a link before for such a list on CAF, but couldn’t remember where. This time I’m adding it to my “website” document.

Nita

 

[RobinHood]

Thank you so much everyone!

Those links are perfect for my needs. I appreciate all of your help.

Thanks again,
God Bless
Robin