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The New Testament contains warnings against teachings considered to be only masquerading as Christianity, [166] and shows how reference was made to the leaders of the Church to decide what was true doctrine. [167] The Catholic Church believes it is the continuation of those who remained faithful to the apostolic leadership and rejected false ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved 25 June last and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church's faith and of Catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium.
Enchiridion symbolorum: a compendium of creeds, definitions and declarations of the Catholic Church (43rd ed.). San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-0898707465. Dulles, Avery (1971). The survival of dogma : faith, authority and dogma in a changing world. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. OCLC 610489855. Ott, Ludwig (1965).
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
Many Catholic traditionalist groups, such as the Society of Saint Pius X, and some scholars such as the philosopher Romano Amerio, [8] also support the perception of the Second Vatican Council as a hermeneutic of discontinuity from sacred tradition and the pre-Concilliar Magisterium of the Catholic Church, accompanying it with a strong ...
Those who insist that this is a development in the doctrine of the Church often remark that the Second Vatican Council did not say that the Church of Christ "is" the Catholic Church. [12] However, in another document promulgated on the same day (21 November 1964) as Lumen gentium , the Council did in fact refer to "the Holy Catholic Church ...
The term Mass, also Holy Mass, is commonly used to describe the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin Church, while the various Eastern Catholic liturgies use terms such as Divine Liturgy, Holy Qurbana, and Badarak, [6] in accordance with each one's tradition.
Ephrem the Syrian – 28 January (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Churches) 7th Saturday before Easter (Syriac Orthodox Church) June 9 (Roman Catholic Church) Francis de Sales – Francis de Sales, T.O.M., A.O.F.M. Cap., (August 21, 1567Â - December 28, 1622) was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.