Central Beliefs
Church Teachings
Essentials
Scripture
Catholic Social Teaching
100
Jesus' return to bodily life after His crucifixion.
What is the Resurrection?
100
The highest teaching authority in the Church.
What is the pope united with the bishops?
100
The summary of the essential beliefs of our faith.
What is the Nicene Creed?
100
The first head of the Church?
Who is Peter?
100
When life begins.
What is at conception?
200
Christ's acting through the Church that transforms us.
What are the sacraments?
200
The most important act of worship of the Catholic community.
What is the Mass?
200
Jesus' suffering, death, resurrection and ascension.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
200
Jesus came to offer salvation to these people.
What is all people in the world?
200
The way people typically participate in the Church's mission to evangelize.
What is by the example of our life and good works?
300
Our growing, loving relationship with God.
What is spirituality?
300
Choosing to do what you know offends God.
What is sin?
300
The doctrine that refers to the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
What is Transubstantiation?
300
The event in Jesus' life that confirms all that he taught about himself and the kingdom of God.
What is the Resurrection?
300
The movement toward unity among Christians and Christian churches.
What is ecumenism?
400
The word "catholic" means this.
What is universal?
400
A person's ability to judge what is right and what is wrong.
What is a conscience?
400
The central mystery of Christian faith and life?
What is the Trinity?
400
In the Old Testament, this is the promise of love and partnership that God made with Moses and his people.
What is a covenant?
400
The two basic principles at the center of Catholic social teachings.
What is the common good and the dignity of the human person?
500
The Church's office which teaches on matters of faith and morals.
What is the Magisterium?
500
Moral law, God's grace, and the voice of a well-formed moral conscience are the foundations of this.
What is living a moral life?
500
The elevation of Christ into heaven by His own power in the presence of His disciples on the fortieth day after His Resurrection.
What is the Ascension?
500
Theme central to Jesus' mission.
What is proclaiming the Kingdom of God?
500
The deliberate ending of a pregnancy that results in the death of the unborn.
What is an abortion?