What does the catholic religion consist of what is it and what are the belifes?

Question

i want to know please i am happy to know any thing as long as its not rude or hurt full please!

Answer 1

A summary of Catholic beliefs is contained in the Nicene Creed (from the year 325):

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. Through Him all things were made. For us and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son, He is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

For a complete description of what Catholics believe, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is the one Church founded by Jesus Christ for all mankind. It was the original Christian Church, as history clearly shows, and if we can believe what Jesus said, it was the only Christian Church He ever authorized, or ever intended to exist. The beliefs of Catholics are simply everything the Apostles and the early Church believed, everything that Jesus taught them, passed down through the ages in written and unwritten form. By written form of course I mean the book which the Catholic Church compiled at the end of the 4th century, which we call the Bible. By unwritten form I refer to Apostolic Tradition, the Word of God passed on through teaching, the way all people received the good news in the early Church. I could go into great detail about the Church's beliefs and teachings, but there isn't room here for such a long reply. Will be glad to address any specific questions though.

Answer 3

It's kinda weird. First of they have a whole structurized church with the Pope being God's representative on Earth (Not Bible taken)
They somehow don't respect the 2nd commandment ("Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above...") cuz they do make sculpted images and worship them.
They believe in the saints which are kind of little let's say gods that are specialized into different things, there are saints for health, for money, etc. and instead of praying to God for those things they pray to the saints.
They have the Sacraments which they believe they get you closer to God.
They think that tradition's also a form of God's authority instead of just the Bible.
There are more things to the Catholic church but I can't remember them right now, hope this helps though

Answer 4

They believe in God in triune nature: God the father, God the son, and God the holy spirit. They are led by a hierarchy of priests and bishops, the highest of whom is the Pope. Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible when he makes rulings related to the religion. They recieve much criticism for praying to saints, including Mary the mother of Jesus, but they do not worship saints.

Catholics have seven sacraments: Baptism, Confession, Communion, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Annointing of the Sick. Now obviously, any one person can not be both married and ordained into the priesthood or convent, since Catholic priests and nuns are celibate, though as I understand it, a widow may become a nun and a widower may become a priest.

Until the 1960s, Catholic worship services, called Mass, were held in Latin all around the world. Now they are given in the regional langauges.

The term Catholic means "universal" and the Catholic Chruch traces its origins to the appointment of Peter, by Jesus, as the first Pope.

The Protestant Reformation ocurred in the middle ages, in protest of the Catholic Church policy of promising salvation to those who could afford to buy cathedrals. This policy is officially no longer in effect.

Answer 5

A lot of rituals for different things.

A single leader and ALL in the church must follow the interpretations of that Leader.

Questioning is not permitted not of doctrine at least.

There are lots of hard and fast rules. Divorce is not permitted, for example, neither is artificial birth control.

If you can't live with strong rules like that then you should look at a more liberal church.

Mahdya's appraisal is quite concise and seems to be a very accurate.

The word Catholic is Greek for Orthodox or ultra-conservative. As pointed out it took them 1940 years to do what the Greeks and Russians and Protestants did sooner. Say praryers in local language.

Answer 6

Specifically, the catholic church simply means the "universal" church. The Roman Catholic church is distinct from this. Most of the answers here seem to be pretty accurate. I have issues with the RC church because of the elevated view of tradition and of the pope and praying to saints.

Answer 7

Too put it shortly

$ = heaven