Questions Every Catholic Should Be Able to Answer
Every Catholic is called not only to believe but to understand what the Church teaches and why. These ten questions cover the objections Catholics most often encounter.
In three points
- The Trinity and the Incarnation
- The Eucharist and the sacraments
- The Church, Mary and the saints, and confession
- Scripture and Tradition, salvation, and the last things
- Who is God, and how is the Trinity rightly confessed?
- Who is Jesus Christ, and how is the Incarnation compatible with God's immutability?
- What is the nature and reality of the Eucharist (the Real Presence and transubstantiation)?
- Why are the sacraments necessary, and how are they channels of grace?
- What is the Church's claim to be the one true Church founded by Christ, and what follows from papal and episcopal authority?
- What is the role of Mary and the saints, and how does honoring them differ from worship?
- Why is sacramental confession necessary if we can pray directly to God for forgiveness?
- How do Scripture and apostolic Tradition relate as sources of revelation?
- How are salvation, faith and works harmonized in Catholic teaching on justification, grace and perseverance?
- What does the Church teach about death, judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory and the final consummation?
These questions represent core tenets of the faith, to help Catholics understand and defend it.
Read online with linked Scripture: catholic.id/tracts/questions-every-catholic-should-know/