being Catholic According to the Second Vatican Council, “. . . Sacred tradition takes the word of God entrusted by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the apostles, and hands it on to their successors in its full purity.”
What do Catholics mean by “authority”? When it comes to the big issues in life, you want to find the source that speaks with integrity and can point you in the right direction. That’s what the teaching office of the church is for.
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know some things, and so do you. No one lives very long in this world without picking up a certain amount of experience, knowledge, and wisdom on-the-go. But I’ll be the first to admit
Alice Camille is a religious educator and author of Invitation to Catholicism and other titles found at alicecamille.com.
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that not everything I think I know is really so. Not every idea I carry around in my head (and on which I bet my daily decisions) is dropped in there by cosmic revelation. Angels rarely talk to me—or if they do, I don’t always listen up. But what do we do when we’re not sure that the information we’re working with is accurate? In the information age the answer’s obvious: Troll for the facts. A Google search has provided a one-stop solution to simple problems I’ve recently
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