THEOLOGY TALKS

	Topic	suvi	jake	Summary
01	The Existence of God	done	done	Can we know that God exists by reason alone? What are some of the main pathways for reaching God's existence. Can conscience and human ...
02	Revelation	done	done	God wished to manifest himself as a personal Being through the history of salvation. He raised up and guided a people to be the custodian ...
03	Supernatural Faith	done		The virtue of faith is a supernatural virtue that enables us to assent firmly to all that God has revealed.
04	God's Nature and Action	done		The God we come to know through faith and reason is "spiritual, transcendent, omnipotent, eternal, personal, and perfect. He is truth and love."
05	The Most Holy Trinity	done		Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This is the central mystery of our ...
06	Creation			The importance of the truth about creation comes from its being the foundation of God's saving plans culminating in Christ. Both the Bible and ...
07	Elevation to the Supernatural Order and Original Sin			In creating the first man and woman, God constituted them in a state of holiness and justice. He also granted them the possibility of sharing ...
08	Jesus Christ, True God and True Man			Jesus Christ took on human nature without ceasing to be God. He is true God and true Man.
09	The Incarnation			The Incarnation is the supreme demonstration of God's love for mankind, when the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity took on our human nature ...
10	Passion and Death on the Cross			Christ died for our sins, to free us from them and redeem us from the slavery that sin introduced into mankind's life.
11	Resurrection, Ascension and Second Coming			Christ's Resurrection is a fundamental truth of our faith, as St Paul tells us (cf. 1 Cor 15:13-14). Thereby God inaugurated the life ...
12	I Believe in the Holy Spirit. I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church.			The Holy Spirit intimately unites the faithful to Christ so that they form a single body, the Church, with a diversity of members and functions.
13	I Believe in the Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins			The Church is a communion of saints—the community of all men and women who have received the grace of regeneration from the Spirit, making ...
14	History of the Church			The Church continues to make Christ present in human history. In the history of the Church, we find the divine and the human closely intertwined.
15	The Church and the State			The salvation achieved by Christ, and hence the mission of the Church, is directed to the human person in his or her integral being.
16	I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting			By this truth we affirm the immortality to which mankind is destined; it is thus a reminder of the dignity of the human person, and ...
17	Introduction to the Liturgy and the Sacraments			The liturgy is an “action of God” that unites us to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit (cf. "Sacramentum Caritatis," no. 37).
18	Baptism and Confirmation			Baptism “justifies” us in God's sight, while Confirmation brings us the supernatural gifts of Christian maturity.
19	The Eucharist (I)			The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's Paschal mystery, making present his unique sacrifice in the liturgy of the Church.
20	The Eucharist (II)			The Holy Mass is a true sacrifice because it makes present, in the “today” of the Church's liturgical celebration, the unique sacrifice of our ...
21	The Eucharist (III)			Faith in Christ's real presence in the Eucharist has led the Church to offer adoration to the Blessed Sacrament, both during and outside the ...
22	Penance (I)			Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance to offer us a new possibility of converting and recovering, after Baptism, the grace of justification
23	Penance (II)			Priests receive from God the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
24a	Anointing of the Sick			For a Christian sickness and death can and should be a means to seek holiness and to redeem with Christ. This is the purpose of ...
24b	Holy Orders			The sacrament of Holy Orders confers a participation in Christ's priesthood. The ministerial priesthood is essentially distinct from the common priesthood of the faithful.
25	Marriage			“God himself is the author of marriage.” The intimate conjugal union between a man and a woman is sacred, and is structured according to laws ...
26	Freedom, Law and Conscience			God created us with the great gift of freedom. The natural law has the force of law as the voice and interpreter of the 'higher ...
27	Morality of Human Acts			“Acting is morally good when the choices of freedom are in conformity with man's true good and thus express the voluntary ordering of the ...
28	Grace and the Virtues			Grace “is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it ...
29	The Person and Society			A new doctrinal outline in the "Summaries of Catholic Teaching" series. Many people have found these helpful for getting to know the Catholic faith better ...
30	Personal Sin			Personal sin is an “action, word or desire contrary to the eternal law."
31	The First Commandment			Christ taught that to be saved we must carry out the commandments, which express the core of the natural moral law. The first commandment is ...
32	Second and Third Commandments			The second commandment prescribes honoring God's name, while the third requires keeping feast days holy.
33	Fourth Commandment			The fourth commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," has a broader scope than its primary focus: the relationship between children and their parents.
34	Fifth Commandment			A revised version of this doctrinal outline, incorporating recent clarifications by Pope Francis regarding the Church's teaching on capital punishment. "Human life is sacred ...
35	Sixth Commandment			"God is love" (1 Jn 4:8), and his love is fruitful. He wants human beings to share in this fecundity, by linking the procreation ...
36	Seventh Commandment			The seventh commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one's neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods.
37	Eighth Commandment			With the grace of Christ, who is the Truth, Christians can live a life governed by truth.
38	Ninth and Tenth Commandments			These two commandments help us to live holy purity (the ninth) and detachment from material goods (the tenth) in our thoughts and desires.
39	Prayer			Prayer is absolutely necessary for our spiritual life. It is, as it were, the “breathing” that permits the life of the spirit to develop.
40	"Our Father who art in heaven"			"If we pray the Our Father sincerely, we leave individualism behind, because the love that we receive frees us from it. The ‘our’ at the ...