Catechism of the Catholic Church
The official summary of Catholic teaching, published by Pope John Paul II on 11 October 1992. It is cited here as the Catholic Church’s own statement of its doctrine, paragraph by paragraph.
Read the text at vatican.va ↗Fidei Depositum, the apostolic constitution publishing the Catechism (Vatican) ↗
The Catechism was asked for by the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops of 1985 and published by John Paul II with the apostolic constitution Fidei Depositum, dated 11 October 1992. It sets out Catholic teaching in four parts, on the creed, the liturgy and sacraments, the Christian way of life and prayer, in numbered paragraphs.
It is a primary source for what the Catholic Church teaches today, and it is cited in this wiki for that purpose only. Where it describes the positions of other churches, as in its note on the different ways of numbering the Ten Commandments, the description is its own.
Cited in
- about 2085 BC, traditional date
- c. 1446 or c. 1260 BC, traditional date
- c. AD 29 or 32, estimated date
- AD 30 or 33, estimated date
- c. AD 64–68, traditional date
- about AD 96, estimated date
- about AD 110, traditional date
- about AD 155 to AD 165, estimated date
- about AD 180, estimated date
- May AD 325, firm date
- May AD 381, firm date
- AD 680 to AD 681, firm date
- AD 787, firm date
- 18 November 1302, firm date
- 25 July 1968, firm date
- 11 October 1992, firm date