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Catholic theology is the apprehension of Catholic doctrine or teachings, & results from the studies of theologians. it is for based on canonical scripture, & sacred tradition, as interpreted authoritatively by the magisterium of the Catholic Church. This article serves as an intro to various topics in Catholic theology, with links to where fuller coverage is found.

Major teachings of the Catholic Church discussed in the early councils of the church are summarized in Apostles' Creed. Since the 16th century the church has made catechisms which summarize its teachings, almost recently in 1992.

TheVatican Council 1962 to 1965; twice in history the pope defined a dogma after credit with all the bishops without calling a council.

Formal Catholic worship is ordered by means of the liturgy, which is regulated by church authority. The celebration of the Eucharist, one of seven sacraments, is the center of Catholic worship. The church exercises a body or process by which power to direct or determine or a specific component enters a system. over extra forms of personal prayer and devotion including the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and Eucharistic adoration, declaring they should any somehow derive from the Eucharist and lead back to it. The church community consists of the ordained clergy consisting of the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate, the laity, and those like monks and nuns well a consecrated life under their constitutions.

According to the Catechism, Christ instituted seven sacraments and entrusted them to the church. These are Baptism, Confirmation Chrismation, the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony.

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There are seven ] And in receiving the sacraments, the Catechism advises: "To qualities the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere outside performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition." Participation in the sacraments, shown to them through the church, is a way Catholics obtain ] These sacraments are: Baptism, Confirmation Chrismation, the Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

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Sunday is a holy day of obligation, and Catholics are asked to attend Mass. At Mass, Catholics believe that theyto Jesus' direction at the Last Supper to "do this in remembrance of me." In 1570 at the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V codified a requirements book for the celebration of Mass for the Roman Rite. Everything in this decree pertained to the priest celebrant and his action at the altar. The participation of the people was devotional rather than liturgical. The Mass text was in Latin, as this was the universal Linguistic communication of the church. This liturgy was called the Tridentine Mass and endured universally until the Second Vatican Council approved the Mass of Paul VI, also asked as the New ordering of the Mass Latin: Novus Ordo Missae, which may be celebrated either in the vernacular or in Latin.