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Catechism Of The Catholic Church
Pope John Paul II

Number of quotes: 18


Book ID: 48 Page: 32

Section: 2C

85 “The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living, teaching office of the Church alone.

Quote ID: 1095

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 33

Section: 2C

92 “The whole body of the faithful . . .cannot err in matters of belief.

Quote ID: 1096

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 54/55

Section: 2C

180 “Believing” is a human act, conscious and free, corresponding to the dignity of the human person.

181 “Believing” is an ecclesial act. The Church’s faith precedes, engenders, supports, and nourishes our faith. The Church is the mother of all believers. “No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother” (St. Cyprian, De unit. 6: PL 4, 519).

Quote ID: 1097

Time Periods: 37


Book ID: 48 Page: 69

Section: 2B1,5A

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life.

PJ: Three in one.

Quote ID: 1098

Time Periods: 47


Book ID: 48 Page: 110

Section: 2E5

Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil.”267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God:

Quote ID: 1099

Time Periods: 07


Book ID: 48 Page: 117

Section: 2E5

413 “God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. . . .It was through the devil’s envy that death entered the world” (Wis 1:13; 2:24).

Quote ID: 1100

Time Periods: 07


Book ID: 48 Page: 117

Section: 2E5

414 Satan or the devil and the other demons are fallen angels who have freely refused to serve God and his plan. Their choice against God is definitive. They try to associate man in their revolt against God.

Quote ID: 1101

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 184/185

Section: 2D

The condition of Christ’s risen humanity

645 By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his passion.[508] Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ’s humanity can no longer be confined to earth and belongs henceforth only to the Father’s divine realm.[509] For this reason too the risen Jesus enjoys the sovereign freedom of appearing as he wishes: in the guise of a gardener or in other forms familiar to his disciples, precisely to awaken their faith.[510]

Pastor John’s Note: Fake

646 Christ’s Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that he had performed before Easter: Jairus’ daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events, but the person miraculously raised returned by Jesus’ power to ordinary earthly life. At some particular moment they would die again. Christ’s Resurrection is essentially different. In his risen body he passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space. At Jesus’ Resurrection his body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: he shares the divine life in his glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is “the man of heaven.”[511]

Pastor John’s Note: Same as before

Quote ID: 1102

Time Periods: 17


Book ID: 48 Page: 199

Section: 2C

The proper name of the Holy Spirit

691 “Holy Spirit” is the proper name of the one whom we adore and glorify with the Father and the Son. The Church has received this name from the Lord and professes it in the Baptism of her new children.[16]

Quote ID: 1103

Time Periods: 37


Book ID: 48 Page: 213/214

Section: 2D3B

745 The Son of God was consecrated as Christ (Messiah) by the anointing of the Holy Spirit at his Incarnation (cf. Ps 2:6-7).

Quote ID: 1104

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 254

Section: 2D1

881 The Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the “rock” of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.[400] “The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of apostles united to its head.”[401] This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church’s very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope.

882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, “is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.”[402] “For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”[403]

Quote ID: 1105

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 256

Section: 2D

Christ endowed the Church’s shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. The exercise of this charism takes several forms:

891 “The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful-who confirms his brethren in the faith-he proclaims by a definitive act of doctrine pertaining to faith or morals.

Quote ID: 1106

Time Periods: 127


Book ID: 48 Page: 273

Section: 2D2

Paragraph 6, Mary-Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church

963 Since the Virgin Mary’s role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church. “The Virgin Mary…is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer….She is ‘clearly the mother of the members of Christ’…since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the Church, who are members of its head.”[500] “Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church.”[501]

Quote ID: 1107

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 274

Section: 2D2

. . . also in her Assumption

966 “Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death.”[506]

Quote ID: 1108

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 275

Section: 2D2

Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helpers, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”510

Quote ID: 1109

Time Periods: 7


Book ID: 48 Page: 280

Section: 2D

990 The term “flesh” refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality.

534 The “resurrection of the flesh” (the literal formulation of the Apostles’ Creed) means not only that the immortal soul will live on after death, but that even our “mortal body” will come to life again. 535

Quote ID: 1110

Time Periods: 2347


Book ID: 48 Page: 291

Section: 2A3,2A5

The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.{604} The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:{605}

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.{606}

This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.”{607} From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God.{608} The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead….

Quote ID: 8465

Time Periods: 012


Book ID: 48 Page: 296

Section: 2D

1056 Following the example of Christ, the Church warns the faithful of the “sad and lamentable reality of eternal death” (GCD 69), also called “hell.”

Quote ID: 1111

Time Periods: 127



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