Doctrine

Doctrinal Issues

 

 

The Bible

The Bible is a Unique Book
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a18.htm

The Bible is the Word of God
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a45.htm

What Is Sola Scriptura?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a74.htm

Why the Bible Alone?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a54.htm

Disagreement among Protestants and Sola Scriptura
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a87.htm

Salvation

Jesus Christ Is Sufficient to Save Sinners Completely
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/save_sinners.html

No One Can Merit the Unmerited Favor of God
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/unmerited.html

Salvation, Not in the Sacramental System, But in Christ Alone
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/sacramentalsystem.htm

Salvation: God's Graciousness in Christ
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/Justification.html

The Biblical Teaching of Justification
http://www.christiantruth.com/gospeljustification.html

The Roman Catholic Teaching on Salvation and Justification
http://www.christiantruth.com/gospelrcsalvation.html

The Papacy

Five Historical Realities That Are Against an Early Papacy
http://members.aol.com/jasonte2/five.htm

The Corrupt Papacy
http://members.aol.com/jasonte/papacy.htm

The New Testament's Denial of the Papacy
http://members.aol.com/jasonte2/newtest.htm

Early Post-Apostolic Denials of a Papacy
http://members.aol.com/jasonte2/denials.htm

No Papacy in the Early Church
http://members.aol.com/jasonte2/nopapacy.htm

The Patristic Exegesis of the Rock of Matthew 16:18
http://www.christiantruth.com/fathersmt16.html

The Mass

The Sacrifice of the Mass
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a102.htm

The Eucharist
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a04.htm

A Present Sacrifice for Sin?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a13.htm

The Eucharist in the Early Church
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a34.htm

I Am the Bread of Life
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a11.htm

The Mass: From Mystery to Meaning
http://www.gnfc.org/mass.html

Eucharistic Adoration: Worship or Idolatry?
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/eucharistic_adoration.html

Baptism

Baptism
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a62.htm

Born Again By Baptism?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a70.htm

Baptism and Original Sin
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a25.htm

Confession of Sin

Confession of Sin
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a39.htm

Purgatory

Purgatory or Christ?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a93.htm

Suffering in Purgatory
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a12.htm

Tradition

Rome's New and Novel Concept of Tradition
http://www.christiantruth.com/livingtradition.html

Mary

The Bible about the Virgin Mary
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a20.htm

Christian Attitude toward Mary
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a05.htm

The Rosary
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a07.htm

The Immaculate Conception
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a69.htm

Is Mary Our Mother?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a47.htm

Is Mary a Mediator?
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a78.htm

Mary Worship
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a64.htm

Mary around the World (articles on Cultural Marian Devotion)
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/MaryLawson.html

The Assumption of Mary
http://www.christiantruth.com/assumption.html

Past Popes Taught Destructive Heresies (no salvation without Mary)
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/pastpopes.html

Do You Know Mary?
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/knowmary.html

Mary Who?
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/marywho.html

Hail Mary?
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/hailmarymd.html

Mary and Catholicism
http://members.aol.com/jasonte/mary.htm

Mary in Roman Catholicism
http://members.aol.com/jasonte2/mary2.htm

 

Some Catholic Practices Honoring Mary

The Brown Scapular

The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
http://www.rc.net/lansing/ctk/cc/ocds1.html

The Brown Scapular
http://www.cin.org/saints/brownsca.html

The Rosary, Brown Scapular and the Sabbatine Privilege
http://olrl.org/pray/rosary.html

Rosary Promises

Fifteen Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary
Indulgences promised by the Catholic Church for praying the rosary
http://rosarycreations.com/rosarypromises.htm

15 Promises of the Rosary and 12 Promises of the Sacred Heart
http://www.memorare.com/devotions/promises.html

The Miraculous Medal

The Miraculous Medal (picture and description of apparition)
http://www.cammonline.org/pages/miraculousMedal.html

Apparition Chapel in Paris (2 million pilgrims per year)
http://www.cammonline.org/pages/apparitionChapel.html

Novena Prayers to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
http://www.cammonline.org/pages/novena.html

 

Veneration of Statues

Statues Which Dominate Chapels

Chapel of Our Lady of Siluva (picture and prayers)
http://www.nationalshrine.com/NAT_SHRINE/tour_u32.htm

Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (picture and prayers)
http://www.nationalshrine.com/NAT_SHRINE/tour_u04.htm

Statue of Mary, Mother of Mankind (with many candles) (picture and prayers)
http://www.nationalshrine.com/NAT_SHRINE/tour_c37.htm

Picture of Chapel Honoring Apparition of Mary to St. Catherine Laboure
http://www.cammonline.org/pagesShrineTour/shrine05En.html

Infant of Prague

Article with pictures of the statue (clothed and unclothed)
http://religion-cults.com/childjesus/prague.htm

Article with picture of cardinal carrying the statue
http://www.medjugorjecenter.org/prague/page2.htm

Article with several pictures and history of the statue
http://karmel.at/prag-jesu/english/eng/jezuleen.htm

Article with pictures showing nuns changing the clothes of the statue
http://karmel.at/prag-jesu/english/eng/saticken.htm

Article with pictures showing details of the crown and some of the clothes
http://karmel.at/prag-jesu/english/eng/muzejen.htm

History of the Infant Jesus of Prague
http://www.cwo.com/~pentrack/catholic/infhist.html

Statues With Gold Crowns
(Some Wearing Expensive Clothing)

This article has four pictures of statues wearing gold crowns. Three of them are wearing expensive and elaborate clothing. It also has pictures of two processions with statues. One of them is the candlelight procession in Fatima, Portugal with multitudes of people.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/baruch.htm

Pictures of ceremony for crowning a statue by 5th grade class of a Catholic school
http://www.stfrancisvernon.org/Crowning5th.htm

Processions With Statues

Millions in Mexico Gather for Marian Feast (2½ million people, October 1999)
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewrec.cfm?RefNum=11317

Our Lady of Guadalupe (8 million people in Mexico City, December 2001)
http://www.e3mil.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=930

Pictures of American Hispanics having local processions for Our Lady of Guadalupe
http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu/archive/studentwork/colony/reed/procession.htm
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/december14/PARADE.HTM

 

Overview of Recent Canon Law

Has Roman Catholicism Changed? An Overview of Recent Canon Law
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/rcchanged.html

 

Required Fasting

According to Canon Law, Catholics are still required to abstain from eating meat every Friday.
http://www.catholic-pages.com/life/fridaymeat.asp

American Bishops met to discuss whether or not to require Catholics to abstain from eating meat on all Fridays (1997)
http://www.trosch.org/for/the/abs-main.htm

Rules about eating meat on "meatless days" if Catholics have dinner with non-Catholics
http://www.cmri.org/adsum02-1a.html

Eating fish on Fridays
http://www.cin.org/users/james/questions/q034.htm

Days when fasting is required and what Catholics are allowed to eat on those days
http://www.traditio.com/cal.htm