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Roman Catholic dogma
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. Gospel of Matthew 16,19
In the Roman Catholic Church, a
dogma is an article of faith revealed by God, which the magisterium of the
Church presents to be believed. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the
basic truth from which salvation and life is derived for Christians. Dogmata
regulate the language, how the truth of the resurrection is to be believed and
communicated. One dogma is only a small particle of the living Christian faith,
from which it derives its meaning.Roman Catholic Dogma is thus: "a
truth revealed by God, which the magisterium of the Church declared as
binding." The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
"The Church's Magisterium exercises
the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines
dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to
an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revelation or
also when it proposes, in a definitive way, truths having a necessary
connection with these."
The faithful are required to
accept with the divine and Catholic faith all which the Church presents either
as solemn decision or as general teaching. Yet not all teachings are dogma. The
faithful are only required to accept those teachings as dogma, if the Church
clearly and specifically identifies them as infallible dogmata.
Not all theological truths are
dogmata. The Bible contains many sacred truths, which the faithful recognize
and agree with, but which the Church has not defined as dogma. Most Church
teachings are not dogma. Cardinal Avery Dulles pointed out that in the 800
pages of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, there is not one new
statement for which infallibility is claimed.
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