Basic Catholic Beliefs
Tentative Outline and Reading Schedule
You need to read these assignments by the due date for practice quizzes (which is listed in our class
calendar). The quizzes are designed to help you focus upon these reading assignments.
1. Creed and Belief
a. On God
i. One God (Lecture 1 – practice quiz 1)
1. Readings: Exodus 1-3, CCC 199-221 (focus: 199,200, 204-205, 211, 213,
215, 221)
ii. Three Persons, the Holy Trinity (Lecture 2 – practice quiz 2)
1. Readings: CCC 232-256 (focus: 234, 239, 242, 245, 251, 253-255)
b. On Creation and Revelation
i. Creation (Lecture 3)
1. Work of the Trinity
a. Readings: CCC 257-260, 290-292 (focus: 257, 292)
2. Why?
a. Readings: 293-294
3. How?
a. Readings: CCC 295-298 (focus: 295, 296)
4. Heavens and earth
a. Readings: Genesis 1, CCC 279-280, 283-284, 325-349 (focus:
280, 283-4, 326, 331, 334, 336, 337)
5. Man and woman, and beatitude.
a. Readings: Genesis 2, CCC 355-379. (focus: 356, 360, 364, 366,
369, 372-373, 374)
ii. Revelation (Lecture 4)
1. What?
a. Readings: CCC 50-67 (focus: 50, 53, 56-57, 59, 62-64, 65)
2. Scripture and Tradition
a. Readings: CCC 74-83, 101-133 (focus: 74, 76, 77, 81)
3. Magisterium
a. Readings: CCC 84-95 (focus: 84, 85, 88-90, 95)
c. On Salvation
i. Fall (Lecture 5)
1. Readings: Genesis 3, CCC 385-412 (focus: 385, 390, 391, 393, 396, 397,
399-401, 402, 404-405, 410, 412)
ii. Christology and Soteriology
1. Sending of the Son (Lecture 6)
a. Readings: CCC 422
2. Titles of Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Lord (Lecture 6)
a. Readings: CCC 430, 438, 442-445, 448, 450
3. Incarnation, one person in two natures in the womb of a woman
(Lecture 7 and 8)
a. Readings: CCC 456 – 457, 460, 461, 464, 469, 470, 472 – 475,
477-478, 484-485, 522, 525
4. Life and works, proclamation of the Kingdom: early life, miracles,
disciplines, apostles, healing (Lectures 9 and 10)
a. Readings: Luke 1, CCC 512, 515, 516-518, 527-530, 531-534,
536, 540, 541, 543-556
5. Suffering and death (Lecture 11)
a. Readings: Mt 26 – 27, Jn, Is 53, CCC 557-560, 571-572, 601, 606,
610, 612, 615, 624, 632, 633.
6. Resurrection (Lecture 12)
a. Readings: Mt 28, Jn 18- 19; CCC 638, 640, 641, 645, 651 – 655.
7. Ascension (Lecture 13)
a. Readings: Acts 1; CCC 659 – 664.
iii. Mariology (Lecture 14
1. Immaculately conceived
a. Readings: CCC 487-488, 490-491
b. New Eve: CCC 411
2. Fiat
a. Readings: CCC 494
3. Virginal birth and Theotokos
a. Readings: CCC 495-498
4. Perpetual Virgin (Lecture 15)
a. Readings: CCC 499-500
5. Assumed body and soul into heaven
a. Readings: CCC 966
6. Queen of Heaven
7. Mother of the Church
a. Readings: CCC 963, 968, 970, 971
iv. Ecclesiology (The Nature of the Church – Lecture 15)
1. Founded by God, Instituted by Christ Jesus
a. Readings: Exodus 19, 1 Cor 11: 17-22, 1 Cor 1: 1 – 2, 1 Cor 15:9,
CCC 751, 752, 759, 760 – 763, 765-766.
2. Purpose of Church: Glorify God and bring humanity to God and his glory.
a. Readings: 772 – 773
3. Church as Visible and Invisible, with the key characteristics of being
“One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic” (Lecture 16)
a. Readings: 771, 787-789, 790, 796, 797
b. “One” readings: 813, 816, 817 – 819
c. “Holy” readings: 823, 827
d. “Catholic” readings: 830-831, 836 – 844, 846
e. “Apostolic” readings: 857, 858, 861-862, 863
4. Body of Christ: Parts of the Church (Lecture 17)
a. Hierarchy (CCC 871-896)
b. Laity (CCC 897-913)
c. Consecrated Life (CCC 914-933)
d. On the Last Things and Eternal Life (Lecture 18)
i. Death (1005-1014, 1020-1022)
ii. Second Coming (668-679, 997-1004, 1038-1041)
iii. Heaven (CCC 1023-1029, 1042 - 1050)
iv. Hell (CCC 1033-1037)
v. Purgatory (CCC 1030 – 1032)
2. Liturgy: Public Worship
a. Economy of Salvation and Public Worship (Lecture 19)
i. Liturgy (CCC 1066 – 1068, 1069, 1073, 1076, 1077, 1084, 1086, 1090, 1091 –
1092, 1104)
ii. Paschal Mystery (CCC 1085, 1114 – 1116)
iii. Sacramental economy (1127 – 1130)
b. Seven Sacraments
i. Initiation (Lecture 20) (CCC 1212)
1. Baptism (Lecture 20)
a. Scripture Gn 17: 1 – 22; John 3: 1 – 30; Acts 2: 14 – 42; Acts 16:
11 – 15; 1 Cor 10-17; Mk 16: 14 - 18.
b. CCC 1213, 1218 – 1222, 1223, 12251226 – 1228, 1246 -1255,
1256, 1257 – 1274.
2. Confirmation (Lecture 21)
a. Scripture Acts 8: 14 – 23; Romans 8
b. CCC 1285 - 1314
3. Eucharist (22)
a. Scripture Gn 14: 17-24; John 6; Mt 26: 14- 29; Lk 24: 13 – 35; 1
Cor 11: 17 – 33
b. CCC 1322 – 1327, 1330, 1333- 1344, 1345, 1356 – 1405.
ii. Healing
1. Reconciliation (23)
a. Gn 37, 39 – 45 (the story of Joseph), Ps 32, Ps 51, Mt 16 13 – 20,
Mk 2: 1 – 12, Lk 15
b. CCC 1423, 1430 – 1433, 1434 – 1436, 1441, 1443, 1444- 1445,
1451 – 1460, 1461 – 1467, 1468 - 1470
2. Sick (24)
a. Jas 5:14 – 16, Is 53, Mk 3: 1 – 6, Mk 5: 21 – 43, Mk 6: 53 – 56,
Mk 7: 31 – 37, Mk 8: 22 – 25, Mk 9: 14 – 29, Mk 16: 14 – 18,
Acts 3: 1 – 9, Acts 9: 32 – 35 (there are many other healings of
the sick as well, the main point is to highlight its frequency).
b. CCC 1499 – 1512, 1514 – 1516, 1519, 1520 - 1524
iii. Communion
1. Marriage (25)
a. Gn 1: 26 – 28, Gn 2: 8 – 24, Jn 2: 1 – 11, Mk 10: 1 – 16, Rom 7: 1
– 6, 1 Cor 7: 1 – 16.
b. CCC 1601 – 1617, 1621, 622, 1626 – 1627, 1638, 1641 – 1642,
1644, 1646 – 1650, 1652 – 1654, 1655 – 1656.
2. Sacred Orders (26)
a. Ps 110, Gn 14: 17 - 20, Hebrews 4: 14 – 7: 28, Jn 21: 15 – 18, 1
Peter 5: 1 – 11, Acts 6: 1 – 7, Acts 13: 1 – 3.
b. CCC 1536, 1538, 1539, 1544, 1548 – 1551, 1555 - 1556, 1562,
2566, 1569 – 1570, 1575 – 1576, 1577 – 1578, 1585 – 1588.
3. Life in Christ: Moral Life (Lecture 27)
a. Gn 19 and 20.
b. CCC 1701, 1716, 1718 – 1719, 1731, 1749 – 1756, 1776 – 1777, 1783, 1803, 1810 –
1811, 1813, 1850, 1851, 1855, 1857, 1858, 1878, 1949, 1997, 2006 – 2009, 2052, 2056,
2067.
4. Prayer (Lecture 28)
a. Gen 2:1-3; 3: 9-12; 4:26; 12:6- 8; 13:18, 18: 20-32; 20:17; 21:33; 22:8; 26:23-25, 28:1822, 32: 24-30; Exod 20:2-11; 23:14-17; 25:8; 32: 30-32, Num 27: 1-5; Deut. 6:4; 12:5-7,
Lev 23, Jer 15:1, Jonah 2:1-9, 1 Kgs 19:4, Hab 3: 1-19, Isa 1:15; 29:13; 55:6; 58:9, Psalm
1; 22; 51; 56; 67; 71; 88; 146; 150, Matt 6: 5 – 15; 7:21; 14:23; 26: 36 - 44, Mark 1:35;
6:46; 11:1, Luke 3:21; 5:16; 9:28; 11:1; 18: 9 – 14; 22:41-45; 23: 46, John 14:13; 17:1-26,
Heb. 5:7; 7:25, 1 Thess 5:17, Jas 5:16, 1 Pet 3:7, 12, Rom 8:15 – 16; Gal 4:6.
b. CCC 2559, 2566, 2568, 2570-73, 2574-6, 2578-80, 2583-4, 2587-8, 2599, 2607-14,2617,
2623, 2626, 2628, 2629, 2634, 2637, 2639, 2650, 2665, 2670, 2673, 2685-2687, 2691,
2701, 2705, 2709, 2726 -8, 2729-33, 2734, 2738, 2759, 2767, 2779, 2783-2784, 2787,
2794, 2803-5, 2807, 2818, 2822, 2828, 2833, 2835, 2839-40, 2844, 2846, 2850-1, 2855.