Catholicism

Denomination·Founding date unrecorded·est. ~1.4 billion worldwide

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → 5 branches

Branch

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 3 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Continuity from the apostles through the bishops, with Peter's successor at the center. Go deeper — context →
Grace comes through the sacraments. Seven of them, baptism to anointing — God working through matter. Go deeper — context →
Faith and works cooperate. Salvation is grace lived out in love — precisely the point Luther pressed against. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
After death

Heaven, hell, and purgatory's purification

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