Fides et Mores

Faith & Morals

The Catholic faith is lived through sacramental grace, moral conversion, and obedience to God’s law. These pages summarize the Church’s precepts and requirements, the seven sacraments, the seven capital sins, and the Ten Commandments, foundations for examination of conscience and the Christian life.

Praecepta Ecclesiae

Catholic Requirements

The five precepts of the Church, holy days of obligation, fasting and abstinence, and duties of Catholics.

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Septem Sacramenta

The Seven Sacraments

Outward signs instituted by Christ, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

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Vitia Capitalia

Seven Deadly Sins

The capital sins that lead to spiritual death, and the virtues that heal them.

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Decalogus

The Ten Commandments

God’s law given to Moses, binding on every conscience and summarized in love of God and neighbor.

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