We all know the Ten Commandments, or I think we do. I notice we do not have a handy copy of them on our website, but there is an excellent Scripture-based table of the Ten Commandments in the ...

After several months of work, Matthew R. Plese, writing on behalf of The Goldhead Group LTD and CatechismClass, is pleased to announce the launch of his latest book: Understanding the Precepts of the ...

Precept (Lat. praeceptum from praecipere, to command), CANONICAL, in its common acceptation, is opposed to counsel, inasmuch as the former imposes an obligation, while the latter is a persuasion.

Certain commandments of a moral and ecclesiastical nature prescribed for observance by all Catholics. Their formulation goes back to the Middle Ages, and their number has varied from four to six or ...

The precepts of the Church are not opposed to, nor are they outside of, the Commandments of God. They are within those Commandments and are intended to help keep the faithful within the Commandments.

Promoting the Precepts of the Church are the answer to the crisis of faith in the Church today. In one way this is obvious. The crisis of faith in the world — the falling Mass attendance, lack of ...

I was educated in Catholic schools most of my life, all the way up to my sophomore year in college, and had my fair share of classes in catechism, Old and New Testament, encyclicals. I even served ...