The Catholic faith is the body of belief held by Catholics. It has been revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who leaves it for us as our means of salvation.

Speaking to his Father in the power of the Holy Spirit just before he died on the Cross, Christ exclaimed, “Father, ... this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17,3). Such knowledge is the purpose of every Catholic’s existence. It is left to the Church as the deposit of faith, consisting of everything taught to the apostles by Our Lord and passed on by the same apostles. Built on the foundation stones of Saint Peter and the apostles, with Christ as the cornerstone, and commanded by Our Lord to, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28,19), the Church has a divine mandate to pass the faith on, to catechise, in a way that is faithful to the Tradition established by Christ and guaranteed by the Magisterium of the Church to be true.