Standing up for the truth

Sometimes, it can be difficult to admit to being a Catholic. It's embarrassing.

Like going into the middle of a crowded room and telling people around you that hugging hedgehogs is your favourite hobby. They look at you with a mystified gawp and you are left shifting uneasily.

We can easily get flustered by those who would try and 'disprove religion'.

So it is useful just to know what exactly lies at the heart of our belief, some tools to have 'at the ready' for those kinds of situations. There are many conflicting voices that want our attention. Catholics owe it to themselves to have a 'statement of intent', to show that our faith actually means something to us and is ot just a set of archaic regulations. What then is it we believe, in a nutshell?