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Scripture

The Bible is a library in itself: seventy-three books, written over a thousand years. These pages explain how the Church reads it and why.

  1. How Catholics Read the Bible God is the Bible's author and so are its human writers. How the Church reads Scripture: in the Spirit, as one whole, in its literal and spiritual senses.
  2. The Canon of Scripture Why the Catholic Bible has 73 books, how the Church came to recognise them, and why some Bibles have fewer, explained fairly.
  3. Scripture and Tradition One word of God, handed on in two ways: what Catholics mean by Tradition, what the Magisterium is for, and how this compares with Scripture alone.

Awaiting review The articles in this library are awaiting review by a priest. Until then, read them alongside the Catechism paragraphs they cite, and take questions to your parish.

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A library for deepening the Catholic faith, named for St Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), who used the web to show people the Eucharist.

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The illustrations in The Mass are those of the book it is set from, Rahasia Indah Dibalik Misa.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Kompendium Katekismus Gereja Katolik © 2009 Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia and Penerbit Kanisius, translated by Harry Susanto, SJ.

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