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- Differences in Major Religions
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Natural Family Planning
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Sacred Worship
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Sharing the Light
- Archdiocesan Finances
- Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan
- Catholic Cemeteries
- Catholic Foundation of Michigan
- Catholic Services Appeal
- Changing Lives Together
- Clergy Sexual Abuse
- John Paul II Center
- Loan Deposit Program
- Mooney Real Estate Holding Company and Parish Incorporations
- Parish Finances
- Parishioner Data Management and Privacy
- Priests' Pension Plan
- Protecting God's Children
- Stewards for Tomorrow/Archdiocese of Detroit Endowment Foundation
- St. John's Plymouth
- Synod 16
- Unleash the Gospel
- Compartiendo la Luz
Presbyterians
Major differences:
- Holy Scriptures are the only rule of faith and conduct....stress the importance of scholarship re. Scriptures
- Only two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper {Holy Communion}
- Eucharist...Jesus is spiritually present in the elements; physical elements do not change; Jesus is genuinely present there
- Justification by grace through faith
- Church is governed at all levels by a combination of clergy and laity, men and women alike
- There are no bishops but rather the office of elder...commissioned non-clergy elected by the congregation who take part in local pastoral care and decision-making at all levels
- Mary is not the mediator between man and God; she is honored as God-bearer and model for the Christian
- Deny Purgatory
- Believe in Predestination
- Women can be ordained
- Variety of positions on eschatology
They believe in:
- Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Westminster Confession
- Trinity
- Christ is truly human and fully God
- Strong commitment to missionary activity
Catechesis required:
- Ecclesiology including:
- justification by faith and good works
- church as Body of Christ
- church as community
- church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic
- hierarchical structure of the Church ... and authority in the Church
- infallibility
- Communion of Saints, Mary and the Saints
- Eucharistic theology - our understanding of
- Transubstantiation
- Real Presence
- Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
- Holy Orders and Marriage and other sacraments