The rational preamble to Faith — Revelation's possibility, the motives of credibility, the testimony of Christ, and the nature and grounds of Faith itself. Drawn from Walshe's Principles of Catholic Apologetics and Wilhelm-Scannell's Manual, Vol. I.
God's existence and attributes — the proofs from reason, divine simplicity, perfection, and unity.
One God in three Persons — processions, relations, and missions.
God as Creator; the angels; man's body and soul; original justice and original sin.
The Person of Christ — the Incarnation, hypostatic union, two natures.
The work of Christ — redemption, satisfaction, merit.
Divine motherhood, perpetual virginity, Immaculate Conception, Assumption.
Actual grace, sanctifying grace, justification, and merit — the supernatural life of the soul.
The general theology of the sacraments — matter, form, causality, effects — followed by Baptism and Confirmation.
The Real Presence, transubstantiation, and the Mass as the perpetual re-presentation of the Sacrifice of the Cross.
Contrition, confession, satisfaction, and the power of the keys.
Extreme Unction for the sick and dying, Holy Orders for the Church's ministers, and Matrimony for the Christian family.
Conscience, law, sin, the virtues and vices, the Decalogue.
The Church — her nature, marks, authority, infallibility, and the papal primacy.
Death, judgement, heaven, hell, purgatory, the resurrection of the body.
The purgative, illuminative, and unitive ways; prayer; perfection.