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Dogmas of the Catholic Church

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Here is a good source for those interested:
  1. The Unity and Trinity of God
  2. The Existence of God
  3. The Natural Knowability of the Existence of God
  4. God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things. (De fide.)
  5. The Existence of God can be proved by means of causality. (Sent. fidei proxima.) The Supernatural Knowability of the Existence of God
  6. God's existence is not merely an object of natural rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith. (De fide.)

    The Nature of God

    The Knowledge of the Nature of God
  7. Our natural knowledge of God in this world is not as immediate, intuitive cognition, but a mediate, abstractive knowledge, because it is attained through the knowledge of creatures. (Sent. certa.)
  8. Our knowledge of God here below is not proper (cognitio propia) but analogical (cognitio analoga or analogica). (Sent. certa.)
  9. God's Nature is incomprehensible to men. (De fide.)
  10. The blessed in Heaven posses an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence. (De fide.)
  11. The Immediate Vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural. (De fide.)
  12. The soul, for the Immediate Vision of God, requires the light of glory. (De fide. D 475.)
  13. God's Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven. (De fide.)
Continued....http://jloughnan.tripod.com/dogma.htm
 
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