Catechism Paragraph 169
Part 1:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
Section 1: I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE
Chapter 3: MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
Article 2: WE BELIEVE
Section 1: I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE
Chapter 3: MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
Article 2: WE BELIEVE
Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation."[55] Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith.
š Footnotes
[55]
Faustus of Riez, De Spiritu Sancto 1, 2: PL 62, II.