Where are Catholic Teachings in the Bible?

Catholics take the Bible very seriously. Everything we teach has foundation in the Bible. Here are answers to some of the most common questions about our teachings.

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[samuelchoo]

I’m a Protestant here in Singapore, but I love your videos. I have always felt that, from both sides, many of us don’t read our bible enough and hence, it leads to a miscommunication from both sides when talking about doctrines. The way you articulate your sentences brings so much more clarity and light to the Catholic Church. Thank you, Fr. Casey.

[gavinvangrinsven]

Please pray for my vocation whether it be marriage, religious life, or priesthood

[bruhhmomentumm]

One thing I learned from investing more time into reading the Bible is that a lot of what is said in mass is straight out of the Bible. It goes to show how beautifully intertwined our tradition is with scripture.

[GB]

Non-denominational Bible study put me right back into the Catholic Church after 45 years. Mass and communion every week.

[tabeykat]

I am not catholic but have found this particular video interesting and enlightening. It has answered many questions I have had.
My nephew recently converted to Catholicism and I want to understand so I can have conversations with him. What I have found is the teachings of my church and of the Catholic Church differ very little.

Thank you for the wonderful videos

[alandoughty]

I absolutely love this channel and I'm a protestant ! Thank you Fr. Casey for doing this, the Catholic faith and its traditions are so beautiful and reverent, something that sadly, is lacking in protestant circles, God bless you Fr. Casey !

[GratiaPrima_]

“Read your Bibles, it will make you more Catholic.” 🙋‍♀️Yessir, that’s what happened to me. I was very encouraged as a Baptist to study the Bible. And I love doing so. When I met my Catholic husband and for the first time studied what is really taught, I had to become Catholic. I saw nothing unbiblical and recognized beautiful truths and how they’re beautifully protected and taught.

[УрошКалиниченко]

Exactly. So many protrstants say we resacrifice Christ, no, it is that same sacrifice he made in Calvary. God transcends all time, and so his sacrifice is all bounding, and we partake in his flesh and blood OF that sacrifice.

Addition: I also hear many Roman rite Catholics don't believe in it being the body and the blood, and that makes me sad, we need to reinforce this doctrine in the church, and make it known more and more, that it is not a symbol, it is the literal body and blood of our Lord.

[flordelizaguzzan]

Thank you Father Casey. With your teachings, the average Catholics who are watching your program no doubt, have learnt a lot about our faith. You are a blessing to us, sinners. Please include us in your prayer.

[christianmark]

Fr. Casey✨ God bless you.
Please pray for me, I aspire to be a Priest.

[psmamere]

Oh My Lord, where have you been on Breaking the Habit. I love this site. You are a gift from Our Heavenly Father and His Son
Dearest Father Casey, you are an Angel in a world of craziness, in our Roman Catholic faith.
I was raised by Franciscans and it is such a joy, to hear true Catholicism. I am your student revived in Christ Jesus, and etc.

[jonahkane]

I love how you’re doing more apologetics videos God bless you father

[corylittrell]

Thank you! I am in the process of converting to Catholicism and I have studied the Bible. I grew up in a Fundamental Baptist Church and I started studying the Bible and much of what I saw didn't line up with what the Baptist Church teaches such as Once-Saved-Always-Saved or that Baptism is symbolic or the Rapture the list goes on. But a major weakness the Catholic Church does seem to have is that catechesis doesn't seem to be as great as it used to be, many who convert in adulthood seem to understand the faith better than many who were born and raised in it.

[adastra]

Brilliant as usual. I think we Catholics were discouraged from reading the bible because we would misinterpret it. Given that the early church founders had the most scholarly people who knew all the nuances of tradition and cultures from the time of Jesus and going way back before. These scholars put the whole bible together assuming there was knowledge of the nuances.
If we read the bible without the nuances and subtleties taken into account we move with an accumulated error diverging away from what the original writings were.

We Catholics need to be guided and tutored into how to read and interpret the bible. Otherwise we just become like Martin Luther.

I go online to official Catholic authorities to find out how to interpret our faith.

This channel is brilliant for that.

[jack_skeean]

This is one of the best and most concise apologetic overviews of these teachings that I've found so far! Great work, Fr. Casey! Although it might be a little tough to justify purgatory to a Protestant using 2nd Maccabees, since they don't believe it is canonical. Personally, I tend to use 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 to talk about that teaching. Thanks for the work you're doing!

[pastorykyamanywa]

Thank you Fr.Casey, Pray for me one day I become a friar like you to save Jesus through his church..The Catholic Church

[mr.e]

You make an excellent point at the end of the video. My wife belongs to a non-denominational church. I've been Catholic my whole life. I've never seen so many people reading their bibles until I met her. Her and her friends all have bibles that are all very well worn. Whereas I don't recall anyone growing up in my Catholic family that read the bible on a regular basis. She got me into reading the Bible on a regular basis. Interestingly enough, the more I read it, the more I realize it points directly to Catholicism. Yet paradoxically, the non-denominational people that do read the bible regularly make me wonder if they actually understand what they are reading because I feel that if they did, they'd be Catholic.

[karenlacy]

Thank you Father! This came at a perfect time as I have been recently attacked because of my faith in the Catholic church and surprisingly these were all the questions/arguments that we were discussing! Admittedly, even though I have gone to Catholic School, I am not fully versed and don't know everything in the bible, but that doesn't mean that my faith in God and my love for him is any less. With you pointing out all these wonderful passages, I feel that I have been given an invaluable gift and know how exactly I should respond to them.

[philipgligorov]

Amaizing video. It's always a pleasure to listen to you. Greetings from far away, from Macedonia!

[darlameeks]

Actually, Paul's teaching that we Protestants often pull out of context is from Ephesians 2:8 *For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast. However, they need to go to verse 10, which says: For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.* So, grace is a free gift that we receive simply because we ask for it, but that grace inevitably empowers and motivates us to walk in the good works that God has prepared for each unique individual, and the Church as a Body, to do. So, a true recipient of the free gift of God's grace (available only because of the finished work of Christ on the cross) will naturally do good works. He or she won't be able to help it.