Hello and welcome again to Cathayans for's focus. I'm Cy Kellett your host and we welcome

back our chaplain, Father Hugh Barber.

It's delighted to see you again, Father.

Thanks to you.

For this episode of focus in which we're going to discuss Catholic doctrine.

And it's where it can change, it can't change or where it might develop

and where it can't develop. So maybe we could start with when we're

talking when we say doctrine what do we mean?

What is that?

What's the doctrine of the church?

And then we can talk about what can happen to that.

Well, the word doctrine comes from the Latin word

no chere, which means to teach.

Okay.

And so a doctrine is something that you have learned from another.

There are certain truths which can be learned by experience and there are certain truths that can be learned from another by way of teaching to basic ways of coming to know something.

Now, the church places such an emphasis on

doctrine that is knowledge by way of teaching because the things that she

teaches, the principal things that she teaches, the most fundamental ones,

are truths which we could not come to know by our experience,

but rather we have to be taught by God, right, through a gift, and that

gift we sometimes call gift of faith. And as God has to enlighten our mind and give us the

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