We believe in one God, our Lord, in the Holy Spirit, and in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

We believe the world was created and is sustained by its Maker’s love.

We believe the Church in the world of today must focus its attention on the world of humanity, the whole human family along with the sum of those realities in the midst of which that family lives.

We believe the world was emancipated by Christ when He was crucified and that as Christians our goal is to carry forward the work of Christ under the lead of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary; in fidelity to conscience, Christians are joined with the rest of humanity in the search for truth, and for the genuine solution to the numerous problems which arise in the lives of individuals.

This holds true for everyone of good will in whose heart grace works in an unseen way.

For since Christ died for all, and since the ultimate vocation of humanity is in fact one and divine, we believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every woman and man the possibility of being associated with this paschal mystery.

In Christ, the riddles of sorrow and death grow meaningful.

Apart from His gospel, they overwhelm us.

Christ has risen, destroying death by His death.

He has lavished life upon us, so that, as sons and daughters in the Son, we can cry out in the Spirit: Abba.

(from the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, Vatican II)