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What are the Ten Commandments?

Church teaching

Answered on video by Bishop Robert Barron

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In short: Ten lines on how to love God and love your neighbor. A map, not a cage. CCC 2067 CCC 2072

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

The Ten Commandments state what love of God and love of neighbor require: the first three concern God, the other seven our neighbor. CCC 2067

They are fundamentally unchangeable and oblige always and everywhere. CCC 2072

Our words

They aren’t a cage; they’re guardrails on a mountain road. They keep love from going off a cliff.

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How we know · 2 Catechism paragraphs
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 2067, 2072 (official text on vatican.va).

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