SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
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“These three parts are distinct although connected with one another.
According to a comparison often used by the Fathers, we call them articles.
Indeed, just as in our bodily members there are certain articulations which
distinguish and separate them, so too in this profession of faith, the name
“articles” has justly and rightly been given to the truths we must
believe particularly and distinctly.”6 In accordance with an
ancient tradition, already attested to by St. Ambrose, it is also customary to
reckon the articles of the Creed as twelve, thus symbolizing the fullness of
the apostolic faith by the number of the apostles.7
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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