"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty..." Each week, Catholics recite the Nicene Creed in the liturgy. Why do we do this?

The first lecture of Controversies in Church History for the 2019-2020 academic year will be on the First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical (or general) council in the history of the Christian Church. In 325, the bishops assembled promulgated a creed which is the basis of the one we recite today. Critics in the past have asserted that the Council corrupted Christianity's original message, and that the council invented the canon of Scripture, among other accusations. Come learn the history of this momentous event, which for the first time bound all Christians to believe doctrines as a test of orthodoxy, on pain of excommunication from the Church.

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