What do Catholics believe in?

Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There are Scripture references to all of it.

Calling a priest is a very good idea as well.

Michie said:

Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There are Scripture references to all of it.

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Exactly

manOman said:

What are the principles of Catholic teaching that are from the Bible?

Thank you in advance. I am a Catholic.

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The Apostles' Creed is a good break down of the Catholic Faith. Everything in there is Biblical. It's not every doctrine or aspect of theology, but it's a good place to start.

The Apostles Creed

What an odd OP. What is the meaning of life?

AvilaSurfer said:

What an odd OP. What is the meaning of life?

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42.

Wow you read my mind.

manOman said:

What are the principles of Catholic teaching that are from the Bible?

Thank you in advance. I am a Catholic.

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I agree with those who say, look at the catechism online it is littered with biblical references.

I have to turn the question on its head? What do you consider is not biblical?

At their core all doctrines can be traced back.

The problem is less what scripture says than what does scripture mean. If you look around the forum you will find many different opinions all of which they claim have biblical defence. For us we look back both to sacred tradition (the entire faith handed down through apostolic succession, long before there was a new testament, or before any could read or afford it!) and authority (the decisions of councils and magisterium) from which we determine what it means.

Others will tell you that calling Mary "queen" or that she can intercede for us is simply non biblical. Yet we can note the bible
1/ that Jesus was hailed as a davidic king and did his best to associate with that lineage so that the jews of the time would take meaning from it (Jesus emulated Solomon riding on a donkey)
2/ we see from OT that it was a matriarchal society, the mother (not spouse) of a davidic King was called "queen" and from scripture that the Solomon "gave her a throne, bowed to her" and said he would do "whatever she asks" and so has power of intercession.
3/ since Jesus's kingdom is heaven, Mary clearly has the honorary title "queen of heaven" all biblical.
4/ We see it enacted at Cana, Jesus did what Mary asked but said "what have you to do with me now, my time has not yet come" in essence saying not yet...Now Jesus's time has truly come.

If you read books such as staples "Behold your mother" you see all the marian doctrines supported.