How would you personally define roman catholic? Or just catholic? Please no rude comments, just wanting to know the general opinions for a paper I am writing.
Awesome...the oldest Christian church with a long tradition of holiness, art, and a single religious institution that has had the biggest impact on the world
It's a conflicting term.
Catholic means universal and Roman means Roman or confined to Rome.
agent ma honey, perhaps "the genius at the top" actually paid attention to Jesus Christ's clear declaration that His people are His people through regeneration and not because men say they are His people.
Are there regenerated men and women within the Catholic Church?
Yes there are.
The Catholic Church (or any church for that matter) can regenerate no one.
The regenerated man or woman does indeed know their own brothers and sisters
and no, you cannot understand.
The Catholic Church has consistently referred to itself as the ?Catholic Church? at least since 107 C.E., when the term appears in the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch
The term "Roman" Catholic is rather recent.
The new Anglican Church in England started using the term ?Roman? in the 1500s as one of many ways of demeaning and demonizing Catholics.
Catholics accepted this late coming adjective without too much protest. Today ?Catholic? and ?Roman Catholic? are interchangeable terms. Both terms are even used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
To add a little more confusion, some apply the term ?Roman Catholic Church? only to the Latin Rite Catholic Church, excluding the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same Church, under the Pope.
Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:
Alexandrian liturgical tradition
? Coptic Catholic Church
? Ethiopic Catholic Church
Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
? Maronite Church
? Syrian Catholic Church
? Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Armenian liturgical tradition:
? Armenian Catholic Church
Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
? Chaldean Catholic Church
? Syro-Malabar Church
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
? Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
? Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
? Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
? Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Kri?evci
? Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
? Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
? Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
? Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
? Melkite Greek Catholic Church
? Romanian Church
? Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
? Ruthenian Catholic Church
? Slovak Greek Catholic Church
? Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The term ?Roman? neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.
Roman is a rite within the Catholic Church. While all Catholics are in communion with Rome, not all Catholics belong to the Roman rite. See the links for more information.
A person that belongs to the Church that Jesus Christ established in 33AD would be a Catholic Christian. "Roman" Catholic means belonging to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
The genius at the top doesn't know catholics are Christians? I can understand your ignorance to the world outside of the church but you don't even know your own Gd people. shush.
Catholic church is Universal and this church is one of the oldest christian churches along with the orthodox churches are also catholic but not roman catholic, roman catholic is used because we use the Latin rite, we follow the Pope and also the Church of Rome was founded by the Apostle Peter.. also our church is universal and faithful to the catholic councils and we follow the apostolic tradition, we are a christian church and we are open to all the humans who want to serve the Lord through the Catholic Church... many protestants always critic the catholic church because it was before them.
its a man made ideology that has its foundation and roots in Roman paganism and Christianity....they refused to give up their paganism but instead joined the two beliefs into one, thus we have Catholics....and it is like most all others a simple man made cult that has deceived and lied to millions through the Years and NO they are not Real Christians , they follow and abide in man made rituals, customs, traditions and doctrines that even Jesus Himself warned them NOt to do...and still warns them today to COME OUT from among it, before its to late
Matthew 15:6 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people drawer nigh unto me with their mouth, and honorerThe with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The simple definition is Roman is a rite and Catholic is historically how we have been known. Our Official title is The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of God. You might like to learn that the name Roman is a recent invention of our name started by the Anglican Church first as to show the Difference between there Church and ours and eventually other groups picked up on it and used it as a insult.
Contrary to what others have said, "Roman" Catholic is ANY individual who has been baptized in The Catholic Church. Whatever claims others have about "Roman" being a more recent addition to our name or tries to specify whether an alleged Catholic is using the Latin Rite or not may be "technically" true on paper, but by history, if your Catholic, you're Roman Catholic, or your NOT Catholic. Look at the history of the Church and how it got situated in Rome and you'll see what I mean. Trying to delineate between one rite or another is like those who call themselves some type of hyphenated American. You're either American or you're NOT. An excellent book written back in 1906, I believe, entitled "Quo Vadis", by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a receiver of the Nobel Prize, makes a beautiful point of what I'm saying at the end when St. Peter is walking away from Rome during the terrible times of Nero and Christian persecution because he can't seem to deal with it all, and on the road he startlingly meets Jesus walking the other way, who obviously had already been crucified and died and rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. St. Peter, being somewhat shocked by who he saw, then asks Jesus "Quo Vadis, Domine?", which means "Where are You going, Lord?" And Jesus' answer was, "When you desert my people, I am going back to Rome to be crucified a second time." (page 465) Now, this is clearly a fiction book, one you may LOVE to read because it involves a wonderful early Christian romance along with all it's rich historical story, but, fiction or not, the author, Mr. Sienkiewicz won the Nobel prize for this "fiction" because of the acute reality of the meat of the story. So, in my "old" books, you're either a Roman Catholic or you're NOT a Catholic at all. Rome is where St. Peter's successor is, currently Pope Benedict XVI. God Bless you.
How would you define Roman Catholic?
