Is Roman Catholicism a cult? How does one identify a cult?

Is Roman Catholicism a cult? How does one identify a cult?

Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: \kilt\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French cult, from Latin cult us care, adoration, from col ere to cultivate ? more at wheel
Date: 1617

1 : formal religious veneration : worship
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : the object of such devotion c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Sounds like it is one according to Merriam-webster

Cults are typically groups that operate under secrecy. And we don't even hear about them until they cause someone in the cult to totally flip out.

All religions are cults, but dangerous cults are those that don't allow the members to associate with relatives that are not part of the cult, and expect members to do anything the leader says regardless.

Roman Catholicism is the church founded by the Apostles themselves. They are not a cult. They are the original Christians.

http://whyiamacatholic.com/SSPX/ChurchCult.htm

A cult is just a young religion.

Nope but the messianic Jews are.

ANY 'religion' that Rejects The Holy Deity of Jesus Christ and the Fact He IS God, IS a Cult! Period.

this is how it works...

my religion is the only true religion
all other religions are cults

Roman Catholism is the Cult Of Mary.The bible does not permit bowing to anyone but the father yet Catholics do this in church all the time.Roman Catholics are consumed with the blessed virgin Mary while Jesus is ignored.Matt-6:9-13 says Jesus taught us how to pray then recited the Lords Prayer.Matt-6 says but when you pray to me,use not vain repetitions,as the heathens do,but in a RC worship service all you hear is Mary,Mary,Mary,the bible teaches that only the name of Jesus should be exalted,for there is no salvation in any other name.The RC teach that those who persevere in the recitation of the rosary will receive some special grace,there is absolutely nothing in the bible teaching such foolishness.God condemns such practices.The rosary is not biblical but an idea stolen from Paganism.