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Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
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Acerone
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Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
JFK was a Roman Catholic. Is Catholic the same?
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Posted 11/4/08 9:55 PM  |
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
yes 
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| Posted 11/4/08 9:57 PM |
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LoriH
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
Depends on who you ask. The quick answer is yes. However, many use the term catholic to describe followers of Christianity and not just the Roman Catholic Church.
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| Posted 11/4/08 9:59 PM |
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-Laurie-
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
This is what I learned attending St. Anthony's. And since then I always put Roman Catholic
No, it is not. The word 'catholic' actually means universal. There are several kinds of Catholic - Byzantine Catholics, Roman Catholics, and Anglo-Catholics, to name a few. These other groups rarely disagree with the Roman Catholic Church on matters of teaching - the doctrine is near-identical to ours - but on matters of leadership. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church (known as the Pontiff or the Pope) is based in Rome, as the name of our church suggests. Some Catholic churches reject his authority. Hence they are not Roman Catholics.
That said, it should be noted that when most people use the term 'Catholic' they use it to mean the Roman Catholic Church. Few people are familiar with the distinctions within wider Catholicism
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| Posted 11/4/08 10:00 PM |
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Sassyz75
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
Posted by Acerone
JFK was a Roman Catholic. Is Catholic the same?
Yes and now.
most people use both- roman catholic and catholic.
However, there are a few Eastern Catholic Churches that are in full communion with Rome but still preserve their own traditions.... so that's why there is a difference between Roman Catholic and EAstern Catholic
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The term Eastern Catholic Churches refers to 22 of the 23 autonomous particular Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome. (Every diocese is a particular Church, but not an autonomous one in the sense in which the word is applied to these 22 Churches.) They follow different Eastern Christian liturgical traditions: Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, Byzantine and Chaldean.[5] Canonically, each Eastern Catholic Church is sui iuris or autonomous with respect to other Catholic Churches, whether Eastern or Latin, though all accept the spiritual and juridical authority of the Pope. Thus a Maronite Catholic is normally subject only to a Maronite bishop, not, for example to a Ukrainian or Latin Catholic bishop. However, if in a country the members of some particular Church are so few that no hierarchy of their own has been established there, their spiritual care is entrusted to a bishop of another ritual Church. This holds also for Latin Catholics: in Eritrea, they are placed in the care of bishops of the Ethiopic Catholic Church. Theologically, all the particular Churches can be viewed as "sister Churches".[6] According to the Second Vatican Council these Eastern Churches, along with the larger Latin Church share "equal dignity, so that none of them is superior to the others as regards rite and they enjoy the same rights and are under the same obligations, also in respect of preaching the Gospel to the whole world (cf. Mark 16:15) under the guidance of the Roman Pontiff."[7]
The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority of the See of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, traditional devotions and have their own theological emphases. Terminology may vary: for instance, diocese and eparchy, vicar general and protosyncellus, confirmation and chrismation are respectively Western and Eastern terms for the same realities. The mysteries (sacraments) of baptism and chrismation are generally administered, according to the ancient tradition of the Church, one immediately after the other. Infants who are baptized and chrismated are also given the Eucharist.[8]
The Eastern Catholic Churches are represented in the Holy See and the Roman Curia through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which, as indicated on the Vatican website, "is made up of a Cardinal Prefect (who directs and represents it with the help of a Secretary) and 27 Cardinals, one Archbishop and 4 Bishops, designated by the Pope ad qui[n]quennium. Members by right are the Patriarchs and the Major Archbishops of the Oriental Churches and the President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity among Christians."[9]
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| Posted 11/4/08 10:08 PM |
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Deedlebugs
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
Posted by -Laurie-
This is what I learned attending St. Anthony's. And since then I always put Roman Catholic
No, it is not. The word 'catholic' actually means universal. There are several kinds of Catholic - Byzantine Catholics, Roman Catholics, and Anglo-Catholics, to name a few. These other groups rarely disagree with the Roman Catholic Church on matters of teaching - the doctrine is near-identical to ours - but on matters of leadership. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church (known as the Pontiff or the Pope) is based in Rome, as the name of our church suggests. Some Catholic churches reject his authority. Hence they are not Roman Catholics.
That said, it should be noted that when most people use the term 'Catholic' they use it to mean the Roman Catholic Church. Few people are familiar with the distinctions within wider Catholicism
correct, I am Byzantine Catholic
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| Posted 11/4/08 10:09 PM |
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Acerone
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Chris
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Re: Catholic and Roman Catholic... Are these two religions the same?
Thanks -Laurie- and Sassyz75...
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| Posted 11/5/08 9:46 AM |
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