Roman Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole. For many the term usually refers to Christians and churches, western and eastern, in full communion with the Holy See. For others it refers to churches with historical continuity from the first millennium. In the sense of indicating historical continuity of faith and practice, the term "catholicism" is at times employed to mark a contrast to Protestantism, which tends to look solely to the Bible as interpreted on the principles of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation as its ultimate standard. It was thus used by the Oxford Movement. According to Richard McBrien, Catholicism is distinguished from other forms of Christianity in its particular understanding and commitment to tradition, the sacraments, the mediation between God, communion, and the See of Rome. According to Orthodox...

Works Written About This Topic: John Paul The Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father  My Secret History  The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage
Quotations About This Subject: The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!; Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.; It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.; She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.; To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.; Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!  A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.  All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.  Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language -- so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.; Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.;
Beliefs: Transubstantiation  Papal infallibility  Virgin Birth  Infallibility of the Church
Branched From: Judaism
Branched Into: Anglicanism  Protestantism  Lutheranism
Adherents: Catholic  Roman Catholic
Deity Or Deities: The Father  Holy Spirit  God  Jesus Christ
Founding Figures: Paul of Tarsus  Saint Peter
Holidays: Saint Patrick's Day  Palm Sunday  Maundy Thursday  Solemnity of Saint Joseph  Christmas
Includes: Cistercians  Premonstratensian  Kirishitan
Is Part Of: Christianity
Notable Figures: Blessed Virgin Mary
Organizations: Roman Catholic Church  Chavagnes International College  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco  Order of Saint Benedict  Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand  Our Lady of Guadalupe Church  Passionist
Places of worship (current): St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney  St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick  St. Mary's Cathedral, Hildesheim  St Mary's Pro-Cathedral  St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta  Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo  Cologne Cathedral  Saint Bavo Cathedral  Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
Places of worship (historical): Westminster Abbey - 1045 - 1535; Selimiye Mosque; Sint-Bavokerk - 1578; Westminster Abbey - 1553 - 1559; St. Mary's Church, Berlin; Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus; Shrine of St. Anthony; Calke Abbey;
Practices: Catholic marriage  Anointing of the Sick  Holy Orders  Eucharist  Confirmation  Sacrament of Penance  Baptism  Chrismation
Texts: New Testament  Bible  Old Testament  Book of Nehemiah
Types of places of worship: Church  Chapel  Cathedral  Basilica  Titulus
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