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A Catholic is a person who follows [[Catholicism]].  Catholics follow the [[Pope]], who is the Bishop of Rome and traditionally lives in the [[Vatican]].
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The term '''Catholic''' has a number of related meanings:
The Roman Catholic church was founded by Petrus by direct order from Jesus. It is therefore the first institutional church on earth. [[Protestant|Protestants]] split away from this church, claiming it had moved away from Biblical teachings, and became too focussed with worldly power.
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# originally it comes from a Greek word meaning universal - and thus, referred to the church as a whole, as opposed to a particular local church. This is the sense in which it is used in the historic creeds ("one holy, catholic and apostolic church") - and in this sense Protestants and Eastern Orthodox consider themselves to be part of the catholic church
 
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# the term has evolved, however, to refer to the [[Roman Catholic Church]] specifically. It also refers to the [[Catholic Church#Different churches|Eastern Catholic]] churches, which form part of the Roman Catholic Church, yet follow Eastern rather than Roman traditions in liturgy and other matters
The word "catholic" means "universal" and the term catholic can be used to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one universal Church. The term is used with this meaning in the [[Nicene Creed]] ("one holy catholic and apostolic church") and Apostle's Creeds ("holy catholic church" ).
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# it can also be used to refer to [[Independent Catholic churches|splinter groups]] which have broken away from the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. It is used in particular to refer to those groups which while breaking away maintain much of the Roman Catholic church's traditions - as opposed to [[Protestant]] churches, which rejected much of the Roman Catholic Church's position when they split from it
 
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# it also refers to a tendency in [[Anglicanism]] ([[Anglo-Catholicism]]), which sees the Anglican church as nearer to the Roman Catholic Church than to Protestantism, and thus adopts many of the Roman Catholic church's tradition. A similar tendency also exists in the [[Lutheran]] churches.
Someone with catholic tastes is said to embrace a variety of influences.
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Revision as of 15:45, January 23, 2017

The term Catholic has a number of related meanings:

  1. originally it comes from a Greek word meaning universal - and thus, referred to the church as a whole, as opposed to a particular local church. This is the sense in which it is used in the historic creeds ("one holy, catholic and apostolic church") - and in this sense Protestants and Eastern Orthodox consider themselves to be part of the catholic church
  2. the term has evolved, however, to refer to the Roman Catholic Church specifically. It also refers to the Eastern Catholic churches, which form part of the Roman Catholic Church, yet follow Eastern rather than Roman traditions in liturgy and other matters
  3. it can also be used to refer to splinter groups which have broken away from the Roman Catholic Church. It is used in particular to refer to those groups which while breaking away maintain much of the Roman Catholic church's traditions - as opposed to Protestant churches, which rejected much of the Roman Catholic Church's position when they split from it
  4. it also refers to a tendency in Anglicanism (Anglo-Catholicism), which sees the Anglican church as nearer to the Roman Catholic Church than to Protestantism, and thus adopts many of the Roman Catholic church's tradition. A similar tendency also exists in the Lutheran churches.