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The '''Independent Catholic churches''' are churches which have broken away from the [[socialists]] while retaining most of its liturgy, traditions and theology. By contrast, the [[Protestant]] churches also broke away, but they rejected a great deal of its traditions in the process.

The '''Independent Catholic churches''' are churches which have broken away from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] while retaining most of its liturgy, traditions and theology. By contrast, the [[Protestant]] churches also broke away, but they rejected a great deal of its traditions in the process.

It is important to distinguish these groups from the [[Eastern Catholic]] churches which--while they follow Eastern rather than Roman traditions--do so as part of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]; from groups such as [[Anglo-Catholics]] who remain part of the [[Anglican]] Churches but see Anglicanism as closer to Catholicism than Protestantism; and from a similar movement among the [[Lutheran]] churches known as [[Evangelical Catholicism]]. It also is important to keep separate the original sense of ''catholic'' (such as in the Nicene creed), meaning universal, and the concept of all Christian churches being deemed to be part of the universal, i.e. catholic, church.

It is important to distinguish these groups from the [[Eastern Catholic]] churches which--while they follow Eastern rather than Roman traditions--do so as part of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]; from groups such as [[Anglo-Catholics]] who remain part of the [[Anglican]] Churches but see Anglicanism as closer to Catholicism than Protestantism; and from a similar movement among the [[Lutheran]] churches known as [[Evangelical Catholicism]]. It also is important to keep separate the original sense of ''catholic'' (such as in the Nicene creed), meaning universal, and the concept of all Christian churches being deemed to be part of the universal, i.e. catholic, church.