how did catholicism started?????
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I think this question should be in religion, don't you?\nIt started with the catholic faith.
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Christianity started first and was wiped out by Christiandom (Catholicism) . . . which forced all Christians to follow them . . . or face torture and death.\n\nExample . . . the inquistion . . . the crusades.
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Catholics are merley one of the many christian denominations.  actually the first one. And with the Orthodox church the only ones for 1500 years.
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I'm 14 too and Catholic. I love my faith!\n\nhere are two really cool websites that will give you lots of information and answers. I find them addicting. The biblechristian one has FREE downloadable audio talks in mp3 format. It gives answers to many objections to the Catholic faith. I recommend listening to "Apologetics for the Scripturally Challenged" and "Introduction to Apologetics" first. Read the Bible and your Catechism. If you don't have a catechism, there's an online one. That last website is the online one.\n\nhttp://catholic.com\n\nhttp://biblechristiansociety.com\n\nhttp://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/\n\nGood Luck and God Bless you!
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I am a Catholic.  Catholicism is the oldest Christian religion.  All other Christian religions came from Catholicism.  We do not worship statues and rosaries or even the Virgin Mary.  We worship God alone.  God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  3 persons in one God.  Just as 3 leaves make up one clover.  We ask Mary and other saints for intersession to Jesus.  It's no different than you asking someone to pray for you before a test or surgery.  We venerate certain statues or crucifixes.  This is not worship.  It is a sign of respect to the actual person or act that is being depicted.  Please do not think we worship anyone other than God Almighty Himself.
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the catholic church had lots of land, land=wealth \nthey had large churches and powerful people that contolled them, the popes even led armies into war. but, mostly it's because they have large areas of land, and the church controlled many territoies.
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Seriously, I had a friend who was in seminary school, and one day he was visiting with me and our buddies when we ordered out for some Pizza and beer.  It started as a joke, but being all Catholics at the time, we simulated Communion using the Pizza as the host and the beer as the blood.  Just as we started out, a weird feeling came over us all, and the joke stopped and we performed the communion together taking it very seriously.  \n\nI will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
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There are alot of confused people in this world. Catholicism IS a Christian denomination, just as Protestant, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, etc. are.
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They church age was a mystery only hinted in the old testament.  John the Baptist began speaking of who and what was coming.  Jesus started building the foundation of it.  He gathered 12 disciples so the Hebrews could identify with him as they are broke up in 12 tribes.  His movement took off with his disciples particularly with Paul and his companions.  They grew to 23 more apostles and churches began to spring up in different places.\n\nThere groups that began to emulate the Christian movement, some died off early.  Most of them started writing over 200 books to rival ones wrote by Jesus' disciples and Paul.  Even though many of them were extremely fictional like one describing Jesus life as a child.  It had a funny story in it about Jesus at age 8 pushing a friend off a roof and killing him.  Everybody wanted to stone Jesus but he rose his little friend back to life and asked everyone, "what dead?"  Fairly stupid stories and books.  Some wrote that Jesus was married so forth, lots of fiction.\n\nIn 325ad a Roman emporer by the name of Constatine realized that his Roman people were going into these christian movements.  He gathered the christian emulating leaders like Gnostics and so forth and created a state run religion.  This religion was called the Roman church and later became Catholicism.  He then took the nearly 300 books wrote about Christ and Christianity and started making the official bible.  He started with the Talmud, old testament and then included known books wrote by the disciples of Jesus and Paul.  Also those Paul recognized.  The rest he discounted as fakes so there would be no controversy on new converts.  Interestingly enough in 600ad a man named Muhammed started the Islamic religion and used many passages from Jubilees and many other books Constatine threw away.  You can read these dead sea scrolls dated around 200ad wrote by Gnostics and others and passages are identical to the Quran.\n\nThere remained the pilgrim type Christian movements.  Over centuries some died out, some changed forms.  The Catholic church became very widespread in many countries.  It hosted many spin-offs and protest groups over time.
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There was no denomination at first. There were no splits of the denominational kind until the Copts left over the nestorian question in the 6th century.\n\nHowever, the church called itself Catholic (means universal) starting in the early second century (Ignatius, in about 105 A.D.) This was a word chosen to emphasize the unity of the church, so that Christian travelers would know they were at home wherever they went.\n\nThe Orthodox and Catholic churches retain continuity with this original church. Any bishop can show his lineage of ordination all the way back to one of the apostles.
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I've attached a link as a source to help you begin your search but I think it's going to be like looking for needle in a haystack.  I can tell you (as can anyone else) that Jesus Christ began Christianity but as far as who began all the differences (Catholic vs. Protestant vs. Baptist, etc), I have no clue.  It's just different interpretations of the Bible.
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Not exactly a true statement; The Catholic church as it exists today has only existed since the eighth century or so.  It started to form with the emperor Constantine.  So therefore, we should probably all be Jews in your mind as they were here first.  The original Christians were Jews!  Read the Bible and find out.
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Christ did not start any religion.  Jesus was Jewish.  It was Saint Paul that founded the Christian Faith.  Plus, Roman Catholicism was not the first Christian Denomination.  It was Serian Orthodox that was first.  \n\nIt sounds like someone has some "issues" with Non-Catholics.
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the catholic church was around 1500 years before martin luthr was even born.  so protestants, who is kidding who????? which doctrine is really man-made??? the catholic church's essence is that of the original christianity, before someone came along and saod " i don't like x or y, so i think i'll make my own church".
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It began with the Apostles.  Until the 16th century, it was all of Christianity.  Orthodoxy isn't really a different Church, it is a schism within the Church.  It is the Church that still sings the services left to us by James, Peter and Mark.  It is the Church that selected which books would go into the New Testament.  It is the Church that first described the Trinity.  It exists because it has existed since Pentecost.  Protestantism is very new, most of its ideas are completely contradictory to the views of the early Church.  Most people on this board should read the early writers so that they have a context to place the bible in.\n\nIt exists because, when Judas died, the Apostles replaced him with Mathias, the first bishop and successor to an apostle.  Each bishop is a direct successor to someone personally chosen by Jesus.  Their role is to proclaim the word, as it was left by Jesus and proclaimed by the Apostles.  They serve the same role, the Twelve held, with one exception, they cannot create doctrine not taught in early Christianity.  Some people believe Catholicism was invented at some point after Pentecost, but that is to completely ignore the historical documents.  It ignores all of the martyrs, it ignores all of the correspondence among the first churches.  It is trying to reinvent history to justify separation.\n\nIt is as it was, it doesn't get to vote to see if you can have gay marriage, it doesn't get to vote to see if women can be clergy, it doesn't get to vote to see if Jesus is God, it doesn't get to vote on its beliefs.  It only votes to determine the best understanding of the early beliefs.  "What do we believe was revealed in the early Church?," is the only criterion.\n\nProtestantism is a protest of the corruption of the 16th century that spiraled out of control.  It went from a valid protest to a process invented in the minds of the various founders of the various Protestant groups.  Most doctrines of Protestantism cannot be found before the 16th century, or if they are found, are often tempered by other teachings so they are not so extreme.\n\nWhich of the 46,000 Protestant denominations is the correct one, or are the Catholic or Orthodox correct who still sing the first century services and keep the first century documents and who proclaim the entire bible in its service so that Christians will hear all of the bible, not just the parts a preacher wants to talk about.\n\nIt has been since Jesus left us and the Spirit came.
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catholics are christians
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catholic churches are a very good place to start. pretty much any chuch preist or preacher can point you in the right direction