What are the differeneces between Catholic and Chrisitan?
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One likes to teach and have little boys learn and the other plays with little boys penises.
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Guardian Angel, what the hell are you talking about?  Catholics are Christians.  By definition Chrsitian is a follower of Christ.  DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maybe this could help . . . help from a nonbeliever . . . lol\n\nAuthority \n- Catholic: Scripture and Tradition \n- Protestant: Scripture alone\nBible \n- Catholic: Includes apocrypha \n- Protestant: Exclude apocrypha\nResult of Fall \n- Catholic: Corruption and tendency to sin \n- Protestant: Total depravity and guilt \nFree will \n- Catholic: Free to do good or evil \n- Protestant: Free only to do evil \nPredestination \n- Catholic: Related to God's foreknowledge \n- Protestant: Related to God's decrees \nAtonement \n- Catholics: Death of Christ created merit that is shared with sinners through sacraments \n- Protestant: Death of Christ was a substitutionary sacrifice that satisfied God's justice\nDivine grace \n- Catholics: Prevenient grace helps one believe; efficacious grace cooperates with the human will to do good \n- Protestant: Common grace enabling good works given to all; sufficient grace for salvation given to elect only\nGood works \n- Catholics: Meritorious \n- Protestant: Results of divine grace and unworthy of merit \nSalvation \n- Catholics: Received at baptism; may be lost by mortal sin; regained by penance. Those who have never heard of Christ may be saved. ( Catech 847 http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm#III ) \n- Protestant: Result of divine grace; unconditional. Those who have never heard of Christ may be saved. \nThe Church \n- Catholics: The Catholic Church is "the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation" ( Catech 845 http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm#III ) but those baptized in other Christian denominations are in communion with the Church ( Catech 838 http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm#III ). \n- Protestant: There is a distinction between the visible and invisible church. God saves anyone he chooses, or anyone with proper faith, regardless of church membership. \nSacraments \n- Catholics: Convey grace by their operation (ex opere operato). \n- Protestant: Means of grace only if received with faith. \nPriests - Catholics: A special vocation for some believers; mediators between God and man - Protestant: Priesthood of all believers.\nTransubstantiation \n- Catholics: Affirmed \n- Protestant: Rejected - "Real Presence" instead. \nPurgatory \n- Catholics: Affirmed \n- Protestant: Denied\nPrayer to saints \n- Catholics: Accepted \n- Protestant: Rejected
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go to\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic
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Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics separated from one another in 1054. There are very few theological differences. The main difference is that the Eastern Orthodox Churches follow the Byzantine Rite and the Roman Catholic Church follows the Roman or Latin Rite.\n\nPope John Paul II said of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in Orientale Lumen, "A particularly close link already binds us. We have almost everything in common."
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Catholicism is a religion of idol worship.  The Bible does not support worshipping or praying to Mary.  She was a human being like all of us.
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Roman Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity.\n\nArguably, a religion *is* a way to come to God.
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Catholic.  A lot of Italian, latins and whites are Catholic.
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Catholicism and Biblical Christianity are divergent religions. They are built on different foundations, and they propose different ways of salvation.\n\nIn principle, Christianity is built solely on the Holy Scriptures, the written Word of God. The Bible is our only infallible rule of faith, being sufficient to give us the sure knowledge of the Gospel for our salvation and holiness.\n\nRoman Catholicism demands submission of the intellect and will to the doctrines taught by the Roman magisterium (the Pope and bishops). It is claimed that the Catholic Church derives its doctrines from the "sacred deposit" found in Scriptures and Sacred Tradition. However the faithful cannot verify these doctrines by referring to the original sources. The Scriptures are inaccessible because only the magisterium is able to establish the authentic meaning. Similarly the contents of Sacred Tradition can only be known through the magisterium. Roman Catholicism is mental and spiritual slavery to the Vatican.\n\nAs expected, since the foundations are different, so also are the edifices built upon them. Christianity stands on the Gospel of God's sovereign grace. In love, God predestines His chosen ones to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, their sole mediator. The Son became man and gave His life as a ransom to secure their freedom from sin. Being dead in sin, they are completely unable to convert ourselves or merit God's favour. Therefore God graciously grants His people repentance and faith to turn to Him and trust in Christ Jesus for salvation. Believers are accepted in Christ, solely on the merit of His righteousness and blood, and not because of any goodness or human merit. God also resides in His people by the Holy Spirit, enabling them to obey and glorify the Father, and to guarantee their inheritance in heaven forever.\n\nRome's "gospel" is not good news at all. The Roman institution, calling itself "The Church", usurps Christ's mediatorial office, proclaiming herself as the "sacrament of salvation." The "Church" dispenses salvation to her faithful in small portions, starting at baptism and continuing throughout life. Forgiveness can only be obtained through the sacrament of penance. The benefits of Christ's sacrifice are accessible through the sacrifice of the Mass. Instead of teaching the faithful to rest in Christ by faith, Catholics are taught to perform religious works to "merit grace" and to do penance to make satisfaction. Even after death, Catholics remains dependent on the "Church" to relieve their suffering in Purgatory by masses and indulgences.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Church is a mighty obstacle to anyone seeking salvation, enslaving millions of people to a religious system and preventing them from coming directly to Christ.\n\nThe choice is between the Bible and the Roman magisterium; the choice is between salvation by grace through faith in Christ, or through human merit and effort in the Roman religion.
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Catholics are Christians through and through--in the very fullest sense.  \n\nPeople like to give (and make up) all kinds of reasons why Catholics are not Christians, but the one thing that truly sets Catholics apart most is the Eucharist.  Together with members of the Orthodox Church (the Catholic Church's "Sister" Church), Catholics are the only people who receive the Real Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Lord Jesus.  You don't get any more Christian than that!\n\nReceiving the Eucharist literally transforms us spiritually into true sons and daughters of God.  That was the entire purpose of Jesus's Incarnation--He died so that we could be true children of God again.\n\nThat said, in order to receive the Eucharist, we must be in a state of grace (proper disposition, no mortal sins on our souls).  Unlike many Protestants, who think their salvation is guaranteed just by saying they believe in Jesus (regardless of their sins), Catholics care a great deal about making ourselves as worthy as possible, and we often go to great lengths.  This is because we know we are truly, completely, receiving Lord Jesus into ourselves through the Eucharist.  You wouldn't want to invite a guest into a messy house--we *definitely* don't want to do that to Lord Jesus!\n\nIt's no surprise that lots of Christians don't understand Catholicism--there is so much to learn, and not everyone likes to learn.  But no argument against Catholicism can stand up to Scripture or any other element of Sacred Tradition.  After all, the Bible is a Catholic Book (despite some Protestants thinking that the King James Version just fell out of the sky one day).  Protestants claim that Catholic Sacred Tradition "adds" to the Bible, but the fact is that the Bible IS Catholic Sacred Tradition.  \n\nFinally, I'd like to address Catholics' veneration of Mary--which Protestants claim to mean that we worship Mary (and therefore, we are not Christians).  Veneration does not mean worship--it means honor.  As a good Jewish man, Jesus honored His parents (both Mary and St. Joseph).  Before His death, Jesus told St. John to regard Mary as his mother--which meant that Jesus was asking St. John to honor her as well.  So... who are we not to honor her?  Are we above Jesus and St. John?  Venerating Mary is one more way in which Catholics show obedience to Lord Jesus.  It should also be noted that at least some of the earliest Protestants (such as Luther) also venerated Mary and believed in her perpetual virginity.
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A Christian is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and is baptized. A Catholic is a specific kind of Christian, one who also believes the Catholic Church was founded by Christ and accepts it as possessing the fullness of Christian truth and the means of salvation\n\nThe words Catholic and Christian were once interchangeable. The first Christians called the Church Catholic or universal, to distinguish it from heretical splinter groups that denied necessary Christian truths. Thus the early Christians came to be known as Catholics.
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ALL Catholics are CHRISTIANS...\n\nin the same way as all dogs are ANIMALS.\n\nPeople who say Catholics aren't Christians...\ndon't understand the meaning of both words.
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body of Christ.\nthe catholic religion believes the wafer actually becomes the body of Christ whereas protestants believe it is representative of same.\ntransubstantiation vs consubstantiation.\ni think i remember that corectly.
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Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics separated from one another in 1054. There are very few theological differences. \n\nThe main difference is that the Eastern Orthodox Churches (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11329a.htm) use the Byzantine Rite (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04312d.htm) and the Roman Catholic Church use the Roman or Latin Rite.\n\nPope John Paul II said of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in Orientale Lumen, "A particularly close link already binds us. We have almost everything in common." (see http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_02051995_orientale-lumen_en.html)\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Really basic - Catholics believe that St. Peter was appointed by Jesus as the first Pope and leader of the church in perpetuity to spread His word and represent Christ on earth, protestants don't belive that. There are many, many differences in praticing the faith. Catholic - priests may not marry, during the Mass a Priest blesses the "host" (wafer, bread,etc) and it becomes the body of Christ to be consumed by people at communion, Catholics confess their sins and, if they are truly repentant a Priest may absolve them from their sins just as Jesus would; Catholics believe we are all born with the original sin from Adam and Eve and that babies must be baptized in order to become pure and a child of God...so many little things. Both faiths believe that there is one God - and so do Sikhs, by the way.
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Catholics ARE Christian!  Every Christian church no is an offshoot of the Catholic church.
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A few differences. Most Christians believe similar things unlike the FALSE religion of those who knock on doors.\n\nSay no more.