what is the difference between catholics and orthodoxes?
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Like most Roman Catholics I pay lip service to my faith and am terrible about attendance.  Orthodox members take seriously the obligations of the sacriments and of course the holy days of obligation.  The orthodox do not recognize the Holy Father as Christ's Vicar on Earth.
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Orthodox Judaism is more conservative than Reform Judaism. Orthodox Judaism is the traditional and most popular version.\n\nReform Judaism sprang from the Haskalh movement also known as the Jewish enlightenment which sprang up in the late 18th century. Haskalah sought an engagement with civil society and an emphasis on non-religious education. This led to tensions with Haskalah supporters starting Reform Judaism and the traditionalists Orthodox Judaism. Conservative Judaism favours a compromise.
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Catholics are Christians if they have accepted Jesus as there saviour, same as any other denomination. (I'm not Catholic.) I don't know where you live but in UK the mainstream church had lost it's way and started compromising on things such as sex before marriage and the like, but now things are going back to God's word. The church I'm in is very Bibe based, happily.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is one of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.\n\nEastern 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 ( 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 )
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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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Catholics can be categorized as Christians. The difference is the Catholics believe that their church (via the Pope) has absolute authority in matters of spirituality. The rest of the Christian world (Protestants) believes that spiritual authority comes from the Bible alone.
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Catholicism is a branch of Christianity.  Not believing in the Bible defeats the purpose of Christianity.  You can't claim to be a Christian yet not believe in the one book that Christianity is all about.
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There are many differences\n\nSome are that Catholics believe in:\nPraying to Saints\nConfessing to Man\n\nCatholics have a different bible, than every other "Christian"religion, \nBaptist, \nPentacost \nApostolic\nEven Jehova's Witnesses
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The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.—see Eastern Orthodox Church organization) is a body of Christians that claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils, the most authoritative being the Seven Ecumenical Councils held between the 4th and 8th centuries. These councils were convened out of the necessity to resolve conflicts that had developed concerning beliefs such as Arianism, Nestorianism, and Monothelitism. Toward the end of its first thousand years of existence, differences developed between the Church in the Eastern and Western Roman Empire that ultimately led to the Great Schism in 1054, dividing Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.\n\nBased on numbers of adherents, Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian communion in the world after the Roman Catholic Church, and the third largest grouping overall after Protestantism. There are approximately 215 million Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide.[1]\n\nThe present-day influence of the Eastern Orthodox Church encompasses the territories associated with the former Byzantine and Russian empires: Eastern Europe, Asia (Russia/Siberia), and parts of the Middle East and Africa. Today, although Eastern Orthodoxy's strongest influence can be seen in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, and Georgia, the Orthodox Church has a presence in a great many other countries largely because of the emigration of Eastern Orthodox peoples, with large communities in the USA, Canada and Australia.
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Christianity: Christians believe in Jesus Christ, son of God. So they have, besides the Old Testament (which is also a holy book for jews) also the New Testament.\n\nChristians, in their history, have divided themselves for several reasons (some theological, others also more "political").\n\nNowadays Christians, which all believe in the same things, are divided in groups:\n\nCatholic Christians: they recognize the Pope in Rome to be the supreme guide and the descendant (in a metaforical sense) of Pietro (the first Pope and disciple of Jesus).\nThis religion is mainly practiced in Western Europe and parts of Africa.\nOrthodox Christians: They have split from Catholics. They do not have one official supreme guide. Their priests are called Pope.\nThis religion, originated in Bisantium (Istanbul), is practiced mainly in Eastern Europe and Greece (Russia, Ukraine)\nProtestants (or reformed) Christians: these split much later then Orthodox from the Catholic religion and, to some extent, show the more closeness to Catholicism. A great protestant reformer was Matin Luther who fought agains the Catholic hierarcy. The main differences between protestants and Catholics are:\n- the relationship with God is much more personal and individual\n- the religious hierarchy (the "priest") does not exist\n\nProtestants and Orthodox do not consider the Pope as being the supreme guide of the curch.\n\nProtestants have divided in many different groups some of which, in fear of furious persecution, fled to other countries (among which the USA) to practice their beliefs freely.\n\nTheologically speaking all Christian religions have the same "core" beliefs, but express themselves and are organized differently (very differently in some cases).\n\nThere are many theological differences, but I believe this is irrelevant to the play at school...\n\nBut there is nothing these religions "do against each other" they all come from the same source: the teachings of Jesus the Nazaren and the Vangels. They divided and separated eachother during the two millennia of Christiandom's history.
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A Christian is one who follows Christ. Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholic. A Christian can be Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.
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The biggest difference is that catholics believe in the virgin mary as a god. because Jesus is God, catholics believe Mary must have been a god as well, thus Jesus would be 100% God. however, the Bible makes no claims for mary being a god. Jesus was 100% God and 100% man.
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Being Roman Catholic states that one follows the teaching of the Holy Father in Rome.  Other wise one would be Orthodox Catholic and follow the teaching of the head of the Eastern Catholic Church.\n\nCatholic is a generic term and could be either one.
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Catholics are Christians.  Christians believe in God.\n\nHence....
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same ........ Catholic means christian..... Cathlocism was the basis for all religion and with all things that start out good, man eventually perverts it. I believe that Catholics and Christians all have some element of truth within their doctrine, but on the other hand each has their own faults. So I won't say which is better...yada yada yada\nThat's like trying to compare apples to oranges. As long as the person is a Born again believer they can differ on the fine points of religion.\n\n\nand AJ GET A LIFE!\n\nHave you heard of this? If so why do YOU sat it????\nThe Nicene Creed\nI believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.\n\nAnd in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.\n\nWho, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.\n\nAnd I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.\n\nAnd I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
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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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Catholics are christians.