Roman Catholicism

(proper noun)

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with more than one billion members worldwide.

Related Terms

  • Mainline Protestantism
  • evangelicalism

Examples of Roman Catholicism in the following topics:

  • Widespread Belief

    • Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination.
    • Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
  • Career Development: Vocation and Identity

    • Use of the word "vocation" before the sixteenth century referred firstly to the "call" by God to the individual, or calling of all humankind to salvation, particularly in the Vulgate, and more specifically to the "vocation to the priesthood," which is still the usual sense in Roman Catholicism.
  • The Christian Church

    • The early Church originated in Roman Judea in the first century AD, founded on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who is believed by Christians to be the Son of God and Christ the Messiah.
    • Anglicans generally understand their tradition as a a middle path between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Christianity on one hand, and Protestantism on the other.
  • Protestantism

    • Spanish, French and British colonists brought Roman Catholicism to the colonies of New Spain, New France and Maryland, respectively.
  • Theories of Religion

    • Freedom of religion is consequently weakened when one religion is given rights or privileges denied to others, as in certain European countries where Roman Catholicism or regional forms of Protestantism have special status.
    • As a result, religions are now better understood as capitalist corporations peddling their wares in a highly competitive market than they are as monopolistic Churches like Roman Catholicism was prior to The Reformation (or, some might argue, still is in Latin America) or as small, fervent, protest-like sects are.
  • Religion and Other Social Factors

    • Denominations that do not allow female ordination include: Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptists, and Mormons.
  • Catholicism

    • Catholicism has a long history in the U.S., with the Catholic Church the single largest religious denomination in the United States.
    • Catholicism arrived in what is now the U.S. during the earliest days of the European colonization of the Americas.
    • Catholicism has grown during the country's history.
    • In the mid-19th century, a rapid influx of Irish and German immigrants made Catholicism the largest religion in the U.S.
  • The Church-Sect Typology

    • The classical example of a church is the Roman Catholic Church, especially in the past.
    • Today, the Roman Catholic Church has been forced into the denomination category because of religious pluralism or competition among religions.
    • This is especially true of Catholicism in the United States.
  • Religious Denominations

    • Christianity has different denominations such as Protestantism and Catholicism, among others.
  • Magic and Supernaturalism

    • In popular culture and fiction, the supernatural is whimsically associated with the paranormal and the occult, which differs from traditional concepts in some religions, such as Catholicism, where divine miracles are considered supernatural.
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