Christian is a faith, a religion, the belief in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Catholic is a church, a denomination, a sect, a group, a specific type of christian. The pope in Rome is the head of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world.
Other denominations of the christian faith are Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Adventists, Etc. They all have their own chuch congregations and practice variations of the Christian religion. There are many Different denominations of christian churches besides the ones I listed.
All catholics are christians, but not all christians are catholics. Not to be disrespectful, but just in the interest of clarity, it's similar to saying "all McDonalds are restaurants but not all restaurants are McDonalds"
Another key point is that you do not need to be affiliated with a specific church to consider yourself a christian. You are a christian if you believe in Jesus Christ as Savior. No other requirement is necessary.
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Catholics are a type of Christian. Originally all Christians were Catholic until the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.
Gnostic, Copt, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians are all older than Byzantine (Roman) Christianity.
a Christian is one who loves God. a Catholic is a way to profess your faith. as long as you love God your Christian! its simple
I am Catholic. I *know* Catholics don't worship idols.
They are the same thing. Both believe in fake things.
Say: "Both. Catholics are Christians, and the oldest kind there is."
A Sydney journalist in Dublin during the 1980s was walking back to his hotel when somebody held a gun to his head and said, "Are you a Catholic or a Protestant?" He had the presence of mind to say, "I'm an Australian>" We're an irreligious lot Down Under and he was allowed to go with a warning not to return.
Obviously many parsons are still teaching the Catholics are not "true" Christians (there's that TRUE word again) and the hatred continues.
Ah, Christian love -- it has some fascinating parameters.
Right they are both Christian
Also: existence is an attribute: the universe and everything in it is contingent. Why, then, is it here?
Also: why is it here *as it is* in all its complex perfection?
Evolution doesn't disprove the existence of a Supreme Being, so don't give me that. "God can't possibly exist because things mutate!" is not that brilliant an argument.
Actually Catholicism isn't the oldest branch of Christianity. The Catholics were just more ruthless and wiped out their competitors with sword and flame.
I don't know who would ask you that. Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, united, etc are all branches of the Christian religion. Christianity believes Jesus was the son of god and savior of earth.
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