A Question for all Cathloic

[Bill_Pick]

When did the term “Catholic” come about? On this board I have seen two or three dates, I think it was in about 100ad but I also have seen 347Ad and today I seen 1054, I was thinking it was call universal until about 100ad and then Cathloic,will some cathloic help with this ? BTW I,m Cathloic

 

[jakasaki]

When did the term “Catholic” come about? On this board I have seen two or three dates, I think it was in about 100ad but I also have seen 347Ad and today I seen 1054, I was thinking it was call universal until about 100ad and then Cathloic,will some cathloic help with this ? BTW I,m Cathloic

Hi Bill…

This is what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say about it. The article is long and too much to post, so I’ll attach the link.

The word Catholic (katholikos from katholou – throughout the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics, e.g., in Aristotle and Polybius, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers in what we may call its primitive and non-ecclesiastical sense…

newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm

 

[jakasaki]

Bill, I found more information for you from our CAF site…

Again, the information is enormous so I submit the link for your reading.

**The Greek roots of the term “Catholic” mean “according to (kata-) the whole (holos),” or more colloquially, “universal.” At the beginning of the second century, we find in the letters of Ignatius the first surviving use of the term “Catholic” in reference to the Church. At that time, or shortly thereafter, it was used to refer to a single, visible communion, separate from others.

The term “Catholic” is in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds, and many Protestants, claiming the term for themselves, give it a meaning that is unsupported historically, ignoring the term’s use at the time the creeds were written. **

catholic.com/library/What_Catholic_Means.asp

 

[scottywolf777]

Hi Bill,
The word catholic is from the greek word katholikos (sorry no greek fonts on my keyboard) meaning universal. Fr Benedict Groeschel tells a story about when he was in Greece his car needed repair so while he was waiting he tried to practice the greek they taught him in seminary and was a little surprised when the sign said “We fix catholics (katholikos)” until he realised they were talking about universal joints on a car.