Catholic or Roman Catholic

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If it’s good enough for the Popes, it’s good enough for me:

“***The Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church ***believes and acknowledges that there is one true and living God, creator and lord of heaven and earth, almighty, eternal, immeasurable, incomprehensible, infinite in will, understanding and every perfection.”

Pope Pius IX/Vatican I,
Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Paragraph 1

“Wherefore we teach and declare that, by divine ordinance, the Roman Church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every other Church”

Pope Pius IX/Vatican I, First dogmatic constitution on the Church of Christ, Chapter 3, Paragraph 1
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“…This follows of necessity because in the City of God, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a good citizen and an upright man are absolutely one and the same thing…”

Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri, Paragraph 54
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“Some say they are not bound by the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter of a few years ago, and based on the Sources of Revelation, which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing.”

Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, paragraph 27

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Amen Amen!

 

[Kuryakyn]

They don’t use the name Catholic, but they do use it as a description of their Church. In other words, just as Catholic Church claims to teach the Orthodox Faith of Jesus, so they claim to be the Catholic Church referred to in the Nicene Creed.

Essentially both the Orthodox and the Catholic Church chose one of the words that could be used to describe themselves as the name of their church. Thats why I pointed out that the Orthodox would consider themselves the catholic church.

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Bill

Exactly. I just meant that they don’t use the word catholic in their official “name” (and so aren’t confused with the Catholic Church), only in a description with a small “c.”

 

[Syele]

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