if it was the romans that crucified our lord christ.and i would like to know that year or time that st.peter our 1st pope was in rome.
2006-09-28 05:02:42 · 5 answers · asked by texas71 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Church has consistently referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD, when the term appears in the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch
The term "Roman" Catholic is rather recent.
The new Anglican Church in England started using the term “Roman” in the 1500s as one of many ways of demeaning and demonizing Catholics.
Catholics accepted this late coming adjective without too much protest. Today “Catholic” and “Roman Catholic” are interchangeable terms. Both terms are even used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
To add a little more confusion, some apply the term “Roman Catholic Church” only to the Latin Rite Catholic Church, excluding the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same Church, under the Pope.
The term “Roman” neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-28 17:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When the Israelites were craving the Savior or the Messiah the most was about 2,000 years ago. They thought their Messiah would be a great general to help them overthrow the Roman army that occupied them. They had it all planned that this would be their next KING DAVID sort of. God works in mysterious ways and so yes he lead them out of bondage but, they did not realize that he did that by leading them out through death. Yes he conquered Rome!! That is why the head of the Church is in Rome today and that is why we call it the Roman Catholic Church. There is a movement today to change that and just make it the Catholic Church (which does mean universal) but there is an ulterior motive here and that is --they are trying to distance themselves from the Pope so they can pursue the things they want to that the Pontiff is holding out against (and rightly so---gay relations--women and married priests)etc. It is very interesting to watch this but, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against her" said Jesus.
2006-09-28 12:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several differnet churches that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, that still believe in most of the doctrines that the Roman Catholic Church has set forth.
Some of those are...
Eastern Orthodox
Traditionalists
2006-09-28 12:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Could be because we're based in Rome, ITaly?
2006-09-28 12:06:59 · answer #4 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
www.newadvent.org
2006-09-28 12:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by Tom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋