what is the big difference between catholics and protestant religions?

Answer 1

A disagreement over Henry viii's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

Catholics remained loyal to the Pope (head of the universal church from the time of Peter) and the Catholic faith which had been established in the British isles, possibly as long ago as when Joseph of Arimathea is reputed to have brought the faith to Britain'.
Protestants abandoned the faith of their forefathers and sided with Henry viii in his defiance of the Pope, who true to the teachings of Jesus, would not permit a divorce.

Many of the leading protestants were rewarded by Henry for their allegience to him, with money and land filched from the Church when he sent his army on the rampage to destroy the monastries, and to loot and take over Church property.

After the protestants split from the Universal Church (possibly in order to justify their split from the original Church) they started to explore the teachings of other breakaway elements which eventually enabled them to find additional differences between what they were willing to believe and the Catholic Church. Such persons as Martin Luther provided the necessary doctrinal variations. Eventually, of course, the exploration of these novel ideas, frequently led to disagreements among the protestants themselves and substantial numbers broke away from the Church Henry set up and divided into numerous sects.

Answer 2

The Pope. Catholics have him and all the Latin rituals (hence Roman catholics) but Protestants don't . Too many types or Protestants out there but one example is The Church of England whose head is the ruling monarch. This is because King Henry the Eighth wanted to get a divorce but the Pope said no, and many heads were cut off and then the King was the new Pope in England. It is all the same in the end.

Answer 3

Parts of their belief.

1. Catholics believe that the host and wine are spiritually tranformed into the body and blood of Christ, Protestants believe that it is a symbol

2. Protestants broke off from the Catholic church

3. Catholics ask the saints to intercede on their behalf, Protestants think the Catholics are praying to false gods.

4. Catholics have the pope, Protestants don't.

That's all I know off the top of my head.

Answer 4

That depends on who you call protestant.

The Catholic and Orthodox churches believe that God communicates with mankind through a hierarchy of popes, patriarchs, bishops and priests. That seems to work fine until you get a corrupt link in the chain.

Protestant churches believe that we each have our own hotline to God, with the Bible as our telephone directory. That seems to work fine until you find that no two people can agree on what the directory means.

Anglicanism (and to a certain extent Methodism) come somewhere between these extremes.

Answer 5

Prostestants and Catholics are both considered Christians. they are seperate denominations... Protestants have a lot of subcategories although(Luthrens, methodists, baptists, non-denominational) to appreciate the ameliorations, you could appreciate the historic previous. The Holy Roman Catholic church became between the first Christian churches, yet by-out historic previous quite a few issues began replacing in the church. They began praying to Mary, utilizing Idols in worship, having a Pope, and began taking in those form of pagan traditions. all of us recognize that that the church replaced because of historic files... in case you learn historic previous the Catholic church did not used to do humorous traditions... and than it slowly begins replacing over the subsequent a million,500 yrs...... Than there got here a level in which persons began to carry close this. The congregation began to awaken at the same time as the Catholic Church began preaching that you had to pay to get into heaven, and began promoting heaven. those human beings began to understand al the different issues that replaced in the church, and they wanting to be carried out with it. They left the Catholic church and began to adhere to the bible, and only the bible. They got here to do not ignore that the bible says to adhere to only what the bible says, and hence they did only that....The catholics did not used to enable their congregation study the bible, you had to pay to priest to study it for you. hence the congregation became left contained in the darkish of what became replacing in the church. at the same time as they left, they'd learn the bible freely. because the bible will be difficult, and intepretations would variety, and a lot non secular historic previous wiped away by skill of the catholics, human beings had diverse perspectives(diffused ameliorations, yet nonetheless ameliorations). for this reason behind those form of diverse churches(baptists, luthrens, etc..), besides the actual shown reality that at present our ameliorations are even better diffused than they were contained in the start..

Answer 6

Catholics believe that the Pope has some direct link to and gets divine revelation from God. Protestants don't.

Catholics believe that the common people are not capable of understanding the Bible. Protestants don't.

Answer 7

In a nutshell, catholics chose to turn their back on GOD and follow man made rules instead of the Word of God. Martin Luther heard from GOD, new the catholics were starting the largest cult in the world, protested, and chose to follow GOD instead of the corrupt catholics. People with "eyes to see" (protestants) follow the word of God, catholics, a poisonous cult. With this all said, God hates all religion, follow after Jesus!
It's funny you know, catholics can't even get past the first commandment, "thou shall have no other god before me..." They pray to saints, make likenesses of Jesus, Idolize their clergy, and, within a mile of my house, have built "the shrine of our lady of the island," A shrine of Mary, a woman who God chose to use just like he uses people every day. I give her her props, she was an obedient and willing vessel, blessed among women, but no different from any other willing vessel, and idolizing her, a pope or anyone else is an insult to God.

Answer 8

Protestants believe in a completely imputed righteousness so that you are saved by being covered in Christs righteousness alone and Catholics believe you need to be righteous also in and of yourself so that you have some of your own works to offer to God towards your justification. They have stated that all who believe in Justification by faith alone to be anathema (cursed)

Answer 9

catholics believe the importance of both scripture and tradition, as it clearly says in the bible, this and we (I being catholic) hold Mary and the saints in a high regard.

We however do not worship them.


steph w

thank you, I am not sure if your a catholic or not, but if you are not that was most likely the clearest and fairest statement here.

Answer 10

Protestant churches only have the risk of growing too big and becoming financially corrupt, whereas the Catholic religions seem to have no holds on what debauchery they can do (little boys).