What is the major difference between the Roman Catholic church and Protestant church beside the Pope?

Answer 1

the spelling of their church.

Answer 2

It's hard to answer that because there isn't 'A' (one) protestant church. There were a number of differences fought about over the last 500 years, one being whether common people should be able to have the Bible available in their own language (this even at a time when most people were illiterate in their own language).

The biggest deep rooted issue was that people felt they had to go through a priest in order to address God. That persists in the Catholic church in the belief that you can reach Jesus' ear best by praying to Mary his mother, rejected by protestents. Although in fairness, that was a later custom. Also, there was a medaeval notion that you had to do good works in order to be saved. That was rejected for a belief that faith was what counted, and faith would lead you to do what was right, including being charitable to others.

To an extent it's political. Who represents God here on earth? For the Roman church to claim that everybody has to return to them as the "true" church is kind of funny, since they originally rebelled against and broke away from the eastern orthodox church. So there is no ONE major difference either.

Now, I've seen what some others wrote and it's easy to see who's Catholic. They'll say that we see communion as "symbolic", but that's out of ignorance. They believe in transsubstantiation, we believe in CONsubstantiation. They aren't interested in learning the difference because they, of course, are always right.

Answer 3

first and foremost the KKK is made up of protestants W.A.S.P. white Anglo Saxon Protestants they hate and kill Catholics as well as blacks and Jews, the Bible 2nd.........Protestant bibles are incomplete...they dropped 7 books from the old testament:
At the time the Christian Bible was being formed, a Greek translation of Jewish Scripture, the Septuagint, was in common use and Christians adopted it as the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. However, around 100 A.D., Jewish rabbis revised their Scripture and established an official canon of Judaism which excluded some portions of the Greek Septuagint. The material excluded was a group of 15 late Jewish books, written during the period 170 B.C. to 70 A.D., that were not found in Hebrew versions of the Jewish Scripture. Christians did not follow the revisions of Judaism and continued to use the text of the Septuagint.

Protestant reformers in the 1500s decided to follow the official canon of Judaism for the Old Testament rather than the Septuagint, and the excluded material was placed in a separate section of the Bible called the Apocrypha. Protestant Bibles included the Apocrypha until the mid 1800s, but it was eventually dropped from most Protestant editions.

The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches continue to base their Old Testament on the Septuagint. The result is that these versions of the the Bible have more Old Testament books than Protestant versions. Catholic Old Testaments include 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Baruch, Tobit, Judith, The Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), additions to Esther, and Susanna and Bel and the Dragon which are included in Daniel. Orthodox Old Testaments include these plus 1st and 2nd Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151 and 3rd Maccabees.

The Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox New Testaments are identical.

Answer 4

Wow! lots of interesting ideas.

The real main difference between the two is in what is considered to be the word of God. Catholics take the Bible (theirs includes a number of intertestamental books that the protestants reject) and church tradition as authorative. Protestants take the Bible only.

There are catholic churches in which priests are allowed to marry.

There are Protestant denominations that take the Eucharist as the real body and blood of Christ.

There are protestant denominations that srinkle babies for Baptism.

There are protestant denominations that believe that sacraments offer some real grace or blessing.

There are few Catholic beliefs that are not held by some protestants.

Again, the largest divergence is in including Church tradition which includes the teachings of the Pope when he speaks ex-cathedra, as being equivalent to the word of God.

Answer 5

Catholics & Protestants all follow the Authority Of Christ Jesus, Our Lord. That is why we are all called 'Christians.'

The difference lies in where we give authority **AFTER**Christ Jesus.

Catholic Christianity emphasizes the authority of the Church, after the Authority Of Jesus. And then the authority of the Holy Bible.

Protestant Christianity does just the opposite: They emphasize the authority of the Bible, after that Of Jesus, & then the authority of the church(or should I say 'churches?').

Orthodox Christianity is just like Catholic Christianity, except for the fact that they are not under the authority of the Pope. Orthodox Christianity is under the authority of various Patriarches(which, like the Pope, can be traced back to the Apostles).

Answer 6

Roman Catholicism teaches an entirely different message, most importantly that people are saved as a result of their own works and keeping of rituals. The Bible teaches we are "saved by faith through grace alone, not of works, so that no man can boast." The list is actually quite long of differences between what Jesus and the Bible proclaim and what the Pope and Catholics preach as necessary for one to go to Heaven.

Answer 7

the protestant church grew out of the roman catholic church because of differences people felt in their beliefs. perhaps you should read some history books.

Answer 8

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Catholics accept seven sacraments as opposed to the Protestant two.

And Catholics believe that communion is substantially and really the body and blood of Jesus. Some protestants, such as the Anglicans and Lutherans come close to this belief, but most see it as symbolic or metaphorical.

Answer 10

In years past there has been an overt emphasis on tradition as established by the Church and that seems not as strong now. The other has been the belief about Mary
http://www.carm.org/catholic/mary.htm

BUT ARE UNITED ON THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOUR.

Answer 11

There are many differences.

One is that the Catholic Church teaches as doctrine stuff that isn't in the bible:
-praying to Mary, or saints rather to God
-purgatory
-indulgences
-priests and the pope are intermediaries to God

there are many other differences here is a web site that will help:
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/mainpage.html