What does it mean when you're catholic?

Question

like what do you believe in?

Answer 1

u believe in that jesus dude....and the pope

Answer 2

The essence of being Catholic is not belief but participation in a community. This community is the Body of Christ.

The original Catholic Church is the Orthodox, mostly Greek-speaking. The Latin-speaking western church (Roman) broke away from it. Then the English-speaking (Anglican) church broke away from them.

Along the way the Protestant Christians led by Luther broke away and took up the absurd notion that a book matters more than the church. Thanks to Calvin and others that movement shattered into the chaos of today.

What it means when you're Catholic is that you find community in the Eastern Orthodox, Roman or Anglican communions, which are all Holy, Apostolic and Catholic, with an unbroken link to the Christian origin through the Apostolic Succession.

Answer 3

The Catholic religion has many good things to offer believers while at the same time it also has many rituals and practices that are just actions without any relational substance. Catholics focus on good acts and feel that good works will gain them entry to heaven instead of focusing on a relationship with God...the reason God created us. The reality is that followers of Catholicism have a parochial mindset. Parochial meaning of the parish, limited range or scope, narrow minded. True Christianity is unchanging and pure whereas the Catholic religion is constantly changing practices to accommodate followers. I am a former Catholic and am grateful to that religion for instilling a mindset within me of commitment, but now understand that I have also missed having a relationship with God due to some of the catholic practices. Since departing from that religious lifestyle I am free to be the person God created me to be, enjoying His forgiveness, His Grace, His Love and now walk in freedom.I attend a non denominational church.

Answer 4

It means that you are a member of the religion which is the Roman Catholic Church which was founded by the Romans supposedly to preach the teachings of God as well as the existence of God. So It is for the Roman people who were also called Pagans. But the Vatican have formed it to be a Christian religion supposed to be on the teachings of the bible but what happened was that the Vatican made their own doctrines which is not on the bible. on the year 2000 BC, the Catholics are forcing the populace to believe the said religion and those who do not want to believe will be burn to fire. Around 50 million people were later burn for not accepting their religion. Catholics have spread all over the world with force, although their teachings were not based solely on the bible but many were based on their own belief to include traditions which are not biblical. Some of the Catholic teachings were misinterpreted and wrong understanding of the words written on the bible. and many others.

Answer 5

Catholics are Christians so they believe in everything else Christians believe in. The virgin birth of Jesus, his crucifixion and divinity, and his ascendancy to Heaven. They believe in the Holy Trinity meaning the father, son, and Holy Spirit are one. The Eucharist is the true body of Christ becuase his presence is real and is done weekly. They have the 7 sacraments: Baptism, Confession, Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony, and annointing of the sick. Church is done every Sunday and days of obligation like All Saint's day or Christmas. They have statues in their churches but don't worship them contrary to what people around here say. The Church puts a big emphasis on Saints and have prayers to them because they form part of a family in heaven with Jesus. Priests and nuns are celibate. Lent is 40 days before Easter (not counting Sundays) where some fast but most give up something they like in remembrance of Jesus's sacrifice for us.

Catholic Doctrine- Salvation by Faith AND works. The Bible is something important and God's word but tradition is also important because that is how the early Christians spread the word of Jesus around by word of mouth. Mary is the blessed Mother and she was sinless because she accepted God. Pope is head of Church and when he speaks publicly he is with the Holy Spirit so he is infallible at that time. Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell are real. Purgatory is a purification stage where souls that committed venial sins are being purified to enter Heaven because as it says in the Bible "nothing unclean enters Heaven". Is not a second chance or free pass but a place where souls are purified and there are biblical references to it.

Answer 6

To start off with, this prayer, The Apostles' Creed, tell a lot of our key beliefs:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth;

I believe in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord;
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit,
and born of the Virgin Mary,
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day He rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. AMEN.

I'm an adult, well-informed and ardent Catholic, and I'd be happy to haveyou email me if you like at [e-mail].

We don't have superstitions about fish, LOL. We avoid meat (and so, some eat fish instead) on Fridays during Lent as a comemoration of Jesus' sacrifice for us on Good Friday when he died, so to show him we care about and are grateful for that, we make a "sacrifice" of skipping that favorite food, and it makes us think of him and how he did something so special as to die to save us from our sins.

The Christians in the first couple of centuries also used a stick figure of a fish as a signal to one another that they were Christian, such as to show where Holy Mass would be held when the Romans were persecuting them. The fish was chosen, among other reasons, because a word in Greek which means fish is spelled with the Greek letters that could make the acronym of "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior." You see the fish now on car decals and pendants and such.

Actually, we read, study, and try to live by the Old and New Testaments -- the two divisions of the Bible, the first concerning life among ancient peoples and the Jews before the coming of Christ, and the later, during his life and in the early years afterward. Like Jews and other types of Christians, we are supposed to live by the Ten Commandments.

Answer 7

The main difference in being a catholic as opposed to being in any other christian sect is that as a catholic you believe that when you recieve holy communion you are recieving the actual body of Christ. Catholics also believe that Priests have the power through God to cleanse sinners of their sins so long as they are truely sorry and will repent.

Answer 8

A summary of Catholic beliefs is contained in the Nicene Creed (from the year 325) as shown above.

For a complete description of what Catholics believe, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell. [See Calvin]

The third day He arose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 10

Folowing is the profession of faith (creed) that is said at every Catholic Mass:

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord,
Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us men and our salvation,
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
he was born of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was crucified
under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered, died and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in fulfillment of the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand
of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father
and the Son.
With the Father and the Son
he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through
the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic
and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism
for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection
of the dead,
and the life of the
world to come. Amen.

Answer 11

I don't know much about Catholicism truthfully, but from what a friend has told me, since she is herself Catholic, they have a stronger and broader understanding of who and what god is and about jesus being crucified for people's sins.
They symbolise jesus on the cross (unlike christians) because they feel strongly about the beliefs and feel it is unjustified not to acknowledge what he went through.

Catholics are taught from the passages of the Old Testament, opposite to the christian New Testament, and their superstitions and beliefs in the Church are strong with regards of fish and religious holidays.

Other than that, I know little else to tell you, sorry.