what is the difference between roman catholics and jesuit catholics?

Answer 1

I never got that either.

For my Mom's funeral, the priest offered us a Jesuit Priest instead, because he would be out of town. It was like they were interchangeable or something.

Instead, to make my step-father happy, we waited until the Catholic Priest could attend.

I never knew that Jesuit's still existed, or the difference, myself.

Answer 2

The Society of Jesus, a.k.a. Jesuits, is a men's religious order within Roman Catholicism. This order was founded by a Catholic saint, St. Ignatius Loyola. The Jesuits have been around for centuries, and are devout Catholics.

Answer 3

Jesuits are Roman Catholics.


The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) are a monastic order founded by Ignatius of Loyola and approved as a Roman Catholic religious order in 1540. The Jesuits are classified as mendicant clerks regular. Unlike most earlier orders there is no parallel branch for women.

Although the Jesuits were not founded to combat Protestantism, they were quickly drawn into the struggle. Many Jesuits published controversial works, for instance, Peter Canisius and Robert Bellarmine, both of whom also wrote catechisms that enjoyed wide use for three centuries. Other Jesuits influenced policy as court preachers or as confessors to the emperor; the kings of France, Spain, and Poland; and the dukes of Bavaria. Well over a thousand Jesuits died as martyrs both in Europe and in the missions. The Roman Catholic Church has canonized thirty eight Jesuits, including twenty two martyrs.

Answer 4

The Jesuits are just one particular religious order (community) within the Catholic Church.

There is no difference except Jesuits like Benedictines, or Vinecitans follow a particular theology or charism within the Church.

THe difference between them and what someone would call a "normal: Catholic priest. Is the Jesuits are members of an order and answer and are assigned by the order. "regular" priests are memebers of a particular Diocese and assigned by the Bishop.

Also the Jesuits take a vow of poverty (all religious orders do) diocesan priests do not.

Jesuits obedience is pledges to the leaders of their order (like all religious community members) diocesan priests obedience are pledged to the bishop.

Answer 5

The Jesuits are a religious order within the Roman (Latin) Catholic Church.

Answer 6

+ Roman Catholics +

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.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition
+ Coptic Catholic Church
+ Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
+ Maronite Church
+ Syrian Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian liturgical tradition:
+ Armenian Catholic Church

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
+ Chaldean Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malabar Church

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
+ Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
+ Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
+ Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
+ Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
+ Melkite Greek Catholic Church
+ Romanian Church
+ Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Ruthenian Catholic Church
+ Slovak Greek Catholic Church
+ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The term “Roman” neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic

+ Jesuits and other Religious Orders +

There are two types of Catholic priests:

+ A religious priests is ordained into a religious order like the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) or Franciscans. He receives duty assignments from superiors in their respective religious orders. Some religious priests specialize in teaching, whereas others serve as missionaries in foreign countries, where they may live under difficult and primitive conditions. Other religious priests live a communal life in monasteries, where they devote their lives to prayer, study, and assigned work. These priests take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience.

A diocesan priest is ordained to serve in a specific geographical area (called a diocese). He ministers under the leadership of a bishop, and will more than likely serve as a parish priest. These priests take vows of chastity and obedience but not poverty.

+ With love in Christ.