Is there diffrence between catholicism & christianity? If yes are there any more sub-sections?

Answer 1

"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.

+ Catholic Churches +

There are several Catholic Churches that are all joined under the Pope.

The Latin (Roman) Rite Catholic Church and the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same universal Church.

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

As a Protestant let me say that both catholics and Protestants can be Christians - Christianity is based in a belief in Christ and following Him. Individuals within Protestant and catholic circles do this.

Differences - structure of the church:
Catholics have a more defined structure which is rooted in early church history. Because of a long history of the bishops of Rome being incredibly great, it eventually evolved into a papal system.
Protestants have a wide variety of church structures, but none of them grant the total leadership to one individual such with such concepts such as infallibility.

Intersession:
My catholic friends will probably speak to this much better than I, but it is my understanding that they believe in the priest's role as an intercessor for our sins. Personally, though I disagree with this, I wish that we had confession in Protestant churches because of how good it can be for the confessor.
Protestants believe that Christ intercedes for us and that we ought to take our sins directly to Him. We believe in individual priesthood - that is, every believer is a priest in the sense that there are no more barriers between ourselves and God.

Scripture:
Catholics have the Apocrypha
Protestants don't.

Lord's Supper:
Catholics believe that the bread and the wine actually become Christ's body and blood once ingested.
Protestants view it as symbolic.

The list goes on and on, really. Some of the differences are on pretty major theological topics, but none of them differ on the person of Jesus Christ which is the central figure within Christianity. My personal view is - there's no way I'm right about everything and yet God still seems to like me so I'm not going to require others to be right about everything either.

Answer 3

Catholicism IS Christianity, plain and simple! For the first 1,500 years of Christianity, The Catholic Church was all that there was (with the exception of the Eastern Orthodox who schismed in 1054, but who follow the true religion just about the same, they just don't submit to the authority of the successor of St. Peter). In the first half of the 16th century, several "reformers" like Luther and Calvin decided that they were going to abandon Christianity and basically create their own religions which somewhat vaguely resembled Christianity but are not. During this time in Christian history, the Catholic Church was in need of reform, which is just natural because of the human element of the Church and the problems faced by Europe at that time, like the black plague and other problems. During down times in the history of the Church, God builds up certain people to help reform the Church and great saints come about because of this, history has proven it time and time again. Luther could of been one of those people, because he was a clergyman, but he decided to abandon his faith and fall into heresey, causing many others to lose their faith in the process, unfortunately.

The disease of Protestantism has lasted until this very day, although it lost alot of its fervor in the latter part of the 16th and early 17th century, with many people coming back into the one true Church after abandoning her. But, in the 20th century, Protestantism saw another growth spurt. But, many people like myself (an ex-Southern Baptist) are seeing the many errors of Protestantism and the utter chaos it contains, which has caused there to be around 40,000 different Protestant denominations, with new ones being added every day. God did NOT intend there to be 40,000 different belief systems. These churches disagree on simple matters of doctrine. How can different ideals be true at the same time. They CANNOT, this goes against simple logic. As Ephesians 4:5 states, "one Lord, ONE FAITH, one baptism." It doesn't say -one Lord, 40,000 faiths...... - it says ONE faith. So, which is it? Which is the One true faith described in the Bible. With an open mind, careful study of Scripture and Christian history (writings of the early Church Fathers and the medievals), God will inevitably lead you to truth, which is found exclusively in the Holy Catholic Church.


EDIT -- Sassinya, the statement you made about the Catholic Church always changing (for that matter, all the statements you made concerning the Church) is absolutely FALSE. The Catholic Church does not change. Once a doctrine is set, and it is seen to be in concordance with Church Tradition and Scripture, it therefore CANNOT be changed and is thus infallible. This is one of the reasons that the Lord gave St. Peter and his successors the authority to determine what is infallible doctrine, so it cannot be changed. Just because you read in the New York Times that some wayward bishop or other clergyman states "x" doesn't mean that the Church has changed and now teaches "x." This is a big reason why people are so confused nowadays, they don't know what the Church REALLY teaches, and have no idea whatsoever on how the Church itself operates.

Answer 4

Catholicism is a sub-section of Christianity. Any group that believes Christ is the risen messiah are known as Christians.

Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans... They're all Christians

Answer 5

No Every Christian Makes Up the Body Of Christ



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Answer 6

Catholic is the original Christianity started by Jesus Christ and has been going strong for 2,000 years. Anything else is just an imitation.

Also, Catholic is not a subsection or a denomination.

Answer 7

The Catholic church is one of the two main sub-branches of Christianity, the Orthodox church of the East being the other.

The Protestant movement is an offshoot of the Catholic church of the west, as a result of the reformation approx. half a millenium ago.

Answer 8

There's only one holy Roman Catholic Church.

However there are more than 30,000+ other Christians churches.

Answer 9

Christianity is your main thing.
Then I think you spit into Catholicism, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox(??)

And then Protestant splits into a zillion more pieces.

Answer 10

o yes just look at the 10 commandments