Out of curiosity, who says that the Catholic church and the Roman Catholic church are the same church?

Answer 1

Out of curiosity, is God Catholic or Roman Catholic? Is it the same God? Is one better than the other? Is one black, the other white? Does God split himself between the two?

Answer 2

It's just a known fact. The Holy Roman Church, The Roman Catholic Church and the Catholic Church are all one and the same and are governed by the Vatican City in Rome, which itself is an Independent State. The Pope is the head.

Answer 3

Catholic means universal. There is more than one Catholic Church. In addition to Roman Catholic there is the Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox and maybe a few more. All of them are Catholic and follow the beliefs of the Catholic Church. The difference is that the others are not Roman Catholic and do not have to follow the Pope. In addition their priests are not required to lead a celibate life.

Answer 4

Mostly people who do not know any better.

Actually there are over 20 different Catholic Churches that make up the worldwide Catholic Church.

In addition to the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church, the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same worldwide Catholic 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

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Definition:
catholic -- universal; wide-ranging liberal

Perhaps you're thinking of the word orthodox, meaning the right path. There is the Roman Catholic Church in the West and many Orthodox catholic churches in the East -- Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, etc. with a wide range of beliefs.

The difference between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic is that the East has always allowed many branches of the church, whereas the Roman Catholic Church exterminated "non-believers" as heretics. It was not until Martin Luther in the 16th century that Roman Catholics "allowed" any other beliefs to flourish.
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Answer 6

In the US, Catholic and Roman Catholic are pretty interchangeable, since most Catholics in this country are Roman Catholic. If someone here says they're Catholic, people just assume they mean Roman Catholic.

There is one church in my area, though, St. Anastasia, that does specify that it is a Roman Catholic church on its sign. There is a somewhat large Eastern Orthodox population here, and they did not want people to assume the name Anastasia, which sounds Eastern European, made the church Eastern Orthodox.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church, consists of the particular Churches in full communion with the Pope. It consists of twenty-three rites.

Coptic Catholic Church
Ethiopic Catholic Church
Maronite Church
Syrian Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Armenian Catholic Church
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 United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
Ruthenian Catholic Church
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Church
Latin Church (usually refered to as the Roman Catholic Church)

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Catholic is catholic whether Roman or orthodox.

Answer 10

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