What is the difference beetween Catholics and Christians?

Question

i dont know why they are different
please be serious......

Im only asking because one time this nun told me they were different religions

Answer 1

Catholics are Christians.

Not all Christians are Catholic. Catholics are a specific group, the largest and the oldest group. There are a number of doctrinal differences between denominations, but I don't think anyone is going to write a 4,000 page answer to your question.

Answer 2

Strictly speakme, Catholic method common. Catholics are all over the place on the earth that means that the religion transcends cultural and geographic obstacles. Most different church buildings are a lot more restricted in scope, and feature popped up within the final 2 hundred years or so. The ones that return additional. reminiscent of Lutherans, can best hint their background again to 1517 on the earliest. If you desire to grasp who is church is invented, learn the early Church Fathers, and different early christian writings. Modern suggestions that evangelical christians have are almost always refuted over and over again via such high-quality saints as St. Justin Martyr, Ireaneus of Antioch, etc. Decide for your self whose correct and study type people who knew the apostles and had been writing earlier than the final books of the bible had been composed.

Answer 3

That's like asking what is the difference between a flower and a rose. All roses are flowers, but not all flowers are roses.

Catholics ARE Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics.

Catholicism is a denomination (or sect or branch or whatever you want to call this sub-division) of Christianity.

I think the question here is what is the difference between Catholics and other sects of Christianity ?

That is a difficult question to answer, because there are many sects, and sub-sects of Christianity.

Answer 4

Only Catholics proclaim and live out the fullness of Truth of the Gospel. Protestants, who have rejected some of the books and chapters of the Old Testament, even though they were the standard for over 1,500 years, have also dropped things like the Priesthood and Sacraments that were instituted by Christ. For what they have left, many Protestants outshine some Catholics in the way they live it out.

Answer 5

I'm not sure that there is a huge difference. Most Catholics that I know consider themselves Christian too. Maybe the term Christian is taken too liberally these days but some would define a Christian as a person of faith who believes in Christ as their Lord and Savior. The typical Christan faith follows one doctrine and that is the Holy Bible. Now I am not Catholic, but the Catholics that I know seem to follow the same doctrine however their interpretation of the doctrine and the religion that they choose deem it necessary to take further actions within the faith such as using symbolism as a method of prayer (i.e. rosary, lighting of candles, perpetual prayer, etc.). The only physical difference that i can see is how devout a person is willing to be and to what extent their devotion is.

Answer 6

TO "imacatholic2"

Your quotations of your pope and catholic websites has no bearings on Christians who do not acknowledge your pope. Stick with the issues at hand! so what if your pope says the sky is orange mixed with pink! when you look up what do you see? I think that you must be really brainwashed into believing the pope over the Bible...

NOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTION......
Catholics are Christians.... the difference is in their doctrines and how they believe a person attains salvation...

ex-catholic here..

Answer 7

"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.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html

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.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

catholicism has stuff that wasnt in the bible such as the pope with a huge ridiculous hat that means nothing because under God we are all exactly the same. i am equal to the pope. we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Both Catholics and Christians will go to heaven tho. Cuz we both believe that the only way to Heaven is through Jesus and he died for our sins.

Answer 9

I'm gonna have to go with Dan H on this one. The catholics look to their "pope" (pappa) as their spiritual leader; the Christians look to the Heavenly Father as, well, their Father. That and a whole lot more, but I really don't have the time to develop and write a 10 point expository essay marking the differences between the two. Nothing against Catholics, mind you.

Answer 10

That nun was misinformed, which is a little scary because she of all people should know that Catholics ARE Christians.