what is the difference between a cathlic and a christian?

Answer 1

Lok at this comparison

http://www.carm.org/catholic/grid.htm

Answer 2

Catholics are Christians. In fact, Catholicism is the original Christian religion. The other Christian religions are groups that broke off from Catholicism for various reasons.

One common reason is the importance given Mother Mary.

Another common reason is the idea of forgiveness - in the Catholic religion, your status at the time of your death has more importance than how you've lived your life. A lot of Christian religions may believe in forgiveness, but the idea that a sudden change in heart on your death bed wipes out the consequences of a life of crime and immoral behavior bothers them.

Another common reason is Catholicism almost seems to imply life is mostly left up to fate while most Protestant religions believe a person controls their own fate (watch the difference between how religion is portrayed in John Wayne westerns and Clint Eastwood westerns to understand what I mean - the Clint Eastwood westerns were made in Italy by a Catholic director).

There's suble differences between almost all Christian religions (Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, etc), but they're all still Christians.

Answer 3

Ignore CJ and his ilk -- they're in for a big surprise when they stand before the Judgement Seat of God and find out what He really thinks of narrow-minded, hate-filled bigots.

Catholics are one denomination of Christianity, just like Baptists and Episcopalians, etc. We worship the same God as all other Christians do, and we believe that the only means of salvation is through the shed Blood of Jesus Christ. Without His sacrificial offering on the Cross, there is no redemption.

That makes us Christians who belong to the Roman Catholic church.

Edit:

Just FYI, we Catholics honor Mary as Christ's mother, but we certainly don't worship her. Worship is reserved for God alone. On that same subject, we don't place the Pope above God. The Pope is a human being, not the Lord of Heaven.

Catholics *do* read the Bible, and we hear it every week at Mass, too. We're encouraged to study and learn the Word of God.

Any other misconceptions about the Church that I can clear up for someone? If so, please feel free to ask.

Answer 4

None. The first Christians were Catholics. Later on, others who split from the original Church which Jesus founded, also claimed to be Christians.
Those who follow Christ and believe in the Apostles Creed can call themselves Christian, but there are many sects, such as Jehovah's Witnesses who deny that Jesus was God, and therefore cannot be called Christian.

Answer 5

Catholics were the original Christians. All other Christian religions are "Protestants" - because they protested against the Catholic church and formed their own churches.

Some of the Protestant Christians will tell you that Catholics are going to hell because they are not accepting/worshiping Jesus in the "right" way.

Just to clarify - I'm not a Catholic or a Protestant Christian. I'm a Religious Scientist - and I believe that everybody should choose whatever religion serves them best.

God is LOVE.

Namaste!!

Answer 6

Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.

Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.) Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy.

The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin: Any merely human organization would have collapsed long ago. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with 1.3 billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Pillar.asp

Answer 7

Catholicism is a denomination within Christianity. As the old saying goes, not all Christians are Catholics, but all Catholics are Christians. Catholics are Trinitarian Christians. There are differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, though, and those involve various doctrinal issues, including the Papacy, the role of Mary, observance of the sacraments, and other matters.

Answer 8

Catholicism is a religion with in Christianity. A Christian is someone who believes in Jesus and tries to live as he would want them to. Catholics, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, and many others all fall under the category of Christianity.

Answer 9

All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. The main difference between Catholicism and other denominations of Christianity is the Pope. Best of luck

Answer 10

Cathlic maybe related to cats and Christian I haven´t seen him for 30 yrs!

Answer 11

Do you mean protestant and catholic? Because catholics are Christians. There are a lot of big differences between the two. i try to focus on the similarities.