is there such a church under papacy rule that is simply called catholic?

Question

but do not claim to be roman catholic?...very serious question

TigerLily: why do you and Susan J have an aversion to calling yourself roman catholic? Susan J explicitly claims that she is NOT roman catholic....simply "catholic". i asked this question because of my discussions with Susan as you very well know. you both believe Father K to be Catholic. He is not...he is protestant...even though he claims to be catholic. and like Susan he denies being Roman Catholic and rightly so. Anglican Catholics are not at present in FULL UNION with Roman Catholic Church. i ask you to ask your parish priest whether he has the same aversion as you and susan have to being mistaken o known as roman catholic. like i informed you in private i too only refer to myself as catholic if asked in my personal life however i find it necessary to be specific here on R&S....therefore i proudly proclaim my roman catholicism.

Answer 1

Kind of.

The entire Church lead by the Pope is simply called Catholic.

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:
http://www.byzcath.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=62
+ 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

In addition, 400,000 traditional Anglicans worldwide have asked to be admitted into the Catholic Church: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0706103.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

There are 23 Rites of the Catholic Church in full communion. Additionally there are two groups who are seeking communion but are not yet in full communion which are the Oriental Catholics and the PNCC Catholics.

There are other groups as well such as the Old Catholics from the union of Utrecht. Then there are the traditionalists and the Sedevacantists.

In Christ
fr. Joseph

Answer 3

Roman Catholic was first coined by the Anglican Church as a derrogatory term towards those Catholics who still swore allegiance to the Papacy.

The Catholic Church since then has assimilated that title to serve a greater good.

There are other Catholic Churches that are in full communion with Rome..

The autonomous Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See are:

Of Alexandrian liturgical tradition:
Coptic Catholic Church
Ethiopic Catholic Church
Of Antiochian liturgical tradition:
Maronite Church
Syrian Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Of Armenian liturgical tradition:
Armenian Catholic Church
Of 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 United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
Ruthenian Catholic Church
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Of Chaldean or East Syrian tradition:
Chaldean Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Church
Of Western liturgical tradition:
Latin Church[2]

Answer 4

not possible. The Roman Bishop, the Pope, governs the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 5

No. There's always greater description to any organized religions. It's Roman Catholic at the very least. Ukrainian Catholic to indicate ethnic group. Just Catholic doesn't exist!

Answer 6

Thank you imacatholic2, that is what Susan and I have been trying to tell you, we don't call ourselves Roman Catholics just Catholics, it is still the same thing and same Church and same Pope just that we drop the Roman part