What is an apostolic Catholic church? How is it different from Roman Catholic?

Answer 1

They are the same.

The Catholic Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways:

+ She was and remains built on the foundation of the Apostles, the witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;

+ With the help of the Holy Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching, the words she has heard from the apostles;

+ She continues to be taught, sanctified, and guided by the apostles until Christ's return, through their successors, the college of bishops, in union with the successor of Simon Peter, the Church's supreme pastor, the Pope.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 857: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#857

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No difference. The Roman Catholic church is the same as the original Apostolic Catholic Church that Jesus Christ established.

Eph 4:3-6 One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father
Jn 15:16 Jesus chose special men to be His Apostles
Jn 20:21 Jesus gave these Apostles His own mission
Lk 22:29-30 Jesus gave these Apostles a Kingdom
Mt 16:18 Jesus built His Church upon Saint Peter, the rock.
Jn 10:16 one shepherd to shepherd Christ sheep
Lk 22:32 Peter appointed chief shepherd
Jn 21:17 Peter appointed chief shepherd
Eph 4:11 Jesus Church is hierarchical
1 Tim 3:1 Identifies the roles of Bishops, priests and deacons in the Catholic Church established by Jesus
1 Tim 8 Identifies the roles of Bishops, priests and deacons in the Catholic Church established by Jesus
1 Tim 5:17 Identifies the roles of Bishops, priests and deacons in the Catholic Church established by Jesus
Tit 1:5 Commissions the Catholic Bishops to ordain Catholic priest.
Rom 12:4-5 Although many, we are One Body in Christ.

Answer 3

It isn't. The Roman Catholic Church is the Apostolic Church, meaning the bishops trace a line of succession back to the Apostles.

Answer 4

Apostolic church folows what the apostles taught and expounds on them.jesus did not teach much about how to carry out in normal living but the apostles did.catholisism is partly paganish----Not in a bad way but it adapted some of the pagan way of dressing and worshiping although the object of worship is Jesus Christ and not the sun as was the case in those times.

Answer 5

I love people who claim that Catholicism is not "true" Christianity. Ironically, these are typically fallen Christians who have been "saved", and now have come to Christ, and think that gives them carte blanc authority to condemn other faiths.

A journey through the ages would reveal to the traveller a few interesting tidbits of information. First and foremost they would discover that the word Catholic stems from the root word Katholos, in Greek, meaning UNIVERSAL. Simply put, this word was chosen and used in the Nicean Creed, also known as the Apostles Creed, to pledge belief in the teachings of the new religion, i.e. Christianity. Intertingly enough, early Christians didn't refer to themselves as Christian; they were, in fact, practicing Jews who happened to follow the additional teachings of Christ (Jesus was a devout Jew, remember? His Father was the God of Abraham, teh God of Isaac, the God of David).

You will also note that I mentioned the word Apostle above. This is also taken from ancient Greek (which, to point out, was the main language used throughout the trading community that was the Mediterranean basin in olden times), Apostolos, meaning "one who is sent out", or "one who is entrusted with a mission". So, in fact, the Christain Church was Apostolic, because the followers and leaders of the faith, particularly those disciples (ironically NOT originating in ancient Greek, but the Latin discipulus, meaning "follower" or "student"), but also others in the Church who went forth from their own lands to spread the Word of Christ to the world.

So, to answer your question: From the Nicean Creed - ..."One holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church..."
the term Catholic was first used by Ignatiius of Antioch in a letter written circa 107 AD, writing in support of the authority of the bishops to the people of the Church: "..Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." In short, any faith who follows the doctrine of Apostolic Succession, that being the spiritual succession by bishops in the church from the original 12 Apostles through holy consecration. So, in short, the Catholic church IS an Apostolic Church, with lineage traced back to the original twelve, including St. Peter as the first appointed (by Christ) leader of the new faith.

Now, Roman Catholic has its own story. there are currently worlwide two recognized Catholic "Churches", the Western Orthodox Church, which acknowledges the authority of the Pose (the "Bishop of Rome", spiritual successor of St. Peter), and the Eastern Orthodox Church, which also recognizes the Papal authority, but the College of Bishops as well, (recognized as the spiritual successors of the Twelve Apostles, with the Pope as its spiritual leader) for leadership in all earthly and spiritual maters.

While the term Catholic is used throughout the world amongst practitioners of the Catholic faith, it is interesting to note that intercommunication between the Eastern and Western orhtodoxies rarely if ever utilize the term "Roman Catholic". The term did not arise in use until the 17th century, and was likely a reference to the recognized location of the Holy See in Rome. Another justification given is that the Roman Emperor Constantine declared Catholicism to be the offical state religion of the Roman Empire, after having a vision in a dream just prior to a major battle, which resulted in the application of crosses to the shields of Roman soldiers and subsequently resulted in a major victory for the Roman army.

To respond preemptively to naysayers: trace the lineage of any "protestant" religion (defintition - one who makes a protest), and you will end with Martin Luther, the leader of the "reformation", who rejected some, but not ALL, of the principles and beliefs of the Early Christian Church (i.e. Catholic), or another leader (i.e. Henry VIII in England, who rejected papal authority, austensibly because the Pope refused to annul his mariage to Catherine of Avalon, and he just wasn't going to have someone tell HIM what he could and couldn't do; he was, after all, the KING of England) who rejected Papal authority and replaced it with their own. Very rarely, if the truth be known, was the dispute over theological reasons, but over control. Where did the protestant dissenters originate their faith beliefs? In what we now know as the Catholic Church.

Answer 6

Aoistolic is what we are, meaning we have a dirrect line to the Apostiles