2007-12-29 12:21:51 · 10 answers · asked by uncforever555 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Church is the assembly of the People that God has called together from the ends of the earth.
In Catholic usage, the word "Church" has three inseparable meanings:
+ The People that God gathers in the whole world
+ The local church (diocese)
+ The liturgical (above all Eucharistic) assembly
The Church draws her life from the Word and the Body of Christ, and so herself becomes Christ's Body.
In the Nicene Creed (from 325 C.E.), the Church is professed to be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.
A church is a building where "the" Church comes together to worship God.
With love in Christ.
2007-12-29 15:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding? I don't understand the question?
Let me see if I can break it down....
Look around at all the different churches [religions or physical buildings...which do you mean?]
here... [where? the US, the World?]
There is only one Catholic building [WHAT? NO, there are THOUSANDS of Catholic BUILDINGS, this makes no sense]
Wonder why this is?
Can't help you... there are thousands of Catholic BUILDINGS
all over the world.
WHY IS THAT? 'Cause everyone couldn't fit into just one BUILDING, both geographically and numerically.
There are 2 Catholic Buildings in my home town. There is 1 in the town about 7 miles away. There are like 20 Catholic BUILDINGS in the City about 30 miles away. This isn't counting all the OTHER Catholic Buildings in all the OTHER US towns, in Europe, in Latin America, in Africa, in Canada, and of course.. in Rome, Italy.
2007-12-29 13:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by John S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Around here there is only one catholic church too... but if you go to another place, like Cleveland or a lot of other areas you can't find a Baptist church no matter how you look. It is regional. People tend to go to the church of their family, and as families tend to stay in the same general geographic location, that is why there are more churches of a certain sort in any one place. There are no Lutheran churches here at all that I know of, but when we went to Minnesota they were everywhere. So go figure.
2007-12-29 12:31:29 · answer #3 · answered by CB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Demographics in your town, perhaps?
From where I sit, there are three.
I don't think you can draw any meaningful inference from the fact that there is one Catholic church building to X number of others, especially given that new non-denominational churches (or "Christian centers" as many now seem to be called) tend to pop up all the time.
2007-12-29 12:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably has to do with your location.
Here in San Francisco, there are some 30+ Roman Catholic Churches.
2007-12-29 12:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Feelin Randi? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian *believers* are the "church," not the various buildings where they gather to worship.
But in response to your query, I live in a city where 1 out of every 3 people is Catholic, and there are Catholic churches on almost every street, and usually about every 10 miles or so. Many of them have memberships in the thousands.
2007-12-29 12:29:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus does not live in a church or building, but in the hearts of men/women.
2007-12-29 12:25:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Location. Catholics are the majority where I live.
2007-12-29 12:30:25 · answer #8 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
fluke of location
where I grew up there were 9 in a city of 35000 maybe more dose not make them right
2007-12-29 12:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
catholicism is just another denomination. They are one of the many churches
2007-12-29 12:29:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋