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Catholicism primarily designates the faith, doctrine, practice and system of the Catholic Church. It may also refer to:
- Catholicity, the core set of beliefs of various Christian denominations
- Christian denominations and movements including:
- Anglo-Catholicism, a religious movement of the Anglican Communion
- Affirming Catholicism, a religious movement within the Anglican Communion
- Black Catholicism, the expression of the Catholic Church among African Americans
- Eastern Catholicism, Eastern rite particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome
- Greek Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite (a.k.a. Greek Rite)
- Syriac Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Syriac Rite
- Folk Catholicism, a religious and social movement within the Catholic Church
- Independent Catholicism, an independent sacramental movement originally from the Catholic Church
- Old Catholicism, Western churches which separated from the see of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70
- Liberal Catholicism, the liberal branch within the Catholic Church
- National Catholicism, a nationalist branch within the Catholic Church in Francoist Spain
- Political Catholicism, the political and social doctrines of the Catholic Church
- Traditionalist Catholicism, a conservative religious movement within Catholicism
- Western Catholicism or Latin Catholicism
- Anglo-Catholicism, a religious movement of the Anglican Communion