Look up Catholic, catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, or catholicism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Catholic may refer to:
Christian denominations
edit- The Catholic Church, the largest Christian church
- The Latin Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or Western Catholic Church
- The Eastern Catholic Churches, several Eastern churches in full communion with Catholic Church
- Independent Catholicism, churches that historically and culturally stem from Catholicism but broke away from the Catholic Church
- The Old Catholic Church, part of Independent Catholicism
- The Liberal Catholic Church, part of Independent Catholicism
- The Palmarian Catholic Church
- The Philippine Independent Church
- Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as:
- The Eastern Orthodox Church
- Oriental Orthodoxy
- The Assyrian Church of the East
- The Ancient Church of the East
- The Anglican churches
- Anglo-Catholicism, a movement within Anglican churches
- Evangelical Catholic Lutheranism
Terminology
edit- Catholic (term), an overview of the use of the term in the Four Marks of the Church (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic) of the Nicene Creed
- Catholicity, the core set of beliefs common to several Catholic denominations
Other uses
edit- Catholic (album), an album by Gavin Friday
- Catholics (novel), a 1972 novel by Brian Moore
- Catholics (film), a 1973 film directed by Jack Gold, based on the novel