Whats the difference between christianity and catholicism?

Pleaaase answer...whats the difference between christian and catholicism???

I'm not Christian or Catholic so I won't make a comment. One on this site states that Catholics are not true Christians...

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I have always thought that catholics were christians.

well im catholic. Catholics believe in The virgin mary and christians think that she is a fake! And well they just have different believes in everything said in the bible. what are u?

ok in christianity there are other religins in it which have other small beliefs but still belive in jesus and catholisim is one of those religions in it

Catholicism is a branch of Christianity. They are not different religions. They have the same core teachings and messages, with just a slight difference between a few details. Christians believe in the virgin Mary, although Catholics believe in her own immaculate conception and sinless life, which was thought up a few hundred years after the bible was written, and has no real basis in the bible. Catholics also believe that Mary is the mother of the Church, and that there are certain rituals (for want of a better word) that a person must go through before marriage and stuff, which other denominations don't really have.

Like b1ff stated, catholicism is a branch of christianity. The two major branches would be catholics and protestants (ofcourse each has it's own branches from there).

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'they copy christians and change things??'

Actually, Christianity was influenced by other, more ancient beliefs and mythology.

EVERY WHERE that the educated man / woman BEHOLDS ~They see the OBVIOUS & apparent CHANGE .. in the PUBLIC attitudes IN the colonies & packs & mobs of pagan Catholics across this disgusting planet.

This is The complete CHANGE .. towards the NON Catholic.

MOST Catholics don’t know what the Catholic church Really HISTORICALY Teaches. /\ ~~~OR Catholics continue TO PLAY along in the incurably servile & slavish FOUNDATIONAL - PILLAR of all Romes, Roman~tic games. { THE Game of catholicism …which is.~~{ worship of IGGY~NORANCE }

The catholic church Teaches the following, in documentation & historical creed

The catholic church Teaches THAT A HERETIC IS ANYONE Who DOES NOT BELIEVE Every Article of CATHOLIC Faith

That A HERETIC is Anyone WHO IS NOT A MEMBER of the CATHOLIC Church

That HERETICS CANNOT GAIN ETERNAL LIFE Unless They GIVE UP Their FAITH & BE United With the CATHOLIC Church

The catholic church Teaches HERETICs Are NOT CHRISTIANS & DO NOT Worship the True GOD or Jesus Christ

HERETICS Are to Be CONDEMNED & PUNISHED, Even Just ON SUSPECION Alone, & Are DENIED ANY DEFENSE

ALL LAWS & Statues of ANY COUNTRY Which Prevent the CONDEMNATION & EXECUTION of Heretics ARE Null & Void

The Catholic Church Declares ALL HERETICS Anathema & HERETICS Are to BE BURNED

The catholic church Teaches

“HE IS A HERETIC who does NOT believe what the Roman Hierarchy teaches.” American Textbook of Popery, p 164 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

'HERESY consists in a STUBBORN DENIAL of truths which have been DEFINED & proposed by the CHURCH as divinely revealed DOCTRINES.

'Any baptized PERSON who...obstinately DENIES or DOUBTS any of the truths PROPOSED for belief by divine & CATHOLIC FAITH, is a HERETIC.' Canon 1324-1325 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3543/heretic.htm

“He is a HERETIC who dEVIATES from any article of FAITH.” The American Textbook of Popery, p 143, (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

'Whoever 'obstinately' DENIES these (Catholic) truths, the DOCTRINAL commentary of Pope John Paul II says, falls under the censure of HERESY.' Our Sunday Visitor, Analysis, July 19, 1998.

A HERETIC is Anyone Who IS NOT a Member of the CATHOLIC Church

Whosoever will DEPART { From the CATHOLIC Church } must NEEDS be FOUND with HERETICS.' St. Cyprian, The Epistles of Cyprian, Epistle LXXIII, #11.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PATRISTC/ANF5_8.TXT

'So the Christian is A CATHOLIC as long as he LIVES IN THE BODY: cut off from it he becomes A HERETIC-the life of the spirit FOLLOWS not the amputated MEMBER.' St. Augustine, Sermon cclxvii., # 4 (Quoted by Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum (On the Unity of the

Church), Encyclical promulgated on June 29, 1896, #5.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_29061896_satis-cognitum_en.html

'Heretics bring SENTENCE upon themselves since they by THEIR OWN CHOICE withdraw from the CHURCH, a withdrawal which, since they are aware of it, constitutes DAMNATION.

St. Jerome: 'Commentary on Titus 3:10–11.'
http://www.catholic.com/library/Salvation_Outside_the_Church.asp

MISGUIDED PEOPLE attempt TO PERSUADE themselves & others THAT MEN ARE NOT SAVED ONLY IN THE CATHOLIC RELIGION, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.'

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (On Mixed Marriages), Encyclical promulgated on May 27, 1832, #2.

Heretics CANNOT Gain ETERNAL LIFE Unless They GIVE UP THEIR FAITH & BE United With the CATHOLIC Church

All OUTSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, Jews or heretics CANNOT SHARE IN ETERNAL life & will GO INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE which was prepared for the devil & his angels, UNLESS THEY ARE JOINED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Eugenius I've, in 'Bull of Union with the Copts', Council of Florence, Session 11, on February 4, 1442.

Heretics DO NOT Worship the TRUE GOD or Jesus Christ

'Heretics (those who are NOT MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH or who DO NOT HOLD TO CATHOLIC DOCTRINE) worship a GOD WHO IS A LIAR, & a CHRIST WHO IS A LIAR.'

St. Augustine, (quoted in 'Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graca', by Fr. J. P. Migne, Paris: 1866, 42:207).

'A MANIFEST HERETIC is NOT a CHRISTIAN

St. Cyprian, St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, & others.' St. Robert Bellarmine, 'On the Church Militant'.

Heretics Are to Be CONDEMNED & PUNISHED, Even Just ON SUSPECION ALONE, & Are DENIED Any DEFENSE

“ALL SECTS OF HERETICS ARE CONDEMNED & various PUNISHMENTS are appointed for them & their ACCOMPLICES.”

Pope Alexander I've, The American Textbook of Popery, p 135 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

“For the SUSPICION ALONE OF HERESY, purgation is DEMANDED.”

The American Textbook of Popery, p 156 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

“All defence is denied to heretics.” The American Textbook of Popery, p 153 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

ALL HERETICS, are assuredly to BE PUNISHED with suitable penalties OVER & ABOVE the PENALTIES imposed At the council of Ferrara*, ALL HERETICS, together TO receive their DESERVED PINISHMENT with Korah, & Dathan &...'… note ~~~{ THESE GUYS were swallowed alive up in a pit & died }

Pope Eugenius I've, in Decree of the Council of Florence Against the Synod at Basel, Council of Florence, Session 7, on September 4, 1439.

(* The Penalties of expelling HERETICS who have not left the city within the said thirty days ARE TO BE EJECTED OUT OF THE CITY... DENIED them all COMMERCE & all articles NEEDED FOR HUMAN USE..

..If there are SOME WHO IGNORE these ORDERS of ours, DARING perhaps TO CONVEY ………, since it is written that THE RIGHTEOUS PLUNDERED THE UNGODLY, such persons may be DESPOILED without penalty by any of the faithful & tHEIR GOODS SHALL BE CEDED TO THE FIRST TAKERS.

'Pope Eugenius I've, in Ecclesiastical Penalties Against Members of the Basel Synod, Council of Ferrara, Session 31, February 15, 1438.

'...schismatics, blasphemers & as HERETICS, to BE PUNISHED as TRAITORS, & to have incurred the aforesaid censures & PENALTIES, & others TO BE INFLICTED, according as it shall seem good & justice shall persuade...'

Pope Eugenius I've, in Monition of the Council of Florence Against the Antipope Felix V, Session 9, on March 23, 1440.

'Heretics bring SENTENCE upon themselves since they by their own choice WITHDRAW from the CHURCH, a withdrawal which, since they are aware of it, constitutes DAMNATION.'

St. Jerome: 'Commentary on Titus 3:10–11.'

A GENUINE CATHOLIC who CONTINUES steadfast in the catholic FAITH, who beleives - ONLY THOSE THINGS - which THE CATHOLIC CHURCH holds UNIVERSALLY

It is therefore an INDISPENSABLE OBLIGATION for ALL CATHOLICS to adhere to the faith of the Fathers, to preserve it, to die for it &, on the other hand, to DETEST the profane Men, [ any NON CATHOLIC ] to dread them, TO HARASS THEM, & to ATTACK THEM.'

St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitoria, PL 50:637, (quoted in The Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 6: 'The Book of Sentimental Excuses', Chapter 4: 'The Dogmas of Faith Admit No Alteration Whatsoever').

All Laws & Statues of Any Country Which Prevent the Condemnation & Execution of Heretics Are Null & Void

“Statutes THAT IMPEDE the EXECUTION of THE DUTIES which appertain to the office of INQUISITORS are NULL & VOID.”

Pope Urban I've, The American Textbook of Popery, p. 106 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).

The Catholic Church Declares All Heretics Anathema

“Cardinal (Of Lorraine). Anathema to all heretics.
“Answer Anathema, anathema.' The Council of Trent, 'Acclamations of the Father at the Close of the Council', Edited & translated by J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848).

Heretics Are to Be Burned

She ( THE Catholic Church) DOES NOT CONTENT HERSELF with persuasion, ARGUMENTS of an INTELLECTUAL & MORAL order appear to her INSUFFICIENT, & SHE has recourse to FORCE, to CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, to TORTURE.'

The Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, H.M.A. Baudrillart, quoted in The Catholic Church, The Renassance, & Protestantism, p 182-183.

[Martin] Luther, never burned a heretic.'..This is the ignorance or impudence of Luther.

Luther is convicted of impudence & falsehood,--for that heretics were often burned by the [Catholic Church may be proved from many examples.'

Jesuit Robert Bellarmine, in Disputationes de Controversiis, Tom. II, Lib. III, cap. XXII, 1628 edition.

'There are many unquestionable cases of Protestants punished as heretics in NEARLY ALL THE LANDS WHERE ROMAN CATHOLICS HAVE HAD POWER, right down to THE FRENCH REVOLUTION [of 1798].'

Catholic author G.G. Coulton, in The Death-Penalty for Heresy, Medieval Studies, No. 18, pp. 62, 1924 edition.

“A HERETIC MERITS the pains of FIRE...By THE GOSPEL, the canons, CIVIL LAW, & CUSTOM, heretics MUST BE BURNED.”

The American Textbook of Popery, p 164 (quoting from the “”).

HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE of HELL we find another BEAST ON THE...

SCATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SECOND EDITION # 841... 'The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the creator...,.IN THE FIRST PLACE amongst whom ARE '''THE MUSLIMS;...

...MUSLIMS; profess to hold the faith of abraham, and together WITH US [CATHOLICS]...THEY ADORE the ONE, merciful GOD,

..thats why the pope can kiss and stroke & BOW DOWN TO the unholy quran

Popes claim in catholic catechism 2 and ed 841 that''

muslims;...these profess to hold the faith of abraham, and together with us [catholics]...they adore the one, merciful god, mankind's judge on the last day

MAY 1985 SATANS POPE John Paul II repeats ROMES DECLARATION TO AUDIENCE OF THOUSANDS

THE POPE said: “CATHOLICS Muslims, WE have MANY THINGS IN COMMON as BELIEVERS and as human beings...WE BELIEVE IN THE SAME GOD

http://www.letusreason.org/RC25.htm & http://focusonjerusalem.com/tiesthatbind.html
,,,THE CATHOLIC GOD IS THE MUSLIM GOD

THATS WHY YOUR POPE CAN KISS & STROKE AND BOW TO THE UNHOLY QURAN

http://images.google.com/images?q=photos%20%20of%20pope%20kissing%20quran&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi

The catholic sect….Damns….and condemns…the BIBLE BELEIVER / non catholic Christ ian…… as LOST. Headed for hell…

The catholic sect….Damns….and condemns…the BIBLE BELEIVER / non catholic Christ ian…… ~~~as DESERVING of whatever punishment the POPES can manipulate their frenzied mobs of Catholics to perform…~~~at whatever point or bowel of history at any given time…possible.

The catholic sect….Damns….and condemns…the BIBLE BELEIVER / non catholic Christ ian…… as serving ANOTHER EVIL JESUS….

Rome SAYS

'Heretics / NOT MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ….. DO NOT HOLD TO CATHOLIC DOCTRINE) & worship a GOD WHO IS A LIAR, & CHRIST WHO IS A LIAR.'

BUT Muslims & ISLAM //OOH they ALL SERVE OUR GOD…..and we Kiss and BOW down to their QURAN
*& service ALLAH

THIS IS ROMES …ATTACK ON THE BIBLE AND ITS believers,,, [ CHRISTS CHURCH ‘ ]]] contradiction,,,IS,,manifested