History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominatio ...

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• Roman Catholic Church - Overview
• Roman Catholic Church - Terminology
• Roman Catholic Church - Beliefs
• Roman Catholic Church - The nature of God
• Roman Catholic Church - Humanity's separation from God
• Roman Catholic Church - The role of the Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Magisterium
• Roman Catholic Church - Salvation
• Roman Catholic Church - The Christian Path
• Roman Catholic Church - Social teaching
• Roman Catholic Church - Liturgy
• Roman Catholic Church - Sacraments
• Roman Catholic Church - Relations with other Christians
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular Churches within the single Catholic Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular Churches or Rites
• Roman Catholic Church - Particular or local Churches
• Roman Catholic Church - Theological significance
• Roman Catholic Church - Note on liturgical rites in use within the Latin or Western Church
• Roman Catholic Church - Liturgical rites currently in use within the Catholic Church of Latin Rite
• Roman Catholic Church - Defunct Catholic Western liturgical rites
• Roman Catholic Church - The hierarchical constitution of the Church
• Roman Catholic Church - The Pope
• Roman Catholic Church - The cardinalate
• Roman Catholic Church - The episcopate
• Roman Catholic Church - Priests and deacons
• Roman Catholic Church - The consecrated life
• Roman Catholic Church - Worldwide distribution
• Roman Catholic Church - Criticisms and controversies
• Roman Catholic Church - Historical criticism
• Roman Catholic Church - Contemporary criticism

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In Western Christianity the principal groups that regard themselves as "Catholic" without full communion with the Pope are the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and some elements of Anglicanism ("High Church Anglicans" or "Anglo-Catholics"). Smaller groups include the Old Catholics, the Aglipayans (Philippine Independent Church), and the Polish National Catholic Church of America. Their spiritual beliefs and practices are similar to those of Roman Catholics of the Latin Rite, from which they emerged, but ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations C ...

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• Catholicism - Catholic Church
• Catholicism - Brief organizational history of the Church
• Catholicism - The Roman Catholic Church
• Catholicism - Other Catholic groups
• Catholicism - Distinctive beliefs and practices
• Catholicism - Beliefs
• Catholicism - Sacraments
• Catholicism - Footnotes
• Catholicism - Sources
• Catholicism - Additional reading

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In Roman Catholicism, a dogmatic definition is an infallible statement published by a pope or an ecumenical council concerning a matter of faith or morals, the belief in which the Roman Catholic Church requires of all Christians (although Christians who are not Catholic do not recognize the Roman Catholic Church's authority in such matters). Contrary to the stereotype that Catholics think that everything that the pope says is infallible, dogmatic definitions by popes are in fact very rare. Among them are the definition by Pope ...

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• Dogmatic definition - Infallibility in non-Catholic churches

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Traditionalist Catholic and traditional Catholic are terms used to refer to Roman Catholics who want to see the worship and customs of the general body of Roman Catholics return to those prevailing before the reforms of the 1960s. Many of them claim that, since then, the presentation and the understanding of the Church's teaching have changed, at least in emphasis, to an unacceptable degree; some exclude from the meaning of the two terms those whose views on this matter are more liberal. Traditionalist Cath ...

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• Traditionalist Catholic - Survey of traditional groups
• Traditionalist Catholic - Traditionalist beliefs
• Traditionalist Catholic - Places of worship
• Traditionalist Catholic - Relations with other Catholic groups
• Traditionalist Catholic - Relations with the Holy See
• Traditionalist Catholic - Doctrinal and Liturgical Issues
• Traditionalist Catholic - Important Figures
• Traditionalist Catholic - Historical Events
• Traditionalist Catholic - Notable Organizations

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Charismatic Catholicism, also known as Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement within the Roman Catholic Church which adopts certain practices and beliefs more commonly associated with the Pentecostal movement within Protestantism. Worship services are characterized by a high energy Mass, as well as prayer meetings featuring prophecy and sometimes glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues." Some supporters within this movement see it as based on the belief that certain charisms (a Greek word for gifts), such as the ...

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• Catholic Charismatic Renewal - Origins
• Catholic Charismatic Renewal - Reaction from the Church hierarchy
• Catholic Charismatic Renewal - Relation to other charismatic movements

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Confirmation is a rite used in many Christian churches. Though beliefs about confirmation differ among traditions, it is commonly seen as a mature statement of faith of a person already baptised. Customarily, it is done during adolescence, and, as such, is often seen as a rite of passage. In some traditions, confirmation is seen as a sacrament. Confirmation sacrament - Roman Catholic views. In the Roman Catholic Church, confirmation is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ for the conferra ...

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• Confirmation sacrament - Roman Catholic views
• Confirmation sacrament - Orthodox views
• Confirmation sacrament - Anglican/Episcopal views
• Confirmation sacrament - Protestant views
• Confirmation sacrament - Latter-day Saint views
• Confirmation sacrament - Each person is confirmed at most once

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Articles of faith are formal creeds, or lists of beliefs, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with "We believe...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion and/or church. Articles of faith are common in both Christianity and Islam. Articles of Faith - Catholicism. The Nicene Creed and the shorter Apostles' Creed are articles, or professions of Faith said by members of the Roman Catholic Church. The Nicene is predominantly recited during the Catholic mass while t ...

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• Articles of Faith - Catholicism
• Articles of Faith - Mormonism
• Articles of Faith - Protestantism
• Articles of Faith - Islam

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The Donatists (founded by the Berber Christian Donatus Magnus) were followers of a belief considered a heresy by the broader Catholic community. They lived in Roman Africa, and flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries. Donatist - The Donatist churches. Their primary disagreement with the rest of the Church was over the treatment of those who forsook their faith during the Persecution (303–305 AD) of Diocletian. The rest of the Church was far more forgiving of these people than the Donatists were. They ...

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• Donatist - The Donatist churches
• Donatist - Donatist Bishops
• Donatist - Donatist Bishops of Carthage
• Donatist - Donatist Bishops of Rome
• Donatist - Donatist used as an epithet
• Donatist - Bibliography

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The Apostles' Creed (in Latin, Symbolum Apostolorum), is an early statement of Christian belief, possibly from the first or second century, but more likely post-Nicene Creed in the early 4th Century AD. The theological specifics of the creed appear to be a refutation of Gnosticism, an early heresy. The Apostles' Creed is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical churches of Western tradition, including Roman (Latin-rite) Catholic churches, Lutheran churches, member churches of the A ...

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• Apostles' Creed - Text of the Creed
• Apostles' Creed - Ecumenical Translation into English ICET/ELLC
• Apostles' Creed - Variations in Liturgical Use
• Apostles' Creed - Translation of inferos
• Apostles' Creed - Methodism
• Apostles' Creed - Rites of Baptism in Western Liturgical Christianity
• Apostles' Creed - Episcopal Church USA
• Apostles' Creed - Roman Catholic and Lutheran Rite of Baptism
• Apostles' Creed - Roman Catholic Profession of Faith at Mass
• Apostles' Creed - Origin of the Creed
• Apostles' Creed - Theological issues

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The Blessed Virgin Mary, sometimes shortened to The Blessed Virgin is a traditional title specifically used by Roman Catholics, Anglo-Catholics and others to describe Mary, the mother of Jesus. It carries with it a belief not merely in the virginity of Mary, but of her continuing role within the church and in the life of ordinary Catholics, for which Roman Catholicism in the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (21 November 1964), passed during the Second Vatican Council, granted her the title Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Ad ...

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• Blessed Virgin Mary - The Blessed Virgin Mary in Catholicism
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Marian prayers
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Apparitions
• Blessed Virgin Mary - The Immaculate Conception
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Dogma of the Assumption
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Mary as Co-Redemptrix
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Accusations of idolatry
• Blessed Virgin Mary - Marian titles and feast days in the Roman Catholic Church

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In Christian theology, several belief systems that hold, for various reasons, that reason is irrelevant to religious faith have been labelled as fideism. The word is also occasionally used to refer to the Protestant belief that Christians are saved by faith alone: for which see sola fide. This position is sometimes called solifidianism. Fideism - The logic of fideism. Alvin Plantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone, accompanied by a consequent disp ...

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• Fideism - The logic of fideism
• Fideism - Fideism in Christianity
• Fideism - Tertullian and fideism
• Fideism - Blaise Pascal and fideism
• Fideism - Kierkegaard and fideism
• Fideism - Fideism and presuppositional apologetics
• Fideism - Theologies opposed to fideism
• Fideism - Fideism rejected by the Roman Catholic Church
• Fideism - The Christological argument in Protestantism
• Fideism - Fideism in Islam
• Fideism - External link

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Culture of Haiti - Religion of Haiti. In Haiti there are four religions: Catholic , Protestant, Islamic , and Voodoo. Although the official religion of Haiti, as inherited from the French colonialists, is Roman Catholicism, about 50% of the population believes in Voodooism, a religion that arose from the slavery-era. The Voodoo religion has been the subject of much repression and misunderstanding in the country's history. Some Christian missionaries incorrectly believe that it is worship of Satan. Such beliefs ex ...

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• Culture of Haiti - Religion of Haiti
• Culture of Haiti - Prostestant Churches
• Culture of Haiti - Literature of Haiti

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A sermon is an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, or religious topic, usually expounding on a type of belief or law. Sermon - The delivery of sermons. Sermons are usually, but not always, delivered in a house of worship, most of which have a pulpit or ambo, an elevated architectural feature from which sermons are given. Sermons are occasionally known as homilies, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and similar traditions. The word "sermon" comes ...

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• Sermon - The delivery of sermons
• Sermon - Famous preachers of sermons
• Sermon - The sermon takes center stage in Protestantism
• Sermon - Notable preachers of sermons
• Sermon - Types of sermons
• Sermon - Delivery methods
• Sermon - Sermons and sexual psychology

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Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the convert's previous beliefs; in some cultures (e.g. Judaism) conversion also signifies joining an ethnic group as well as adopting that group's religious beliefs. Conversion requires internalization of the new belief system. Proselytizing is the act of trying to convert another individual from the convertee's religion to the converter's religion. Religious conversion - Religious conversion in international law. T ...

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• Religious conversion - Religious conversion in international law
• Religious conversion - The convert/proselyte
• Religious conversion - Conversion to Judaism
• Religious conversion - Procedure
• Religious conversion - Conversion to Judaism in history
• Religious conversion - Relationship with converts
• Religious conversion - Differences between Jewish and Christian views
• Religious conversion - Conversion to Christianity
• Religious conversion - Reception of baptized persons into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church
• Religious conversion - Conversion of Catholics to Protestantism
• Religious conversion - Conversion to Islam
• Religious conversion - Conversion to religions of Indic origin
• Religious conversion - Conversion to new religious movements and cults
• Religious conversion - Conversion to Scientology
• Religious conversion - Prohibition of conversion
• Religious conversion - Proselytism
• Religious conversion - History
• Religious conversion - Issues involving proselytism

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Catharism was a religious movement with Gnostic elements that originated around the middle of the 10th century, branded by the contemporary Roman Catholic Church as heretical. It existed throughout much of Western Europe, but its home was in Languedoc and surrounding areas in southern France. The name Cathar most likely originated from Greek καθαροί, "pure ones". One of the first recorded uses is Eckbert von Schönau, who wrote on heretics from Colog ...

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• Cathar - Origins
• Cathar - Beliefs
• Cathar - The human condition
• Cathar - Eschatology
• Cathar - Consolamentum
• Cathar - Theology
• Cathar - Social relationships
• Cathar - Suppression
• Cathar - Influences
• Cathar - The Holy Grail
• Cathar - Visigoths

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The Customs and Traditions of the Philippines are strongly influenced by the culture of Spain, Mexico and the Roman Catholic religion. Each year, Filipinos from around the country hold major festivities known as Barrio Fiesta which commemorate the patron saints of the town, villages and regional districts. The festival season is celebrated with church ceremonies, street parades in honor of the patron saints, fireworks, beauty and dance contests for generations of old and new, and cockfighting tournaments. Culture of the ...

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• Culture of the Philippines - Philippine Society
• Culture of the Philippines - Other minorities
• Culture of the Philippines - The Filipino Culture Psyche
• Culture of the Philippines - Celebrations
• Culture of the Philippines - Major festivals
• Culture of the Philippines - Other religious festivals
• Culture of the Philippines - National Holidays
• Culture of the Philippines - Arts
• Culture of the Philippines - Cuisine
• Culture of the Philippines - Heritage
• Culture of the Philippines - Music
• Culture of the Philippines - Literature
• Culture of the Philippines - Sports
• Culture of the Philippines - Folk Traditions and Beliefs

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Catholicism - Beliefs. Catholic Churches share certain essential distinctive beliefs and practices (though some Anglicans and Lutherans differ in regard to emphasis and particular pieties): Direct and continuous organizational descent from the original church founded by Jesus (see e.g. Mt 16:18). Possession of the "threefold ordained ministry" of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. All ministers are ordained by, and subject to, Bishops, who pass down sacramental authority by the "laying-o ...

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Catholicism, Catholicism - Catholic Church, Catholicism - Brief organizational history of the Church, Catholicism - The Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism - Other Catholic groups, Catholicism - Distinctive beliefs and practices, Catholicism - Beliefs, Catholicism - Sacraments, Catholicism - Footnotes, Catholicism - Sources, Catholicism - Additional reading

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A letter that, in about 107, Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch wrote to Christians in Smyrna, is the earliest surviving witness to the use of the term "catholic Church" (Smyrnaeans, 8).[1] By it Saint Ignatius designated the Christian Church in its universal aspect, excluding heretics, such as those who disavow "the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again" (Smyrnaeans, 7).[2] He called such people "beasts in the shape of men, whom you must not only not receive, but, if it be po ...

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Catholicism, Catholicism - Catholic Church, Catholicism - Brief organizational history of the Church, Catholicism - The Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism - Other Catholic groups, Catholicism - Distinctive beliefs and practices, Catholicism - Beliefs, Catholicism - Sacraments, Catholicism - Footnotes, Catholicism - Sources, Catholicism - Additional reading

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