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To: Coleus
I don't think they're really Catholic at all, not even "Catholic in Name Only".

What Catholic calls himself a "Roman Catholic"?

The Episcopalians call them "Romans" in order to distinguish them from the "Anglo-Catholics", and other protestants call them "Roman Catholics" to distinguish them from "catholic" small-c meaning "universal".

I suspect this is one or two people who have given themselves a fancy name, sort of like that "Catholics for a Free Choice" group.

28 posted on 05/23/2008 7:17:25 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
What Catholic calls himself a "Roman Catholic"?

Plenty of us do and my dog tags, which I still carry with me everyday, state my religious preference as ROMAN CATHOLIC. While it can be used as a pejorative by Catholic bashers, there is no shame in calling oneself a Roman Catholic.

30 posted on 05/24/2008 10:01:09 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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