[PAR35]

It is not the “Roman” Catholic Church, it is the Catholic Church.

Perhaps you need to educate a few Bishops:

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
http://www.diocesephoenix.org/main.html

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland
http://www.portlanddiocese.net/info.php?info_id=205

Etc.

Until then, keep your chip on your shoulder.

[hosepipe]

Removing Roman from Catholic will not be easy..
You know the Vatican being a separate "country"..
Although in Rome(vatican) they still want to be a World Power.. evidently..

"The cult rots from the hat on down.." -Pope Pipus I

[hosepipe]

Removing Roman from Catholic will not be easy..
You know the Vatican being a separate "country"..
Although in Rome(vatican) they still want to be a World Power.. evidently..

"The cult rots from the hat on down.." -Pope Pipus I
(you can quote me)...

[Mad Dawg]

The Roman Catholic Church to the extent that that name refers to anything is not conterminous or otherwise identical with the Catholic Church. Most of the matters we debate on FR are not matters pertaining to Latin Rite Catholics, but to the Catholic Church. The Catechism is not the "Cathecism of the Roman Catholic Church", but the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" which includes other groups in communion with the See of Rome.

I believe that as imposters arise who call themselves "Catholic" (an "old Catholic" preist, with malice aforethought tried to get me to come to a Mass he was celebrating, and called himself "Catholic" to me, knowing that I am a member of the Latin Rite) some official bodies have taken up the use of "Roman Catholic" to guard against imposters and as a concession to what in some cases is the quite innocent ignorance of some Protestants.

If you read Kipling's Kim, which in any event is a lot of fun, you will see a fictional incident of a Catholic Priest adopting the use "Roman Catholic" (complaining all the while) because he fears that some High Church Anglicans will "misunderstand" the use of "Catholic" all by itself.

Personally I don't find it very offensive. I do find willful persistence in ignorance remarkable, and willful persistence in prejudicial and offensive language after it is known to be imprecise and to give offense pathetic (in the strict sense, I don't mean it contemptuously), at least.

[Quix]

I think Rome dispenses shoulder chips with “holy” water, rosaries, wafers, plastic Magnificent Magical Earth-Mother Marys, Rubber Bibles, Rubber histories, Rubber dictionaries . . . it’s all part of their business, power-mongering monopoly of their magicsterical.