Catholic tells me your denomination, much as it would if I identified as methodist, baptist, butheran, etc. It tells me nothing of a persons relationship with Christ.
And here I am thinking identifying with Christ would do just that. Silly me.
btw...still waiting on your up or down on the fifth marian dogma....what say you? Yes or No?
A Christian is a person who has been baptized. It is anarchistic to define a “Christian” on the basis of subjective states of mind or emotion.
“Can. 96 By baptism one is incorporated into the Church of Christ and is constituted a person in it with the duties and rights which are proper to Christians in keeping with their condition, insofar as they are in ecclesiastical communion and unless a legitimately issued sanction stands in the way.”
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PC.HTM
I don’t even know which Marian doctrine is the “fifth.” I’ve never seen them numbered.