There are significant doctrinal differences between Roman Catholicism and other varieties.
By using the term *Roman Catholic* (which Roman Catholics do and apply to themselves) we are distinguishing between the different factions of Catholicism.
It’s hypocritical for Catholics to use the term Roman Catholic themselves and for themselves, and then whine about others using it as well.
RC is nothing more than an abbreviation for Roman Catholic, as RCC is for Roman Catholic Church, no different than any abbreviations used for Baptists, Lutherans, etc.
GARB = General Association of Regular Baptists
ELCA = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
PCA = Presbyterian Church in America
SBC = Southern Baptist Convention
Y’all Catholics need to get over yourselves and your martyr/persecution complex that sees everything that y’all don’t like as a personal offense. It doesn’t wear well when you claim it for yourself when it’s nothing more than being too easily offended.
IOW, GROW UP and quit your whining and trying to control everything everyone else does or says.
The Catholic church does not own the world, or our language or anyone’s soul. They have no right to control or try to control everything anyone else does.
Learn to live with it.
You have the Catholic Church and you have the Orthodox Church. Then you have 100,000 or more “Christian” anti-Biblical sects. Learn to live with it.
Another flame baiting thread?
Amen. Thank you.
They object that the Roman in RC leaves out Catholic churches in union with the pope but are not part of the Latin rite.
Yet it does not, but refers to Rome as being the seat of their supreme governance, and while certain RCs censure us for broadly using the Roman aspect, it seems leadership to which they are to look, as well as some sanctioned teaching, did not get the memo:
the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing -- Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis [a lie]
[Pope] Pius...each and every article contained in the profession of faith which the Holy Roman Church uses. http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/v1.htm
“By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.” - Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, 18 December 1208
the eminent cardinals of the holy Roman Church, - Exsurge Domine1 promulgated by Pope Leo X against Martin Luther
Pope Paul IV, Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio of 1559: ...in the unity of the Holy Roman Church and under obedience to Us
QUO PRIMUM TEMPORE, 4 July 1570... establishing the Traditional Roman Rite of Mass in order that all everywhere may adopt and observe what has been delivered to them by the Holy Roman Church,
Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, 18 December 1208: ...the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.”
Papal Bull Cantate Domino, by Pope Eugene IV, 1441: "The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church,
Q. Are there any other reasons to show that heretics, or Protestants who die out of the Roman Catholic Church, are not saved? A. There are several. They cannot be saved.... - Familiar Explanation of Christian Doctrine For the Family and More Advanced Students in Catholic Schools (1875); with imprimatur) ;http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2009/02/absurdity-of-separated-brethren.html
The Protestant goes directly to the Word of God for instruction, and to the throne of grace in his devotions; whilst the pious Roman Catholic consults the teaching of his church, and prefers to offer his prayers through the medium of the Virgin Mary and the saints. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12495a.htm
we are fairly certain today that, while the Fathers were not Roman Catholics as the thirteenth or nineteenth century world would have understood the term, they were, nonetheless, ‘Catholic,’ (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology)
Now only Catholics are hated. So much for unity. Does the author really think other Christians and conservatives are not also hated.