Catholic

catholic English Etymology From en fro catholique, from en la catholicus, from en grc καθολικός universal, from grc κατά according to + grc ὅλος whole. Pronunciation en /ˈkæθəlɪk/ /ˈkæθlɪk/ RP,GA,CA,AU en En-us-Catholic.ogg GA en /ˈkɛθ(ə)lɪk/ NZ en /ˈkaθ(ə)lɪk/ Northern England,Scotland,SSB,Wales en [ˈkaf(ə)lɪk] th-fronting,nonstandard en æθəlɪk æθlɪk 3 2 en Cath ol ic Adjective en of Q842798 Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church. en Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars. en Christian#Adjective en Orthodox#Adjective en 2003 MacCulloch Diarmaid Diarmaid MacCulloch w:The Reformation: A History Penguin 9781101563953 xviii-xix Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity, for it is used in different ways which outside observers of Christian foibles find thoroughly confusing. The word ‘Catholic’ is the linguistic equivalent of a Russian doll. It may describe the whole Christian Church founded two thousand years ago in Palestine, or the western half of the Church which split from mainstream eastern Christianity a thousand years ago, or that part of the western half which remained loyal to the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) after the sixteenth century, or a Protestant European Christian who thought that the Bishop of Rome was Antichrist, or a modern ‘Anglo-Catholic’ faction within the Anglican Communion. How can the word describe all of these things and still have any meaning? I have written this book about the sixteenth-century Reformation in part to answer that question. The Reformation introduced many more complications to the word; in fact there were very many different Reformations, nearly all of which would have said that they were simply aimed at recreating authentic Catholic Christianity. For simplicity’s sake I will take for granted that this book examines multiple Reformations, some of which were directed by the Pope. From now on I will continue to use the shorthand term ‘Reformation’, but readers should therefore note that this is often intended to embrace both Protestantism and the religious movements commonly known as Tridentine Catholicism, the Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation: the revitalized part of the old Church which remained loyal to the Pope. ’Catholic’ is clearly a word which a lot of people want to possess. By contrast, it is remarkable how many religious labels started life as a sneer: the Reformation was full of angry words. en of Q9592 Of the Roman Catholic church in particular. en Christian#Adjective en Orthodox#Adjective Protestant#Adjective en The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic one. en Catholic churches are adorned differently from Protestant ones. en Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Rob Kuznia, John Miller Police examine online videos, writings possibly linked to Minneapolis church shooting suspect w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/robin-westman-minneapolis-church-shooting-suspect 2025-08-27 A 2017 yearbook photograph obtained by CNN shows Robert Westman, later known as Robin Westman, then a student at Annunciation Catholic grade school in Minneapolis. https://web.archive.org/web/20251002012702/http://cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/robin-westman-minneapolis-church-shooting-suspect en catholic. Derived terms en acatholic Anglo-Catholic anticatholic are bears Catholic,is a bear Catholic Catholically Catholic Church Catholic frog Catholicisation,Catholicization Catholicise,Catholicize Catholic Island Catholicism Catholicky Catholicly Greek Catholic Independent Catholic Independent Catholicism is the Pope Catholic neo-Catholic non-Catholic post-Catholic Descendants bi Katolik pis Katolik tpi Katolik Translations of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from the Orthodox church Amharic: am የካቶሊክ Arabic: ar كَاثُولِيكِيّ modern transliteration, ar جَاثَلِيقِيّ, ar كَتْلَكِيّ, ar كَاتُولِيكِيّ, ar كُوتَالِيّ Greek Catholic Armenian: hy Asturian: ast católicu Basque: eu Belarusian: be Breton: br Bulgarian: bg Burmese: my ကက်သလစ် Carpathian Rusyn: rue Catalan: ca catòlic Corsican: co Crimean Tatar: crh katolik Czech: cs katolický Danish: da katolsk Dutch: nl katholiek Emilian: egl catòlgo Esperanto: eo katolika Farefare: gur katolika Faroese: fo katólskur Finnish: fi katolinen, fi roomalaiskatolinen French: fr catholique Galician: gl católico Georgian: ka German: de katholisch Greek: el καθολικός m, el καθολική f Hebrew: he קתולי m katoli Hindi: hi कैथोलिक Hungarian: hu katolikus Hunsrik: hrx katolisch Icelandic: is kaþólskur Ido: io katolika Indonesian: id Katolik Irish: ga Caitliceach Italian: it cattolico Japanese: ja カトリック katorikku, ja カソリック kasorikku, ja 公教 kōkyō no 公教の Kashubian: csb Khmer: km កាតូលិក Latvian: lv katolisks Lithuanian: lt katalikiškas m, lt katalikiška f Low German: nds-de kathoolsch Luganda: lg omukatoliki Macedonian: mk католички Malay: ms Katolik Manx: gv Catoleagh Mongolian: mn Occitan: oc Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Persian: fa کاتولیک kâtolik Polish: pl katolicki Portuguese: pt católico Romanian: ro catolic Russian: ru католи́ческий Scottish Gaelic: gd Caitligeach, gd Catlaigeach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh ка̏толичкӣ m, sh католичка f Latin: sh kȁtoličkī m, sh katolička f Slovak: sk katolícky Slovene: sl Sogdian: sog ܩܬܘܠܝܩܐ kaθulikā Spanish: es católico Swahili: sw katoliki Ukrainian: uk католи́цький Urdu: ur کیتھولک kaitholik, ur کاتھولک kātholik Volapük: vo Welsh: cy Catholig of the Roman Catholic church Albanian: sq katolik m, sq katolike f Arabic: ar كَاثُولِيكِيّ modern transliteration, ar جَاثَلِيقِيّ, ar كَتْلَكِيّ, ar كَاتُولِيكِيّ, ar كُوتَالِيّ Greek Catholic Aromanian: rup catolic, rup catolichescu, rup lãtinescu, rup latinescu male, rup catolicã, rup catolicheascã, rup lãtineascã, rup latineascã female Bulgarian: bg католически Burmese: my ကက်သလစ် Catalan: ca catòlic Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 天主 tiānzhǔ, + -的 -de cmn 天主教 tiānzhǔjiào Czech: cs katolický m Dutch: nl rooms-katholiek Emilian: egl catòlgo Esperanto: eo katolika Finnish: fi katolinen, fi roomalaiskatolinen French: fr catholique German: de katholisch Greek: el ρωμαιοκαθολικός m, el ρωμαιοκαθολική f Hebrew: he קתולי katóli Hindi: hi कैथोलिक Hunsrik: hrx katolisch Indonesian: id Katolik Roma Irish: ga Caitliceach Italian: it cattolico Khmer: km កាតូលិក Latin: la catholicus Low German: German Low German: nds-de kathoolsch Macedonian: mk римокатолички m Māori: mi Pikopō, mi Katorika Polish: pl rzymskokatolicki Portuguese: pt católico Romanian: ro catolic m, ro catolică f Spanish: es católico romano Swahili: sw katoliki Swedish: sv katolsk Urdu: ur کیتھولک kaitholik, ur کاتھولک kātholik Uyghur: ug كاتولىك Vietnamese: vi Công giáo Welsh: cy Catholig, cy Rhufeinig Noun en member of Q842798 A member of a Catholic (western Christian) church. en Christian<id:Q106039> < religionist#Noun < person#Noun en Roman Catholic<id:Q7361618> Anglican#Noun Protestant#Noun Quaker#Noun en Orthodox#Noun en Q7361618 en elliptically often A member of the Roman Catholic Church (which is also elliptically called the Catholic Church). en Roman Catholic<id:Q7361618> en Orthodox#Noun Anglican#Noun Protestant#Noun Quaker#Noun en The wife of the Prime Minister is a Catholic. XXI II 254 The consubstantialists, who by their success have deserved and obtained the title of Catholics, gloried in the simplicity and steadiness of their own creed, and insulted the repeated variations of their adversaries, who were destitute of any certain rule of faith. Derived terms en Armenian Catholic post-Catholic Coptic Catholic Eritrean Catholic Ethiopian Catholic Greek Catholic Syriac Catholic Roman Catholic Translations member of a Catholic church Albanian: sq katolik m, sq katolike f Arabic: ar كَاثُولِيكِيّ ? modern transliteration, ar جَاثَلِيق ?, ar جَاثَلِيقِيّ ?, ar كَتْلَكِيّ ?, ar كَاتُولِيكِيّ ?, ar كُوتَالِيّ ? Greek Catholic Armenian: hy կաթոլիկ Aromanian: rup catolic, rup catulic, rup cãtulic, rup lãtin, rup latin male, rup catolicã, rup catulicã, rup cãtulicã, rup lãtinã, rup latinã female Belarusian: be като́лік m, be каталі́к m Bulgarian: bg католик m Catalan: ca catòlic m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 天主教徒 Tiānzhǔjiàotú Czech: cs katolík m, cs katolička f Danish: da katolik c Dutch: nl katholiek m Emilian: egl catòlgo m Esperanto: eo katoliko Faroese: fo katolikkur m Finnish: fi katolilainen French: fr catholique m f Galician: gl católico m German: de Katholik m, de Katholikin f Greek: el καθολικός m, el καθολική f Hindi: hi कैथोलिक m Hungarian: hu katolikus Icelandic: is kaþólikki m Ido: io katoliko Indonesian: id Katolik Irish: ga Caitliceach m Italian: it cattolico m, it cattolica f Kazakh: kk католик Khmer: km កាតូលិក Latvian: lv katolis m, lv katoliete f Lithuanian: lt katalikas m, lt katalikė f Macedonian: mk католик m Māori: mi Pikopō, mi Katorika Norwegian: Bokmål: nb katolikk m Nynorsk: nn katolikk m Old Ruthenian: zle-ort като́ликъ m, zle-ort каѳо́ликъ m, zle-ort кафо́ликъ m; zle-ort католи́чъка f Pannonian Rusyn: rsk католїк m, rsk католїкиня f Polish: pl katolik m, pl katoliczka f Portuguese: pt católico m Romanian: ro catolic m, ro catolică f Russian: ru като́лик m, ru католи́чка f Samogitian: sgs katalėks m, sgs katalėkė f Serbo-Croatian: sh katolik m Spanish: es católico m, es católica f Swahili: sw Mkatoliki Swedish: sv katolik c Thai: th คาทอลิก Ukrainian: uk като́лик m, uk католи́чка f Urdu: ur کیتھولک m kaitholik, ur کاتھولک m kātholik Vietnamese: vi người Công giáo Welsh: cy Catholig m Proper noun en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Catholic is the 160975th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 100 individuals. Catholic is most common among Black/African-American (92%) individuals. Anagrams en acchilot Chilcoat en Christianity People