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The Church of England in and of itself is a Protestant church. It split from the Catholic Church around 1526 under Henry VIII.
It was Copernicus's theory and Galileo had very little evidence for it at the time of his quarrel with the Vatican, as he discovered when they put him on trial and asked for the evidence.
Yes, the Catholic Church is around 1.2 billion in population. The rest of the other churches combined makes up only around 800 million.
The practice of indulgences began in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages, around the 11th century.
Catholics are Christians who have been baptized in the Church and believe in the Nicene Creed in its traditional interpretation. The Catholic Church was begun by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, around 33 A.D. so the Catholic Church is nearly 2,000 years old.
isn't that the Roman Catholic religion? i think they still practice it today
The Catholic church
Some Catholic ethologists saw them as heresy because they supported the Copernicus' discovery that the earth rotated around the sun. Catholic theology had endorsed the view of Ptolemy (an ancient Greek astronomer) that the sun rotated around the earth. The new discoveries clashed with the Catholic doctrine of the time. Galileo was lucky because the pope was not bother about these issue. This meant that his inquisition led to his house arrest.
The Catholic Church is the oldest, being founded by Christ. Protestant Churches began popping up only about 500 years ago.
There are many of them around the world. Most important are the ones in Ireland, like St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, the seat of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Roman Catholic AnswerThere is a big difference between worshipping God in a Catholic Church and worshipping Him in any other Christian ecclesial community. In the Catholic Church we worship God as He specified we should, and not how we want. As it is the worship that God, Himself, has requested, it is the "safest" worship around.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. The Catholic Church served to preserve learning throughout the "Dark Ages." It also tended to provide some cohesion to the disparate European states as well as an important arbiter of political disagreements.