In Europe, most of the rulers of the different nations started out as Catholics (before the protestant revolt), and their nations saw their Catholicism as part of their national character. Spain, France, and Italy are all prime examples. The New world, the government was not primarily Catholic, in the North, it was protestant, even puritan. Well, in the south it was pagan.
Catholicism originated as a European religion (and it remains centered in Italy, where the Vatican is located) however over the centuries it has spread widely across the world, and has more adherents outside of Europe than it has in Europe.
I think the end of the Roman Empire was when the ancient world ended and something more recognizable as the European world began.
Catholicism is the largest denomination within Christianity. Christianity itself is the largest religion in the entire world, hence Catholicism is a major world religion.
all over the world
Yes
Christianity is one of World's religions in fact it has the most adherents, approximately 2.1 billion. Catholicism (or Roman Catholicism): This is the oldest established western Christian church and the world's largest single religious body. (According to the CIA world fact book)
Russia, Britain, Germany, and I think the Netherlands
ummm i think its in the other world :)
south America
The "world" was created entirely out of nothing by God. Catholicism was created directly by God in order to show us all how to live, how to use this world, for what reason we were all created and how we are to live. Catholicism is the only religion in the world which guarantees an eternity of joy with God, and shows how the world makes sense, even as its worst.
The "3" world religions are Catholicism , Judaism , and Islam
because they thought that jesus would change the world for better.