The Church has celebrated Valentine's feast day since the year AD496.
We celebrate Valentine's Day, because until 1969, it was one of the many Saint's Days observed by the Catholic Church. It was dedicated to the patron saint of romantic causes, St. Valentine.
Their is only one head of the Roman Catholic church and that is the Pope whom God alone choose to run His church on a daily basis.Roman Catholic AnswerEvery Christian recognized the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, except for heretics, until the split with the Eastern Church in the 11th century.
No, however, the church in England was Catholic up until the protestant revolt in the sixteenth century when the Church of England was created.
Whenever saint is recognized by the Church they are assigned a feast day. Valentine was given February 14 until he was removed from the Calendar of Saints in 1969.
The Catholic Church is pro-life from conception until death. Euthanasia is not allowed.
Henry the VIII was a good roman catholic but he then turned into a protestant (church of England.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church remained the Catholic Church. It cannot "become" anything else, as Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to guide it until the end of time. It will remain His Body, it will remain One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. The Orthodox Church became schismatic (they are in schism from the Catholic Church).
Roman Catholic AnswerHis Holiness, Pope John Paul II, was supreme pastor of the Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.
the episcopal, because in the catholic church what is the practice of the first apostle is still practice until now.
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The Catholic Church, or simply "the Church": there was no other in medieval Europe, and it certainly wasn't referred to as the Roman Catholic Church until the protestant revolt in England centuries later. The center of the Church was in Rome; the word "catholic" means universal. It was meant as the "universal church", or the church for everybody.
Both churches and the Lutheran Church are "non reformed churches". They did not eliminate the rites of the Roman Catholic Church during the reformation. The Lutheran and Episcopal Churches are Protestant churches. The Lutheran church was founder by Martin Luther when he broke away from the Catholic Church and the Episcopalian church was formed when King Henry the eighth of England broke away from the Catholic Church and the Pope. He later took over all the churches and destroyed many of them. As a side note, all Christians were Roman Catholic until the 15th century.