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What is the main difference between roman Catholic and Irish Catholic?
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∙ 14y ago
There is no "Roman Catholicism" except, perhaps, Catholicism as practiced by a native of Rome, Italy. 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. Similarily,
there is no "Irish Catholicism" except, again, perhaps Catholicism as practiced by the Irish. There is only one Catholic Church, which has the same set of beliefs for all its members the world over.
That being said, if you want to know about the cultural differences between Catholicism as practiced in Ireland and that in Rome, there was an old saying when I was growing up, "Rome makes the laws, but the Irish keep them." There was a lot of truth in that. Ireland, for many years provided missionaries for the entire world. The Irish converted Europe, for years sent priests and nuns to Africa and America. Rome is just a city in Italy, but their Catholicism is wrapped up with the Pope, as the Vatican is in Rome, and they can go see the Vatican and the Pope at any time.
Sadly, most differences are dissolved in the post-modern
relativism. Catholicism is practically moribund in Ireland and Italy at this point, although Rome still has the Vatican and the Holy Father. But both civilizations are falling to modern errors and modern sins, and both are starting to look more than a little Muslim and their Catholicism has gone by the way, in a great many cases.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoIrish Catholics are as Catholic as anyone else who professes the Catholic Faith. "Differences" might be found in particular devotions, saints and cultural customs that the Irish celebrate, but these are not so much differences as venues of expression.
There isn't one. A catholic, is a catholic. Roman catholic is the catholism practised today, but it doesn't mean they're roman. Irish catholics are Roman catholics. American catholics are Roman catholics. Italian catholics are Roman catholics. It doesn't mean they're roman, but rome was where it origiated, that's why the pope lives there.
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∙ 14y agoIrish Catholic refers to Roman Catholics from Ireland or of Irish descent.
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∙ 15y ago'Roman Catholic' is the correct term for the brand of Catholicism practiced today. Irish Catholics are (Roman) Catholics who live in predominately Protestant Ireland.
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∙ 12y agoNothing, Irish Catholics are Roman Catholics.
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