it is a holy religion who also deals with jesus mother( maria guadlupe )
The Christian church has been know as the Catholic church since the apostles's time. Later, several "rites" developed. The largest and most well know (in the west) is the Latin Rite which is what we call Roman Catholicism; as the Latin rite was centered and takes its language from Rome.
It was the spanish last attepmt at restoring England to Cathloicism...Queen Elizabeth wanted protestanitsm