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What is the difference between the Church of England faith and catholosism?
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∙ 13y ago
from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994
759 "The eternal Father, in accordance with the utterly gratuitous and mysterious design of his wisdom and goodness, created the whole universe and chose to raise up men to share his own divine life." (Lumen gentium 2) to which he calls all men in his Son. "The Father . . . determined to call together in a holy Church those who should believe in Christ." (Lumen gentium 2) This "family of God" is gradually formed and takes shape during the stages of human history, in keeping with the Father's plan. In fact, "already present in figure at the beginning of the world, this Church was prepared in marvelous fashion in the history of the people of Israel and the old Alliance. Established in this last age of the world and made manifest in the outpouring of the Spirit, it will be brought to glorious completion at the end of time. (Lumen gentium 2)
766 The Church is born primarily of Christ's total self-giving for our salvation, anticipated in the institution of the Eucharist and fulfilled on the cross. "The origin and growth of the church are symbolized by the blood and water which flowed from the open side of Christ as he slept the sleep of death upon the cross that there came forth the 'wondrous sacrament of the whole Church.'" Sacrosanctum concilium 5) As Eve was formed from the sleeping Adam's side, so the church was born from the pierced heart of Christ hanging dead on the cross. (Cf. St. Ambrose, In Luc. 2, 85-89: J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina {Paris: 1841-1855} 15, 1666-1668)
767 "When the work which the Father gave the Son to do on earth was accomplished, the Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost in order that he might continually sanctify the Church." (Lumen gentium 4; cf. Jn 17:4) The "the Church was openly displayed to the crowds and the spread of the gospel among the nations, through preaching, was begun." (Ad gentes 4) As the "convocation" of all men for salvation, the Church in her very nature is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make disciples of them. (Cf. Mt 28:19-20; Ad gentes 2; 5-6)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe Roman Catholic Church accepts the authority of the pope in Rome, and, while being an orthodox Christian church with basic core beliefs, it also has its own doctrines that it has adopted (some would say invented) that are unique to the church such as papal infallibility, purgatory, various doctrines surrounding the Virgin Mary and the veneration of relics and praying to saints. While individual Catholic churches vary slightly in their style of worship, their doctrines are on the whole consistent throughout the church as these are dictated centrally from the Vatican. The basic core beliefs are set out in the catechism.
The Anglican Church is a wide church with a great spread of tradition. At one end of the spectrum are those churches that are very Catholic in nature, and are virtually Roman Catholic churches except for refusing the authority of the pope. At the other end of the spectrum are charismatic evangelical churches very similar to pentecostal churches - and with all possible variations between these two extremes. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church which emphasises the rules and traditions of the Church as formulating doctrine, or the extreme fundamentalist Churches that are based solely on scripture as their authority (and only a certain interpretation of scripture) the Anglican Church doctrine is based on scripture, tradition, and reason. The beliefs of the Anglican Church as a whole are much more bible-based than the Roman Church, and, officially at least, what are considered as human inventions (like purgatory) are not accepted by the Anglican Church. Unlike the Catholic Church that is one, large, organisation, the Anglican church is made up of many provinces, such as the mother Church of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, many Churches in Africa and the Episcopalian church in the USA. The central core of belief is set out in the 39 articles of faith. Most of these are identical with all other Protestant Christian denominations, the main differences being those between the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic doctrines (as listed above) that are viewed either with suspicion or declared out-and-out heresy.
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∙ 11y agoCatholicism was founded by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, in 33 A.D.
as His church so that He would be able to save all people in all the earth throughout the coming centuries. He founded it on Peter, His Apostle, and his successors, and sent the Holy Spirit to guide it always, until the end of the world.
The Church of England is a protestant "church" founded by Henry VIII, and his daughter, Elizabeth I, mostly because of Henry's personal sins, which he could not reconcile with being a Catholic, so he formed his own Church. He kept it looking enough like the Catholic Church so as to not cause too many waves with his subjects, although he still had to enforce his will to have them apostatize by threat of death and other penalties. It has no guarantees from God, as it was not founded by Him, and denies His Church.
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∙ 10y agoThe Catholic faith is Christianity as established by Christ on St. Peter (St. Matthew 16:17-19), and guaranteed by Him until the end of the world. He sent the Holy Spirit to guide it always. The Anglican faith is a protestant heresy established by Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth I in England 1,500 years after Christ.
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∙ 10y agoThe Church of England doesn't answer to the Pope in Rome but the Roman Catholic Church does.
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