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The religion of catholics. The Roman catholic church is the largest religious denomination of christianity with over one billion members. Its claims that it is both organizationally and doctrinally and the original christ and church that was founded by Jesus Christ. The Roman Catholicism represents the continuation of the historical organized church as it developed in western Europe, and is headed by the pope. Which the pope is the bishop of roman Catholic Church. Distinctive beliefs of Catholics include the the doctrines of transubstantiation and Purgatory and distinctive practices include veneration of saints and use of the rosary. Which the rosary is a form of devotion in which five or fifteen decades of Hail Mary's are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be. For the first one thousand five hundred years of Christianity there was no Catholicism as it is known as it is today, simply because there were no other forms of christianity to distinguish it. There was only the one Holy Catholic Church. Catholic means universal, which was …show more content…

Catholics do not believe in that it is the power of the church to add truths contained in the “deposit of faith” . Catholics also do not believe in that it is not allowable to break a lawful oath or to tell a lie or do any other wicked thing whatever for the sake of promoting the supposed interest of the church of for any good however great likely to arise from it. Catholics believe one God believe that this only God is absolutely one in His infinitely holy essence as also in all His perfections, in His omnipotence, His infinite knowledge, His providence, His will and His love. They believe in are lord Jesus Christ who is the son of our

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