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Catholic

The church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, holding the sacraments, the apostolic succession, and the councils of the undivided church and of its own later centuries.

The Catholic Church is the largest single body in Christianity. It understands itself as the continuing church of the apostles, governed by bishops in communion with the Pope, and it carries the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches within one communion.

Produced by East-West Schism

1054 and after · The procession of the Holy Spirit and the primacy of the Roman see.

Current status of that division: Partial communion.

Sub-branch / Family

Sub-branch / Family The Latin Church The Western church of the Catholic communion, ordered by the Roman Rite and the canon law of the Latin Church, and by far its largest part. Sub-branch / Family The Eastern Catholic Churches The twenty-three Eastern churches in full communion with Rome, keeping their own rites, theologies, and married clergy under their own hierarchs.

Movements

Movements cross branches; each one below also stands under the other branches it appears in.

Movement / Current Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity The movement that expects the Holy Spirit's baptism and gifts, tongues among them, as the normal Christian experience, crossing the Protestant… In dialogue

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Sources

Primary

  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992).

Secondary

  • Thomas P. Rausch, Towards a Truly Catholic Church (2005).