Catholicism (disambiguation)

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Catholicism primarily designates the faith, doctrine, practice and system of the Catholic Church. It may also refer to:

  • Catholicity, the core set of beliefs of various Christian denominations
  • Christian denominations and movements including:
    • Anglo-Catholicism, a religious movement of the Anglican Communion
    • Black Catholicism, the expression of the Catholic Church among African Americans
    • Eastern Catholicism
      , Eastern rite particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome
      • Greek Catholicism
        , Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite (a.k.a. Greek Rite)
      • Syriac Catholicism
        , Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Syriac Rite
    • Folk Catholicism, a religious and social movement within the Catholic Church
    • Independent Catholicism, an independent sacramental movement originally from the Catholic Church
      • Old Catholicism
        , Western churches which separated from the see of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70
    • Liberal Catholicism, the liberal branch within the Catholic Church
    • National Catholicism, a nationalist branch within the Catholic Church in Francoist Spain
    • Political Catholicism
      , the political and social doctrines of the Catholic Church
    • Traditionalist Catholicism, a conservative religious movement within Catholicism
    • Western Catholicism
      or Latin Catholicism

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