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Catholic Church
noun
- a visible society of baptized Christians professing the same faith under the authority of the invisible head (Christ) and the authority of the visible head (the pope and the bishops in communion with him).
Catholic Church
noun
- short for Roman Catholic Church
- any of several Churches claiming to have maintained continuity with the ancient and undivided Church
Word History and Origins
Origin of Catholic Church1
Example Sentences
Küng recommended a decentralized Catholic Church, with the pope and cardinals stripped of their role as the sole interpreters of ecclesiastical doctrine.
A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.
Laylah and her older sister, Destiny, attended the school affiliated with Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. John of Rochester Roman Catholic Church in Fairport, New York.
But whatever the sins of Rio, after such a glowing welcome it was hard to claim that the Roman Catholic Church was in crisis.
I would like to thank you for your embrace, also to the Roman Catholic Church and the bishops, thank you very much.
Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.
There were grades of rank among the priesthood; but not more so than in the Roman Catholic Church.
Religious intolerance was one of the features of the age and of the Roman Catholic Church.
In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full.
They waited for the other tram by the Roman Catholic Church, whose florid bulk was already receding into twilight.
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