| rdfs:comment | - [[Image:CatholicsOnly.jpg|center|275px] The One Holy Universal and Apostolic Church of Rome (or the Catholic Church) is the worlds oldest sect of Christianty.
- The Catholic Church is a major, world-wide religious organization. It appears in the stories in a number of different places.
- The Catholic Church is a location in the Raidou Kuzunoha duology.
- The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, was the most prominent sect of Christianity during the Golden Age of Piracy and the predominant faith of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. It was also the rival of the Church of England, another faith that was most popular in the British Empire.
- The history of the Roman Catholic Church in Cyber Nations paralleled the real history of the Roman Catholic Church until around December 2005. In the anarchy that followed The Great War, all major nations in their modern form collapsed and were replaced by city-states in small countries. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have died in this time, leaving a vacancy in the papacy. There were three "popes" who then contested the papacy: Pope Benedict XVII, Pope Hope (who was a woman), and Pope Pius XIII.
- The Catholic Church was the largest body of followers of Christianity. As late as the early 20th century, the Church kept many books which they deemed heretical in the secret Library of St John the Beheaded in London. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) One of the books suppressed by the Church was the Necronomicon. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy) In the 14th century, the author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer often mocked the Church in his work. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale) In Croatia during the 1940s, Catholic partisans captured, shot, and buried the vampire Yarven. (PROSE: Goth Opera)
- The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians and more than one-sixth of the world's population, the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or (Latin Rite) Church, and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches (called particular churches), comprising a total of 2,795 dioceses in 2008. The Church's highest earthly authority in matters of faith, morality, and governance is the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI, who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops, of which he is the head. The Catholic community is made up of an ordained ministry and the laity; members of either group may belong to organized religious communities.
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| abstract | - The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians and more than one-sixth of the world's population, the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or (Latin Rite) Church, and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches (called particular churches), comprising a total of 2,795 dioceses in 2008. The Church's highest earthly authority in matters of faith, morality, and governance is the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI, who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops, of which he is the head. The Catholic community is made up of an ordained ministry and the laity; members of either group may belong to organized religious communities. The Church defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity. It operates social programs and institutions throughout the world, including Catholic schools, universities, hospitals, missions and shelters, as well as Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities that help families, the poor, the elderly and the sick. The Catholic Church believes itself to be the original Church founded by Jesus upon the Apostles, among whom Simon Peter held the position of chief apostle. The Church also believes that its bishops, through apostolic succession, are consecrated successors of these apostles, and that the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) as the successor of Peter, possesses a universal primacy of jurisdiction and pastoral care. Church doctrines have been defined through various ecumenical councils, following the example set by the first Apostles in the Council of Jerusalem. On the basis of promises made by Jesus to his apostles, described in the Gospels, the Church believes that it is guided by the Holy Spirit and so protected from falling into doctrinal error. Catholic beliefs are based on the deposit of Faith (containing both the Holy Bible and Sacred Tradition) handed down from the time of the Apostles, which are interpreted by the Church's teaching authority. Those beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed and formally detailed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Formal Catholic worship is termed the liturgy. The Eucharist is the center of Catholic worship. It is one of seven sacraments which mark key stages in the lives of believers. With a history spanning almost two thousand years, the Church is "the world's oldest and largest institution" and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilization since at least the 4th century. In the 11th century, a major split, sometimes called the Great Schism, occurred between Eastern and Western Christianity. Those Eastern churches which remained in, or later re-established, communion with the Pope, form the Eastern Catholic churches and those which remain independent of papal authority are usually known as Orthodox churches. In the 16th century, partly in response to the rise of the Protestant Reformation, the Church engaged in its own process of reform and renewal, known as the Counter-Reformation. Although the Church maintains that it is the "One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church" founded by Jesus and in which is found the fullness of the means of salvation, it also acknowledges that the Holy Spirit can make use of other Christian communities to bring people to salvation. It believes that it is called by the Holy Spirit to work for unity among all Christians, a movement known as ecumenism. Modern issues facing the Church include secularism, "Modernism", and opposition to the Church's teachings on abortion, euthanasia, birth control, and sexual ethics.
- [[Image:CatholicsOnly.jpg|center|275px] The One Holy Universal and Apostolic Church of Rome (or the Catholic Church) is the worlds oldest sect of Christianty.
- The history of the Roman Catholic Church in Cyber Nations paralleled the real history of the Roman Catholic Church until around December 2005. In the anarchy that followed The Great War, all major nations in their modern form collapsed and were replaced by city-states in small countries. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have died in this time, leaving a vacancy in the papacy. There were three "popes" who then contested the papacy: Pope Benedict XVII, Pope Hope (who was a woman), and Pope Pius XIII. In Mexico City, Emperor Felipe III called a meeting of the three "popes" and Catholics worldwide. The event lasted from 7 March to 11 March. At that meeting, Benedict XVII made a touching speech that convinced Felipe III, but there was an overwhelming support for Pope Pius XIII among the NPO and NAAC representatives, who made up a majority of those there. Benedict thus renounced his claim to the papacy in exchange for becoming a cardinal while Pius XIII and Hope continued to argue. In the end, Pope Hope I was excommunicated and became a pope of the breakaway Orange Catholic Church while Pope Pius XIII was generally recognized as pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Since the conference, numerous more people from around the world have claimed to be a "pope", but all of them have no following outside their own, usually small, nation and do not usually speak internationally. Thus, Catholicism is left with two "popes", Pope Pius XIII and Pope Hope. The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church clearly states that the only baptised men can be ordained validly, however Pope Hope is recognized by the less-dogmatic Orange Catholic Church. She is generally agreed by Pope Pius XIII's supporters to be an antipope. Recent polls show Pope Pius XIII and Pope Hope as having an approximately equal amount of support amongst Cyber Nations at large (both Catholic and non-Catholic). A significant part (almost 1/4) of Cyber Nations as a whole supports neither person. Recently more people have declared Pius XIII an antipope. Some have began to recognize Pope Urban IX and others Honorius V, in attempts to end the Catholic divide. Few recognise Pope Conrad I, but he has remained a prominent figure, and has condemned the events of the First Great War. He is the only "pope" to have declared any form of official political view on the main Catholic issues such as war and contraceptives. Since the turmoil the Cyber Nations Catholic Church has broken into several smaller churches, namely the Orange Catholic Church, which is headed by Pope Hope, the Cadian Catholic Church, which is headed by Pope Conrad I, and the Rosian Catholic Church, which is headed by Pope Adrian I.
- The Catholic Church is a major, world-wide religious organization. It appears in the stories in a number of different places.
- The Catholic Church was the largest body of followers of Christianity. As late as the early 20th century, the Church kept many books which they deemed heretical in the secret Library of St John the Beheaded in London. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) One of the books suppressed by the Church was the Necronomicon. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy) In the 14th century, the author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer often mocked the Church in his work. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale) In the 16th century, many Christians split from the Catholic Church to become Protestants. Some Catholic rulers persecuted them, such as Mary I of England with the Heresy Laws in the 1550s and Catherine de Medici of France with the St Bartholomew's Day massacre on 24 August 1572. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy, TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve) At the time of the Reformation King Henry VIII declared himself as the head of the English church. His daughter Elizabeth I later persecuted priests and followers of the Catholic Church. However the Catholics built secret rooms and passages in their houses so that the priests could hold their services in secret and escape. That was why the St Agnes Abbey also had some secret passages. (PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon) By 1605, there were three assassination attempts, including the Gunpowder Plot led by Robert Catesby, by Catholics on the Protestant King James I. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot) In 1609, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine of the Catholic Church, who had been mistaken for the First Doctor to whom he bore a resemblance, moderated the Armageddon Convention. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass) Following the Great Fire of London in September 1666, many Protestants, including King Charles II, blamed the English Catholics for setting the conflagration. Charles II died in 1685 and was succeeded his younger brother James II. Given that James II was a Catholic, his accession to the throne of Protestant England created discontent among the English nobility and public, which ultimately led to him being overthrown in the Glorious Revolution in November 1688. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution) In Croatia during the 1940s, Catholic partisans captured, shot, and buried the vampire Yarven. (PROSE: Goth Opera) Sir Toby Kinsella, a senior British civil servant with the Ministry of Defence in the 1960s, was Catholic. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence, The Fifth Citadel) The same was true of the Seventh Doctor's companions Hex (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters) and Sally Morgan (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders) and the 2000s Deputy Prime Minister Meena Cartwright. (AUDIO: The Longest Night) In the 26th century, Claire Summerfield, the mother of Bernice Summerfield, was Catholic. (PROSE: Love and War) By the 28th century, the Catholic Church had re-established itself and become a major space power with jurisdiction over numerous worlds. (PROSE: Companion Piece) The Fourth Doctor believed the official papal seat for the Church was in the Betelgeuse system in the 33rd century. A renegade branch, known as the Catholic Church Apostolic, controlled Europa during this time. (PROSE: Managra)
- The Catholic Church is a location in the Raidou Kuzunoha duology.
- The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, was the most prominent sect of Christianity during the Golden Age of Piracy and the predominant faith of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. It was also the rival of the Church of England, another faith that was most popular in the British Empire.
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