The Catholic Church Explained in 2 Minutes

until the East-West Schism of 1054 the Catholic church and Orthodox Church were just one but today they are separate and the Catholic church is the one with a single Pope at the top he's a bishop but there are also many other Bishops ordained in succession Bishops are male and celibate priests are male and almost always celibate and there's deacons too there are seven sacraments baptism for salvation and of infants by pouring or immersion Eucharist AKA communion you come and get it and sometimes only the priest gets the wine and it's the real body and blood of Christ you can get it daily if you want the priest normally puts it on your tongue maybe in the hand but this makes some people upset confirmation reconciliation AKA confession out loud to a priest anointing of the sick marriage and ordination Catholics ask departed Saints for intercession they may use prayer beads they teach Mary was born without sin was always a virgin and was taken bodily into heaven salvation is not through faith alone sorry not sorry Marty you can lose it too and some sins are mortal if not Redeemed by repentance in God's forgiveness they cause exclusion from Christ's Kingdom and The Eternal death of Hell unconfessed venial sins just mean you're going to need more Purgatory the Bible has 73 books but it's not the sole final Authority the church has the right to declare proper interpretation of scripture and to establish Doctrine from holy tradition mass at a Catholic parish is very liturgical and traditional priests have special garments there will be sitting standing kneeling and genuflecting and making the sign of the cross there may be statues or paintings of people like Mary or the Saints the mass is normally in the vernacular language but some places still have the traditional Latin Mass it's getting harder to get though and that makes some people upset abortion is sinful there's no gay marriage and you really shouldn't be using birth control one group that has left the Catholic Church though often still with valid sacraments is called the old Catholics for discussion of them click here for the two minute video or if you want to learn about which denominations are most similar to Catholics click here

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Published: Tue Nov 22 2022