Catholic Church

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

1. 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

1. See Roman Catholic Church
   short for Roman Catholic Church
2. any of several Churches claiming to have maintained continuity with the ancient and undivided Church

Catholic Church

1. A common abbreviation for the name of the Roman Catholic Church .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Catholic Church¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

Küng recommended a decentralized Catholic Church, with the pope and cardinals stripped of their role as the sole interpreters of ecclesiastical doctrine.

From Washington Post

A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.

From The Daily Beast

Laylah and her older sister, Destiny, attended the school affiliated with Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church.

From The Daily Beast

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. John of Rochester Roman Catholic Church in Fairport, New York.

From The Daily Beast

But whatever the sins of Rio, after such a glowing welcome it was hard to claim that the Roman Catholic Church was in crisis.

From The Daily Beast

I would like to thank you for your embrace, also to the Roman Catholic Church and the bishops, thank you very much.

From The Daily Beast

Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.

From Project Gutenberg

There were grades of rank among the priesthood; but not more so than in the Roman Catholic Church.

From Project Gutenberg

Religious intolerance was one of the features of the age and of the Roman Catholic Church.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full.

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They waited for the other tram by the Roman Catholic Church, whose florid bulk was already receding into twilight.

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