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. 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

But he stresses that “one of the achievements of the Franco movement was to save the religious structure of Spain, to save the Catholic Church, which was being destroyed by the revolution.”

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The celebrity meeting was a sprinkling of star dust for a still relatively new pope and a way for the Catholic Church to engage more with the world beyond.

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The Catholic Church never will be as progressive as some want it to be.

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“The Catholic Church is wrong, I’m sorry,” Homan told reporters outside the White House.

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It may sound like a small number, but it is a loss the village can ill afford, said Father Jack-Nobel Abed of Taybeh’s Greek Melkite Catholic Church.

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