WHAT!?! Is this what's coming down the pike these days? LOLOL. Now we're not even supposed to refer to the Roman Catholic Church? Using the term "Roman" is a pejorative on the order of "papist?"
Gimme a break. How old are you?
You guys are and always will be the Roman Catholic Church because the bishop of ROME lives in ROME.
I and those I've pinged are members of the one, holy, universal, apostolic catholic church. Come join us.
This is the funniest post I've read in weeks. Thanks for the laugh.
Next you will tell me that Mormons want to be called something else.
“The official name of the Church is “Catholic Church”, not “Roman Catholic Church”.”
Quick, someone tell the AT&T Yellow Pages. It seems they are intentionally insulting a whole bunch of churches in their church listings.
As an aside, from now on the official name for my church is “The One and Only Church” so please refer to my church as “The One and Only Church” anything else is insulting bordering on hate speech.
The term “Roman Catholic”, has, as I said (maybe you didn’t read carefully, Dr.) come to be used widely by Catholics themselves. It is a harmless term. It does serve to distinguish “Roman Catholics” from others who consider themselves catholic, such as “Anglo-catholics”. many Catholic parishes call themselves “Roman Catholic”. It is not the best use of language, but it is accepted usage both within the Catholic Church and outside. However, the term that Mr. Gamecock (or is it Dr. Gamecock?) used in his post, and to which I objected, was Romanist, as you would know if you were paying attention. And everyone knows that Romanist, Romish, and such terms are pejoratives. They are like calling someone a “Jewboy”. Go ahead and keep doing it, if you want. Keep laughing too. It is not really hurtful to Catholics to hear such epithets as “Romanist”. Actually, we are somewhat amused by them. But it is embarrassing, since non-Christians may be listening in, and one does not like them to see Christians calling each other childish names. It is un-Christian. It doesn’t show forth Christian charity, and I suspect that it is not pleasing to Christ, who said that people would know his followers by their love for each other. I say that at the risk of sending you into even louder peals of laughter.
You can’t win on this one. I’ve been berated for calling it the: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Roman Church.
Romish is old school and I don’t talk that way, but it wouldn’t matter. Apparently, either I’m an equal opporunity offender, or the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand in the R___C___C____
(I’ve also been castigated for RC....sigh...)
Well they could rename themselves The House of Esau
>> You guys are and always will be the Roman Catholic Church because the bishop of ROME lives in ROME.<<
Uh, see that’s exactly it. The Bishop of Rome lives in exile from the City of Man, Rome. Although Martin Luther did not know this (making the slandrous nature of his claims obvious), the Vatican is on the OTHER side of the river from Rome, built on the site where the Romans dumped Peter’s body.
I have no problem with “Roman Catholic,” to distinguish from “Orthodox Catholic” but “Romanism” is plain and simply intended to be incindiary, and developed historically as an attempt to link the Catholic Church with the Whore Babylon. The use of the term pretty much signals to the rest of the world that the author is a polemic crackpot. The effect is like blogging in all caps or spelling America with a “k.”