What is Catholicism?
The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense: First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her.
Secondly, the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race.
All men are called to this catholic unity of the People of God.... And to it, in different ways, belong or are ordered: the Catholic faithful, others who believe in Christ, and finally all mankind, called by God's grace to salvation.
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, excerpts from paragraphs 830, 831 and 836)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a very readable introduction to Catholic belief.
The real purpose of this page, however, is to provide space for a more personal reflection of what Catholicism1 means to us, the parishioners of St. Patricks’s in Corsham.
We hope that it will stimulate personal reflection and continually evolve as more and more people contribute their own thoughts to it. Add your voice to the discussion ...
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- Catholicism: putting into practice the teachings of Christ. Loving one another.