Catholicism is just another branch of Christianity. They don't have very many different beliefs. Their church has some structural differences from others... their head is a pope in rome who takes leadership for life, where most other churches elect leaders every few years. They don't believe in birth control. They believe you should confess your sins to priests and that church leaders should not be married.

But those are really just little details, what matters is that, Catholics believe that Jesus is the son of God and he rose from the dead to make a place for us in heaven. That's all you have to believe to be a Christian.

The Catholic church was the first church, so in the 1500s when some people decided to form new churches, these were sort of grouped together as "protestant" and the Catholic church remained "Catholic"... it was the "not new" one. People like to act like Catholics are really different, but they're not. All Christian churches are a little bit different, but we all believe in the same basic idea, so we're all Christians.

thanks for the details

I've been in the advice column over five years now so I think I've pretty much heard it all... the love, the hate, the random insanity. I don't take it too seriously, so I'm not always giving the best advice, but my column is fun to read!

I am a 23 year old electrical engineer, a feminist, a Christian. I don't know everything but I can sure pretend to.

Disclaimer: Now that I'm on advicenators I'm getting even more questions every day. It's fast and easy for me to answer them, yes, so at least I'm answering something now, but if your question contains the words "there's this guy that I like..." chances are I won't get around to it. I'm only answering interesting questions that I haven't answered before. Register at the site and ask everyone for advice if you must have an answer, because if people read my column and boring love advice was all they found, they'd never come back.

Website:
E-mail:
Gender:
Location:
Occupation:
Age:
ICQ:
AIM:
Yahoo:
Member Since:
Answers:
Last Update:
Visitors:
Main Categories:




Favorite Columnists