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btw.. im buddhist
today i just found out that my school wont be opened for the fall trimester from some dumb fucked up reason.. and that they will reopen in december. i only need 3 credits to graduate so i was only going to go to school from sept- dec and then be done. now, i have to find a new school to go. the school recommended a new school to us and i checked out its brochure, and its a christian school. well, ive been to a catholic highschool before, and im thinking, if im going to be going to a school of religion, i might as well go back there to the catholic school. well, i want to know whats the difference between christian and catholic.. and how are christian teachings different?
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Could you clarify your answer slightly? Is the school you're looking at attending a high school or college. The approach towards students and religion would be a bit different with high schools and colleges.
I teach at a Catholic high school right now. Our school, like most Catholic high schools, requires regular Mass attendance, and we require that students take one religion course every semester. If you're looking at a high school and need just 3 credits, you might not fit the bill of a full-time student, so you might not have to do this.
If, as I think more likely, you're talking about college, most Catholic colleges are very accepting of students of other faiths. If you were to graduate from a Catholic college, you might need 6-12 credits of philosophy or theology, but that's about all the religion that's required of you. (There will be other things, of course, like a campus ministry on campus and crucifixes in classrooms and other signs of its Catholic identity, but they are more easily ignored, if you're apt to do so.) If you're just taking 3 credits, it's unlikely they'd force you to take a theology or philosophy class, as you won't be graduating from there.
As to the difference between Christians and Catholics, as people said before, Catholics are Christians. (The word Christian means follower of Christ, not "Christ inside you" as some other columnist said. As Catholics follow Christ's teachings, they are also Christians.) I'm not going to get into the difference between Catholic and Christian beliefs now--if you want to know, feel free to ask me. I will, however, say that most schools that advertise themselves as Christian will probably be more conservative than a school that calls itself Catholic, and typically less accepting of other religious views. (Our student body is actually quite diverse, for where we are. Only about half the students are Catholic, and of the remainder, most are Mormon or belong to another Christian denomination. We have a handful that aren't Christian at all, but follow traditional Navajo practices. We also have one Muslim student in the high school. For a student body of 160 students, this is pretty diverse, I guess.)
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Christianity is the general branch of religion, and it includes Catholicism, along with Protestantism and Baptists and Methodists and suchlike. Catholicism includes believing in the saints; the sacraments, like confessing, taking the Eucharist (the bread thingy); and like all of Christian religions, the belief in Jesus.
A Catholic school would probably be taught, in part, by nuns or sisters. Catholic schools are usually quite strict and fairly small. In some, you might have a religion class in which they teach you about the faith, but I'm not really sure.
Hope this helps.
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christians could divorce. praise ala! or in your case God cuz buddah can't help you now.
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Catholic is a christian religion. Essentially they believe the same things .. a christian school will PROBABLY be more laid-back than a full blown catholic school [[ from what i've heard ]], because it includes all of the christian denominations.
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some catholics actully do not believe in jesus christ as there lod an savior and some do...a christian is someone who belives in jesus christ as there lord and savior and i hope you do or that you will see the truth.there shouldnt be much of a difference and i think you will learn alot abotu jesus!!
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thats always confused me . when i went to ccd my teacher used to say we were christian and then she'd say we were catholic. i think there are diffrent types of christians. im not sure but i think protestants are considered christians too. so theres diffrent 'branches' of christians. im not really sure i wish i could help u out some more but maybe i helped. good luck with skool!
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