10 Facts You Might Not Know About Catholic

The phrase “Catholic” was first used by Ignatius of Antioch in the year of A.D 110, from the Greek word katholikos, which defines “forward the whole” Ignatius was suggesting that church is a gift offered by Chris to all humankind.

The Roman Catholic Church once executed a person named William Tyndale in 1536 due to translating of Bible into English. He was not just been executed but also been chocked, impaled, and burned. Approximately 80% and above of the New Testament in the King James Bible is Tyndale’s translation in additionally, roughly 76% of the Old Testament is his translation.

Catholics rely more on ritual and ceremony than doing most Christian religions. The intent of the ritual is to create an experience where faith is felt and religion comes to life, with the god’s presence.

The first Catholic pope to step down was Pontian who headed the Catholic Church from A.D. 230 TO 235, he was been sentenced to hard labor in the Sardinian mineral mine by Emperor Maximus the Thracian, who loved to prosecute Christians. The pope volunteered to step down to prevent a vacuum in church.

The Catholic version of “Old Testament differs from the Protestant one of the Catholic edition has seven more books than the protestant Bible. These extra books were removed during the Protestant Reformation by Martin Luther and the Catholic Church did not add them as is commonly believed.

The total number of Catholic nuns has been dropping significantly from more than a million around the whole

world in the year 1973 to just approximately seven hundred thousand nuns up to date.

Catholics believe that either during the Eucharist or Holy Communication, the bread and water have become the body and blood of the Chris through the process of transubstantiation. The Eucharist is a living encounter between humanity and the god and God to his people.

The tradition of honoring saints actually started and came from the Jews who had traditions of honoring prophets and holy people with shrines.

During the age of High and Late Middle Ages, the Latin Roman Catholic Church actually have military campaigns called the Crusades. The impact of the Crusades was profound and judgments have been ranged from praise to condemnation.

In the year 1910, 65% of the Europeans were Catholic. In 2010, only 24% was. While Catholics in Europe have been declining, there was a repaid growth of the Catholic population in the Catholic Population in Sub-Saharan African and Asia- Pacific regions.