Christianity Is Catholic: Difference between revisions

** Oddly enough, the movie postulates that Catholic dogma can undo all of creation but no mention is made of conflicting dogmatic principles found in hundreds of other denominations, some of which, predate Catholicism.

* ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'' (2008 version) is a strange subversion of this trope. The director stated in several interviews that he had a problem with all organized religion, but further remarks indicated that what he meant by that was actually the more evangelical strains of Christianity. In the film, the main family portrayed is very Catholic—as [[Evelyn Waugh]], author of the novel the movie was loosely based upon, made them—but actions and beliefs as portrayed in the movie (not the novel) are not Catholic—they're evangelical Christian. Given the themes of the book, it's safe to say that this is a good example of [[Completely Missing the Point]].

* ''[[Stigmata]]'' is about a priest investigating a woman who has manifested the title wounds and speaks in tongues.

** Made very funny, as (former altar boy) Roger Ebert points out, because the filmmakers think that the woman's having been entered by the Holy Ghost is the same thing as demonic possession.

** One of the subplots in King's ''[[Needful Things]]'' involves a conflict between Catholics and Baptists in Castle Rock, Maine that escalates into a murderous riot.

** However, other religious characters in his work (Margaret White from ''[[Carrie]]'', Mother Abagail from ''[[The Stand]]'', Vera Smith from ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', David Carver from ''[[Desperation]]'', Paul Edgecombe from ''[[The Green Mile]]'') are Protestant.

* Averted in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series. The Grayson state church is very much Protestant.

** They go far enough from mainstream theology over a thousand years they are a kind of [[Recycled in Space|Space Mormons]].

* ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'': Aeodonism is more or less, the copy of the Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Times.

* [[C. S. Lewis]] recounted that allegories of Christianity, regardless of denomination, tend to be viewed as Catholic. This was, he thought, because Catholicism gives central concepts embodied form, while the Protestants interpreted them more etherally. All, for instance, would agree that Christians were to be set apart from the world, which could allegorically be presented by a wall but is also expressed in the enclosures of monks and nuns.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

**** Attend each other's Masses, yes, but not necessarily receive communion. An Orthodox church is not supposed to offer communion to a non-Orthodox Christian nor is an Orthodox believer supposed to receive it from a non-Orthodox minister. (Curiously, traditional Catholicism *does* allow the offering of communion to the Orthodox, though not to Protestants.)

***** Not curious at all. It's a doctrinal distinction. Catholics and Orthodox both believe in transsubstantiation and the Real Presence, Protestants don't.

* The [[American Courts|United States Supreme Court]] has, for the first time in its history, no Protestant judges. In fact, it has six Catholics and three [[You Have to Have Jews|Jews]] (for context, the Court is now over 33 percent Jewish, while the nation they represent is ''less than'' 3 percent Jewish!). Oddly enough, the nation has had only one Catholic President out of 43. Kennedy's religion was a matter of controversy at the time, as Americans have been traditionally wary of Catholicism's recognition of a European figure as a seat of authority (the Pope).

* Christianity Is Catholic can be justified in works involving demons, as Catholics are one of very few Christian sects that still trains exorcists.

* Interestingly, in some South-Asian countries, you can be registered as being either Christian ''or'' Catholic.

** Although it's technically incorrect, a lot of non-Catholic Christians use "Christian" that way even in the United States. Some even claim that it is ''correct'', because "Catholics ''aren't'' Christian" (usually based on the assumption that the use of the crucifix, instead of the bare cross, means Catholics don't believe in the Resurrection).

* In Medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church (and Eastern Orthodox) was the only Christian Church, until the Reformation (which took place during Renaissance) when Protestantism evolved.

**There were also Nestorians, Coptics, Irish, and so on. Also the Roman Catholic Church was, like everything Medieval, far more decentralized then the official rules stated, and had lots of weird cul-de-sacs and [[Jurisdiction Friction|jurisdictional complications.]] Probably it would have been as easy to find a de facto sovereign bishop that paid nominal allegiance to the pope as a de facto sovereign prince that paid nominal allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor.