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ROMAN CATHOLIC

As the apostles of Jesus Christ spread the Gospel, they provided the beginning structure for the early Christian Church. It is impossible to separate the initial stages of the Roman Catholic church from that of the early Christian church.

After Jesus died, Simon Peter, one of Jesus' disciples, became a strong leader in the Jewish Christian movement. Later James, most likely Jesus' brother, took over leadership. These followers of Christ viewed themselves as a reform movement within Judaism yet they continued to follow many of the Jewish laws.

At this time Saul, originally one of the strongest persecutors of the early Jewish Christians, had a blinding vision of Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, and became a Christian. Adopting the name Paul, he became the greatest evangelist of the early Christian church.

Paul's ministry, also called Pauline Christianity, was directed mainly to Gentiles rather than Jews. In subtle ways, the early church was already becoming divided.
Another belief system at this time was Gnostic Christianity, which taught that Jesus was a spirit being, sent by God to impart knowledge to humans so that they could escape the miseries of life on earth.

In addition to Gnostic, Jewish, and and Pauline Christianity, there were already many other versions of Christianity being taught. After the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, the Jewish Christian movement was scattered. Pauline and Gnostic Christianity were left as the dominant groups.

The Roman Empire legally recognized Pauline Christianity as a valid religion in 313 AD. Later in that century, in 380 AD, Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire. During the following 1000 years, Catholics were the only people recognized as Christians.

In 1054 AD, a formal split occured between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. This division remains in effect today. 

Madonna DEVINE APPARITION (MARIAN APPARITION): Supernatural apparitions of divine forces have been known in every religion since ancient times. Marian Apparitions are the most frequent of all miraculous phenomena within the Catholic Church.
 
Delphic Sybil SYBIL: A woman, a prophetess who spoke God's words for Him. There were Sybil's in many places. A God would move the Sibyl to speak, someone would write down what she said and later on people would consult her words. In Rome they kept them in what is called the "Sybilline Books".
 

Our Father, who art in Heaven;
hallowed by Thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil. Amen

Catholic Prayer, Our Father


 

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