All religion, including Catholicism, which teaches that salvation is by religious works or church dogma is false.

Catholicism, by contrast, teaches that humanity's original nature is good ( CCC 374 ).

Whereas Catholicism teaches that good works are required of Catholics to be saved ( viewing salvation as a future event ), the Reformers taught that good works were only a consequence of an already-received salvation.

Catholicism teaches that Prophets had foretold Christ as a teacher of Divine truth: " Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles " ( Is., lv, 4 ).

Roman Catholicism teaches that initiates receive these seven gifts at Baptism, and that they are strengthened at Confirmation, so that one can proclaim the truths of the faith:

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

Beginning in 1492 with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Kingdom of Spain sought to establish missions to convert the pagans in Nueva España (" New Spain ", consisting of the Caribbean, Mexico and most of what today is the Southwestern United States ) to Roman Catholicism in order to facilitate colonization of these lands awarded to Spain by the Catholic Church, including that region known as Alta California.

The Plan of Iguala had three primary premises: establishment of Roman Catholicism, political independence from Spain, and constitutional equality for all social and ethnic groups in the new order, summarized as " Religion, Independence and Unity " (" Religión, Independencia y Unión ").

The entries editorialise strongly against their subjects, Catholicism, The Protectorate and Commonwealth, any political enemies of Britain ( such as the French ), drunkenness, prostitution (" Women of abandoned character "), gambling, " dissipation " in general and other " vices " generally while eulogising Protestantism, the Church of England, the English monarchy and legal system, the Common Law and Bloody Code, with some rare exceptions.

* Katholizismus wider Jesuitismus (" Catholicism versus Jesuitism "), Frankfurt, 1903

In Logica nova (" New logic ") and Ethica christiana (" Christian ethics "), which were published in a single Venetian edition in 1616, Veranzio dealt with the problems of theology regarding the ideological clash between the Reformation movement and Catholicism.

In a polemic paper entitled Precz z Centrum (" Away with the Centre Party ", 1901 ), Korfanty had urged the Catholic Polish-speaking minority in Germany to overcome their national indifference and shift their political allegiance from supra-national Catholicism to the cause of the Polish nation.

Van Egmont (" Egmond ") and De Montmorency (" Hoorne "), who both remained faithful to Catholicism, are mostly celebrated as the symbolic leaders in the national history of Belgium, with its catholic majority.

On 8 May 1700 the Privy Council ordered that Hurst Castle be used as a prison for priests convicted of fostering the growth of Catholicism (" popery ").

His son Johann VIII (" The Younger ") returned in 1612 to the Roman Catholic Church, and also wanted to use force to make the towsfolk, too, convert back to Roman Catholicism.

Letter 5 is devoted to the Anglican religion, which Voltaire compares favourably to Catholicism (" With regard to the morals of the English clergy, they are more regular than those of France "), but he criticizes the ways in which it has stayed true to the Catholic rituals, in particular (" The English clergy have retained a great number of the Romish ceremonies, and especially that of receiving, with a most scrupulous attention, their tithes.

All three islets have sea birds but Motu Nui was also an essential location for the Tangata manu (" Bird Man ") cult which was the island religion between the moai era and the Christian times ( the island was converted to Roman Catholicism in the 1860s ).

The Stowarzyszenie PAX (" PAX Association ") created in 1947 worked to undermine grassroot support from Roman Catholicism and attempted to create a Communism-friendly Church.

Also in 1750 the main Catholic Jacobite heir and claimant to the three thrones, Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonny Prince Charlie "), converted to Anglicanism for a time, but had reverted to Roman Catholicism again by his father's death in 1766.

A leading figure in restoring Catholicism, he received the title of a Reichsgraf (" Count of the Empire ") and in 1628 was appointed chancellor of Bohemia.

Clara is instructed in the Latin catechism in preparation for converting to Catholicism while around her everyone in the extended family sings of their feelings, stirred up by the immediate presence of such intense, young love (" Octet ").

His novels include: Mis mendigos ( 1915 ); the Nietzschean Así me fecundó Zaratustra ( 1923 ); the erotic Yo y tres mujeres (" I and Three Women ") ( 1924 ); La duquesa de Nit ( 1926 ); La espuela ( 1927 ); Los príncipes iguales ( 1928 ); Justo ( 1929 ), a satire on Roman Catholicism ; El comedor de la pensión Venecia ( 1930 ); the political Campesinos ( 1931 ), and Crimen ( 1934 ).

In the film, he is part of a campaign (" Catholicism Wow!

Outside of Catholicism, clericalism is used to denote the divisions between ordained clergy and lay leaders in some churches while the older meaning of the term — an application of church-based theory or thought to secular issues — seems rather lost in most current uses of the term.

Outside of this issue the article gave the consolation that Catholicism could accommodate to American norms when they did not conflict with doctrinal or moral teachings of the Catholic Church.

Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

* Froehle, Bryan ; Gautier, Mary, Global Catholicism, Portrait of a World Church, Orbis books ; Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University ( 2003 ) ISBN = 1-57075-375-X

* Cardinal ( Catholicism ), a senior official of the Catholic Church

Clement is regarded as a Church Father, and he is venerated as a saint in Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism and Anglicanism.

Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, to describe scriptural texts of the Old Testament considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which are not present in the Hebrew Bible, and which had been omitted by some early canon lists, especially in the East.

* In Roman Catholicism and several other Christian denominations, a Doctor of the Church is an eminent theologian ( for example, Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelic Doctor ) from whose teachings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage.

Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Church of the East teach that the reality ( the " substance ") of the elements of bread and wine is wholly changed into the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ, while the appearances ( the " species ") remain.

In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided against converting to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England because she had felt it was " too restricting ".

He has been declared a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism.

* 1626 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church and Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.

In the 2001 census 42. 4 per cent of the population identified with the Church of Scotland, 15. 9 per cent with Catholicism and 6. 8 with other forms of Christianity, making up roughly 65 per cent of the population ( compared with 72 per cent for the UK as a whole ).

Some hymns praise or address individual saints, particularly the Blessed Virgin Mary ; such hymns are particularly prevalent in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and to some extent " High Church " Anglicanism.

Nonetheless, a full dogmatic articulation of the canon was not made until the 1546 Council of Trent for Roman Catholicism, the 1563 Thirty-Nine Articles for the Church of England, the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith for Calvinism, and the 1672 Synod of Jerusalem for Greek Orthodoxy.

Besides numerous articles on theological and inter-religious topics, he published in 1973 ( with Josef Neuner ) a collection of Church documents, ' The Christian Faith ', that went into seven editions over 20 years: an invaluable instrument of theological learning for generations of students of Catholicism.

In a great sermon ( during Easter week ) on 10 April 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Reformed character of the Church of England against the claims of Roman Catholicism and adduced John Calvin as a new writer, with lavish praise and affection.

Other Christian denominations include Roman Catholicism, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Latter-day Saints ( Mormonism ), Salvation Army, and Jehovah's Witness.