Roman Catholicism Is A Worldwide Religious Tradition of Some 1.1 Billion Members. It Traces Its

I.
Religion: Roman Catholic
II. Historical background of Roman Catholic
Roman Catholicism is a worldwide religious tradition of some 1.1 billion members. It traces its
history to Jesus of Nazareth, an itinerant preacher in the area around Jerusalem during the period
of Roman occupation, in the early 30s of the Common Era. Its members congregate in a
communion of churches headed by bishops, whose role originated with the disciples of Jesus.
Over a period of some decades after Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, the bishops spread out
across the world to form a "universal" (Greek, katholikos) church, with the bishop of Rome
(traced to the apostle Peter) holding primacy. Today Vatican City — and specifically, Saint
Peter's Basilica — stands over the grave of Peter, and the pope is considered Peter's successor.
Catholic Christianity began as a persecuted religious community, illegal in the Roman Empire in
its earliest days, but within some three hundred years and with the conversion of the Emperor
Constantine, it became legal and eventually was recognized as the official religion of the Empire.
With the decline and fall of Rome in the 5th century, the Roman Church assumed both temporal
and spiritual authority in the West; it thus had enormous influence on the development of the art
and culture of the western world through the Middle Ages. Today, its growth is fastest in Africa,
South America, and Asia.
Quick Fact Details:
 Formed: The exact date of the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church is
indeterminable. While the belief system recognized as Christianity is in place by the first
century, institutional structures developed over time. Nor is it possible to distinguish
Catholicism as a separate tradition until it can be differentiated from other Christian
traditions (most notably, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism). Scholars recognize a
variety of significant institutional, theological, and cultural markers in this development:
o 325 — Council of Nicea. The first post-apostolic ecumenical council of the
Christian community at which Church leaders formed a creedal statement of
belief recognized universally.
o 381 — First Council of Constantinople. This council amended and ratified the
Nicene Creed, resulting in the version used by Christian churches around the
world.
o 440-461 — Pope Leo I. Many historians suggest that Pope Leo is the first to claim
universal jurisdiction over the worldwide Church, thus initiating the rise of the
papacy, a uniquely Roman Catholic structure.
o 451 — The Council of Chalcedon. This is the first occasion of an institutional
division within Christianity, as those who did not adhere to the conclusions of the
Council (referred to as Oriental Orthodox) separated.
o 1054 — The Great Schism. Though the Eastern and Western branches of the
Church had long been divided over theological, cultural, linguistic, and
ecclesiological disputes, the separation was formalized in 1054, thus creating the
first large-scale division within Christendom.
o 16th century — The term "Roman Catholic" is not generally used until the
Protestant Reformation, and some historians see the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
as a centralizing movement within Catholicism that enhanced the authority of
Rome.
 Sacred Texts: The Roman Catholic Church includes in the Old Testament several
deuterocanoncial books that Protestants rejected. The New Testament is the same as that
used by Christians everywhere.
Quick Facts
FORMED 1ST - 5TH CENTURIES

C.E.
ADHERENTS 1,170,000,000
DEITY GOD (TRINITY)
SACRED TEXT BIBLE
ORIGIN ROMAN-LATIN EMPIRE
HEADQUARTERS VATICAN CITY
III. Practices in Roman Catholic that has an impact on the concept of the body
1. Fasting during Holy Week.

2. Easter egg hunt (Holy Week).
3. Attending Simbang Gabi.
4. Visita Iglesia
5. Senakulo
IV. Personal view how Roman Catholic is animated and express and celebrated as a
community
Here in the Philippines, Roman Catholic is a religion marked by a majority of people
being adherents of the Christian faith. This religion is widely known for its traditions,
beliefs, and practices that are celebrated every year. Like the advent season where we
celebrate the birth of Jesus or what we called the Christmas day, and other practices
during the Holy Week. In our town, we have the PYM (Parish Youth Ministry),
anyone can join that are willing to serve the Lord, it can be Choir or Knight of the
Altar. Also the elders who are willingly to serve the Lord with all their heart. And the
people who gather to celebrate the Holy Eucharist every Sunday. We’re encouraging
one of us to join or participate/gather everyone become one of PYM. We have the
unity and are responsible community to be a Roman Catholic by our heart. Have faith
in God.
V. Conclusion
Roman Catholic Church is another religion that people believe in and is ruled by the
Pope. It is all up to personal opinion as to what an individual believes in and how they
act upon it. Protestants have very different beliefs to Catholics but they all look up to
the same person; God. We are all part of Christ’s body, brothers and sisters for whom
Christ died, and for whom love has been revealed in a wonderful way.
Catholicism’s sense of sacramentality (God is present everywhere, the invisible in the

visible, within us and within the whole created order); its principle of mediation (the
divine is available to us as a transforming, healing, renewing power through the
ordinary things of life: persons, communities, events, places, institutions, natural
objects, etc.); its sense of communion, or of peoplehood (we are radically social and
so, too, is our relationship with God and God’s with us); its drive toward rationality
and its critical realism (reality is neither self-evident nor confined to the realm of
ideas); its corresponding respect for history, for tradition, and for continuity (we are
products of our past as well as shapers of our present and our future); its analogical
imagination (the divine and the human are more alike than unalike); its conviction
that we can have as radical a notion of sin as we like so long as our understanding and
appreciation of grace is even more radical; its high regard for authority and order as
well as for conscience and freedom; indeed its fundamental openness to all truth and
to every value—in a word, its catholicity.
ACTIVITY 3: Pictures of your celebration in the Church
AYD 2018
CHRISTMAS PARTY/CELEBRATION AND SIMBANG GABI
500 YEARS OF CATHOLICISM HOLY WEEK

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Religion: Roman Catholic

II. Historical background of Roman Catholic

Quick Fact Details:

FORMED 1ST - 5TH CENTURIES

DEITY GOD (TRINITY)

SACRED TEXT BIBLE

ORIGIN ROMAN-LATIN EMPIRE

HEADQUARTERS VATICAN CITY

1. Fasting during Holy Week.

Catholicism’s sense of sacramentality (God is present everywhere, the invisible in the

ACTIVITY 3: Pictures of your celebration in the Church

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