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<p>The word catholic with a small ‘c’ means ‘universal’. The big-C Catholic refers to the Roman Catholic church. The Nicene Creed, which is subscribed to by most Christian denominations, including Anglicans, says “We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church”, meaning a church composed of all who believe, not just Roman Catholics.</p>
<p>Thank you for the correction. </p>
<p>True catholic means ‘universal’, so why then is it that one church chooses to be known as ‘Catholic’ while the other chooses ‘Anglican’. Is the Anglican Church implicitly saying that its dogma(?) has a more limited relevance/application and therefore is less “true” than the Roman Catholic Church’s which, by its title alone, proclaims a more far reaching appeal? Surely the Church of England could have called itself, for example, the Canterburian (sp) Catholic Church (Canterbury being the theological center of the Anglican Church). Or, since the monarch is really the head (Defender of the Faith and all that), perhaps it should be called the Royal Catholic Church – though it strikes me as unseemly when ‘royal’ and ‘church’ combine under one title. ; )</p>
<p>An interesting question. This might help to answer it: <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican</a>.</p>
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<p>“True catholic means ‘universal’, so why then is it that one church chooses to be known as ‘Catholic’ while the other chooses ‘Anglican’”</p>
<p>In prayers and public religious activities, the English Church is the one holy, catholic, universal apostolic church. As a religious matter, it claims direct descent from St. Peter, and, as such, supplanted the Roman church, which, traditionally, it did not recognize in any way different from, say, an Armenian Catholic bishop. (By the way, there are a few Catholics today who recognize the Pope in Montana as the true Pope, as, since John XXIII, they claim, the Roman popes have not been doctrinally elected.)</p>
<p>By “universal” they mean “universal”, meaning the Roman church is “untrue”.</p>
<p>Nowadays, you’d hardly find anyone in England who cares, or so is my experience.</p>
<p>(By the way, in the prayer to the Queen, she was acknowledged as the Ruler of England “and of France”. Go figure.)</p>
<p>So, I guess separation of church and state does not apply in Great Britain! lol Maybe that is why the British lead such exemplary lives… HAHAHA…HAHAHA!!</p>
<p>Um, yes. Separation of church and state probably applies less to the U.K. than to almost any other country. The Vatican, Tibet (if it were a country), Japan in the old days, probably Iran now, Andorra (half): it’s a short list of countries that formally unify the position of head of state and head of the established religion.</p>
<p>Hmm…wonder if God’s work is somehow more palpable, in the every day sense, in those countries?</p>