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The term “Catholic” has Greek roots meaning “universal” and the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Church in the world with around 1.2 billion followers around the globe. Headed by the Pope Rome who is the successor of St Peter the first Pope of Rome, it is one of the oldest and most influential religious institutions in the Western world.
A timeline of events that led to the development of this Church

1CE-30CE: Catholicism traces back to the time of Jesus and his teachings and is a continuation of the early Christian communities established by Jesus and later run by the apostles. St Peter ministered in Rome in the first century and was the first Pope of Rome, as Christ appointed Peter as the head of …show more content…

440-461- Pope Leo I: Pope Leo is the first Catholic Pope to claim universal jurisdiction over the worldwide Church, thus initiating the rise of the papacy.
431- Council of Ephesus: The Catholic Church accepted the unique Personality of Christ as being that of the Eternal Logos Himself.
451- The Council of Chalcedon: This is the first division in Christianity, where the Oriental Orthodox Church split from the main Christianity being Catholicism.
1054- The Great Schism. The formalisation of the split between the Eastern(Eastern Orthodox) and Western Church(Roman Catholic Church), as there had been long theological, cultural, linguistic, and ecclesiological disputes.
The Period of the Reformation (1517 – 1648)- Out of Catholicism came Anglicanism and Protestantism
• 1545–47- First Council of Trent: Reform of Catholic teachings and clarification on the doctrine of the Catholic Church following the excommunication of the German Reformation leader Martin Luther
• Second Council of Trent II: 1551–52: Adjustments of the meaning of the …show more content…

The masses are usually run from 8:30am-9:30am or 10am-11am. Sometimes elderly people may come early to pray the rosary quietly in their seat. When we enter the Church we dip our fingers in Holy water and make sign of the cross, which is a reminder of our own baptism in Christ, and of the new life in Christ that we are living and exercising today with the whole Church community. Then we choose a pew to sit in and genuflect before entering a pew as a gesture of respect to the Lord. During the liturgy we follow what we are expected to do like stand, sit and kneel as well as sing the songs with the choir and recite the

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