Non-Papist Catholics

[arcticpenguin]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/614/4222216.html

Here's a story about some "Lithuanian Catholics" in Minnesota, USA. They think they're Catholic, but they don't they don't acknowledge the pope's leadership.

"This just testifies to the amazing diversity and vitality of religious life in America," said James T. Fisher, co-director of the Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University. "Obviously, they wouldn't be in full communion with Rome," he continued, "but it speaks to the seemingly infinite number of options for people in their faith journeys."

So many different version of the 'one true God'.

 

[SteveW]

They don't sound much different than the Missouri Synod Lutherans that I was raised as. That was just about as close to being Catholic as you could get back then. They still excommunicated people for heresy when I was a kid.

 

[Dragon]

AP,

"Catholic" is not the same as "Roman Catholic".

The Nicene Creed is common to the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and contains the words "We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church."
(Catholic meaning universal, of course)

Many people in the Church of England call themselves Catholic without accepting Papal supremacy.

 

[arcticpenguin]

Thanks for that; news to me.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

There's also Eastern Rite Catholics who (from what I'm reading) have relationships with Rome, but have their own Patriarchs.

 

[arcticpenguin]

There's also Eastern Rite Catholics who (from what I'm reading) have relationships with Rome, but have their own Patriarchs.

I was raised in the Holy Roman Catholic church. I think we would have called it "Eastern Orthodox". Or is that yet another group?