What is the difference between Christianity and Catholicism?
When I talk to people about Catholicism I share with them that it is a religion; it is a denomination of churches like Baptist, or Presbyterian. Obviously it is not our religion or the denomination that we belong to that make us a Christian, it is our relationship with God. You can be a Christian, whether you are a Catholic or a Baptist, or a Methodist, or in a church where there is no denomination. There are many great Christians in the Catholic Church and there have been for thousands of years. I know that your question, though, is related more to what is the difference between what we say the Bible teaches and what Catholicism may think the Bible teaches. At least, I think that is what you are focusing on. One basic difference is the fact that Catholics accept, as their ultimate authority, not only the Bible, but also the history of what certain people have said within the church. What that means is, while I might look at the Bible for an answer to a question about who are ministers
