ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION

Catholicism stands for the doctrine, method and practice that are followed by the Roman Catholic Church, well-known as Catholic Church. Pope who is the religious head of Rome was initially the final authority of the Christian churches through the world.  The pope usually used to commend high honor and respect as the highest personality of the roman church and as the religious leader of the Christians. The Catholic Church was originally inspired with the high idea of christianly and the professed objective to propagate Christ’s sermons and messages. It enjoyed inevitably common people’s trust and faith and profoundly affected their outlook on life and society.

But it is also true that highly honored status of the Catholic Church began to decline. This is because it was the abuses of power and corrupt practices in the catholic churches almost throughout Europe. The catholic churchmen were found, in no few eases, to give up the ideal of an austere and ascetic life and to indulge in luxurious and sensual life style. Moreover, even the atonement was bought and sold on financial consideration under the sections of the church, and that was wholly against the Christian principle. The mighty churchmen even interfered in political affairs in order to gain power and fortune. Such a sort of meddling in politics ultimately corroded the holy function of the church. Finally, the Catholic Church, in a good many European lands, were involved in the exploitation of the common people by exerting various   impious pressures.

Over the life, loss of life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ God has resigned adult males to himself, and with Christ who proposes unity to any or all mankind. By his word god calls us in to a new relationship with himself as our father and collectively as his children—a relationship, inaugurated by simply Baptism in to Christ. Through the Holy Spirit, nurtured as well as deepened through the Eucharist, and expressed within a confession of merely one faith along with a common life of warm service.

The result was the decline of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther rose against the church and Protestantism, as an alternative to the Catholic Church, came into existence. Of course, reformations were tried to be achieved by the counter processes of certain catholic churchmen. In the same places, sincere Endeavours were there to regain the lost glory of the Catholic Church. But what was lost could not be fully recovered. The Catholic Church had to adjust itself with Protestantism and other churches with other Christian views in the Christendom, as it is now.