What is Catholicism?

What is Catholicism?

The word Catholic means universal but in truer sense it means wholeness. When we talk about the Catholic Church, we're talking about a Church that is helping people to become whole, to feel a sense of who they are, their sacredness. It's a church that all embracing, it's a church that is local and at the same time universal of many languages, many cultures, many countries and many peoples. But, Catholicism is about a faith of wholeness, talking about being able to embrace and to hold everything and everyone. And then what you have is then have people that split off from that and go in different directions and different waves of looking at the idea of God or of Saints or whatever it is. The word Catholic is where trying to be whole and I think every Church; every Christian person can use the word catholic. We ourselves are Roman Catholic and Catholicism in a sense has been associated by the Roman Catholic Church but to distinguish ourselves from the Anglican Church or the Methodist, we call ourselves the Roman Catholic because the Anglican is Catholic and we also about wholeness. How imperfect or perfect we might say it is.