What are these religions?

The difference between Catholics and non-Catholic Christians is that Catholics never, ever read the Bible, and Christians sometimes (but very rarely) read the Bible.

"I'm Christian! But confused." - all Christians are confused.

Catholics are a flavour of Christianity. Jesus, read a book some time. Or watch the Godfather, that works too. Anyway, Catholics are like other Christians except...

- Way way more Irish and French people.

- After they're done with god, they lock him up in a little box on the stage.

- Their priests can't marry, or do that thing married people do. No not fight, that other thing. It's an ancient rule called Ixnay On The Ussypay.

- They don't eat meat on Fridays. No reason, they just don't.

- They have their own school system. Just because.

- They really don't like birth control at all.

- They used to do everything all in Latin. No not the music, the language.

- They go to church at midnight on Christmas Eve.

That's about it really.

There are more than 40,000 different varieties of Christian, Catholicism is the largest and oldest of the Christian religions. Protestantism started more than a thousand years after Catholicism but they could not agree with how they differed from the Catholics which is why there are so many thousands of different Protestant religions today, all of which disagree with each other.

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_counc...

The main difference seems to be the source of the authority that God has given humans in this world.

Protestant Christians believe that

+ The Bible is the only infallible authority

+ The Church is just a friendly gathering of believers, all of whom have their own authority to interpret the Bible for themselves

Catholic Christians believe that God:

+ Established His Church with divine authority

+ Has passed this authority from person to person in an unbroken chain from the Apostles to the bishops of today

+ Gave the Church the deposit of Faith (not all of which was included in the Bible)

+ Uses the power of the Holy Spirit to preserve and deepen the understanding of this truth within the Church

+ Inspired the Church to write the documents that would become the New Testament

+ Inspired the Church to select which documents would be included in the Bible

+ Inspires the Church to properly interpret Scripture

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/

With love in Christ.

Catholic are Christian. At one time as far as the West is concerned, they were the only Christians. All other Christian sects and cults split from them.

There are THOUSANDS of different types of Christian, all of whom disagree with each other over the detsails and specifics of the Bible. Catholics are just one sub-group of Christian, and interestingly there are multiple different tyopes of Catholic too.

If you accept the Nicene Creed then you are a Christian. If you don't then you aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed

Yes, Catholics are Christians -according to them- something which very few other Christians agree with.

Very basically, Catholics believe in Scripture and their own "Tradition", making things up from their beginnings and continuing to this day, while other Christians believe only the Bible. That's why Catholics have very strange non-biblical doctrines.