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Catholicism primarily designates the faith, doctrine, practice and system of the Catholic Church. It may also refer to:

• Catholicity, the core set of beliefs of various Christian denominations

• Christian denominations and movements including:
  • Anglo-Catholicism, a religious movement of the Anglican Communion
    • Affirming Catholicism, a religious movement within the Anglican Communion
  • Black Catholicism, the expression of the Catholic Church among African Americans
  • Eastern Catholicism, Eastern rite particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome
    • Greek Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite (a.k.a. Greek Rite)
    • Syriac Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Syriac Rite
  • Folk Catholicism, a religious and social movement within the Catholic Church
  • Independent Catholicism, an independent sacramental movement originally from the Catholic Church
    • Old Catholicism, Western churches which separated from the see of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70
  • Liberal Catholicism, the liberal branch within the Catholic Church
  • National Catholicism, a nationalist branch within the Catholic Church in Francoist Spain
  • Political Catholicism, the political and social doctrines of the Catholic Church
  • Traditionalist Catholicism, a conservative religious movement within Catholicism
  • Western Catholicism or Latin Catholicism

See also

• Catholic (disambiguation)
• Catholic Church (disambiguation)

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