What is the difference between Catholicism and catholicism?
Catholicism, with a capital C, is an organized body of doctrine, belief, and worship, an institutional form of catholicism. In the West, Catholicism usually refers to the Roman Catholic Church. There are many varieties of Catholicism: in the East, all the Orthodox National Churches (Greek, Russian, etc.) are Catholic. In the West, there are several The Free Catholic Church, the Church of Antioch and the Polish National Catholic Church (in the USA). Some jurisdictions are independent (autocephalous) whose bishops function much like the Apostles and bishops of the early Christian church. (Please refer to map (not on-line, available upon request) of Apostolic Succession in brochure entitledWhite Robed Monks of St. Benedict.
