Catholic Terms
The head of the Catholic church.
Who is the Pope?
The name for different types of Protestant churches.
What are denominations?
Catholics believe they must maintain this. Protestants view it as a free gift.
What is salvation? or What is Grace?
Catholics and Protestants both believe we are saved by this and this alone.
What is grace?
The book of the Bible that talks about being saved by grace, through faith alone.
What is Ephesians?
The place you go to pay for unforgiven sins before paying your way to Heaven.
What is Purgatory?
The event that kicked off Protestantism.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Catholics do this to advocate for souls in Purgatory. Protestants believe there is no point to this.
What is praying for the dead?
Who is God?
The book of the Bible where Jesus sits with Nicodemus to tell him how to be saved.
What is John?
A name for the beliefs Catholics have about Mary that differ from Protestants.
What is Maryology?
A Latin term for the view that the Bible is the only authoritative Word of God.
What is Sola Scriptura?
Protestants warn against this because we could unknowingly communicate with demons.
What is praying to the Saints?
Protestants and Catholics hold this same view; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Who is the Trinity?
A book in the Bible that Catholics point to as a reason for why we should all get along.
What is 1 Corinthians?
The writings Catholics accept as scripture, whereas Protestants do not.
What is the Apocrypha?
Protestants believe ALL believers are this. Catholics believe only select believers earn this title.
What are Saints?
Catholics tend to do this better than Protestants. Protestants tend to think they only need to do this with God.
What is confession?
Both Catholics and Protestants believe in the authority of this collection of writings.
What is the Bible?
The book of the Bible that tells believers to confess their sins to one another.
What is James?
The assembly of Catholics that met after the Martin Luther's Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
Jesus is referred to as this. A person who acts as a middleman between two people.
What is a Mediator?
Protestants and Catholics both do this. Catholics tend to recite. Protestants treat it as a conversation.
What is praying to God?
This is done to new believers/converts to Christianity. There is only ONE kind! To be done in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
What is baptism?
What is the Tower of Babel?