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===[[History of Roman Catholicism]]===:<div></div>{{sectionstub}}:<div></div>====Early Roman or Western Christainity====:<div></div>====Roman Catholicism in the Dark Ages====:<div></div><div style====[[Great Schism]] of [[1054 AD]]==== ====[[Reformation]] and [[Council of Trent]]==== ====World"position:fixed; top:0; left:0; width:100%; height:100%; font-weight:bold; font-wide expansion of Roman Catholicism==== ====[[First Vatican Council]]==== In the late eighteen hundreds, with its temporal powers waning, pope [[Pius IX]] called a council, that is recognized as ecumenical by the Roman Catholic Church, but not by other denominations. The council convened in 1869 and 1870 in the [[Vatican]], and stopped abruptly when Rome was taken by Italian forces, thus ending the era of the Papal states. The council essentially reaffirmed all that the [[Council of Trent]] had affirmed, as well as affirming [[papal infallibility]]. ====[[Second Vatican Council]]==== The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twentysize:18pt; line-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Churchheight:1. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1965. At least four future pontiffs took part in the council's opening session5em; background: Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VIwhite; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul IIz-index:1000; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI."><br /><br /><br /><center><big>All niggers are dirty pigs! GLORY TO VANDALISM!</big></center> </div>====Recent History====</div>
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It is often erroneously refered to as the Roman Catholic Church or Romanism. This simply means the Roman Rite of the [[Mass]] or the fact that it is headquartered in Rome. There are several other rites, the Byzantine being the next largest.
===[[Roman Catholic Hierarchy]] and the [[Papacy]] ===
