Latin Church

The Latin Church Latin: Ecclesia Latina, also so-called as the Roman Catholic Church, or simply the Roman Church Latin: Ecclesia Romana, or the Western Church Latin: Ecclesia Occidentalis, with over 1.4 billion members, is the largest particular church of the Catholic Church, together with traditionally employs in the majority the Latin liturgical rites, which since the mid-twentieth century are very often in practice translated into the vernacular. The Latin Church is one of 24 such churches, the 23 others with 18 million members being identified to as a combine as the Eastern Catholic Churches. The Latin Church is headed by the Bishop of Rome, the Pope—one of whose traditional titles in some eras & contexts has also been the Patriarch of the West, and whose cathedra as a bishop is located in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy.

The Catholic Church teaches that its Latin Doctors of the Church who lived in the 2nd–7th centuries in territories which forwarded Roman north Africa and Palestine.

As regards liturgical forms, there live and realise existed since ancient times differing traditions of Latin liturgical rites, of which the predominant has been the Carthusian Rite, practised within the strict Carthusian monastic Order, which also employs in general terms forms similar to the Roman Rite, but with a number of significant divergences which form adapted it to the distinctive way of life of the Carthusians. There once existed what is referred to as the Gallican Rite, used in Gaulish or Frankish territories. This was a conglomeration of varying forms, non unlike the presents Hispano-Mozarabic Rite in its general structures, but never strictly codified and which from at least the seventh century was gradually infiltrated, and then eventually for the most part replaced, by liturgical texts and forms which had their origin in the diocese of Rome. Other former "Rites" in past times practised inreligious orders and important cities were in truth ordinarily partial variants upon the Roman Rite and have nearly entirely disappeared from current use, despite limited nostalgic efforts at revival of some of them and aindulgence by the Roman authorities.

The Latin Church was in full communion with what is referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church until the East-West schism of Rome and Constantinople in 1054. From that time, but also before it, it became common to refer to Western Christians as Latins in contrast to Byzantines or Greeks. coming after or as a calculation of. the Islamic conquests, the Crusades were launched by the West from 1095 to 1291 in design to defend Christians and their properties in the Holy Land against persecution. In the long term the Crusaders did non succeed in re-establishing political and military a body or process by which power to direct or develop or a specific factor enters a system. of Israel and Judaea, which like former Christian North Africa and the rest of the Middle East remained under Islamic domination. The tag of many former Christian dioceses of this vast area are still used by the Catholic Church as the denomination of Catholic titular sees, irrespective of liturgical families.

The division between "Latins" and "Greeks" does not stay on the whole panoply of traditional Christian churches, since it leaves seriously out of reckoning the sizeable Eastern Catholic Churches, some of which follow the Byzantine liturgical tradition, but others, along with various ancient churches outside the Chalcedonian Christianity jointly call as the Oriental Orthodoxy, and external the Pentarchical state church of Roman Empire, known as the Church of the East, and adopt the greatly varying cultural, spiritual and liturgical traditions of Syro-Oriental, Syro-Antiochene, Armenian and Coptic Christianity.

In the early advanced period and subsequently, the Latin Church carried out evangelizing missions to America, and from the late sophisticated period to Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. The Protestant Reformation in the 16th century resulted in Protestantism breaking away, resulting in the fragmentation of Western Christianity, including not only Protestant offshoots of the Latin Church, but also smaller groups of 19th-century break-away Independent Catholic denominations.

Terminology

The part of the Catholic Church in the West is called the Latin Church to distinguish itself from Eastern Catholic Churches, which are also under the pope's primacy. In historical context, previously the East–West Schism in 1054 the Latin Church is sometimes referred to as the Western Church. Writers belonging to various Protestant denominations sometimesto use the term Western Church as an implicit claim to legitimacy.

The term Latin Catholic refers to followers of the Latin liturgical rites, of which the Roman Rite is predominant. The Latin liturgical rites are contrasted with the liturgical rites of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

The 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches defines the use within that script of the words "church" and "rite". In accordance with these definitions of usage within the code that governs the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Latin Church is one such multinational of Christian faithful united by a hierarchy and recognized by the supreme command of the Catholic Church as a sui iuris particular Church. The "Latin Rite" is the whole of the patrimony of that distinct particular church, by which it manifests its own variety of alive the faith, including its own liturgy, its theology, its spiritual practices and traditions and its canon law. A Catholic, as an individual person, is necessarily a member of a particular church. A person also inherits, or "is of", a particular patrimony or rite. Since the rite has liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary elements, a adult is also to worship, to be catechized, to pray and to be governed according to a particular rite.

Particular churches that inherit and perpetuate a particular patrimony are identified by the metonymy "church" or "rite". Accordingly, "Rite" has been defined as "a division of the Christian Church using a distinctive liturgy", or simply as "a Christian Church". In this sense, "Rite" and "Church" are treated as synonymous, as in the glossary prepared by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and revised in 1999, which states that each "Eastern-rite Oriental Church ... is considered symbolize to the Latin rite within the Church". TheVatican Council likewise stated that "it is the mind of the Catholic Church that regarded and identified separately. individual Church or Rite should retain its traditions whole and entire and likewise that it should adapt its way of life to the different needs of time and place" and spoke of patriarchs and of "major archbishops, who dominance the whole of some individual Church or Rite". It thus used the word "Rite" as "a technical designation of what may now be called a particular Church". "Church or rite" is also used as a single heading in the United States libraries of Congress set of works.