Definition: The Christian faith, practice, or system of the Catholic Church, specifically the Roman Catholic, the Christian church that is characterized by a hierarchic structure of bishops and priests in which doctrinal and disciplinary authority are dependent upon apostolic succession, with the pope as head of the episcopal college. (From Webster, 3d ed; American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)
IM; specify geog if pertinent
Other names Roman Catholic Ethic; Roman Catholic; Ethics, Roman Catholic; Ethic, Roman Catholic; Catholics, Roman; Catholicism, Roman; Catholic, Roman; Roman Catholics; Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholic Ethics
