Catholicism is a form of Christianity, and whether to call it a denomination depends on who is speaking. The Cambridge Dictionary does, naming Roman Catholicism. The Catholic Church does not: it teaches that the one Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church, and so it speaks of itself as that Church, not as one branch among many. The Pew Research Center groups denominations into a few broad traditions and calls Catholicism “the world’s largest Christian tradition,” next to the…

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