If you are Catholic you are also Christian. Catholicism is one of many Christian religions, with doctrine and ritual unique to itself. Think of Christianity as being a house and Catholicism being one of many rooms.

Protestants who don't consider Catholics (or Mormons) Christians are guilty of the "no True Scotsman" fallacy. Christians are anyone who self-identifies as Christian.

You can be both. Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity. However, it is not easy to have a relationship with God when you are a Catholic because of the sheer amount of law and dogma in the church. If you can wade through all the rigmarole you can still manage it.

As someone else already answered, Catholicism is a subset of Christianity - one denomination out of many. However, many people (especially non-Catholic Christians) often use Christian to mean a non-Catholic Christian, and perceive Catholics as not following the "true path", or being misguided by a corrupt Church, or often being too laid back about adherence to scriptures and instead focusing on rituals and "idol worship" (saints and statues). Most Christians won't have crucifixes or representations of the cross with Jesus the man on them, as it smacks of idol worship to them - Catholics depict the actual body of Jesus typically. It's really nitpicking - bitterness on both sides, but mostly the non-Catholics, from the Reformation.

There seems to be a common misconception, particularly in parts of the United States that Catholics are different to Christians, or even not Christians. In the very early days of Christianity there were only Christians, the Church just consisted of people. As the religion became formalised and developed a system of priests and congregations meeting in purpose-made buildings a hierarchical system of religion evolved with priests, bishops - all the way up to the Pope, who was perceived (and still is by Roman Catholics) as God's representative on earth. This organisation became the Roman Catholic Church - the word catholic means universal. There were other strains of Christianity such as Greek Orthodox. In 16th Century Europe, thanks to people like Luther and (although for very different reasons) King Henry VIII, there was a rebellion against the power of the Pope. This led to the breakaway from the Roman Catholic Church of a great number of people who came to be known as Protestants – from their protests against the currently established church and the Pope. These Protestants formed themselves into a variety of different churches and this division continues to this day, with new sects seemingly arising every year. So it is impossible to say what the difference is between being a Christian and being a Catholic because Catholics are Christians. It follows from this that, not only can you be both, but that Catholics are both.

The first Pope of the Catholic Church was the disciple Peter. Yes you can be both.

The Bible says that if you believe with your hart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Son of God you shall be saved Romans 10:9-10. cathlics believe in Mary, and that you can be saved by works that is praying special prayers etc. This is not salvation.

Well! i don't know the difference but if one is human in the real sense then the difference doesn't matter either.

There are various definitions for both of those term, so that a general answer is not possible. A widespread view is that Catholic means Roman Catholic, and Christian means follower of Christ, whether they are member of a particular Church or not. In this sense, a Catholic is always a Christian. 1) "A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament" ""Christian" also means a member or adherent of a church or other organized group within Christianity. As an adjective, the term may also describe anything associated with Christianity, or even remotely thought to be consistent with Christianity, as in "the Christian thing to do." In the United States, especially (but not only) the South and Midwest, the word Christian may also be narrowly used as shorthand for either of two denominations: Disciples of Christ or the United Church of Christ. For example, "First Christian Church of (name of local town)."" "The definition of who is a "Christian" varies among people and christian groups. Some believe that, to be a Christian, an individual must go to a church and participate in baptism. Others teach that instead a belief and acceptance in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is necessary. Some consider a Christian to be simply one who tries to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Some theologians consider a Christian to be anyone who accepts the Nicene Creed. This ancient text is accepted by Catholics, the Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans and all the remaining mainline Protestant Churches. Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and many Protestants define a Christian as one who has become a member of the church through the sacrament of baptism. In these denominations, infants who are baptized may be considered Christians, although they are expected to make a personal affirmation of faith when old enough to decide for themselves. Evangelical and fundamentalist denominations do not generally practice infant baptism. Some teach that "Believer's baptism" as a repenting adult is necessary for salvation — the transition from non-Christian to Christian. Others do not believe that baptism is necessary for salvation, but consider it an act of obedience and identification with Jesus. They encourage youth and adults to "become Christians" by personally "accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour". These groups also use the phrase "born-again" (referring to John 3:3) to describe becoming a Christian. Others consider themselves Christian just by adhering to the teachings of Jesus Christ, without affiliating to any organized religion. Within countries where Christianity is the historical majority religion, the term is also used by some in a casual generic sense to indicate that they are not members of nor affiliated with any other religion – therefore considering themselves Christians by default." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian 3) "Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek adjective 'καθολικÏŒς' / 'katholikos', meaning "general" or "universal" (cf. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon). In the context of Christian ecclesiology it has several usages: - The word commonly refers to the members, beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, including all sui juris particular churches that are in full communion with the Holy See, namely the Latin Rite and twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches. The latter include the Ukrainian, Greek, Greek Melkite, Maronite, Ruthenian Byzantine, Coptic Catholic, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, Chaldean and Ethiopic Rites. - The Eastern Orthodox Churches also identify themselves as Catholic, as in the title of The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church. - Most Reformation and post-Reformation Churches use the term Catholic (sometimes with a lower-case c) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one church, regardless of denominational divisions. It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word catholic (universal) to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase the Catholic faith in the Athanasian Creed and the phrase holy catholic church in the Apostles' Creed. - The term is used also to mean those Christian churches which maintain that their episcopate can be traced unbrokenly back to the apostles and consider themselves part of a catholic (universal) body of believers. Among those who regard themselves as Catholic, but not Roman Catholic, are Anglicans and some smaller groups such as the Old Catholic Churches, the Polish National Catholic Church, Independent Catholics, Ancient Catholics and the Liberal Catholic Churches, as well as some Lutherans (though the latter often prefer the lower-case "c" and stress that they are both Protestant and Catholic). - The term can refer to the one (singular number) church that, according to Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus told the Apostle Peter he would build: "And I tell you, you are כיפא (Kepha) (Aramaic for "rock"), and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." - Some use the term Catholic to distinguish their own position from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Reformed-Protestantism. These include High Church Anglicans, known also as Anglo-Catholics, 19th century Neo-Lutherans, 20th century High Church Lutherans or evangelical-catholics and others. - Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early Church, but do not claim descent from ancient Church structures such as the episcopate. Neither of these Churches, however, denies that they are a part of the catholic (universal) Church." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic

LMAO! Catholics are Christians. They fall into the same categories as all those who call themselves Christians: nominal, practicing, independent, fundamentalist, and zealous.

You can be a christian, but not a catholic. However, if you are Catholic, then you are a christian.

no. I am a Christian, but not a Catholic. I am a Protestant Lutheran. However, if you are a Catholic, than you are a Christian. Its the same as squares and rectangles. Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.

Catholicism is one among many of the Christian religions.

Of course. Christian includes Catholics & Protestans. I'm not sure about Mormons.

Catholic is a subset of Christianity... Those who worship Christ are Christians.... From there it get's broken down into smaller groups.