A Catholic is a member of the Catholic Church. At least nine out of ten Mexicans are baptised Catholics
If you describe a collection of things or people as catholic, you are emphasizing that they are very varied. He was a man of catholic tastes, a lover of grand opera, history and the fine arts. = wide. connected with the Roman Catholic Church. including a very wide variety of things (catholique, from , from katholikos , from katholou , from kata + holos ). Catholic Emancipation Catholic League Catholic Reformation Orthodox Catholic Church Eastern Catholic church Isabella the Catholic Louvain Catholic University of Old Catholic church Ferdinand the Catholic Spanish Fernando el Católico
The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome. the Catholic Church. Catholic priests. the Catholic faith. see also Anglo-Catholic