The catholic religion has many subdivisions.  Among them: the traditionalists, liberals, charismatic, 

cultural, and popular.  Some have even embraced the theology of liberation and communist ideas. 

Our purpose here is to analyze the catholic religion as a whole, independently of its different 

backgrounds, in order to have a global knowledge of its beliefs in general.        

On one hand the ultra traditionalist Catholics are very critical about the changes carried out by 

the Vatican II, and they prefer the liturgy as it was carried out centuries ago.  

They are not very numerous.    

There are also traditionalists that are in obedience with what the Pope dictate regarding the 

church, and they accept the reforms done by the Vatican II.  Their beliefs concerning the Virgin 

Mary are strong.  The liberals have replaced the authority of the Bible and the church by the 

human reasoning.   They practice the theology of liberation that interprets the Gospel in terms of 

liberation from the poverty and social oppression, and the reconstruction of the society.   There 

are also Catholic Christians full of the spirit (charismatic), who believe in the authority of the Bible

and the church and each time abandon their idolatry and seek the Living God, although they are

under the submission of the Pope’s authority.    Other catholic consider themselves as such simply

because they were born in a country with a Catholic background or they come from a family with

Catholic background, but they are not involved in religious matters.