You have all forgotten the most coomon type of Catholic: lapsed
Good point - Christ founded the Church, not Peter – but He placed Peter at the head of it as his vicar.
I didn’t think it was an attack either, but I thought there ought to be some clarity; the Vatican DOES claim that Peter was the first head of the Church, after all.
No such “Orthodox Catholic” church exists. There are the Unitaes, who are “Byzantine Catholics”, but they are not Orthodox.
If they are Orthodox, they are not Romanist.
Well, no, they’re not “Orthodox”, but they are sometimes just called that, as a slang term. A classmate of mine was from a church that was originally Russian Orthodox, but then it became Byzantine Catholic.
Coming back to the OP:
While there are many, many splinter groups that split of from the Roman Catholic Church and still call themselves “Catholic” (Sinead O’Conner was ordained by one of these; Mel Gibson is very active in a splinter Catholic group that split with the main church over Vatican II; here in the DC area, a local pastor founded the Imani Temple to better serve the African American Catholic community. Most of these mini-scisms have about a parish’s worth of followers and dwindle out of existence after one or two generations), the term as generally used refers to the Roman Catholic Church. “Irish Catholic” is an ethnic description, not a separate church. Anyone who recognizes the Pope in Rome as his spiritual leader is a Roman Catholic.
Here’s a list I found of churches that use the word “Catholic” in their name, but are not in union with Rome.