Fr John Flader: We are Catholic, through and through

Q&A with Fr John Flader. This week: "Catholic" or "Roman Catholic"?

Questionn: I taught in State primary schools for 40 years and on class
rolls we had to write RC for Catholics, CE for Anglicans, etc. When I
was in school myself the nuns told us that we were not Roman Catholics,
but simply Catholics, and that the word “Catholic” itself made the
“Roman” description a contradiction in terms. What are we?