Catholic with a capital C refers to the Roman Catholic Church or its members. With a small c, 'catholic' can also mean broad, wide-ranging, or including many different types of things.
From Late Latin 'catholicus', from Greek 'katholikos' meaning 'universal' or 'general', from 'kata' (according to) and 'holos' (whole). Early Christians used it to describe the 'universal' church.
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