who do roman catholics give authority to?
Pope
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 Catholic magistrates and students are permitted to passively attend public ceremonies which have the appearance of superstition . 

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 The Catholic Church has taken no official position on the books , but various Catholics , including officials of the Roman Curia , the hierarchy , and other official bodies have presented mixed views on the subject . 

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 While Roman and Celtic Christianity were very similar in doctrine and both accepted ultimate papal authority , there were differences in practice . The most contentious were the method of calculating Easter , and the form of head shaving for priests known as tonsure . Other differences were in the rites of ordination and baptism , and in the form of service of the liturgy . In addition scholars have identified significant characteristics of the organisation of Irish and Scottish Christianity as relaxed ideas of clerical celibacy , intense secularisation of ecclesiastical institutions , and the lack of a diocesan structure . This made abbots ( or coarbs ) , rather than bishops , the most important element the church hierarchy . 

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 While Roman and Celtic Christianity were very similar in doctrine and both accepted ultimate papal authority , there were differences in practice . The most contentious were the method of calculating Easter , and the form of head shaving for priests known as tonsure . Other differences were in the rites of ordination and baptism , and in the form of service of the liturgy . In addition scholars have identified significant characteristics of the organisation of Irish and Scottish Christianity as relaxed ideas of clerical celibacy , intense secularisation of ecclesiastical institutions , and the lack of a diocesan structure . This made abbots ( or coarbs ) , rather than bishops , the most important element the church hierarchy . 

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 The name " Catholic Church " is the most common designation used in official church documents . It is also the name which Pope Paul VI used when signing documents of the Second Vatican Council . However , documents produced both by the Holy See and by certain national episcopal conferences occasionally refer to the Church as the Roman Catholic Church . The Catechism of Pope Pius X , published in 1908 , also used the term " Roman " to distinguish the Catholic Church from other Christian communities which are not in full communion with the Holy See . 
