How to say "catholic" in Japanese

• カトリックCommon
  nounThis is the word for the religious sense: the Catholic faith, the Catholic Church, or a Catholic person. It is common, usually written in kana alone, and the one to use by default.
  彼かれはカトリック教きょう徒とである。↗

  He belongs to the Catholic faith.
• カソリック
  nounThis has the same meaning—Catholic, Catholicism, the Catholic Church—but is a less common spelling of the same word; カトリック is the form you will normally encounter and should write.

Both words cover only the religious sense of 'catholic'—Catholicism and the Catholic Church, not the figurative 'broad-minded' sense; choose 「カトリック」, the common form, over 「カソリック」, a less common variant spelling.

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• カトリックCatholic
• カソリックCatholic
• 旧教徒きゅうきょうと(Roman) Catholic