To set the record straight so that Protestants are aware of the facts when Roman Catholics try to say the suffix, "Roman" was added by Protestants to "Catholic" during the Reformation as a slur, the following facts demonstrate the Roman accusation to be entirely manufactured with no basis in fact whatsoever, and is in reality the opposite of the facts.
Pope St. Hormisdas: What the Roman, that is the Catholic Church follows and preserves concerning free will and the grace of God can be abundantly recognised in the various books of the blessed Augustine, and especially in those to Hilary and Prosper, but the prominent chapters are contained in the ecclesiastical archives and if these are lacking there, we establish them. (Sicut Rationi, AD. 520)
By the way, the churches in the east and africa objected strongly that any attempt to add a localized designation to "catholic" was a departure from and violation of the universality of the term.
Pope Innocent III, A.D. 1198-1216 (D423): "By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman Catholic, and Apostolic (Church) outside which we believe that no one is saved." (Profession of Faith for the Waldensians, Eius Exemplo)
Pope Clement VI, A.D. 1342-1352 (D 550 b,l): "We ask if you believe and the Armenians obedient to you, that no man of those travelling outside the faith of the same Church and obedience to the Pontiff of the Romans can finally be saved; [...and] if you have believed and believe that all those who have set themselves up against the Faith of the Roman Church and have died in final impenitence have been damned and have descended to the perpetual torments of hell." (Super Qibusdam)
http://www.romancatholicism.org/jansenism/tradition-eens.htm
http://ourladyofsorrow.org/news/?p=43
Rome has been calling it's church "the Roman Catholic" church or the "Roman faith" for centuries prior to the Reformation. Therefore, the accusation that "Roman" was an addition by True Catholics during the Reformation as a "slur" is simply false, being contrary to the facts.
Pope St. Hormisdas: What the Roman, that is the Catholic Church follows and preserves concerning free will and the grace of God can be abundantly recognised in the various books of the blessed Augustine, and especially in those to Hilary and Prosper, but the prominent chapters are contained in the ecclesiastical archives and if these are lacking there, we establish them. (Sicut Rationi, AD. 520)
By the way, the churches in the east and africa objected strongly that any attempt to add a localized designation to "catholic" was a departure from and violation of the universality of the term.
Pope Innocent III, A.D. 1198-1216 (D423): "By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman Catholic, and Apostolic (Church) outside which we believe that no one is saved." (Profession of Faith for the Waldensians, Eius Exemplo)
Pope Clement VI, A.D. 1342-1352 (D 550 b,l): "We ask if you believe and the Armenians obedient to you, that no man of those travelling outside the faith of the same Church and obedience to the Pontiff of the Romans can finally be saved; [...and] if you have believed and believe that all those who have set themselves up against the Faith of the Roman Church and have died in final impenitence have been damned and have descended to the perpetual torments of hell." (Super Qibusdam)
http://www.romancatholicism.org/jansenism/tradition-eens.htm
http://ourladyofsorrow.org/news/?p=43
Rome has been calling it's church "the Roman Catholic" church or the "Roman faith" for centuries prior to the Reformation. Therefore, the accusation that "Roman" was an addition by True Catholics during the Reformation as a "slur" is simply false, being contrary to the facts.