The term High Church refers to understandings[clarification needed] of ecclesiology, liturgy and theology. Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term has traditionally been principally associated with the Anglican tradition.The term is often used to describe Anglican churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the popular mind with Roman Catholicism. Supporters of "High Church" positions[citation needed] emphasize that these practices have to do with holiness, sanctity and respect for God, Jesus and the church as the Body of Christ. As such they espouse a position that the church as an organisation and the congregation at worship is "catholic" primarily in the sense that it is joined through its ritual to the church "universal" and so they use the terms "High Church" and "Anglo-Catholic".