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e. The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time. The tradition of the Catholic Church claims it began with Jesus Christ and his teachings; the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples ...
- “Holy Catholic Church”
- Outside The Church No Salvation
- One Religion as Good as Another
- An Organized Society
- Proved by The Councils
- The Tome of Leo
- Proved by The Fathers
- Conclusion
When, therefore, a Protestant says in the Apostles’ Creed that he believes in the Holy Catholic Church, he may mean that he believes in following Christ in the great unorganized body of Christians, in acquiring Christ’s outlook and living up to his moral teaching in a way his private judgment dictates. He does not believe that his denomination is t...
Most of them regard it as improper if not quite outrageous to claim to belong to the one and only organization Christ set up. Some of them still imagine, in spite of the persistency with which Catholics refute the idea, that we believe that all those outside the visible unity of the Church are going to hell. Unless there are clear indications to th...
The notion that all religions are equally good, be they pagan or Christian, is quite wrong, for, seeing that some of them were being practiced already, why did God become man, establish a new religion and tell his apostles to convert all men to it? Nor is it true that all Christian religions are as good as one another. They contradict one another i...
The plain, simple truth is that Jesus Christ founded on earth directly and personally an organized religious society which he called his Church. A society is a number of people who work together under the same authority using the same means towards the same objective. Jesus Christ selected certain men whom he personally trained to govern his Church...
Before the sixteenth century the Church was always regarded as a highly organized institution. Its supreme ruler was known to be the pope. Under him were bishops, abbots, and priests. All this is clear from the general councils held from very early times. Bishops from all over the world attended them. They, the local rulers of the Church, assembled...
The acclamations of the bishops assembled at Chalcedon are well known. After the reading of the Nicene Creeds they proclaimed: “That is the orthodox faith, that we all believe; into that we were baptized; into that we also baptize; thus Cyril taught; thus Pope Leo believes.” Similarly, when another of Pope Leo’s letters was read the bishops declare...
Much information about the organization of the Church in the early centuries is to be gleaned from contemporary writings. There seems to be little point in giving here a list of quotations from the Fathers, emphasizing the point that it was essentially and by Christ’s will a visible organized society, because the fact is so very evident. In his His...
All the evidence at our disposal–even though omitting, due to space, scriptural evidence–convinces us that Christ set up over nineteen hundred years ago a visible, organized society. Its objective was to make all men holy and save their souls. The means to that were belief in Christ, reception of the sacraments he instituted and obedience to the au...
We often speak of the four marks of the Church: one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic. We do not mean that these are distinctive enough to prove the Catholic Church is the only Church of Christ. But they do help. Christ established only one Church. "There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5). Presently we will speak of the relation ...
The Church can be understood as the Family of God. Jesus addresses God as Father and the early Church addressed its members as adelphoi (brothers and sisters). The Church is not principally an administrative grouping, organized and occasionally re-organized like a company; rather, its distinctive characteristics are prayer and the Eucharist.
Instead, the sacrament of marriage manifests to the Church and to the world Christ's nuptial love. In every dimension of the couple's life, particularly their life as a family, they serve now as signs of the sacramental life of the Church itself. The family, out of the couple's consent, takes on a charisma of Eucharistic love in the world.
Sep 5, 2023 · A Catholic Church. For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring ...
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Jesus and the Church: Jesus Christ is the Lord, our God. He came to His earth almost 2,000 years ago, being born of a Virgin Mother, Mary. At Christmas we honor His Birth. He preached to all men ...
