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May 1, 2007 · The Catholic system of authority recognizes both the invisible dimension of the Church and the visible. The Church is greater than what we can observe, but the church we observe is also greater than we think. The invisible Church subsists in the Catholic Church, and while you may not be able to identify the extent of the invisible Church, you ...
May 31, 2021 · Pat Flynn. May 31, 2021. Home › Articles › How Can Anyone Say They “Know” That Catholicism Is True? The question is, as they say, “one for the ages”: How can someone know that Catholicism is true and not Buddhism, instead, or some other system of belief?
We know that no other church but the Catholic Church is the true Church of Christ because no other church has these four marks. (a) All other churches lack essential unity. They recognize no authority in religious matters vested in an individual who is the vicar of Christ.
Father John A. Hardon. "Recognizing the True Church." chapter IV from Christ to Catholicism (Inter Mirifica, 2003. Reprinted with permission from Inter Mirifica. The Author. Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. (1914-2000) was a tireless apostle of the Catholic faith.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholic ecclesiology professes the Catholic Church to be the "sole Church of Christ"—i.e., the one true church defined as "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" in the Four Marks of the Church in the Nicene Creed.
The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years.
