Are you then claiming the proper noun Roman Catholic church is the “true church” and Protestants, Lutherans and other non-catholic Christians are not part of the body of Christ as this article does?
No and please TRY not to read any more (especially negative) into what I wrote. It's MOST disingenuous of you.
Thank you for not showing any chips on your shoulders about what Catholics may post. I don't take things personally on what people write here. Why would I? You DON'T know me and probably never will.
God bless you and yours.
The Catholic Church recognizes all Christians validly baptized as members of the Body of Christ - the Church.
However, they also consider anyone who does not follow the true teachings of Jesus and the Church as heretics.
Benedict began his pontificate with a strong existing foundation for pursuing ecumenism. The Second Vatican Council, a three-year assembly convened in the early 1960s, fundamentally changed how the church did business and made broad Christian unity possible. One of the council’s key documents, Unitatis Redintegratio (Restoration of Unity), issued in 1964, identified “restoration of unity among all Christians” as a key long-term goal.
The document described baptized Christians who profess faith in another church as “separated brethren,” not as
“heretics,” the term commonly used for centuries prior. And in 1964, the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church canceled their mutual excommunications of one
another (dating back to 1054), thereby allowing interchurch dialogue to begin.
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/ecumenical-and-interreligious/upload/ForeignAffairs.pdf
790 Believers who respond to God’s word and become members of Christ’s Body, become intimately united with him: “In that body the life of Christ is communicated to those who believe, and who, through the sacraments, are united in a hidden and real way to Christ in his Passion and glorification.”220 This is especially true of Baptism, which unites us to Christ’s death and Resurrection, and the Eucharist, by which “really sharing in the body of the Lord,... we are taken up into communion with him and with one another.”221 (947, 1227, 1329)
805 The Church is the Body of Christ. Through the Spirit and his action in the sacraments, above all the Eucharist, Christ, who once was dead and is now risen, establishes the community of believers as his own Body.
806 In the unity of this Body, there is a diversity of members and functions. All members are linked to one another, especially to those who are suffering, to the poor and persecuted.