that would certainly be correct, and until the so called reformation, the Christians called themselves Catholic. Only after Luther and the other "reformers decided to make up their own denominations did Christians call themselves protestants.There were no protestants on Columbus' ships.
The apostles called the assemblies they visited and themselves Catholic? Could you show proof of that from scripture please.
I believe that Christian was first used in Acts. I do not remember ever seeing Catholic being used in the Bible. I do think I read it was used in the first century. My memory is not what it used to be.
It's amazing how you rabid catholics can just IGNORE the excesses and abuses of your chosen religion that CAUSED the Reformation!
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.