[A CA Guy]

If you trace the various faiths back to where they started, all come back to Catholic. Various people just didn't want to follow the authority of the church Christ established on earth and so they went and started their own various churches.

I think most various faiths are busy trying to keep their own churches in order, but I do know that Catholics do at this point acknowledge the other break away Christian faiths because at least they got the part right about accepting Christ as their Lord and Savior for their salvation.

The Catholic Church does acknowledge conventional faiths out there, but not the ones that practice vice as part of their religion as a goal.

[Lion in Winter]

I think the Orthodox Christians would disagree with you VERY much as to where THEY originated.

[N3WBI3]

Various people just didn't want to follow the authority of the church Christ established on earth and so they went and started their own various churches.

Given the catholic church became nothing but a scheme by wealthy and underhanded Italian families who could blame them.

Be careful how you boast in the catholic Church as Paul pointed out the Jews were gods chosen people and he picked, from the nations, a new people when it served his plan...

[eleni121]

The origins of Christianity lie with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As for the term "catholic"---If by catholic you mean universal..then fine..the church certainly was the Holy Universal Apostolic Church...until the Great Schism when the bishop of Rome and his political allies decided to split from the the Catholic Church thus dividing the Christian Church into the Eastern and Western branches followed of course by other splits in the west.

We pray daily for the reunification.