Pretty bad Popes does not cut it. You had centuries of Whore mongers and Murderers. And the Papacy was bought and sold by the leading families in Europe. But anyway, lets get back to my point. Where are the proofs that the Apostles and authors of the new testiment were Catholic?
What church do you belong to? Perhaps, as in a number of the Protestant and Restoration churches, this might be black in comparison.
But in any case, we have not had centuries of whoremongers and murderers. Neither have we had the Papacy bought and sold by the leading families in Europe. You have been out on websites that have large text in multiple colours and in very large sizes. Amusing but inaccurate.
The proof the the Apostles were Catholic is easy. Catholic means Universal and it has been written about by the Church Fathers. It came about within the first century and it meant the Universal Church of Jesus Christ. We have the Church Fathers’ letters saying Catholic. We certainly don’t have the Church Fathers saying “Baptist” or “Lutheran” or “Seventh Day Adventist” or “Anglican”.
Face it, folks.
The Catholic Church is the real, the true, the Universal, the only and the Real Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Everything else is a man made imitation. Give it up and come home to Christ.
I, too, with Mark, would be interested to know what community of faith do you consider in apostolic succession.
To answer your question, I find nothing un-Catholic in the teachings of the Apostles and the human authors of the New Testament, and I can tell a Catholic from non-Catholic. So, they are Catholic, and unsurprisingly, from 1c. on they call themselves that.