[Resolute Conservative]

Exactly. I missed the part where John, Paul, Matthew et. al. were Catholics.

Don’t get me started.

[Petronski]

I missed the part where John, Paul, Matthew et. al. were Catholics.

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus. Of course his disciples were Catholic.

[Between the Lines]

I missed the part where John, Paul, Matthew et. al. were Catholics.

Or Moses for that matter.

[tiki]

I don’t really want to get you started but if they weren’t Catholics what were they? I’m truly curious.

[marshmallow]

Exactly. I missed the part where John, Paul, Matthew et. al. were Catholics.Don’t get me started.

They nor anybody else at that time called themselves "Catholic" or "catholic" simply because the word means widespread or universal. The absence of the word in your New Testament, therefore, is entirely attributable to the fact that the Christian church was in its infancy.

The combination "the Catholic Church" (he katholike ekklesia) is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, written about the year 110. The words run: "Wheresoever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be, even as where Jesus may be, there is the universal [katholike] Church."

The evangelists who wrote the Gospels are the foundation stones of the universal (or Catholic) Church.

[Salvation]

Bet you didn’t miss the part on
One
Holy
Catholic
Apostolic

though........The Catholic Church is founded on the apostles by Jesus Christ.

What about your church?