All the apostles were Catholic. Catholics are the Original Christians. Put your Bible down, which you wouldn’t have in the first place if it weren’t for the Catholic Church, and read the early Church fathers.
Cardinal John Henry Newman, Anglican Convert:
To be deep in the early fathers is to cease to be protestant.
“All the apostles were Catholic. Catholics are the Original Christians.”
Baloney
“Put your Bible down,”
Spoken like a true heretic.
All the Apostles were practicing Jews, who believed Jesus Christ to be the fulfillment of Judaism, the Messiah. That, in hindsight, made them Christians. Would Peter have recognized a huge, worldwide organization based in Rome, that claims him as their founder? Or would he recognize people following the Messiah as he did, as the church?
As far as the Bible, the glory belongs to God, at whose behest the Bible was compiled. Catholicism played an important role in compiling and editing pre-existing texts, and for that all Christians are grateful. Outside of that, it’s sort of crass for a particular sect to claim ownership of the Word of God, especially one that branded those who attempted early translations into languages other than Latin as heretical, as was the case with John Wycliffe.
“All the apostles were Catholic. Catholics are the Original Christians.”
This is probably why the word “Catholic” appears so many times in the Apostles own books. /sarc