[mnehring]

Catholics are the first Christians!

To be fair, I believe a bunch of Jewish fishermen, carpenters, rebels and tax collectors were.

[Salvation]

And those apsstles were given the Sacrament of Orders by Jesus Christ himself.

“Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you hold bound are held bound.”

“Go, therefore, baptizing all in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

[markomalley]

To be fair, I believe a bunch of Jewish fishermen, carpenters, rebels and tax collectors were.

Sounds like the first bishops, to me.