I'm sure I don't need to give YOU a history lesson, but the word "catholic" is derived from a Greek word meaning universal. Ignatius of Antioch's (around 106 AD) letter to the Christians at Smyrna is the first known use of the term and, oddly, there was NO (capital C) Catholic Church then. He actually meant all the true members of the body of Christ. Go figure!!!
You wrote:
“I’m sure I don’t need to give YOU a history lesson,...”
Nope, but I’ll help you with one in a minute.
“...but the word “catholic” is derived from a Greek word meaning universal. Ignatius of Antioch’s (around 106 AD) letter to the Christians at Smyrna is the first known use of the term and, oddly, there was NO (capital C) Catholic Church then.”
Here’s the lesson: even many Protestants put the phrase in caps. Cyril Richardson did so, for instance. Now, of course, Protestants can just try to have it both ways: “Oh, it doesn’t mean what we would take it to mean, but we’ll put it in caps to show it is sort of a proper noun without actually referring to a definite, visible body” blah, blah, blah. The simple fact is there was only one universal Church - the Catholic Church. That there is still only one universal Church - the Catholic Church. My Church. Not your puny, johnny-come-lately sect.
“He actually meant all the true members of the body of Christ. Go figure!!!”
And they were all Catholics - like me and my fellow Catholics and didn’t include a single Protestant in the group and it still doesn’t. Go figure.
Just read it first, and then tell us how it means to include Protestant heretics or any such.
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans
You wil find in the Chapter named "Chapter 8. Let nothing be done without the bishop". Duh.