no they don't, Catholics believe that we are the church instituted by christ and are therefore the only true, complete Christian church. As the protestants came along, some 1,500 years later, they decided to revise what the original church taught. Is everything that they do wrong....of course not...is everything they do incomplete....yes. If you leave out, alter, reinterpret original teachings, you leave out, alter, and reinterpret the truth. Are you bad...nope, are you misinformed and misled, yes. Catholics consider protestants as separated brethren and would welcome them back in an instant....the Anglicans have begun to return as we speak!..By the way, if you are legitimately baptized, regardless of where or by who, you are a Catholic!!!! You have been baptized in to Christianity and the Catholic church is the only legitimate, true christian church.....welcome home
The Bride of Christ is not an institution called The Catholic Church. The Bride exists on a spiritual plane and it is apparent that your social institution cannot even imagine that spiritual level since you believe a priest can absolve someone of sin ... on his own recognizance, ultimately, since your ‘church’ teaches that even an active homosexual priest can do this ‘work’ of forgiving that which ONLY GOD HAS DOMINION OVER.
I thought the Protestants were PROTESTing what the 'original church' had become.
I seem to remember 95 or so theses being nailed to a door somewhere.
Sorry; but the 'church' is merely the mass of believers, scattered around the world.
Your beloved organization may be a fine institution, but one is really hard pressed to find it's REQUIREMENT in the Scriptures.