“All Christians believe in the Catholic Church. Not all believe that the Roman Catholic Church is the totality of the Catholic Church.”
A rather odd pronouncement considering that ALL protestant branches of Christianity believe in less rather than more Catholic Christian teaching, incuding the incarnation, the virgin birth, the immaculate conception, the Trinity, the dual nature of Christ, the primacy and infallibility of the pope, the assumption, the sacraments and means of redemption (good works), celibate priesthood, and the list could go on and on. Those churches that disagree with the Roman church, then, can’t rightly be called catholic because their divergence makes them less than universal.
“A rather odd pronouncement considering that ALL protestant branches of Christianity believe in less rather than more Catholic Christian teaching, incuding the incarnation, the virgin birth, the immaculate conception, the Trinity, the dual nature of Christ, the primacy and infallibility of the pope, the assumption, the sacraments and means of redemption (good works), celibate priesthood, and the list could go on and on. Those churches that disagree with the Roman church, then, can’t rightly be called catholic because their divergence makes them less than universal.”
Mach9, I understand your point. It is a different point than my own.
All Christians believe in one universal church, if they believe the words of Scripture - the body and bride of Christ - made up of all who have trusted in Christ’s sacrifice, resurrection and ascension on their behalf. Universal is the meaning of catholic, and they would agree with that revelation.
Many Christians would disagree on quite a few of the items you listed that are taught by the Roman church. Many of those things were not taught during the first 100 years of the Church. That is a different proposition than whether they believe there is one universal church, founded by Christ.