Sorry to intrude on your reply thread here, and I have always had a fascination with the history and traditions of the Roman catholic church - and mean NO disrespect to you at all - but it was MOST CERTAINLY NOT "founded by Christ". Next to the Mormon faith, Catholicism departs from scripture in significantly huge ways. This is basic new testament Christianity 101! I'll never understand how Catholics don't understand that and why they don't question these post-Christ man made nonsensical and obviously non-scriptural traditions.
Catholicism does not depart from Scripture. In fact, you will hear more Scripture and more preaching on Scripture in the Catholic Church in my opinion.
Christ founded His Church on Peter, and it has existed ever since. That is in the Bible.
Protestant denominations have other founders: Luther, Knox, Eddy, Smyth, Henry VIII, Wesley...
The Catholic Church is not based on the Bible but on the teachings of Christ. Certain writings of the Apostolic Age were put together as Sacred Scripture, but these writings were chosen because they aligned with Church teaching, which already existed; not the other way around basing teaching on Scripture.
For example, do you believe in the Trinity? Yet the Trinity as such is not in the Bible. It was the Church which clarified the teaching of this understanding of God at the Nicean Council in the year AD 325.