[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“By the way, I am a Protestant, and appreciate the link to Church Fathers. Before the Reformation, the Catholic Church was the Christian Church in the Middle Ages. And to ignore that fact would be to ignore much of our history.”

I salute you for realizing that the “Catholic Church was the Christian Church in the Middle Ages.” What I wonder is if you realize that that means the Catholic Church must be the Church Christ sent and that all others are just man-made creations.

[Quix]

MORE unmitigated UnBiblical UnHistorical BALDERDASH from the Vatican Cult folks.

[NEWwoman]

* What I wonder is if you realize that that means the Catholic Church must be the Church Christ sent and that all others are just man-made creations. *

As a Presbyterian (like many other Protestants), we say the Apostles Creed - “I believe in one catholic and apostolic church ...” (I understand catholic has the broader meaning of universal.)

Ephesians 4:4 - says there is one body.

Christ only has one church - believers He has called out to Himsef. The labels we all give ourselves are man-made.