Oh, yes it does.
Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215) [considered infallible by some]
Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema. Vatican 1, Ses. 4, Cp. 1
DECREE ON JUSTIFICATION (anathemas) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct06.html DECREE ON THE SACRAMENTS (anathemas) DECREE CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST (anathemas) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct13.html ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENTS OF PENANCE AND EXTREME UNCTION (anathemas) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct14.html Check your church laws that were established at Trent. Canon 9. If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action of his own will, let him be anathema. A couple more laws that you might want to consider: Canon 19. If anyone says that nothing besides faith is commanded in the Gospel, that other things are indifferent, neither commanded nor forbidden, but free; or that the ten commandments in no way pertain to Christians, let him be anathema. Canon 24. If anyone says that the justice received is not preserved and also not increased before God through good works, but that those works are merely the fruits and signs of justification obtained, but not the cause of its increase, let him be anathema. Canon 27. If anyone says that there is no mortal sin except that of unbelief, or that grace once received is not lost through any other sin however grievous and enormous except by that of unbelief, let him be anathema.
that's like saying I'm a former man, but now I'm not. Slavery has nothing to do with it, Baptism does. If one is legitimately baptized, one is a Catholic. You don't have to practice Catholicism, but you can't get unbaptized nor can you be baptized anything other than Catholic. For 1,600 years or so, all baptized Christians were known as Catholic and nothing has changed. After the revolution, people were baptized but decided not to practice in Christ's founded church...that, however, did not change the fact that they were still Catholics, though not real good ones.
There is only one true complete Christian church on Earth and it is the Catholic church..eastern and western are both still united in their authenticity as the true church.