That’s a perception that the Roman Catholic organization labors hard to maintain.
Truth be told there IS one church, which is the body of all believers. Sadly, they now fall into contentions based upon what shingle is outside the door of their worship halls. Yes, doctrines are disputed too, but in practice it is the name — the denomination — that gets the highest level of concern. Get the right NAME and then you can sail along blindly with the DOCTRINE local to that NAME. Or so the purveyors of NAMEs would tell you.
hi Hi,
I don’t believe you are even close to being right.
While there IS One Church, no NAME on that Church has anything to their beliefs, nor whether those beliefs are anything close to what Christ asks us to believe.
DOCTRINE has everything to do with faith.
NO DOCTRINE, no FAITH, no matter what NAME you put on it.
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam