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Originally Posted by epchick
I don't ever remember learning it so i'm not exactly sure if that is what they are implying, but here is what it says (verbatim):
"Why did Jesus come down to earth?
God sent Jesus to earth so that he could found the Catholic Church"
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According to dicionary.com, one of the definitions of catholic is
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# Catholic
1. Of or involving the Roman Catholic Church.
2. Of or relating to the universal Christian church.
3. Of or relating to the ancient undivided Christian church.
4. Of or relating to those churches that have claimed to be representatives of the ancient undivided church.
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so the catechism may be referring to the ancient undivided church as opposed to the Roman Catholic church. I know in our hymnals (LCMS Lutheran) there's a footnote in the Apostle's Creed where it states the word Christian in one spot used to be catholic. I believe other denominations still use the term catholic when they recite the creed.
Or maybe Roman Catholics are really that self-centered.
