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I just want to add, in the Roman Catholic mass, when we recite "One holy, catholic and apostolic church" during the Nicene creed, it is also lower case and meaning "universal". That's why it is followed by "We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins" The RC church recognizes any Christian baptism. If you have been baptized in another denomination and go through RCIA to convert to Catholicism, you are not baptized again, you only do the sacraments of Communion and Confirmation. Most of the people in my RCIA group had been baptized already in some faith.
The RCIA experience was fascinating and I did it in a rather liberal RC church. The main concerns of most of the people in my group were the church's views on birth control and abortion. When we asked the Priest about those items in particular, he told us that ultimately, what you do is between you and God and if you truly felt that it was detrimental to bring a child into your life at some point, you needed to pray and discern with God what was best.
ETA: For some of us, there is no church that agrees with our belief systems 100%. Does that mean we can never worship in fellowship with others by attending church? Of course not. That just means that ultimately, it will be between us and God.
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