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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What an awful experience in a closed minded environment. In a world as fluid and interconnected, it's unfortunate that some still want to keep themselves closed off from "others" (non Catholics). There's such an odd "us against them" complex in the Catholic community that gets in the way of truly mixing with other people. [/quote]

Seriously?  I work for the Archdiocese of Washington and almost none of our clients is white or Catholic.  You really need to get out more.[/quote]

[b]+1 non-Catholics really don't understand Catholics, but they seem to have an endless fascination with all things Catholic - the Roman Catholic Church is, after, all, the oldest institution in the world.[/quote][/b]

Seriously?  Is that taught in Catechism?  You really want to go forward with that statement?   I'll give you a chance to modify before the educated come blasting at you.  [/quote]

+1000.  The claim that the Catholic Church is the oldest "institution" (why kind of institutioin?  Hinduism, Zorasterianism is much older) might be true in the sense of Catholic tradition and mythology, but certainly not as a historical truth.There is no "Church" with a capital C in early Christianity. There are various teachers, each of which claims himself to be Christian, in various parts of the Roman Empire, including in Rome. Whether or not Peter himself actually went to Rome and did anything there is not known. In any case, over time, these early organizations became large and complex enough to have hierarchical leaders, e.g, "bishops", especially in important cities such as Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, (later) Constantinople, and so on.
The bishop of Rome became the "Pope," although this term was only used later on. The Catholic Church enjoys the prestige of associating itself with Peter, and has a mythological list of popes dating back to Peter, but it's not any more historical than, say, Romulus being the first King of Rome.
As for the Schism, it's a bit of misnomer. The "Eastern" church was formed around the bishop (later Patriarch) of Constantinople. These organizations were never united in any way. They attempted to agree on theological matters from time to time, but these efforts frequently failed, leading to the so called schisms. However, these have always been separate organizations, certainly never part of any overarching "Church"[/quote]

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