ScreamingEagle
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I'm curious for everyone's input on this issue. It's one that I used to come across a lot back when I was a Catholic Apologist. Of course, I always defended Catholocism as a Christian denomination and I believe it still is. But how many of you feel differently or the same, etc.?
Now, I want to be very straight-forward: this is about the validity of Catholocism as a denomination in Christianity, nothing more. No talk about molestations, no bashing others here, and above all, stay on topic. We've seen the disaster that was the original thread. Let's try again, shall we?
Catholics are NOT a denomination. "Denomination" is what Protestantism is all about.
The Catholic Church is not a denomination (which means "to take a new name"); She is the Church. Those who are in schism, those who break away or subsist apart from Her are denominations or sects. She, the Church, is not. She is the Church.
http://www.catholicconvert.com/Portals/0/EcumenicalBibleStudy.pdf