From today's first reading from Acts 11, we learned that Barnabas found Saul in Tarsus and brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the Church and taught a large number of people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. So the first Christians were all Catholics. Unfortunately, there are Protestants today who do not know Church history and consider only themselves to be Christians. They, in fact, should be called Bible Christians, for the Bible alone became their guide, some 1500 years after Jesus established his Church. By the way, the Bible was only complied and put out by the Catholic Church near the end of the 4th century.
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