The word "catholic" in the Apostles' Creed is not a name brand for the Roman Catholic Church--although it may include it. It means the universal Church, from across all times and places, throughout history, which includes us in the 21st century. Any particular Christian community can realize only a fragment of the catholic whole.

SLIDES READ IN THIS GATHERING:
But Christian unity does not mean the obliteration of all differences; it means the harmonizing of all differences in a larger unity; it means concentration on the Christ who unites rather than on the systems and the theologies which divide. There is the tolerance which comes from the certainty that God fulfills himself in many ways, the tolerance which refuses to be arrogant enough to believe that any man has an exclusive grasp of the whole truth, the tolerance which is quite sure that a great many things on the circumference of the faith can be left fluid so long as the center - which is Christ - is right.

William Barclay, The Apostles’ Creed

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