> >catholic doesn't mean simply universal. > that's the definition of the word. its one non religious definition. the word universal doesn't identify the church. the word catholic is the name of the church. to reduce catholic to universal is like reducing church to assembly or the governing body of athens, or reducing the logos of the gospel of john to the greek philosophical concept of logos, or eucharist to thanksgiving, or spirit to breath, or hell and gehenna to the earthly place where trash was burned. you can't know the christian meanings of these words by the original non religious meanings alone.
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