National Catholic Register,Trent Beattie interview with Justin De Fratus: I really like that brotherly aspect of being a Christian: that you’re on a team — God’s team. Not everyone has the same role, but together we can make great things happen. We can support each other and function as Jesus intended us to.
The most important thing, though, is that the Catholic Church was started directly by Jesus Christ. As Catholics, we can trace our spiritual lineage through the bishops over the centuries, all the way back to the first bishops — the apostles — and then, of course, to Jesus himself. This is recorded in Matthew 16:18.
Other Christian groups don’t go back to Jesus, but to King Henry VIII or Martin Luther or someone else who broke off from the Catholic Church or, as time went on, from another group that had already broken off from the Catholic Church. Without a central authority found in the papacy, individuals made up their own religions, and the denominations just kept multiplying. Read full interview here.
