What About the Rest of the World?

What about the rest of the world?

The Catholic Church is always being accused of thinking they are the one and only church. Many comedians throughout the years often refer to it as “The Church.” However, it is mere ignorance that derives the thought that Catholics believe they are better than everyone else. Often enough the debate turns into one about who will be saved and who will not. Each church has its own views, and each church wants to believe that they are following the true way of Jesus, so why does it always seem that the Catholic Church is the only one?

The Catholic Church believes that other Christian churches are its brothers and sisters. The Church also believes that every Christian is in communion with each other. The Church does not preach that they are the only church. In fact growing up in the Catholic faith, we learn the about the different variations of Christianity. Weigel points out in this chapter that “Catholics have hundreds of millions of brothers and sisters in Christ who live their Christian outside of the formal structures of the Catholic Church” (Weigel 135).

Often it just seems to be easier for others to say that the Catholic Church is better than everyone. However, no one seems to realize how this actually comes about. The media often portrays the Catholic Church in a way that leads people to believe that The Church thinks that it’s the one and only Church of Jesus. In fact, the Catholic Faith is probably more tolerant to other religions. The media is well aware that causing controversy makes for better news, yet many people don’t realize that it’s the twisting of the Catholic words that people are angry with rather than the Church itself.

There isn’t a wrong or right way of having faith. As long as you believe in God you will be saved. No where in the Bible does it say that God will only save people who followed a certain church. For the most part we all believe in the same God no matter what we call him. However, like the many other controversies of the Catholic Church, this is just another that won’t be going away anytime soon. Ignorance plagues us all, and it will continue to for time to come.