The Roman Catholic Church considers itself to be the centre of, not just Christian unity, but world unity. That after all is what the word Catholic means: according to the whole.
The Catholic Church calls itself the sacrament for world unity. A sacrament in Roman Catholic understanding is a visible and effective sign—in other words, it actually does what it signifies. The way this works is that by creating links with every religion and organization throughout the world, the Church is also creating links between those religions and organizations and God, whom the Roman Catholic Church teaches it most fully represents in this world.1
Yet, despite this high view of unity, many things the Catholic Church does result in great division. One of those is the way it understands biblical interpretation. Read More
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