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The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning with the first Christians and continuing in our present day, the Church has been planted in every nation on earth. The Catholic Church claims Jesus Christ himself as her founder, and in spite of heresy from within and hostility from without, she remains in the twenty-first century the steadfast guardian of belief in...

of the New Testament that stressed Jesus’ continuity with Judaism. Irenaeus was the first theologian to speak of the New Testament as “Scripture” in the same sense as the Old. Against the elaborate Gnostic cosmology, St. Clement of Alexandria (d. ca. 217) asserted that God created the universe from nothing, a doctrine that became a basic Christian teaching. It both affirmed God’s absolute power—“all things were made through him” (Jn 1:3)—and maintained an absolute distinction between God
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