How is the Catholic Church the same as other churches?

	God is master and creator of all things
	The bible is the revealed truth from God
	When man sinned he separated himself from God. God gave man the way to return through Jesus Christ.
	The Jewish Faith was the one true Faith of God until the time of Christ. Christ did not institute a new religion, but rather He fulfilled and sanctified the Jewish Faith.
	A Catholic is a Christian and like other Christians believe in Christ as Lord and Savior
	Christ is our personal and only way of salvation.
	We can be saved through faith and faith alone. Christians believe that God made us for wholeness, for a life that never ends. But we must choose salvation.

How is the Catholic Church different from other churches?

	The Catholic Church does not believe that there is any single moment in your life that you are "saved". Catholics see life as a process of conversion and personal growth.
	The Catholic Church believes that good deeds and good works do not add up, like on a score card, and earn you life everlasting in heaven.
	When the Catholic Church states that "through faith and faith alone" are we saved, the Church is also stating that "Faith" includes the "doctrine" of Christ. In other words:
		We must do the will of the Father
		We must do Good works
		We must obey the commandments
		We must be baptized
		We must become one with Jesus
		We must take up our cross and follow Him
	Stated in another way we cannot pick and choose what we feel we need to do to be saved.
	Catholics recognize the authority of the Pope and Bishops for preserving truth of faith and doctrine.
		Catholics believe that Christ founded a Church with the twelve apostles as leaders and Peter as the final authority. (Matt. 16, 16-20)
		History unequivocally records that the Catholic Church is the only Church which can trace its origin and authority to the twelve apostles in an unbroken line. Over the years ceremonies, pageantry, and liturgy may have changed or been modified, but that which is the Church teachings and sanctification, which Christ demanded be brought to all nations, has never changed - NOR CAN IT CHANGE.
		The Catholic Church has the priesthood of Christ handed down from the apostles to other Bishops by the laying on of the hands.
	The Catholic Church brings to us the true presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
		We believe in the words of Christ when He promised to give His body and His blood in order to have life in us. John 6, 48-70.
		Each Catholic Mass offered throughout the world is a continuation of the Last Supper by Christ the night before He died when He first gave to His apostles the bread "which is my body" and the wine "which is my blood". Matt 26, 26-29.
When a non-Catholic Christian converts to the Catholic religion he/she does not have to change or discard any of his/her basic beliefs. But rather he/she has come to believe that through this church and it's priesthood he/she is able to be joined more closely with the crucified and risen Christ.