Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
The summary you've managed is testimony to how the Catholics destroyed all branches of the church they didn't like.
This is a little emotive and inaccurate. In the early church defining and refining doctrine was important. I suppose this is what you mean by "destroying" branches of the church they did not like, although that is a highly judgemental way of putting it. Of course all this happened before any schism between Catholics and Orthodox or Catholics and Protestant, so it is somewhat unfair to let those churches of the hook. As I pointed out before, salvation merely requiring faith, which is what DA put in his summary is a Protestant idea which Catholics would reject so the summary is not particularly Catholic either.