Fidelity to the Catholic Church

“No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother.” — St. Cyprian
H.H. Benedict XVI	We believe that the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ Himself as the extension of His Incarnation through time and space.	H.H. John Paul II

With Christ as its invisible Head, the Catholic Church is a living communion of particular apostolic Churches, each overseen by the successors of the Apostles in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ and the direct Successor of the Apostle Peter (the Rock), presiding in love as the Church’s visible head and principle of unity. As the Church is Christ’s Body on earth, it is protected by the promise of Jesus Christ to be guided by the Holy Spirit into all truth, protected from all error, and victorious over evil as He says “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18).