How was the Catholic church started?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerCatholic schools could be said to have been started by the sons and daughters of Saint Benedict who have been educating Catholic youth since the second half of the first millennium.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church was founded by Christ. He attracted many followers and gave the Apostles authority over them. That authority was then passed on to successors and the Faith was spread throughout the world.

Answer 3

St. John Neumann started Catholic schools in Philadelphia, so we are talking the United States. Catholic schools, as such, were probably started by the Benedictines in the first millenium.

Actually, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton founded the first Catholic schools in the United States.

Answer 4

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Catholic AnswerIn the old days, even when I started school at the end of the 1950's, beginning of the 1960's, public schools in the United States had a definite protestant religious leaning. They did not teach religion, so much as they assumed the protestant religion, with the occasional Jew in their class. In elementary school, we recited the "Lord's Prayer" complete with protestant ending (Catholics will recognize it as the prayer that comes after the Our Father at Mass), in junior High School, we had to memorize a psalm each week for history class, from the King James Version of The Bible. In days gone by, it was much more prevalent. Catholic schools started, in the United States, so that Catholics could send their children to school without having them indoctrinated, however subtly it was done, but wanted them to learn what they needed to know both about their Catholic faith, and the secular knowledge they needed to succeed in the world, thus Catholic grammar and high schools, along with the Catholic College system came into being.

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Way back, in the medieval period, St. Benedict's monks started teaching young people, and that is the origin of both grammar schools, and colleges.

Answer 5

Roman Catholic AnswerThe Church was considered to have been born from the side of Christ when the soldier opened his side with a lance and blood and water flowed out. It was formally started at Pentecost, fifty days later, when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles to confirm them in all truth and lead them to preach to and baptize all nations.

Answer 6

When Jesus told Peter, Upon this rock I build my Church. He was the first Pope and the list continued all the way to our present Pope.