The closest would be the Orthodox Church as they share over 99 percent of Catholic theology. There are a few differences that are currently preventing the two churches from again uniting. That would...
No, there are many religions that predate Catholicism, Judaism for example. However, Catholicism is the first and original Christian religion, dating back to Christ and the apostles.
The Catholic religion was established by God, His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. As God, Himself, is the very definition of Goodness, from which all goodness comes, the Catholic religion, by...
In 1610, John Smyth and Thomas Helwys helped to found the Baptist religion. However, it did not separate directly from Catholicism but from the Church of England, which had previously left the...
Roman Catholics acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Messiah where as the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah to come.
The Catholic Church is the only church that can claim to have been founded by...