What Does “Catholic” Actually Mean?

For all the ways Christians disagree, there has always been a deeper question underneath it all:

What actually holds us together?

Across centuries, cultures, denominations, and traditions, the church has wrestled with power, belonging, identity, and who gets to decide who’s in and who’s out. Yet the Apostles’ Creed makes a surprising claim: there is one holy Catholic Church and a communion of saints.

This week, we explored what those ancient words meant to the early church, why they still matter today, and what it might look like to belong to something much larger than our own tribe, tradition, or moment in history.

Because maybe faith was never meant to be something we possess.

Maybe it was always something we share.