The RCC cites as support for its Dogma and Doctrine, the Old Testament Prophets and the writers of the New Testament. But if you are looking specifically for prophets of the RCC, I don’t think you’ll find any. All the writers of the Old Testament were of the Jewish faith and had passed from the scene by the time the RCC was established.
Re: Catholic Church, and the bible, and Church teachings
“LadySearchDog” was also looking for the NT references as well. As we know the NT was written in, by, for, the
Catholic Church, our Lord’s bride. Ignatius of Antioch, was ordained bishop ~68 a.d by the apostles. He was a direct disciple of
St John the apostle. Ignatius wrote 6 letters to the Church in 6 locations on his way to Rome to be thrown to the lions in ~107 a.d. He is credited for being
the first to use the name Catholic Church in writing.
St Ignatius, uses
Christian in
(ch 2) and
Catholic Church in
(ch 8)
in his
Epistle to the Smyrnæans http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0109.htm
One could ask where did Ignatius get the name
Catholic Church from? He didn’t make the name up on his own, and no one gave him pushback on the name.
The English word
Catholic is a transliteration of the Greek
katholikos which is a compound word from
kata, which means according to, and
holos, which means the whole, or taken together, = according to the whole / throughout all, / or universal.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/what-catholic-means
One can ask, where does
kata holos ekklesia appear in scripture?
From the Greek NT
Acts 9:31 “
the church throughout all ἐκκλησία,καθ’,ὅλης ,τῆς ,Judea and Galilee and Sama’ria…" = the Kataholos Church.
Acts 9:31 _the church throughout all** ἐκκλησία καθ’ ὅλης τῆς_**
ἐκκλησία =
Strong's Greek: 1577. ἐκκλησία (ekklésia) -- an assembly, a (religious) congregation ,
καθ’ =
http://bibleapps.com/greek/2596.htm ,
ὅλης =
http://bibleapps.com/greek/3650.htm ,
τῆς =
http://bibleapps.com/greek/3588.htm , Judea and Galilee and Sama’ria…"
= the Kataholos Church =
the Catholic Church.
