Hence, it follows that if my Church, the Catholic Church, is the one true Church, I, professing her doctrines and living up to them, will be saved, and my brother denying her doctrines in his teaching and practice will be lost. And because truth is one, so must the true Church be one and one only. For, as there is but one God and one Christ, so can there be but one true Church, one true faith, one true Baptism. For the true Church is Christ's living representative on earth, and hence, she is one even as He is one. He called her His Church, He founded her on one rock, He gathered His disciples into her as into one fold, under one Shepherd, and His last prayer for her was that she might ever continue one even as the Father and He are one. Christ clothed her with His own personality, giving to her all power in heaven and on earth even as the Father gave to Him.
Hence, just as the apostolic delegate can say: " I am the Pope," so the true Church can stand up before the world and say: " I am Christ." For, sending her into the world He said: " Go preach the gospel to every creature, and whosoever shall believe and be baptized shall be saved, but whosoever shall not believe shall be condemned. Amen, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable in the day of judgment for Sodom and Gomorrha than for whosoever shall not receive or hear you. Let such an one be to you as a heathen and a publican. For who denies you, denies Me, and who denies Me before men I will deny him before My Father in heaven." Thus, you see, that so close is the connection between the Father and
