Catholic Church Successes
The Success of the Catholic Church The Catholic Church had many close encounters of failure in the first 400 years of its being, yet it is still standing 2,000 years later. Jesus said “the gates of hell will never prevail against it”, meaning that no matter what, the church shall never fall.1 Through the hardships of the Church, the Church still stands strong due to the guidance of the Holy Spirit guiding the members of the Church on to the right path. In the first 400 years of the Church, the Catholic faith endured many hardships. Catholics suffered from harsh persecution and ridicule from the fellow people around them that did not accept the new found religion that Jesus himself created. Even though the first few hundred years were