How is the Catholic Church Apostolic? What does it mean to be Apostolic?
Human history gives us the proof of the Apostolicity of the Catholic Church. The history of the Catholic Church goes back unbroken to the Apostles. The doctrine of the Church is the doctrine given by Christ to the Apostles, preached by them, and contained in Holy Scripture and Apostolic Tradition. The Catholic Church is Apostolic in that it teaches the whole Truth as taught to the Apostles by Jesus Christ. Since Apostolic times, no new dogmas have been revealed. Only clarifications of accepted dogma are pronounced, most often in order to refute some incorrect teaching by misguided people. It is also fairly common for the Church to issue teaching documents to simply confirm and clarify that which is already believed by the members of the Church, as handed down from the Apostles, but which may not have been formalized during Apostolic times. Apostilicity is also confirmed by the fact that there is an unbroken line of successors to Peter, as already mentioned in the main body of this arti
