If you do not understand how alphabet letteres were formed from symbols will...?

Question

...you ever figure out what C_A_T_H_O_L_I_C means?
Show me where anyone has done anything but guess that it means universal.orces are insufficient.

...sources are insuficient....

Answer 1

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός or katholikos, meaning universal.

The Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD (about 10 years after the last book of the New Testament was written), when the term appears in the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans:

"Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-smyrnaeans-hoole.html

We do not know how long they had been using the term "Catholic" before it was included in this letter.

All of this was long before the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed from 325 A.D. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Original sources are immaterial to current meanings. Even "Catholic" meaning "universal" is drifting away from that definition and more toward a particular theological stance.

Meaning is what is currently understood, not what was meant by stone-carving progenitors of ancient languages.

^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^