Besides Christ was Jewish why would he start the “Catholic” as oppossed to the catholic church?
The word “catholic” means “universal”. It claims the universality of Christ’s church makes it open to all: all classes, both genders, all nationalities. It implies that the Body of Christ is not limited to a time, place, race or culture. “Then Jesus approached and said to them, ‘All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you’”. (Matthew 28:18-20) No where do I read baptize them into the only Church that God recognizes the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is the only one that traces its line of leadership and doctrine directly from Christ to today. The earliest Christians considered themselves catholic as you defined it and practiced the Mass as Christ commanded. God not only recognizes the Catholic Church, He started it.