id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6697 Catholic Church - Wikipedia .html text/html 34657 5009 63 The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission,[10][11][note 1] that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor to Saint Peter, upon whom primacy was conferred by Jesus Christ.[14] It maintains that it practises the original Christian faith, reserving infallibility, passed down by sacred tradition.[15] The Latin Church, the twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches, and institutes such as mendicant orders, enclosed monastic orders and third orders reflect a variety of theological and spiritual emphases in the church.[16][17] His ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the "Holy See" (Sancta Sedes in Latin), or the "Apostolic See" (meaning the see of the apostle Peter).[45][46] Directly serving the pope is the Roman Curia, the central governing body that administers the day-to-day business of the Catholic Church. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6697.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6697.txt