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  I've become convinced that the "universality" of catholic, is the universality of Jesus, of redemption and message within humankind- past, to come and now, entwined. If that's a "wishful dream" that God hates, then I pray for personal mercy and enlightenment. 
  For 10 years after retirement, I lived in a rural parish that encompassed the geographical "village"; community council; the "jurisdiction" of the volunteer fire department; the former school district; the former single general store, gas station, etc. The relative isolation, the sole church, and general good will meant that Protestants attended mass. See where I'm going? Real community is a multi-dimensional interlace of interactive dependencies that is willingly accepted and enjoined. 
  Institutionally, it seems the RC has in fact created a single level dependency, "ontologically" distinct based on willing submission. Showings of wider "community" seem to be futile play-acting: the wishful dream that God, um...doesn't like.