text: Yes and no, depending upon our perceptions. Personally, I think the CC has a high ceiling for so many, many things owing to its size, global outreach, institutional history/theological tradition of two millennia, and vast demographic spectrum of international adherents. But assuredly one can call China (1.2 billion people) "another Lichtenstein" (with its 32 thousand people) and get away with it, too. But Catholicism does not operate as a sect. It is too complex, historically and theologically. It has the same Creed, for example, but different expressions of practice, of the divine, of spirituality (through its religious communities) and a fairly high ceiling for private revelations and miracles. For this reason, Rome's degree of theological accuracy and fluidity (mystical, at times) must be sacrificed to theological conciseness on occasion. A sect, however, does not operate this way. There is no complex, historic spectrum of belief, narrative, nuance, tradition, or mystery in a sect.