text: "At Mass each Sunday, Catholics stand up together and pray our own sort of "pledge of allegiance", the Nicene Creed..."
  
  Just keep in mind that the Nicene Creed was a result of Emperor Constantine putting himself into the middle of 4th century theological disputes (in no small measure to strengthen his political control).  One of the consequences was that Christianity became the State religion of the Empire, eventually morphing into the incestuous embrace of church and state in Christendom, the root of many problems facing the Church to this day.