MichelAngelo and Leonardo da Vinci were in the Roman Catholic Church.Copernicus, Ptolemy and the great astronmers were Catholic too. St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila and St.John of the Cross experienced their mystical, unitive states with God, within the Catholic Church.The great Jesuit missionaries like St. Francis Xavier were Catholic.They knew Jesus was present in the Catholic Church. The Church was His Mystical Body, outside the of which there is no salvation

 MichelAngelo and Leonardo da Vinci were in the Roman Catholic Church.Copernicus, Ptolemy and the great astronmers  were Catholic too. St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila and St.John of the Cross experienced their mystical, unitive states with God, within the Catholic Church.The great Jesuit missionaries  like St. Francis Xavier were Catholic.They knew Jesus was present in the Catholic Church. The Church was His Mystical Body, outside the of which there is no salvation. /Lionel Andrades