That's a cute little line signifying nothing. But it's only been used about fifty times here lately.
In the first place there was no Catholic Church at that point in time.
Who discerned the canon of Scripture in the 4th century? Protestants?
CATHOLIC: Where did the word originate? It comes from the Greek word Katholikos, which was later Latinized into Catholicus.
It means 'Universal', which in itself means, 'of or relating to, or affecting the entire world and ALL peoples therein'. It means, ALL encompassing, comprehensibly broad, general, and containing ALL that is neccessary. In summation, it means ALL people in ALL places, having ALL that is necessary, and for ALL time.
Matthew 28:19-20, "Go, therefore and make disciples of ALL nations...teaching them to observe ALL that I have commanded you; And behold, I am with you ALL days, even unto the consummation of the world." That is a statement of Universality, Katholicos, Catholicus, Catholic.
.and you belong to that Church whose faith St. Paul describes as being "proclaimed (KATAnggeletai) in the whole universe (en HOLO to kosmo)” (Rom. 1:8)
Thus the word KATAHOLOS or Catholic in English originated from Scriptures - Romans 1:8
"So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied." [Acts 9:31 RSV]
There the words "church throughout all" is translated from the Greek words "Ecclesia kata holis" or Catholic in English.
Thus the word KATAHOLOS or Catholic in English originated from Scriptures - Romans 1:8 and Acts 9:31
The first recorded use of the word that I could find, is in St. Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Smyrneans, paragraph 8, of
106 A.D.,
"Where the Bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." That was recorded a mere 11 years after John wrote Revelation. Undoubtedly the word was in use before the time of this writing.
Written records of the term "CATHOLIC" describing a character of the Christian Church:
Ignatius, Letter to the Smyrneans 106AD;
Martyrdom of St. Polycarp 155AD;
Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 202AD;
Cyprian, Unity of the Catholic Church 251AD;
Cyprian, Letter to Florentius, 254AD
"In the first place there was no Catholic Church at that point in time." Right. And Athanasius was a bible thumping evangelical.
And in the second, it doesn't say a thing about Sola Scriptura to say that Christian councils made a determination as to which books are inspired.
Councils didn't determine what was inspired, they were already inspired. They excluded what was not inspired. Sola scriptura was unheard of (not to be confused with material sufficiency).
What matters is that all Christian churches believe them to BE the inspired word of God. That being the case, do we treat them as such or go with the opinions of men instead?
It was the opinions of one man that eroded 7 books out of the Bible, he's your authority.
We say that the word of God is an authority that has no equal. Your church says "No" to that.
A non-sequitur fallacy. First, the word of God is never confined to the written word alone. "word of God" is not used that way anywhere in the Bible, it is a false man made tradition. What we say "no" to is isolating the Scriptures from the very Tradition that it flows with. What we say "no" to is every heretic thumbing their nose at the institutional church starting with Arius, Nestorius, Apollarius and a legion of sola scripturists down through history.
101 In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when he took on himself the flesh of human weakness, became like men."63
102 Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:64
You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time.65
103 For this reason,
the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body.66
104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God".67 "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them."68
CCC 101-104
the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body.
did you get that?
The earliest known image of the Virgin Mary is a fresco dated about
150 CE in the
Catacomb of Priscilla
on the
Via Salaria
in Rome that shows her nursing the infant Jesus on her lap.