What Does Catholic Mean?

What does "catholic" mean? We find the answer in section 830 and 831 of the   Catechism of the Catholic Church.
830    The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense:
First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus,  there is the Catholic Church." 
831    Secondly, the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race:
     Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey  everything that I have commanded you.  And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.  Mt 28:19-20
The Church is Apostolic (section 857 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church) because she is founded on the apostles in three ways:
 -- she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles," [Eph 2:20; Rev 21:14] the witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself  [Mt 28:16-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor 9:1; 15:7-8; Gal 1:1: etc]
 -- with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching [Acts 2:42], the "good deposit," the salutary words she has heard from the apostles [2 Tim 1:13-14];
 -- she continues to be taught, sanctified, and guided by the apostles until Christ's return,  through their successors in pastoral office: the college of bishops, "assisted by priests, in union with the successor of Peter, the Church's supreme pastor".

Remember, 
I am with you always, to the end of the age

(1 Thes 2:13; 

cf. 1 Pet 1:25)

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