The Universal Church

I just got back from a trip to LA for a recording session. Whenever I am in a city away from home I go to Masstimes.org to find a place for daily Mass and Sunday worship. In the City of Angels there was no shortage of churches and we found a Church named St. Ann's, just like our home parish! In years past as a non-Catholic Christian, if I was away from home on Sunday, and couldn't find a church that was similar to my home church, I simply wouldn't go. I didn't want to take a chance of worshipping at a church where the theology wasn't the same as mine.
In the Catholic Church, the liturgy remains the same some 3000 miles away and 2000 years later I am again able to meet my Lord in the Eucharist. It makes sense to me that the Church should indeed be universal so that the same beliefs and practices instituted by the apostles will be taught and practiced everywhere.

"[T]here are many other things which most properly can keep me in [the Catholic Church’s] bosom. The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here. Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here. The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15–17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here. And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house" ( St. Augustine, Against the Letter of Manicheus Called "The Foundation" 4:5 [A.D. 397]).