Since at least Marx and Engels, writing in the Communist Manifesto, in 1848 a certain universalising trend in capitalism has been identifiable. Capital claims for its own the whole earth, all people and so on. This is particularly apparent under the globalised capitalism in our own day. Faced with this phenomenon, it is tempting for Christians to respond by asserting that globalisation represents a false universalism, that it presents a parody of the catholica, the catholic Church representing an authentic, divinely gifted, universality. Whilst not rejecting this view completely, I suggest that it does not represent the only available Christian response to globalisation. Rather, we should recognise that there are alternative, critical, secular accounts of universality, supplied, for example, by anti-capitalists and environmental campaigners. These secular accounts of more authentic universality can be brought into conversation with, and enable the transformation of, Christians' understandings of the Church as catholic.