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To: Steelfish

Sound and act just like your pope.


1,724 posted on 10/08/2014 8:33:20 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone

Why of course! No such shallow nonsense as “born-again” drivel for Catholics.
We have Petrine Authority for our beliefs.

In the year 110 A.D., not even fifteen years after the book of Revelation was written, while on his way to execution St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote: “Where the bishop is present, there let the congregation gather, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic church”. The Church believes that when the bishops speak as teachers, Christ speaks; for he said to them: “He who hears you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me” (Lk 10, 16).

St. Paul in his letters also warns the faithful to hold fast to the tradition they received: “We command you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any brother who wanders from the straight path and does not follow the tradition you received from us” (2 Th 3, 6).


1,725 posted on 10/08/2014 8:55:58 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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