Posted on 07/30/2005 8:48:42 AM PDT by Mary Kochan
I stand coprected. But "...and we acknowledge that this letter was divinely written as by the Chief of the Apostles..."
They were being duly respectful and had no desire to pick a fight with the Primus inter Pares.
Well, if the reference is to Lk. 22:32, that prayer is fulfilled in all of St. Peter's successors, but not in all of the sees he established or helped establish because, as history points out, some went one way and somewent another.
"The one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church is not a 'denomination'." No, but the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht is a denomination, just as is yours, and it's not the OHCAC any more than your denomination is.
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