Malachi Martin is not a Catholic standard.
The point is about Phillip is that he, as a representative of the Church, was able to teach the eunuch. Phillip was/is a member of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is what we call the Church that Jesus established. The lesson is that an individual requires that the Church teach him. The few like Paul are outside the Church and therefore outside of the normal processes of teaching that the Church engages in.
Catholic history is not fraught with errors; the purpose of the article is to create doubt, not to substantiate an alternate, true, history. It is very much like the Dan White book. Sensationalism without substance.
My error in my post #471. The offending sentence should have read: “I demonstrated no “great respect” for Malachi Martin. He was NOT presented as a “Catholic standard”.”
Phillip was a member of the catholic church, not the Catholic Church, which did not exist until the 4th century, except in the Orwellian “history” of the RCC.
How is Paul outside “the Church” and where are these exceptions noted in Scripture? Where in Scripture is it recored that the Lord instituted what you call “the Church” (and I call the RCC)?
All history is fraught with errors (aside from that God recorded in the Bible), as it is written by men who all have agendas. The RCC version of history is not immune to such error - and neither is the pope.