I'd be surprised if anyone here on this thread besides me knows personally a priest or bishop who resides in South America. The priest I know and love as my brother acclaims it is God Who holds all the power. And he's not looking for any power - he's out taking care of his flock, not playing keyboard speculation.
That is wonderful to hear. I have no idea how your friend would weigh in on the issue I was discussing, but that was trying to figure out why some Apostolics believe that it is better for a person to die in his sins and go to hell, than for a Protestant minister to witness to him. I surmised that it was related to the FULL power monopoly that IS claimed by the hierarchy of the Latin Church as a whole, since it believes it is the only true Church.
It would be intresting to find out how many orthodox and Papist Romanist types think it would be better for a person to be unbaptized and/or unbelieving than to be Baptized and to believe in the Love of God.
I really think that anyone who wants to tell us what our ecclesiology is ought to read Dominus Jesus. The charges of "Rubber Bible" and "rubber dictionary" make me despair that anyone is sufficiently intereste din the truth to attack us for what we do beleive rather than what others say we believe.
It's just not as simple as "There are a lot of denominations and we're the right one while all those others aren't."