"Pope Pelagius (556-60) talks of heretics separating themselves from the Apostolic Sees, that is, Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, plus Constantinople. In all the early writings of the hierarchy there is no mention of a special role for the Bishop of Rome, nor yet the special name of 'Pope'....Of the eighty of so heresies in the first six centuries, not one refers to the authority of the Bishop of Rome, not one is settled by the Bishop of Rome...No one attacks the [supreme] authority of the Roman pontiff, BECAUSE NO ONE HAS HEARD OF IT." -Peter de Rosa,Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy (Crown Publishers, 1988), pp.205-06.
“Interesting. I wonder if the “Church Fathers” ever read THIS:”
Who wants to take this one? :)
That’s the type of stuff I find also. It seems the whole of the RCC hangs on tenuous threads of erroneously interpreted scripture and tortured attempts to read into something that isn’t there.
To my knowledge there is nothing that authenticates this writing from Pope Pelagius, but if he said such a thing it means he was ignorant of Church History.
Not likely as they were dead before the time it was written.