[metmom]

You are begging the question, presuming what needs to be proved, which is that r that even if Rome truly has an unbroken line of popes from Peter, which is historically problematic even based on scholarship from RCs, then historical descent is the basis for authenticity.

Unbroken line of popes? From the church that admits that it has and can elect the *wrong* man????

There can't be an unbroken line of popes when the *wrong* man is elected.

So much for their claim of authenticity and being the OTC.

pffftttt.......

[verga]

Unbroken line of popes? From the church that admits that it has and can elect the *wrong* man????

Proof.

[terycarl]

There can't be an unbroken line of popes when the *wrong* man is elected.

there has been an unbroken line of presidents even though we have suffered through Roosevelt, Carter, Clinton and Obama.