From Called To Communion: Understanding the Church Today Editor's note: This is the second half of a chapter titled "The Primacy of Peter and Unity of the Church." The first half examines the status of Peter in the New Testament and the commission logion contained in Matthew 16:17-19. The principle of succession in general That the primacy of Peter is recognizable in all the major strands of the New Testament is incontestable. The real difficulty arises when we come to the second question: Can the idea of a Petrine succession be justified? Even more difficult is the third question that...