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OK, so what about Clement, the Bishop of Rome, Pope in the very Early Church, who sent a disciplinary letter to the Corinthians to correct mistakes they made in their local church? Is that not a bishop of Rome acting in matters of faith and morals speaking to the entire Church? That's what the Pope is.Madam, I,ve been a Catholic all my life, to put it in a clearer fashion, I've been a seeker after Christ!When we read or study about the early church, we have to study the early fathers, first three centuries. As far as I can tell, there's no proof at all of the Petrine commission descending to The Bishop of Rome! What has been proffered on this blog are instances of the Roman Bishop doing his work as a bishop of the Suburbicarian See of Rome, putting his point of view on various matters, such as the dating of Easter and such things, writing to an errant Roman colony and to the Council of Chalcedon. We have been given instances of comments by fathers in the ,'luckily,'outdated language used at that time. These don't mean anything .
I cannot believe that Christ gave such awsome authority to a series of men and then didn't tell anybody else? Pius X, declared,
"The Pope is not only representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself hidden under the veil of flesh.
Does the pope speak?
It is Jesus Christ Himself Who speaks."
" You know that I am the Holy father, the representative of God on earth." The Vicar of Christ,
which means that I am God on earth!"
Pius XI.
All this and much more and we were not told about it?
It took 1870 years before it was made official and even then Roman Catholic bishops spoke out against it.
Regarding canonizing dogma, just because it was declared dogma at one point does not, in any way, mean that the dogma wasn't believed very widely prior.
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