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| | Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The primacy of the Roman pontiff is the monarchical authority of the bishop of Rome, from the Holy See, over the several Churches that compose the Catholic Church in the Latin and Eastern Rites. | | | It is also termed "papal primacy", [1] "primacy of Peter", [2] or "Roman primacy"; [3] one might encounter "Peter in primacy over the universal Church," [4] "Successor of Peter", [5] and other related expressions. | | | The Eastern Orthodox churches consider that the Bishop of Rome has a primacy of honor that, since the East-West Schism, is no longer in force. |
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| | Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Within the Catholic Church, the term "Roman Catholic Church" is rather applied to a portion of the Catholic Church, namely the Western or Latin Church, to the exclusion of the Eastern-Rite particular Churches in full communion with the Pope, all of which are part of the same Church taken as a whole. | | | The adjective "Roman" was applied in the context of the English Reformation to the title of the Church to qualify the claim to universality implicit in the title "Catholic" (which means "Universal"). | | | In certain circumstances, this papal primacy, which is referred to also as the Pope's Petrine authority or function, involves papal infallibility, i.e. |
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| | Pontiff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sometimes the Pope is called the Supreme Pontiff and other bishops of the Roman Catholic Church are called Pontiffs. | | | Pontiffs were men on the highest council of priests in ancient Rome, called the College of Pontiffs, and the Pontifex Maximus was the highest religious figure. | | | Pontiff is a title of certain religious leaders. |
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| | Roman Emperor - encyclopedia article about Roman Emperor. |
| | Originally the Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the pre-Christian Roman religion. | | | Pontifex Maximus made the Emperor the chief administrator of religious affairs, granting him the power to conducted all religious ceremonies, consecrated temples, controlled the Roman calendar (adding or removing days as needed), appointed the Vestal Virgins and some Flamens, lead the Collegium Pontificum, and summarized the dogma of the Roman religion. | | | Roman Kingdom The Roman Kingdom (Latin: Regenum Romanum) was the monarchal government for the city of Rome and its territories from its founding in 753 BC by Romulus until the expulsion of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in 510 BC and the establishment of the Roman Republic. |
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| | Pastor Æternas |
| | In this primacy, all the efficacy and all the strength of the Church are placed. | | | When, therefore, this bond of unity with the Roman Pontiff is guarded both in government and in the profession of the same faith, then the Church of Christ is one flock under one supreme shepherd. | | | We teach and declare, therefore, according to the testimony of the Gospel that the primacy of jurisdiction over the whole Church of God was immediately and directly promised to and conferred upon the blessed Apostle Peter by Christ the Lord. |
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http://www.geocities.com/orthopapism/pastoraeternas.html
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| | Pius IX Vatican I |
| | Since the Roman Pontiff, by the divine right of the apostolic primacy, governs the whole Church, we likewise teach and declare that he is the supreme judge of the faithful [52], and that in all cases which fall under ecclesiastical jurisdiction recourse may be had to his judgment [53]. | | | I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church, the mother and mistress of all the Churches [1]. | | | Therefore, such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable. |
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| | List of Christian denominations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Catholic churches accepting the primacy of the Roman Pontiff | | | The Latin Church, the most common form of Catholicism in Western Europe and North America, is sometimes said to be "the Roman Catholic Church." However, Catholics in full communion with Rome regard all of the above to be particular churches of the Catholic Church. | | | Roman Catholic, Lutherans, Anglicans or Baptists) while others are just a few small churches, and in most cases the relative size is not evident in this list. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations
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| | Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4 - CHAPTER 6. |
| | Accordingly, when they debate about their hierarchy they always set out with the axiom: The Roman Pontiff (as the vicar of Christ, who is the Head of the Church) presides in his stead over the universal Church, and the Church is not rightly constituted unless that See hold the primacy over all others. | | | The divisions of this chapter are,óI. Question stated, and an argument for the primacy of the Roman Pontiff drawn from the Old Testament refuted, sec. | | | On the hypothesis of the Papists, the primacy belongs to the Church of Antioch. |
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http://www.theologywebsite.com/etext/calvin/institutes/bookiv08.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Pope |
| | Peter is ever to be found in the Roman pontiff is almost universally held to be a truth revealed by the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and by them transmitted to the Church. | | | Peter, the perpetuity of this office in the person of the Roman pontiff, the pope's jurisdiction over the faithful, and his supreme authority to define in all questions of faith and morals. | | | A primacy such as this manifestly gives to him and to his successors a direct authority over all the faithful. |
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | According to Roman Catholic theology, to the extent that their rejection of a dogma is deliberate, they separate themselves from the Church and are no longer members of the Body of Christ. | | | The pontiff must teach in his public and official capacity as spiritual head of the Church universal, not merely in his private capacity as a theologian. | | | Solemn definitions promulgated by ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church and affirmed by the Pope, such as the dogmatic definition quoted above, are themselves considered infallible. |
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http://www.hostingciamca.com/index.php?title=Papal_infallibility
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| | Pontifex Maximus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the Roman Republic, the Pontifex Maximus was the highest office in the polytheistic Roman religion, which was very much a state cult. | | | In Ancient Rome, the Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the collegium of the Pontifices, the most august position in Roman religion, open only to a patrician, until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. | | | Since the Pontifices were often politicians, and because a Roman magistrate's term of office corresponded with a calendar year, this power was prone to abuse: a Pontifex could lengthen a year in which he or one of his political allies was in office, or refuse to lengthen one in which his opponents were in power. |
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| | POPE FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | The primacy is therefore regarded as a consequence of the pope's position as bishop of the original capital city of the Roman_Empire, a definition explicitly spelled out in the 28th canon of the Council_of_Chalcedon. | | | Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable. | | | Eastern Church Defends Petrine Primacy and the Papacy |
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| | Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. | | | Further, from this supreme power possessed by the Roman Pontiff of governing the universal Church, it follows that he has the right of free communication with the pastors of the whole Church, and with their flocks, that these might be taught and ruled by him in the way of salvation. | | | This is the infallibility which the Roman Pontiff, the head of the college of bishops, enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (cf. |
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http://www.christiantruth.com/papacyandrcfaith.html
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| | Are Anglicans ready to accept Catholics? |
| | This sort of primacy will already assist the Church on earth to be the authentic catholic koinonia in which unity does not curtail diversity, and diversity does not endanger but enhances unity. | | | The report confidently proposes that the primacy could be offered and received "even before our churches are in full communion…We envisage a primacy that will even now help to uphold the legitimate diversity of traditions, strengthening and safeguarding them in fidelity to the Gospel. | | | It is clear from the text, however, that both churches believe their present split from each other is contrary to Christ’s will, and that authority in the Church can be exercised convincingly and authentically only when they are in communion together with the Roman pontiff. |
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http://www.thesoutherncross.co.za/features/anglican.html
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| | Orthodox Coming Home To Rome? - Byzantine Forum |
| | The power of the keys was given to all the Bishops of the Church, not only to the Roman Popes and that phrase of the gospel is not used by the western church to explain the primacy of the popes. | | | The Church of the Primacy is also the Church of the Councils. | | | Today the problem of this primacy is double because the primacy of Peter is not acepted by the modern orthodox churches (despite the obvious meaning of the gospels). |
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| | The St. Joseph Foundation - Canonical Issues |
| | , because of the Roman primacy the pope is by divine law the judge of the universal Church and final court of appeal for all cases. | | | The Second Section of the Signatura is competent to hear appeals from decisions of the Roman congregations, in solving conflicts of competence between the said congregations and in dealing with administrative matters with which the pope might entrust it. | | | The fourth period starts with the reorganization of the Roman Curia by St. Pius X in 1908 with the Constitution, , which is a providential step backwards towards proper procedure in appeals, followed nine years later by a half step in the wrong direction again with the Code of Canon Law in 1917. |
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| | Seattle Catholic - "Keep the Faith, Change the Church" |
| | The primacy of the Roman pontiff, the infallibility of the Church, the sacramental role of the ordained priesthood: these are all aspects of the Church, but they are also doctrines of the Faith. | | | The First Vatican Council, in its definition of the personal infallibility of the pope, stated that infallible ex cathedra "definitions of the Roman pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not in virtue of the consent of the Church" (Vatican I, Session IV, Const. | | | The pontiff continues in this encyclical to observe, "it is through them [the hierarchy], by commission of the Divine Redeemer Himself, that Christ's apostolate as Teacher, King, and Priest is to endure" (ibid.). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infallibility |
| | 4, where it is defined that the Roman pontiff when he teaches ex cathedra "enjoys, by reason of the Divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer wished His Church to be endowed in defining doctrine regarding faith and morals". | | | The pope cannot delegate the exercise of his infallible authority to the Roman Congregations, and whatever issues formally in the name of any of these, even when approved and confirmed in the ordinary official way by the pope, does not pretend to be ex cathedra and infallible. | | | But the fact cannot be denied that from the beginning there was a widespread acknowledgment by other churches of some kind of supreme authority in the Roman pontiff in regard not only to disciplinary but also to doctrinal affairs. |
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| | Alpha and Omega Ministries, The Christian Apologetics Ministry of James R. White |
| | Resolved: The Church of the Council of Nicæa is not the Roman Catholic Church | | | James claims there is a "fundamental disjunction" between the teachings and beliefs of the Nicene Church and those of the modern Roman Catholic Church. | | | Nicæa is Roman Catholic in its doctrinal content, and its hero, Athanasius, was a Roman Catholic. |
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| | PAPAL INFALLIBILITY |
| | I unhesitatingly accept and profess all the doctrines (especially those concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching authority) handed down, defined, and explained by the sacred canons and ecumenical councils and especially those of this most holy Council of Trent (and by the ecumenical Vatican Council). | | | "[The Holy Roman Church] firmly believes, professes and teaches that none of those who are not within the Catholic Church, not only Pagans, but Jews, heretics and schismatics, can ever be partakers of eternal life, but are to go into the eternal fire 'prepared for the devil, and his angels' (Mt. xxv. | | | Furthermore, in direct contrast to these "infallible" declarations, the Roman Catholic church is now saying the following regarding Muslims. |
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http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/papal.htm
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| | PetersNet: Father William Saunders, Eastern Rites: the Patriarch |
| | In the mind of the patriarch, since Rome had declined in stature and since Constantinople was now the viable capital of the Roman Empire (or what was left of it), he thought he should be recognized as the head of the Church — in a sense, "New Rome" should be the home of the pope. | | | Attempts were made to reunite these Orthodox Churches with the Roman Catholic Church. | | | Since Constantine had made Constantinople the capital of the Roman Empire in the East and called it "New Rome," the Council of Chalcedon (451) eventually elevated it as a patriarchate with jurisdiction over the territories of Asia Minor and Thrace. |
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| | Dialogue on Development of Doctrine and the Papacy |
| | Wherefore, in the decree of the Vatican Council as to the nature and authority of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff, no newly conceived opinion is set forth, but the venerable and constant belief of every age (Sess. | | | That is not a denial of development of doctrine, growth in theology, understanding, language, terminology, etc. I would say the same: the primacy of the Pope is the venerable and constant belief of the Church from the beginning. | | | The problem, for a Roman Catholic like Steve Ray who wants to promote the idea of development, lies in the fact that Vatican I and pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Satis Cognitum specifically state that there was no development of the papacy. |
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| | Sedevacantism: Is John Paul II a true Pope? |
| | Sedevacantism is the theological position of those traditional Catholics who most certainly believe in the papacy, papal infallibility and the primacy of the Roman Pontiff, and yet do not recognize John Paul II as a legitimate successer of Peter in the primacy. | | | On the contrary it is because of his belief in the papacy, the primacy, the infallibility and the indefectibility of the Catholic Church that he rejects John Paul II and his Conciliar Church. | | | In conclusion, let it not be said that the sedevacantist rejects the papacy, the primacy, or the Catholic Church. |
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| | Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston Questions |
| | The division, though having some theological aspects to it, is largely cultural and ecclesiological (concerned with Church structure and governance) and revolves mainly around the primacy of the Roman Pontiff over all other bishops, as the direct successor of Peter. | | | In any case, Orthodox Christians like Roman Catholics hold and believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist. | | | As the National Conference of Catholic Bishops makes clear in its “Guidelines for Receiving Holy Communion” (to be found on the back of any missalette or at their web site www.usccnccb.org), reception of communion is not merely a statement of personal belief, it is also a statement of communal faith. |
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| | Crossing The Threshold Of Deception II - The Line of the Vicar of Christ |
| | Further, the ‘bishops did not “respect the primacy and pre-eminence of their head” (Flannery 1981), but considered him to be only one of the many ‘witnesses’ who testified, regarding this issue of circumcision. | | | This is a blatant contradiction, since it is considered to be one of the prerequisites to entering the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and it is most certainly a prerequisite for the Papal Throne. | | | Had Peter been the Head of the visible Church, as the Roman Catholic Church asserts, then Peter would have been the one to delegate those who were to go on the trip. |
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| | ORIENTALIS ECCLESIAE |
| | Throughout this stormy period, and especially at the Council of Ephesus, he showed himself the invincible champion and learned teacher of the divine maternity of the Virgin Mary, of the hypostatic union in Christ, and of the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff. | | | To my orthodox faith the Roman Church has borne witness, and so too has a holy Synod gathered together, so to speak, from the whole of the earth that is under heaven.[31] | | | And it is evident, Venerable Brethren, that at the Council of Ephesus the Patriarch of Alexandria acted as the legal representative of the Roman Pontiff; for, although the latter also sent his own Legates, the chief instruction he gave them was that they should support the action and the authority of St. Cyril. |
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| | A Profession of Catholic Faith for the Heretic. |
| | I now, with grief and contrition for my past errors, profess that I believe the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church to be the only and true Church established on earth by Jesus Christ, to which I submit myself with my whole heart. | | | With a sincere heart, therefore, and with unfeigned faith, I detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church. | | | I believe all the articles that she proposes to my belief, and I reject and condemn all that she rejects and condemns, and I am ready to observe all that she commands me. And especially I profess that I believe: One only God in three divine Persons, distinct from and equal to each other, |
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| | LT29 - Papal Authority in the First Ecumenical Councils / A Dubious Translation of Ecclesia Dei |
| | Frend's claim that the Eastern tradition excluded Roman primacy at this stage of history, and that the "sporadic" papal claims to universal jurisdiction were "denied or ignored by those to whom they were addressed" is at best an argument from silence, and, indeed, does not seem well-supported by the available evidence. | | | A papal primacy of jurisdiction, then, was without doubt generally accepted by the mid-fifth century (although, then as now, there was resistance to particular acts of Roman authority on the part of various Bishops). | | | They may be taken as fairly typical statements of Roman Catholic belief on the one hand, and the viewpoint of many who are sceptical of the traditional Catholic interpretation of history on the other. |
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| | CIN - Pastor Aeternus, Chapter IV, Vatican Council II (Infallibility) |
| | Moreover in the apostolic primacy which the Roman Pontiff holds in the universal Church as successor of Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, there is also included the supreme power of teaching. | | | CHAPTER IV (On the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff) | | | This Holy See has always held this [truth], the perpetual usage of the Church approves it, and the ecumenical Councils, especially those in which the East has come together with the West in a union of faith and charity, have taught it. |
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| | (October Bulletin for Christ the King, Ann Arbor, MI) |
| | The above phrase is an ancient one in the Church, it is Latin and translates as: "where Peter is, there is the Church." It has to do with a fundamental aspect of Roman Catholic ecclesiology concerning the office of Peter and his successors in the Church. | | | The pope's power of primacy over all, both pastors and faithful, remains | | | May the grace and peace of the Risen Lord Jesus be with you! |
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