Of course. That’s because there is no authority higher than his bishop and no Church other than his own that he’s interested in.
That is the way the Apostles had set up the Churches to be and since we were established by the Apostles ( ANTIOCH IS the First Throne of St. Peter by the way) and not by your Pope and since we are Apostolic that is how we would be and not like your RCC asserts to be.
How do you define ‘good or bad?’ Morally good or bad? Theologically? Intellectually? The problem exists in two ways; too many Catholics are poorly informed about their faith and, there are a lot of protestants going to Mass on Sunday.
This is a problem we find on both sides of the fence, only the Orthodox that I have met, they knew who their Bishop is , where quite a few of the RCs that I met don’t know who their Bishop is, Starting from my wife (RC), to my Mother( Melkite Catholic) all the way down to some of my RC friends, but they all knew the Pope. so it is bad in the sense that knowing the Pope without knowing the Bishop, is a reflection of the reality that it exists in the RCC, i.e. that the Bishop is no more than a vicar to the Pope.in another word that you have only one bishop and that is the bishop of Rome where the Local Bishop is just the presence of the Bishop of Rome in the person of this Local Bishop (a vicar).
Thank you.
Please re-read what I said. I spoke of my family and the Orthodox faithful in my town. IOW, I spoke from my experience, which includes the message from you I replied to.
And I spoke of my experience with your own words, the way you walked in the conversation, the only thing was missing is the beat of the drums of war.
And if your approach to your family and the faithful in your town, is the same way, I see why they act as a bigots.
Every Church I went to in Lebanon there was more than half of it Maronites, and in other areas there was Melkites too.
WIthout the authority given to Peter by Our Lord, the concept of ‘first among equals’ is meaningless.
Show me where did the Lord gave the authority to St Peter to be only given to the Bishop of Rome and no one else?
Does he get the drumstick off the Thanksgiving turkey?
Maybe he likes it:shrug:
Does he get the plush seat?
I would say yes since he is 80 years old.
It is the Papacy, the longest continuous seat of authority in the world,
You got to get off your high horses. even your Pope does not go this far.
The Holy See of Rome is not the oldest it is the Holy See of Jerusalem then the Holy See of Antioch then the Holy See of Alexandria THEN the Holy See of Rome.
which is the Lord’s guarantor of unity in His Church,schisms and heretics notwithstanding.
Wrong, The Lord did not keep guarantor of unity in His Church , The LORD PRAYED for the Unity in HIS Church. to suggest such things and then to see all the schisms, you have made out of Christ a l…r. this is a blasphemy.
I hope you do rethink the above.
The Catholic Church would betray the Lord if she were to surrender that authority and she would cease to be the Catholic Church. Is that what you want?
What is it with you people and with the authority thing, is that what your RCC built on, authority, is this what the LORD came on earth for? to give the authority to the RCC because our salvation is in the authority.?
I think it is the Roman Empire who you get the authority thing from.
I completely agree. It is noteworthy that, of the five ancient Apostolic Sees, just one is in the hands of Christianity and we know which one that is.
So are you suggesting that if the Church is in a non Christian land then it is not valid?
If it is so, then your church also is not valid since the first 300years was under non Christian. and how about the many R. Catholic churches who are in a non Christian land are they valid or not?
GOD bless you all †††
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