The Official Roman Catholic Policy of Obstruction of Justice

I’ve already written about Rome’s Institutionally Sanctioned Lying. An institution as old as the Roman Church has obviously, over the centuries, adopted policies to deal with the reporting of sexual scandals in its ranks. It has learned how to lie about them: [One abuse victim] was particularly angered by the use by Church authorities of …

Paul ordained the second “pope”

Here is a primary source that will provide further illustration that the early church had no knowledge of any kind of “petrine primacy.” The “Apostolic Constitutions” was unknown in the West until the Middle Ages. Daniel O’Connor (“Peter in Rome”) dates the earliest form of the document in the early third century (that’s in the …

Irenaeus on Succession

Turretinfan has been following (and answering) Steve Ray’s “Questions for Bible Christians.” He answers Question #35, here: http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2010/02/unloading-35-loaded-questions-for-bible_13.html He’s completed the series. Interestingly, #35 touches on “apostolic succession: Here’s the question, and here’s my comment: When did it become okay not only to disobey the Church’s leaders, but to rebel against them and set up …