The standard Catholic apologetics argument from the Bible for apostolic succession is the selection of Matthias to succeed Judas (Acts 1:16-26). That includes taking note that the word for “office” in ...
The household of God, says Paul, is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), and, as E. A. Litton has observed, a foundation does not repeat itself. It is, indeed, evident ...
Ultimately (in conception) from the apostolic deposit and Holy Scripture. I wrote in my first book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism (1996): In the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old ...
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Bishops are successors of the Apostles. And the apostolic succession they receive at the moment of their episcopal ordination is a succession in the mission that Jesus himself ...
The ecclesiological challenges facing the church in the West are the subject of intense debate across confessional and denominational lines. In what sense is there a crisis of church identity and ...
Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominci Gregis ["The Shepherd of the Lord's whole flock'], Pope John Paul II, given February 26, 1996 [outlining and updating procedures to be followed after the death ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results