PRIMACY OF SAINT PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
PROPOSITION XII.
Catholics believe, that peculiar and superior powers were given to St. Peter, and that the Bishop of Rome, as his Successor, is the Head of the whole Catholic Church; in which sense, as already stated, this Church may therefore fitly be styled Roman Catholic; being an universal body, united under one visible head.
PRIMACY OF SAINT PETER.
SCRIPTURE.
Matt. xvi. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.-"Jesus saith to them: but whom do you say that I am?- Simon Peter answered and said : Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.-And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon BarJona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.-And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be also loosed in heaven.”
