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Quote Gregory the Great:

"I say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor of Antichrist, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. "
"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope. I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: 'They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!' But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him."

- St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.
- St. Catherine of Siena, SCS, p. 201-202, p. 222, (quoted in Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5: "The Book of Obedience", Chapter 1: "There is No Salvation Without Personal Submission to the Pope").

It's from a book
“That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it black.”

– [St. Ignatius Loyola, “Rules for Thinking with the Church”, Rule 13, (cited from: Documents of the Christian Church, pp. 364-365, ed. Henry Bettenson, New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1947.)]
Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
Forwarded from Covenantal Pugilist
"Not the matter of the bread, but the word pronounced over it, is what profits the one eating not unworthily of the Lord. And this indeed of a typical and symbolical body. Moreover many things could be said also of the word itself, that it was made flesh, and true food, which he who eats, shall live forever, which no wicked person can eat" (Commentary on Matthew 11.14 on Mt. 15:11).

- Origen
John Calvin's Letter to Cardinal Sadoleto (1539)

https://www.monergism.com/john-calvins-letter-cardinal-sadoleto-1539


Cardinal Sadolet's exchange with John Calvin provides the occasion for what is surely the most powerful argument for the Protestant Reformation ever issued.

The occasion of this exchange is John Calvin's sojourn in Strassburg, then a city of Germany. Germany had by then been thoroughly reformed, but Geneva in Switzerland had banished Calvin and Peter Farel in 1538 for trying to enforce reformation too quickly and too strictly.

With the reformers banished, Rome saw opportunity to return the great city of Geneva to the fold. They set Cardinal James Sadolet, one of those rare Catholic prelates that was a man of untarnished character, on the task. Cardinal Sadolet was also an eloquent and cultured man, and he used those talents to write a letter of great force to the council in Geneva in 1539.

https://www.christian-history.org/cardinal-sadolet.html
Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
Here's a perfect example of how Apostolic Succession doesn't mean much. How is some normie with no training supposed to pick which of three contenders is "The Orthodox Church?" @Presbyterianism
Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
I wish the reader to understand that as often as we mention Faith alone in this question, we are not thinking of a dead faith, which worketh not by love, but holding faith to be the only cause of justification. (Gal. 5:6; Rom. 3:22.) It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone: just as it is the heat alone of the sun which warms the earth, and yet in the sun it is not alone, because it is constantly conjoined with light. Wherefore we do not separate the whole grace of regeneration from faith, but claim the power and faculty of justifying entirely for faith, as we ought.

– John Calvin, Antidote to the Council of Trent, 6th Session on Justification, Canon 11
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