ratifies the decisions which Peter makes on earth, in the name of Christ” (pp. 36, 37). And the late Cardinal Gibbons, a former archbishop of Baltimore and one of the most representative American Roman Catholics, in his widely read book, Faith of our Fathers, set forth the position of his church in these words: “The Catholic Church teaches that our Lord conferred on St. Peter the first place of honor and jurisdiction in the government of His whole church, and that the same spiritual supremacy has
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