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St. Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the Body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops in the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind...

The things I describe so far often applied to me.5 I myself was held and ensnared by so many errors of my former life that I did not believe that I could be stripped of them. Thus I was giving my obedience to vices that stuck fast to me, with despair about them becoming any better. I cherished my own evil actions just as if they were so peculiarly my own and inborn in me. But the light from above shed itself into my heart sacrificially cleansed
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