Why there is only one pope

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, First Things

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

He is not only, like the other bishops, successor of the apostles in the college of all bishops. The pope specifically and individually is the successor of the apostle Peter, while the other bishops are not successors of a single apostle, but of the apostles in general.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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