Understanding the Papacy in an Age of Confusion (Guest: Erick Ybarra)

The papacy has been a source of controversy since the earliest days of Christianity. How does understanding the debates of the first millennium help our debates over the papacy today?

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[kimberlihahn]

Thank you, great interview! As a frustrated cradle Catholic, I understand there is no leaving. Fortunately, I have discovered the Latin mass and pray it will not be taken away by this pope.

[greatestever]

Eric, great interview. Your channel is so informative.

[Conorthedad]

This was fantastic. Very informative. Great listening while I haul a tractor trailer down Alberta highways!

Thanks guys.

[stevenstuart]

Excellent interview. Please
have him back again!

[loulasher]

Wow. That book would be great for defending the papacy, or anything really. I really like Erick's work and I guess what could be called his openness about his thought processes. Great interview.

[Alexandru]

Keep the structure, lose the mass!
Lose the structure, keep the mass!

Choose!

[BenThorpAkaAbel]

I would love to do an interview with either Eric or Erick. Great guys who need a shot of Dad-energy. A booster, as it were.

[Pine_eagle_]

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (published in 1981) by Malachi Martin. Enough said.

[aeternusromanus]

Understanding the Papacy in an Age of Confusion:

St Gregory I, Pope of Rome, Epistle XL, writing to Pope Eulogius,  Patriarch of Alexandria.

"Your most sweet Holiness [Eulogius of Alexandria] has spoken much in your letter to me about the chair of Saint Peter, Prince of the apostles, saying that he himself now sits on it in thepersons of his successors.
And indeed I acknowledge myself to be unworthy, not only in the dignity of such as preside, but even in the number of such as stand. But I gladly accepted all that has been said, in that he has spoken to me about Peter’s chair who occupies Peter’s chair. …And to him it is said by the voice of the Truth, “To thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Matth. xvi. 19). And again it is said to him, “And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren (xxii. 32). And once more, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? Feed my sheep” (Joh. xxi. 17).
Wherefore though there are many apostles, yet with regard to the principality itself the See of the Prince of the apostles alone has grown strong in authority, which in three places is the See of one.
For he himself [Peter] exalted the See in which he deigned even to rest and end the present life [Rome]. He himself adorned the See to which he sent his disciple as evangelist [Alexandria]. He himself established the See in which, though he was to leave it, he sat for seven years [Antioch]. Since then it is the See of one, and one See, over which by Divine authority three bishops now preside, whatever good I hear of you, this I impute to myself."

[JesusIsLord-]

God has condemned papacy. How can anybody defend it. God calls it a doctrine of demons in 1 Timothy 4. Should we say any more?