Jimmy Akin answers a caller who asks why the bishops of Rome did not play a more pivotal role in the Ecumenical Councils of the early Church.
The Pope and Early Ecumenical Councils
Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and grew up nominally Protestant. At age 20 he experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found...
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"In order to restore in the world the reign of Jesus Christ, nothing is as necessary as the holiness of the clergy."
~ Pope Pius X, writing on May 5, 1904 (from the article "Ecclesiastical Seminary")