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Chapter 2.
On the permanence of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman pontiffs
1. That which our lord Jesus Christ, the prince of shepherds and great shepherd of the sheep, established in the blessed apostle Peter, for the continual salvation and permanent benefit of the Church, must of necessity remain for ever, by Christ's authority, in the Church which, founded as it is upon a rock, will stand firm until the end of time [45].
2. For no one can be in doubt, indeed it was known in every age that the holy and most blessed Peter, prince and head of the apostles, the pillar of faith and the foundation of the Catholic Church, received the keys of the kingdom from our lord Jesus Christ, the savior and redeemer of the human race, and that to this day and for ever he lives and presides and exercises judgment in his successors the bishops of the Holy Roman See, which he founded and consecrated with his blood
Examples abound of Pope Francis contradicting his predecessors and it needs be important to understand this eye-opening infallible teaching in its proper context which, one assumes, includes the understanding that it is not Jesus Christ exercising His judgement through the Bishop of The Holy Roman See when one Bishop of The Holy Roman See contradicts his predecessors.
Because this infallible teaching necessarily perdures over time how does one explain examples of Papal praxis, preaching, and prose that are in obvious contradiction to this infallible truth, especially with the awareness that these contradictions are claimed by the Bishop of The Holy Roman See to be authoritative and part of his Magisterium?
ABS has always cited the pretend Holy See motto ( He made this up) Everything is different, nothing has changed as a churlish and acerbic way to deal with the putative hermeneutic of continuity but this really does require a reasonable answer for one obvious possible response to what has been happening is - Well, then he ain't a real Pope, is he?
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