One of the most explicit defenders of the privilegium Petri and the primacy of the Roman See is the ardent…
St. Maximos the Confessor – The Scripture Condemns Any Who Preach Against the Truth, including…..Rome
<Below I give 3 possible explanations for St. Maximos’s statements before his interrogators when asked if he would submit to…
Tome of Pope St. Leo – Critically Examined by the Council of Chalcedon?
When the years following the Council of Ephesus 431 drew nigh, a fellow named Eutyches, a 70 year-old Archimandrite who…
St. John Chrysostom (349-407) & Vatican 1 (1870) – Agree on “Rock” (Matthew 16:18)
Recently, I had someone reference an an article by well known Protestant William Webster which seeks to disprove the early…
Eastern Orthodox Pope of Elder Rome, St. Gelasius I and Papal Supremacy (A.D. 492-496)
No student of Church history underestimates the important place of the Council of Chalcedon 451, held in modern day Kadıköy…
Frederick Joseph Kinsman (1868-1944) – Conversion to Catholicism via Study of Eastern Orthodoxy
Many contemporary readers on things Catholic, Anglican, and even Eastern Orthodox are at least familiar with the name John Henry…
Another Anglican Concession (1846 – 1917)
A. Theodore Wirgman, H.D., D.C.L., late Anglican Scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge , author of The Constitutional Authority of Bishops in the Catholic…
Photius & Papacy: A Glimpse (A.D. 879-80)
A quick look at the 9th century Orthodox confrontation with Papal supremacy. Just before the Synod of Constantinople 879-80, Pope…
St. Cyril of Alexandria was Papal legate at Ephesus I (A.D. 431)
Besides the fact that in the very Acta of the Council of Ephesus, the list of names has the following…
Fr. John Meyendorff – Infallibility of Councils?
“Not ‘ecumenicity’ , but the truthfulness of the councils makes their decisions binding for us. We are touching here on…
