Did St Peter Leave a Successor in Rome? 

I recently found my way to the Catholic church and am falling in love with the Liturgy. After decades as a Bible-studying Protestant, I finally realized they all are just "doing their own thing". They have no lineage with the Apostles or their successors who carried on their teachings. All they have is intellectual Bible study or Charismatic emotionalism. I was starving for tradition and liturgy along with Scripture.

Keep it up guys. I’ve been sharing y’all in my Catholic circles and in the RCIA sessions I teach. Just a matter of time before thousands of Catholics discover you.

I listened to this again after your most recent post. Y'all guys are truly great! I'm trying my best to make my way through your 1st 500 years series.

Another great video. Thanks for posting

Funny because I started with Cameron V, then found him converted to Catholicism. Now I’m here 😅

Finally made it here, can’t wait for the next one, can I push back a bit on the concept that Paul may have organized churches differently because he was a Pharisee? Pharisees still had a Sanhedrin of their own. They had councils with elders, a Beit Din, they had a Vice President per say and they had a Nasi, a prince, sitting in the cathedra. What do you do with rulers of synagogues? Wasn’t that a single ruler with elders around him? This was the relationship between Rabbi Hillel and Rabbi Shammai. They had their walls around the Torah that they taught their students in their respective schools but they were still part of the larger Pharisaic council, it wasn’t until Rabbi Shammai threaten Hillel with the sword that his rulings became the norm and some say that these were the Pharisees that Jesus was interlocking with. Also I heard it mention that Paul was a Pharisee under Shammai, I would push back on that too because Paul studied under Rabbi Gamaliel and Gamaliel was the grandson or son of Rabbi Hillel. I would even go as far as saying that the Circumcision Party was more aligned with Rabbi Shammai and Paul with Rabbi Hillel, because Shammai believed that Torah and salvation was only for Jews while Hillel believed it was gentiles as well. If I’m wrong, I’m open to being corrected on this.

Well, Cameron is now a Catholic so maybe this episode helped haha. You guys are awesome keep up the Lord’s work!!

Still less than 5k subs. This channel is so informative. Perhaps it's not as glossy as something like pints with Aquinas. Yes, that does factor into attracting ANY audience.

Great episode chaps! I learnt alot, highly recommended.

I always get a new, fresh, and relevant Church father citation or two from yall (e.g. Polycarp went to Rome to persuade Pope Anicetus). And I consume a lot of Catholic content. Much appreciated.

You guys are under appreciated. Thanks for the great work you do. The more I hear, the more I'm convinced that those who makes arguments against the Catholic Church, their arguments are either straw man arguments of distractions. After all is said and done, the early church writings all prove the early church was Catholic from the beginning and has remained so for 2,000 years. All the arguments and distractions will not change that fact. The Church existed long before the Canon so trying to argue the early using the Canon alone is like trying to find the acorn in an oak tree. You're wasting a lot of time and energy and you'll never make that oak tree turn back into its acorn.

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Found you guys through the Cordial Catholic. Really like your channel. Catching up on your videos from the beginning. When you say James, the brother of Jesus, are you saying James is Joseph's son from a previous marriage, so he's a stepbrother of Jesus?

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The plant behind his head lioks crazy,ike Daniel from the Home Alone movies...

Really great content! I am learning a lot from this. God bless

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The ending summed it up perfectly! Using the 6 elements of the authoritative decision-making process, I was able to draw a neat little flow chart to sum up the video. Thanks Bros. Keep up the amazing work.

it is from my understanding that the Papacy can still exist even without a 2nd century mono episcopate no? which is why Catholic scholars can agree with the academic census and yet still be Catholic.

Really great information from historical perspective. So much of this type of content has nothing to do with true Christianity.

Would it be inappropriate to believe that these non-papal bishops in Rome could have been like cardinals? I had this idea because as someone that lives in Rome, in one sunday I could walk and catch 5 masses all performed validly by different bishops, despite that the one bishop of my diocese is the Pope. It seems to me that the inner circle of Apostles that began as Peter and the sons of Zebedee always has the pope at its center and its 2 other members always geographically with him. For example we know from Eusibius that James the just's successor was Simeon as the bishop of Jerusalem, but he was never listed alongside Peter in the same way James the Just was.

As a cradle Catholic who fell away from the faith in my teens and then came back to the faith in my 30s and nearly got sucked in by the "bible alone" it's great to hear these teachings and understandings, I've heard them many times and they never get old.. God bless you guys

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my twin brother and I are named Daniel(me) and Steven(brother) my first time here, so I'm interested in hope you see the Catholic Church

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Why Rome? Besides the practical and accidental circumstances of Peter at Rome, I think there is something to be said for the Jewish expectation that the Messiah would conquer Rome, the chief pagan empire. It just didn't happen through military might or by the direct action of the messianic King but through the power of the martyrdom of the King's chief steward.

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Peter was the leader of the Apostles. His leadership in Rome was Apostolic. He chose three bishops to help him in Rome. Three successors followed his death. Each in turn.

Why did y'all close the comments on the Taylor Marshall video? Unless the comments section was full of ad hominems, I don't see a reason to close it.

Why did you turn off the comments on your episode on Dr Taylor Marshall?

St. Jerome thinks that the council of presbyters model was primitive and that the monarchical bishop was instituted at the time of the Apostles (but post canon closing). That testimony is pretty weighty.

I think we all need to stop sayings things like, “Protestants don’t see things that are clearly there because they just don’t want to see them.” Or the converse: “Catholics see things that AREN’T really there because they so badly WANT to see them.” Paradigms can be seen to skew-or accurately direct-our perspectives on things. So much of what the Catholic Brothers conclude about historical matters seems ad hoc to me. I start counting non-sequiturs, as they rain down fast and furious. But I’m fairly certain they would see my arguments in similar fashion! Gavin has requested that we stop referring to each other as disingenuous. It’s really easy to say of one’s opponents that nobody could honestly believe what they believe. That their stances appear ludicrous on the face of things. We’ll all be a lot more productive in our discussions if we quit the incessant triumphalism.

What is the cite for that $700 book?

Gentlemen: Clearly I cannot and will not try to speak for Taylor Marshall but of course I have my own opinion on why he takes such a strong stance against some of the things that Pope Francis is saying and doing. That said, I wish you both well.

MAIN AUTHORITY IS ROME: St. Ignatius: (110 A.D.) 77 years AFTER Christ: “The CHURCH… which holds the PRESIDENCY (Main Authority)… the ROMANS.” (St. Ignatius Letter to the Romans, 1:1, 3:1, 4:3) St. Irenaeus: (189 A.D.) 156 years AFTER Christ: “CHURCH… at ROME… Every CHURCH… agree with this Church… its pre- eminent AUTHORITY.” (Against Heresies 3:3:2) (381 A.D.) Council of Constantinople (3rd Canon): ROMAN CATHOLIC is Main AUTHORITY!

Sorry, but it is clear that Linus was the successor to Peter. Irenaeus made this clear in the 3rd chapter of Against All Heresies.

Since you wouldn’t allow comments in your anti Taylor Marshall video, I am going to post my criticism of it here. The problem with your argument that Marshall draws upon a fundamentalist background in forming his teachings is that he was never a fundamentalist. He began his Christian journey as an Episcopalian. The last time I checked Episcopalianism was not a fundamentalist sect so your entire argument dissolves. Is Taylor Marshall perfect? Without a doubt he is flawed as you yourselves demonstrably are.

and your disrespectful presentation of such; filled with joking and inappropriate laughter. At the very LEAST, where is your Christian Chariity. I also follow Taylor Marshall and have NEVER heard him cast dispersion on either one of you.

Bishop of Constantinople was always “First among equals”. You guys ignore history and look only for Catholic approach to history.