THE PERPETUITY OF THE PRIMACY No break in the Line of Popes

by Joseph Saraceno

sede-vacanteHere again, my Catholic friends is what all Sede Vacantist alibi, by alluding that we are in an Interregnum but if you look up the meaning, it means a transition from one Pope to another Pope and the Church would have to be in a conclave session for this to be true. Sede Vacantists admit that we have NO formal jurisdiction Hierarchy. So unless one accepts Paul VI as “The Man of Sin,” and the FIRST in the series of AntiChrists then all Sede Vacantists are SCHISMATIC. End of story. Go to www.catholicendtimetruths.com then to Why Sede Vacante.
CHAPTER II.  VATICAN COUNCIL  I
ON THE PERPETUITY OF THE PRIMACY OF BLESSED PETER
IN THE ROMAN PONTIFFS. 

That which the Prince of Shepherds and great Shepherd of the sheep, Jesus Christ our Lord, established in the person of the Blessed Apostle Peter to secure the perpetual welfare and lasting good of the Church, must, by the same institution, necessarily remain unceasingly in the Church; which, being founded upon the Rock, will stand firm to the end of the world. For none can doubt, and it is known to all ages, that the holy and Blessed Peter, the Prince and Chief of the Apostles, the pillar of the faith and foundation of the Catholic Church, received the keys of the kingdom from Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of mankind, and lives, presides, and judges, to this day and always, in his successors the Bishops of the Holy See of Rome, which was founded by him, and consecrated by his blood. [7] 

Thus, whosoever succeeds Peter in this Chair, obtains, by the institution of Christ Himself, the Primacy of Peter over the whole Church. Therefore, the disposition of truth remains, and Blessed Peter, persevering in the fortitude of the Rock that he accepted, has not relinquished the governance of the Church that he received. [8] 

Therefore, it has always been necessary that each Church — that is, those who are the faithful everywhere — should agree with the Roman Church, because of the greater power of the principality that She has received, in order that, all being joined together in the unity of that Seat, from the veneration of which the rights of communion flows to all, might associate closely as members of one Head, in the compact unity of the body. [9] 

If then, any should deny that it is by the institution of Christ the Lord and by Divine right, that Blessed Peter should have a perpetual line of successors in the Primacy over the Universal Church, or that the Roman Pontiff’ is the successor of Blessed Peter in this primacy; let him be anathema. 

[7] From the Acts (session third) of the Third General Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431, Labbe’s Councils, vol. 3, p. 1154, Venice edition of 1728. See also letter of St. Peter Chrysologus to Eutyches, in life prefixed to his works, p. 13, Venice, 1750. 

[8] From Sermon 3, chapter 3, of St. Leo the Great, vol. 1, p. 12. 

[9] From St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 3, chapter 3, p. 175, Benedictine edition, Venice 1734; and Acts of the Synod of Aquileia, A.D. 381, Labbe’s Councils , vol. 2, p. 1185, Venice, 1728.