I write in response to the Thursday, July 11, Forum article: "Vatican decree gets F-M response" and in particular the statement: "Protestant faiths ... have not preserved apostolic succession in ...

The standard Catholic apologetics argument from the Bible for apostolic succession is the selection of Matthias to succeed Judas (Acts 1:16-26). That includes taking note that the word for “office” in ...

Many theories, traditions, philosophies and a host of man-made documents and rules govern churches today. This naturally brings great confusion and disagreement. Yet, Jesus said "I have given them the ...

The household of God, says Paul, is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), and, as E. A. Litton has observed, a foundation does not repeat itself. It is, indeed, evident ...

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars have issued a joint statement on where both traditions are unified and where they are distinct in their understandings of the four marks of the ...

In 2002 seven Roman Catholic women were ordained in Austria on the Danube River by an independent Catholic bishop, Romulo Antonio Braschi. Later unnamed Roman Catholic bishops ordained some of these ...

Speaking to a crowd of some 50,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI used his General Audience today to stress the importance of Episcopal succession, saying that the lineage ...