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"Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy" - Leo XIV Contradicts Leo I - Stone - 07-22-2025
"Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy" - Leo XIV Contradicts Leo I
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gloria.tv | July 21, 2025
Pope Leo XIV said on July 17 in Castel Gandolfo to a group of byzantine Catholics from the USA:
Quote:"Unity among those who believe in Christ is one of the signs of God’s gift of consolation; Scripture promises that 'in Jerusalem you will be comforted' (Is 66:13). Rome, Constantinople and all the other Sees, are not called to vie for primacy, lest we risk finding ourselves like the disciples who along the way, even as Jesus was announcing his coming passion, argued about which of them was the greatest (cf. Mk 9:33-37)."
However, Catholicism teaches that the primacy belongs to the Pope.
Pope Leo I (†461)
“The See of Constantinople cannot be made equal to that of Rome.”
Council of Florence (1439)
“We define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff holds the primacy over the whole world; and that the Roman Pontiff is the successor of the blessed Peter, prince of the Apostles, and the true vicar of Christ, the head of the whole Church, and the father and teacher of all Christians.”
First Vatican Council (1870)
“If anyone says that the Roman Pontiff has merely an office of supervision and guidance, and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church... let him be anathema.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
“The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, ‘is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.’ For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”