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 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 ...

Ask those who knew his earliest followers, said Irenaeus. "The Church," wrote Irenaeus, "having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if ...

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 ...

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 ...