world should be in communion with the Church of and foundation of the Catholic Church, received the THE POPE ST. PETER'S SUCCESSOR 69 therefore remains as it was, and blessed Peter, still his successors the bishops of the holy See of Rome, Home on account of its more powerful sovereignty ; in keys of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, the ROMAN PONTIFF blood. which was founded by him and consecrated by his pact body. [Chap. 2.] POWER AND NATURE OF THE PRIMACY OF THE living in the rock's strength which he received, has not able communion spread to all, they might as members to all ages, that the holy and most blessed Peter, the Saviour and Redeemer of the human race, and that he Whence, whosoever succeeds to Poter in this Chair prince and head of the Apostles, the pillar of the faith over the universal Church. The disposition of truth associated in their head grow together into one com- the world. For there can be no doubt, and it is known order that in this See, from which the rights of vener- Church that is to say, the faithful throughout the For this reason it has ever been necessary that every lives, presides, and gives judgment even to tins day in obtains from Christ's own institution Peter's primacy given up the governance, once accepted, of the Church.