Posts Tagged ‘Papacy on trial’

In the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis, the papacy is on trial

Monday, April 24th, 2023
papacy is now on trial

One of the most ancient axioms to define the See of Peter’s role in the Church reads: “prima sedes a nemine iudicatur” — no one can judge the first see. Centuries before papal primacy was defined at Vatican Council I in 1870, the Bishop of Rome already enjoyed a type of immunity in both the Read more