04-22-2008, 03:17 AM
Armando Ramos Wrote:Obviously you didn't go to a Catholic school, Ben, or you would know the answer to that one. It's the Petrine Guarantee, found at Matthew 16:18:
"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
I knew that. I thought the pope's name was Benedict, not Peter.
In the day it wasn't all that apparent that Peter was the leader of the church.