Understanding the Office of Peter

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Understanding the Office of Peter

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Dominic V. Cassella: With the election of Leo XIV, we would do well to remind ourselves of the foundations and implications of the Chair of St. Peter: the pope is to be the Shepherd of Christ who feeds His sheep.

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Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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