St. Polycarp, Who Learned the Faith From an Apostle, Did Not Believe in ‘Faith Alone’
Early Christians like St. Polycarp clearly held the Catholic view on salvation.
Early Christians like St. Polycarp clearly held the Catholic view on salvation.
“Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers send greetings.” (2 Timothy 4:21)
Why would early Christians in Corinth “obey” a bishop from hundreds of miles away in Rome?
“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God,” said the martyr St. Cyprian of Carthage. “It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
How did St. Irenaeus assist the papacy and the episcopacy in the early days of the Church? Primarily by making a rational defense of the truth of the faith.
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