How could Christ be subject to the Bishop of Rome?
The Founder of the Church is not subject to the Church He founded. Rather the Church He founded is subject to Him. And the Church of which the Bishop of Rome is supreme head on earth is the only Church which is so subject to the authority of Christ that it can truly be called His. From our point of view the test of communion with Rome became valid as a mark of identification only from the day that St. Peter, under divine guidance, definitely established his See at Rome. 507. Christ was above sectarianism. He was. And so is the Catholic Church. She is not a sect. Sect supposes section or cutting off. The Catholic Church has never been cut off from herself. The sects are those religious bodies which have cut themselves off from the Catholic Church, and the clippings from the tree are not the tree. 508. By their fruits ye shall know them. If your Church were truly Catholic she would long ago have preached to all nations! The Church was just as Catholic in the time of the Apostles as it is
