I replied that the Roman system had grown up by a multitude of scarcely perceptible degrees out of the earliest form of Christianity, and if we adopted this notion of legitimate development, we ran a risk of making Saint Paul responsible for the Vatican council.
Morley reflects on the development of the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine and its implications for early Christianity.
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