22. THE QUESTION WAS
.. According to St. Augustine, what has the Catholic Church has
always possessed?
A.
the crown of beauty
B.
the crown of royalty
C.
the crown of teaching
authority
THE
ANSWER IS
..C
.the crown of teaching
authority.
The Catholic Church
is the work of Divine Providence, achieved through the prophecies of the
prophets, through the Incarnation and the teaching of Christ, through the
journeys of the Apostles, through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and
death of the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints
. When, then,
we see so much help on Gods part, so much progress and so much fruit, shall we
hesitate to bury ourselves in the bosom of that Church? For starting from the apostolic chair down through
successions of bishops, even unto the open confession of all
mankind, it has possessed the CROWN OF
TEACHING AUTHORITY. (Augustine,
The Advantage of Believing 35
392 A.D.)
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St.
Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century wrote:
"But the brightness of the Catholic Church proceeded to increase in
greatness, for it ever held to the same points in the same way, and radiated
forth to all the race of Greeks and barbarians the reverent, sincere, and free
nature, and the sobriety and purity of the divine teachings as to conduct and
thought." (Ecclesiastical
History, 4, 7, 13).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In 200 A.D., St.
Irenaeus of Lyons wrote:
the Church, having received this preaching
and this faith, although she is disseminated throughout the whole world, yet
guarded it, as if she occupied but one house. She likewise believes these
things just as if she had but one soul and one
and the same heart; and harmoniously she proclaims them and teaches them and
hands them down, as if she possessed but one mouth. For, while the
languages of the world are diverse, nevertheless, the
authority of the Tradition is one and the same (Against Heresies 1:10:2 [A.D. 189])
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