I couldn't resist when I saw this quote by Pope St. Gregory the Great, my favorite Pope of all time. Abuses of the Papal office gave birth to all of the heresies of the scholastic West, and until those abuses are corrected, ecumenicism with Rome is pointless and dangerous. Show this to all your Roman friends. The Pope shown here is (st.) Pius X, an aggressive defender of "traditional" Roman Catholicism and scholasticism. "I say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor of Antichrist, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. The error into which he falls springs from pride equal to that of Antichrist; for as that Wicked One wished to be regarded as exalted above other men, like a god, so likewise whoever would be called sole bishop exalteth himself above others....You know it, my brother; hath not the venerable Council of Chalcedon conferred the honorary title of 'universal' upon the bishops of this Apostolic See [Rome], whereof I am, by God's will, the servant? And yet none of us hath permitted this title to be given to him; none hath assumed this bold title, lest by assuming a special distinction in the dignity of the episcopate, we should seem to refuse it to all the brethren."
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