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is upon this inspired confession that the Church is built. </b></span>Not, mind 
you, on popular opinion, which is shifting and indecisive, and not on 
personal holiness, which is all too rare. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>It is built upon the inspired 
authority of Peter—and I say, “thank
God!”</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">We
 make this troubling and extraordinary claim that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>it is through a 
special charism of the Spirit that Peter and his successors govern the 
Church. </b></span>Now, I realize that I have many Protestant readers and that this
 text has been, between Catholics and Protestants, a stumbling block. 
Let me clarify what is and is not at stake here.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">What
 is the focus of Peter’s confession? It has to do with <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>who Jesus is. 
This is the rock upon which the Church is built.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>We don’t say for a 
moment that all of Peter’s practical decisions are right, that 
everything he says is right.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But we are saying that he is right about 
who Jesus is: a man who is also the Son of the living God. </b></span>And this is 
the source and ground of the whole operation.</span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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