An excerpt from the Fifth Ecumenical Council

(OK, so I lied. One more thing before I go silent for a little while …)

Perry (”Acolyte”) from Energetic Procession has posted an excerpt from the acts of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, which he presents as a piece of counter-evidence to Catholic claims about the Papacy. Perry notes that he has not been able to find a Catholic treatment of this particular quote in the Catholic apologetical literature since the nineteenth century. From a cursory glance at the literature in my possession, I can confirm that while detailed pro-papal treatments on the Fifth Council do exist*, but I haven’t found a lengthy discussion of this particular excerpt. I invite my readers to post comments over at Energetic Procession. Hopefully, time permitting, I will post my own reflections on this excerpt in the near future.

* See, for instance, Chapter XII of S. Herbert Scott’s The Eastern Churches and the Papacy; or Chapter VIII of Dom John Chapman’s Studies on the Early Papacy.