In the roughly fifteen years since I have become Catholic, I have become aware that there are those who recoil from the idea that the Catholic hierarchy exercises legitimate authority over men. As the Church teaches, this authority comes from God. Anecdotally, this “hard pill” of sorts is not limited to non-Catholics. I have heard roughly the same from at least one Catholic struggling to grasp this concept. Though all under discussion would agree that God has authority, not... Read more