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Therefore, the Peruvian Prelate continued, “Peter’s mission, to be the foundation stone and principle of authority and unity of the Church, must endure for her sake, in her successors, the Popes”.
“It would be absurd for prerogatives and functions as important as ‘I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven’; ‘what you bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven’, they refer only to the first years of the life of the Church, and that have ended with the death of the Apostle”, he specified.
“Peter’s mission is therefore extended in his successors, in the Popes; continues today, in Pope Francis, to whom we express our filial adherence and our prayers”, underlined Bishop Eguren.
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