The Primacy of the Church of Rome

by Margherita Guarducci

Margherita Guarducci, acclaimed scholar of ancient literature, extending her research to various disciplines, such as philology, ancient history, archaeology and epigraphy, demonstrates how they contribute toward clarifying and resolving a centuries-old the primacy of the Church of Rome over the other Christian Churches.

The resulting picture spans over two millennia of history, illuminated by several "primacies" of Christianity, gathered and evaluated together for the first ownership of the oldest Christian basilica, the oldest portrait of Christ, the oldest icon of Mary, and, most importantly, the oldest relic of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

Guarducci gives evidence of certain concatenations of events which tend to confirm the primacy of the Church of Rome, the ancient universality of which survives to this day in the spiritual primacy of the Roman "Catholic"� that is, Universal�Church. And this survival is guaranteed down through the centuries by the extraordinary presence in the Vatican of the authentic earthly remains of the Apostle whom Christ selected as His vicar on earth. Illustrated

Genres: Religion, Catholic

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some interesting discussion of archaelogical and epigraphic finds in Rome, but on the whole the book is a bit too tendentious, especially in her conclusions. It will only serve to persuade those who are already persuaded. The author was also not helped by her translator; the book reads like a word for word translation from Italian which makes the author look like a bad writer (maybe she is, but a good translator would have improved the work).

[Dennis Heins · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was alright. More of a devotional work than a real defence of the primacy of Rome. I would have liked to see Rome's claim to primacy contrasted to other/eastern concepts.