I'd rather be an ortho than a catholic tbh

Do not care

@Oboe Bishops in general have unique authority (to bind and to loose) but the Pope is the universal legislator, so his legal powers are even above those. But yeah, he has unique powers. Don't get me wrong though, these are basically legal/religious powers, not supernatural powers.

They say mass in Greek but anyways

@Phil With Frankincense No they dont but ok

So who gives the Bishops this power?

Some do

Some do not

They talk in the local tounge

Depends on your jurisdiction

Byzantine orthodox say mass in Koine Greek

The Power to loose and to bind was given exclusively to Peter, is it not?

@Oboe Jesus gave the bishops of the Church, the apostles, that power, and they passed it on to their successors in the Church. And yeah, the Pope is the one who binds and looses universally, though bishops and priests have some lesser authority in that (which in theory they get from the Pope, being under him).

Yeah

What he said

So at what point does that power cut off? Like, what powers did the Apostles have that their successors do not and why not?

Let’s also ignore the churches that still use Aramaic

All authority to teach and administer the sacraments is passed on from my understanding

@Oboe The Church cannot violate divine law (so like bishops cannot legally say "murder is okay") or say some other formula used for baptism is acceptable ("in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" is *divine* law laid down by Jesus Himself, so they cannot change that). But for inter-Church matters, like what language mass can be celebrated in or what form, etc, that's fair game.

Well that wasn't my question

That's the limit of power, I'm saying, they cannot go beyond divine law.

What powers did the apostles have? In your view?

The apostles had the ability to heal the sick for instance, why do their successors not have this power?

Oh

The apostles didn’t heal the sick, Christ healed them *through* the apostles

ie the sacrament of unction

People only do when they are empowered by the Holy Spirit to do things like that.

You could also ask why any minister cannot do that

Okay so does Christ not work through their successors to do this then

He actually does

Well not every minister is an inheritor of this unique ability

There’s all sorts of cases of miraculous healing

So the Pope *should* be able to command the dead to come back to life?

And again, the sacrament of unctin

Different people have these abilities at different times and different reasons, but that's only when it is the will of the Holy Spirit for that moment.

Well, will of God

Not necessarily the Holy Spirit

So the successors of the apostles have the same powers that any other believer has then

What makes them special then?

No, only they can administer certain sacraments

They have authority over us