R.J.

Gospel of Mark:

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The "Secret" Gospel of Mark:

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Is there any evidence to suggest that the Roman Catholic Church was involved in the alteration or destruction of part of the Gospel of Mark?

CX

Well it's pretty clear that somebody added the ending. But this was much before the RCC even existed in the form we recognize today.

R.J.

#1. I should've said Roman Catholic Church &/or early Christian Church.
#2. I don't know how true it is, but the Roman Catholic Church does claim that the apostle Peter was the 1st Pope.

NOGO

I may be wrong but Roman Catholics do not refer to themselves as Roman Catholics. To them their church is the Catholic Chuch, period. Catholic means universal and therefore the implication is that they were there from the start. Jesus founded the Catholic Church with Peter as its head. Obviously other Christians don't agree.

If you search the net for a list of Popes, you will find a list which goes all the way back to Peter.

Iasion

Greetings all,

Nogo said :

Well,
this list really only goes back to Irenaeus (and a slightly earlier by Hegesippus) Other authors give different lists.

The sixth on the list is just called "Sixtus" - suggesting he was filling in a tradition of twelve popes to his time, combined with some legends of earlier figures.

Few of these twelve left any mark on history, or even in Christian writings - even the writings of Clement who was supposedly pope#4, shows no mention of him being pope, or even that there IS a pope, or that there had ever been popes before him.

Quentin David Jones