If one would like evidence of the Church’s awareness of this fact, look no further than the man who, in the Church’s understanding, Christ invested with the powers of the office that would come to be known as the ‘papacy.’ For the confidence of such an action, to anyone who is familiar with the weaknesses of Saint Peter, as they are revealed in the Gospels, is so astonishing that it is comprehensible only when viewed through a prism of divine logic.