The final vote in the conclave on 8 May was a win for Cardinal Robert Prevost, a win for the Catholic Church, a win for the ...

St. Optatus, "The Schism of the Donatists," c. 367 A.D. "[Christ] made answer: 'You are Peter, and upon this rock will I build my Church . . .' Could he not, then, strengthen the faith of the man ...

Second, Augustine taught a deeply spiritual ecclesiology. In response to the Donatists, who demanded a pure, rigorist church, he described the church as a corpus permixtum, a mixed body of saints ...

Some saw all these acts as equally guilty. The hard-liners – who came to be known as the Donatists, after their leader Donatus – argued that any compromise was wrong and tainted the apostolic ...