This is one of the best descriptions and explanations I have ever read. Hope you find it informative as well.
Bookmarking, thanks
**Authority in the Catholic Church begins not with the bishops, but with Jesus Christ and God’s divine revelation in him. This revelation is the reason for the Church’s existence as the People of God, just as the Israelites (Jews) were the People of God before the incarnation of the Son of God, whom they referred to as Messiah (Christ, the Anointed One — because anointing with a special oil was the symbolic way used by the peoples of the middle east to designate their civil and religious leaders;**
Excellent post. Thank you!
Copied and pasted into my little folder on the Church. Very useful. Thank you!