By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Jesus says: “You are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.” (Mt. 23:8) Jesus is the source of all teaching authority. A teacher’s purpose is to instruct students with the truth. Jesus is “the way, and the truth, and the life.” (Jn. 14:6) A teacher who does not participate in the truth of Jesus – human and divine – relinquishes his right to the title of “teacher.”... All papal authority derives from the apostolic deposit of the faith and sacred Tradition and helps us participate in the life of Jesus. Absent this “papal participation trophy,” call no successor of Peter teacher, father, master, or pope.