Saint Peter And The Papacy: Some Thoughts Of Saint Leo The Great

Saint Leo's pontificate, 440 to 461, next to that of Saint Gregory the Great, is the most significant and important in Christian antiquity. At a time when the Church was experiencing the greatest obstacles to her progress in consequence of the hastening disintegration of the Western Empire, while the Orient was profoundly agitated over dogmatic controversies, this great pope, with far-seeing sagacity and powerful hand, guided the destiny of the Roman and Universal Church.