Keys Over the Christian World, 2nd ed.

Where did the papacy come from, and did the early Church, East and West, actually recognize it? Twenty years in the making, Keys Over the Christian World traces the office from its beginnings under Saint Peter to the year 800 AD. What sets it apart is its method: rather than lean on secondary histories, Scott Butler and John Collorafi build their case from the original documents, painstakingly translated into English by the authors, many of which have never appeared in English in any form. The sources include Latin, Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and others. From them the authors weave a tapestry that shows, beyond reasonable doubt, that the Church acknowledged the papacy from its humble beginnings in 33 AD, and throughout the first millennium, as the God-ordained supreme authority over the whole Church, from East to West. Even in its draft form, this book has drawn many dissidents into the Catholic Church.

"John Collorafi and Scott Butler have written an extraordinary work containing a massive and overwhelming presentation of the historical evidence for the truth of Catholic doctrine concerning the primacy of Peter among the apostles and the consequent exercise of universal jurisdiction by the Roman Pontiffs over the Church of both East and West during the First Millennium. Testimonies from the Fathers of the Church, Saints, Popes, the first seven Ecumenical Councils, ancient liturgies, and rare ancient and medieval documents (Latin, Byzantine, Armenian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Coptic) have been painstakingly collected... Some of these valuable testimonies appear in English for the first time in a volume that is unexcelled for its thoroughness. The laborious efforts of the authors have resulted in a resource volume concerning the Papacy that will prove indispensable to Catholic theologians, catechists, and apologists, as well as the ordinary faithful who seek a powerful explanation of the meaning of those awesome Keys handed over to the Prince of the Apostles by the Lord of the Church." (James Likoudis)