Jerome made a mistake about the cannon.
However, he, alongside Augustine, Chrysostom, and all the other church fathers, taught that the Eucharistic sacrifice could be offered for the dead, baptismal regeneration, the primacy of the See of Peter, and many other uniquely Catholic doctrines.
As Catholics, we don't believe that Jerome, or Augustine, or any of the Church Fathers are inerrant. However, we believe if the Church Fathers unanimously teach something about faith and morals, it is impossible for them to be wrong.
If all Christians believed something false, the gates of hell would have overcome the Church.
Two of these verses, confession and the Eucharist, are also how Christ sets men free from lust.
I wrote a whole book on it.
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These 5 Bible verses made me Catholic.
When I was first seriously considering Christianity in my 20s, I found the Protestant arguments persuasive.
The Catholic ones were more persuasive.
And the Protestant answers to these 5 fell flat on their faces π§΅
St. Jerome, writing to the Pope:
"This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten."
If you want the flesh of the Son of Man, you have to turn to the Church.
That's why I'm Catholic.