The Office of the Papacy

A jesus establishhis church on peter, he created a special petrine carism that he deemed the church to need in the first century. And if it needed it, then it's going to continue to need it. Jesus gave the disciples the authority to forgive sins. Well, people haven't stopped sinning. They're going to need a absolution in the future. So there's going to be an ongoing sacrament of confession. A god is more likely to guide the group of christians into the correct understanding of a divinely instituted office if they actually are in communion with the divinely institutedoffice that god is working through.