Some (not all) Roman Catholic apologists often claim that Peter alone received the keys of binding and loosing (I have heard, for e.g., Robert Sungenis claim this). However, the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) taught that all the apostles received this (cf. Matt 18:18), not Peter singularly:
430 [DS 802] One indeed is the universal Church of the
faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is
the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the
sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed)
into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the
blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His
(nature) what He Himself received from ours. And surely no one can accomplish
this sacrament except a priest who has been rightly ordained according to the
keys of the Church which Jesus Christ Himself conceded to the Apostles and to
their successors. But the sacrament of baptism (which at the invocation of
God and the indivisible Trinity, namely, of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, is solemnized in water) rightly conferred by anyone in the
form of the Church is useful unto salvation for little ones and for adults. And
if, after the reception of baptism, anyone shall have lapsed into sin, through
true penance he can always be restored. Moreover, not only virgins and the
continent but also married persons pleasing to God through right faith and good
work merit to arrive at a blessed eternity. (The Sources of Catholic Dogma, ed.
Henry Denzinger and Karl Rahner [trans. Roy J. Deferrari; St. Louis, Miss.: B.
Herder Book Co., 1954], 169–170)
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