The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the Pope is the successor to Saint Peter.The Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible.n the account of the Confession of Peter found in the Gospel of Matthew, Christ designates Peter as the rock upon which Christ's church will be built. The Catholic Church considers the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, to be the successor to Saint Peter.
The Ozarks. The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the geologic core of the Ozarks. The Ozarks (also referred to as Ozarks Mountain Country, the Ozark Mountains or the Ozark Plateau) are a physiographic, geologic, and cultural highland region of the central United States.
From the Rocky Mountains on the west to the Appalachians on the east, the interior of our country is a vast lowland (see cover) known as the Interior Plains. These plains are bounded on the south by a region of Interior Highlands, consisting of the Ozark Plateaus and the Ouachita province, and by the Coastal Plain.t the end of Ogallala deposition, some 5 million years ago, the Great Plains, with the exception of the uplifted and the volcanic areas, was a vast, gently sloping plain that extended from the mountain front eastward to beyond the present Missouri River in some places.