 to the entire church so the apostle little apostle the successors are bishops have that authority uh... if you will to govern over these kind of matters so we do know again i would i think uh... you know we're not what's called a few what solo scriptura is is some protestant christians have only the bible as their authority the word of god and it is our authority to but also we have tradition and that apostolic tradition for us as catholics it distinguishes us from other christian bodies