Ignoring? I mean, I doubt you're ignoring it out of spite or anything like that. Moreso from a place of "Catholic bad, Jesus good" because you've been lied to about Catholic theology.

When presented with sound arguments from the Bible and your only refutation is "JESUS ONLY!" when Jesus clearly said these words himself...yeah that's kind of veering into ignoring the Lord's words.

From the Lord's mouth:

And I say also unto thee, as thou hast said unto me, "Thou art the Christ," so I say unto thee thou art Peter (Πέτρος, Petrus...meaning ROCK, where his named used to be Simon Bar Jonah), and upon this rock (πέτρα, petra) I will build my Church.

Even though all 12 disciples are gathered together for this meeting, Jesus says these things only to St. Peter.

Peter’s authority comes precisely from Jesus Christ, as Matthew 16 shows. It’s quite obvious, therefore, that if Jesus is the one who established these things in Peter, then what’s set up in Peter is not a foundation other than of Christ. It’s the very foundation of Christ.

OBJECTION: PETER COULDN’T BE THE ROCK BECAUSE JESUS IS THE ONLY FOUNDATION

1 Corinthians 3:11- “For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.”

Those who raise this objection fail to realize that the Bible speaks of all the Apostles as foundations.

Revelation 21:14- “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”

So, the fact that Christ is the foundation or the cornerstone, as we read in Ephesians 2:20, does not mean that Christ Himself could not or did not establish one apostle to have a perpetual office which would be the rock upon which the Church would be built. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. For example: Jesus is the Good Shepherd (John 10:14), but He also gives the responsibility of shepherding all His sheep to Peter, as we will see in John 21:15-17. Jesus is the one with the keys (Rev. 1:18; Rev. 3:7), but He gives His keys to Peter.

Jesus gathers His disciples and gives the keys of the Kingdom to Peter alone. He then gives to Peter alone the power to bind and loose.

“And I will give unto thee [Peter] the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven...” (Matthew 16:19)

The fact that Christ is the only foundation, as 1 Cor. 3:11 teaches, simply means that everything comes from Christ. All true authority in the Church must come from Christ because the Church itself comes from Christ. Anything outside of Christ is a false foundation.

Even Martin Luther was never against the concept of the apostolic succession! It's a modern heresy to reject apostolic succession. There's a brand of internet truther Christian that rejects all authority and apostolic succession. That would have been absurd a few hundred years ago. Ah, modernity!