I am not a Catholic—and I do believe the Scripture says it best when it says “thou shalt not suffer a murderer to live. I understand that Catholic teaching is such that it appears fallen man /and governments made of men are so corrupted that government cannot act as agent of God. —hence policy contrary to Scripture... my question is why do so many act as if the Pope s anything but a man as guilt of error as any other?And will anyone post that image or Ruth Bader Ginsburg representing the supreme Court. Passed out while the Pope spoke.—and how about weeping John B. he looked like a man having a panic attack watching for garbagemen to cart him off.
I’m a protestant, but I’ve got to admit that I believe there are just some of us who have done a better job at their Christianity than have others. We like to mention the Billy Grahams, the Billy Sundays, the John Wesleys, the John Calvins, etc., and we do so because they’ve been stellar representatives of Christianity, each in his own way.
I’m transferring that understanding to the Catholic idea of a ‘saint’. They pretty much mean that stellar life Christian. (I know they have attached other things to it, but I’m not trying to explain the universe here, just trying to make a point. No parallel is perfect.)
That gets us to the Pope. Whether he ever gets canonized or not, a Pope is in a sense assumed to be their leading ‘stellar Christian’. Therefore, he gets boatloads of respect from them.
Do I expect you to buy my explanation? No, but I do hope you see it as an effort to put this all in an easy-to-understand format.