See Pope Urban II and his promise of forgiveness of sins for those fighting in the Crusades...a Roman Catholic version of Jihad.
You have a tendency to slip like an eel onto unrelated topics when you don't like an answer.
Let me restate. Neither the Pope nor anyone else has any authority to cook up anything new. Period. If he becomes a manifest heretic, he forfeits his office by that very fact.
Pope Honorius I was anathematized by a council *and a subsequent Pope* for playing cute with the Monothelite heresy. And the Fathers of Vatican I studied that case up and down when they drafted the dogma of Infallibility.
If it wasn’t for the efforts of Popes like Urban II in calling for Crusades against Islamic forces, Christianity would be hiding in catacombs. Don’t you think that sacrificing your life in defense of Christianity shows a total commitment to Christ? How can you equate that to Jihad that seeks the destruction of Christianity?
If it wasn’t for the efforts of Popes like Urban II in calling for Crusades against Islamic forces, Christianity would be hiding in catacombs. Don’t you think that sacrificing your life in defense of Christianity shows a total commitment to Christ? How can you equate that to Jihad that seeks the destruction of Christianity?
Crusades were a legitimate war of self defense and response to centuries of muslim invasions. If it were not for the Catholic Church, Europe would have become Muslim 1,000 years ago. So the war to protect the Church and Europe was just, those who fought were given a form of penance for their sins.
To compare it to Jihad is nonsense.
Self defense is not Jihad. Christians may always defend themselves again Islam.