[DarkSavant]

I simply asked if this character looked like one who had any "openness to divine guidance."

By virtue of his position on the chair of Peter, as to matters of faith.... yes. The Church was founded by Christ, and therefore the Spirit will make certain the principles of the Faith is not corrupted.

[xzins]

You wouldn't get me to buy into it.

And apparently, when it got bad enough, the German princes and the revolutionary Evangelische (Lutherans) weren't buying into it either.

The Reformation didn't capture N. Europe by storm because it had no substance. It was because the corruption was so extreme that people could see clearly that "The Pope had no clothes." (Nor did the Emperor.)

[P-Marlowe]

The Church was founded by Christ, and therefore the Spirit will make certain the principles of the Faith is not corrupted.

What are those principles of faith. The key principle of faith that the Bible clearly teaches is that it is by "Grace we are saved through faith and not of works, lest any man should boast." Yet the Catholic Church has for hundreds of years made salvation contingent upon works.

So what principles of Faith in the RC Church have not been corrupted?