[Mad Dawg]

The Catholic church believes the Pope, the sinful man he is, is equivalent to Christ.

This is a falsehood. Astonishing! No, we don't; never have, never will.

One of the things that encourages me to remain Catholic is to read falsehoods like this one. Evidently the father of Lies is against us. That makes for unpleasant disagreements, but it also makes it pretty clear where the truth is.

[mosesdapoet]

YAWN.... The only part of this “thing” was a reminder about Congressman Miller. Biden comes closer to being “excomuicated” because his Archbishop has refused him communion of course that doesn’t fit the “silly spin” this lefty is making....http://www.theusmat.com

[ConservativeMind]

Okay Mad, what does this mean:

“or refuses submission to the Roman Pontiff...”

We are to submit to Christ, not the “Roman Pontiff.”

It’s astonishing the falsehoods Catholics say!

[ConservativeMind]

I will apologize for my words with appropriate supporting documentation from the Bible. So, allow me to sit quietly and patiently listen to your Biblical references from the New American Bible (used by the Catholic church) which support the quote from Coleus’ article above, which is (in dealing with excommunication):

“once a person willingly repudiates Christ, embraces a heresy, knowing it to be contrary to divine and Catholic faith, or refuses submission to the Roman Pontiff (or communion with the members of the Church subject to him), by virtue of the law itself they are automatically excommunicated. No ecclesiastical act is necessary and no public notice.”

Specifically, I'm interested in the wording, “...or refuses submission to the Roman Pontiff...”

I fully understand that the words, “bishop,” “elder,” and “overseer” are synonymous. If this is what is used to describe the Pope, that would be very reasonable to me. But please find your own supporting references to what, in my understanding, should only be “Christ.”