You guys take the cake...I didn't make the claim...One of your own did in post 320...
not one pope (no matter how bad) has ever erred in matters of faith or morals.
If I may intrude with a technical point: If anyone posted anything in #320 to the effect that "the pope enjoys personal perfection", it must have been you since #320 is your post. From your posting history, I had suspected you not to be a Catholic. What was the meaning of "one of your own" in this context?
How is not erring in matters of faith or morals equivalent or identical to enjoying personal perfection? They seem very different to me, as different as the clear water and the rusty and cracked conduit which brings it to me.
How do “faith and morals” in this statement refer to the personal dimension of the individual? Faith and morals have always fallen under the office of the pope, not the individual in that office. Just like the office of President carries specific powers, regardless of the character of the person in the Oval Office.
Once again, I’ll ask it - and I’m sure you won’t answer it -why did Jesus pick Peter to guide his flock, if the requirement is personal perfection?