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To: Alex Murphy
What I don't understand is if Christ doesn't pick their pope, why do Catholics still hail the Pope as the Vicar of Christ, and not as the Vicar of the Church?

I think we have a miscommunication on what the word vicar means, although I think I see where you're coming from.

32 posted on 07/30/2014 4:35:02 AM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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To: Legatus

Vicar:

In canon law, the representative of a person clothed with ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

40 posted on 07/30/2014 6:27:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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