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Go ask the David Koresh’s; the Jim Jones’; the Joel Osteens; the Billy Grahams; the Rev. Moons; and the Rev. Sharptons; and Mormons; what “they” think of the same scripture, scripture, scripture…..you cite.

When these guys rise to the highest level in ALL of 'christianity'; you MIGHT have a leg to stand on!

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

The difference between the list you posted here and the people Steelfish cited is that the Popes you listed didn’t teach a different doctrine than other “good” Popes. The people Steelfish pointed out do have different interpretations of Scripture and hence different doctrines.

I guess there’s a choice here: be associated with a Church that has taught the same thing but has had evil Popes or associate with people who are (at least) outwardly “good” but teach different things about Scripture. I’d rather have the doctrinal consistency speaking for myself.

(And yeah I get the irony of posting that on the same thread that claims to prove Popes taught differently re Mary before.)

The OP is false, as has already been demonstrated in the first 200 posts of this thread. Now this thread is just another typical FR anti-Catholic pile-on. I’m just posting this for Steelfish’s benefit (and the benefit of any other reasonable lurker). I don’t expect to change your mind or the mind of any other anti-Catholic here.