[terycarl]

Then just WHY are SO many upset with it's current leader? After all; he WAS duly elect by a VERY holy group of men. Do you guys want a RECALL vote by the members of this fine, religious organization?? If not then SHUT -- UP! and deal with the Leader you've got!

Catholics are just fine with the leader that we have....Protestants are a little upset because he won't lean to their way of thinking.

Catholics are not required to agree with every move he makes nor every opinion that he utters. He might lean toward the democrats and I wouldn't like it at all..He is a human being just like the rest of us and only under VERY specific circumstances am I required to adhere to his proclamations...otherwise....whatever!

[metmom]

Catholics are just fine with the leader that we have....

Where have you been?

[metmom]

He is a human being just like the rest of us and only under VERY specific circumstances am I required to adhere to his proclamations...otherwise....whatever!

And there we have it. Every man his own pope. 1.2 billion personal interpretations of Catholicism.

[ealgeone]

Terycarl wrote in post 4842: Catholics are not required to agree with every move he makes nor every opinion that he utters. He might lean toward the democrats and I wouldn't like it at all..He is a human being just like the rest of us and only under VERY specific circumstances am I required to adhere to his proclamations...otherwise....whatever!

WOW! JUST WOW! Are you making your personal interpretation of Scripture?? Are other catholics participating in the reformation like you?

Dude...if you are really catholic you need to run, I mean, run to the nearest priest and do some serious confessing.

If you've been baptized into the RCC then you have to be subject to the pope. It's not your choice.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, ex cathedra: “With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside of which there is no salvation nor remission of sin… Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by absolute necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

It is not possible, therefore, to be subject to the Roman Pontiff without receiving the Sacrament of Baptism, since the Church (and the Roman Pontiff) cannot exercise judgment (jurisdiction) over an unbaptized person (de fide, Trent). And since it is not possible to be subject to the Roman Pontiff without the Sacrament of Baptism, it is not possible to be saved without the Sacrament of Baptism, since every human creature must be subject to the Roman Pontiff for salvation (de fide, Boniface VIII).

http://www.onetruecatholicfaith.com/Roman-Catholic-Articles.php?id=602&title=7.+Subjection+to+the+Church%2FRoman+Pontiff&category=Outside+the+Catholic+Church+there+is+no+Salvation&page=1

[Elsie]

Catholics are just fine with the leader that we have....

This is UNTRUE and I suspect you know it.