[terycarl]

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.

I don't run anywhere and I have nothing, at the moment, to confess.

I am, as a Catholic, certainly subject to the Pope, but I might not share his favorite song, color, place on Earth, political views, opinion on a certain person, action...whatever. He is the titular head of an organization of which I am a proud member and only his directives concerning the church bind me to anything. He might say that he loves the president of Venezuela....I think that man is a tryant and should be done away with. I, nor any other Catholic is forced to believe or agree with every statement that he makes.

[metmom]

“entirely subject to the Roman pontiff” does not allow for the exceptions you are allowing for your self.

[ealgeone]

Nope.....you are entirely subject to the roman pontiff....it's ex cathedra. You have no choice.

it's never too late to leave catholicism for the Truth however.