The pope is the highest authority next to God... Only to Catholics.

The idea of having a Pope is a debate within itself based off of something Jesus said that may or may not have been misinterpreted many years ago.


The fact that the Pope has devoted his entire life to God, AND THEN still said something like that is why it is an issue in the first place.


There has been the issue in the Catholic Church for many years regarding molestation as you all have heard. Well it is just my opinion, but I think that the Catholics in charge are trying to 'change the rules' so to speak because of the loss in church numbers due to so many scandals, they think maybe if they try to loosen a few things that people might not like, like the idea of hell. That will increase the numbers of church attendance. And that is the wrong way to go about it, call me a conspiracy person, but that what I think of the whole situation.



In an effort to not start an argument and prevent this thread from getting locked. Here's a funny South Park video : The Catholic Love Boat.







The whole episode humorously explains exactly what I said 2 paragraphs ago, but I couldn't find it on youtube.