Sentences with phrase «pope is the successor»

For example: The pope is the successor of St. Peter.

The following is also from Ecumenical News International, reporting on a talk by Frieling at Paderborn University: ««Peter was no pope, and the Pope is not the only Peter,» Frieling said, referring to the claim of the Roman Catholic Church that the popes are the successors of St. Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus.»

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The Vatican spokesman said the matter was concluded and the pope would reveal the contents of the report only to his successor.

Its main role is to advise the current pope and pick his successor.

For another, even setting aside his many other contributions, were it not for the humility of Benedict, whose resignation made way for a successor, there would not be a new pope.

There is no great difference concerning the lousy character between the wicked popes and Muhammad and his successors (the Caliphs).

The pope is only the forerunner of the Antichrist in the West (Mohammed and his successors were it in the East).

finally a pope comes around who really lives and preaches what jesus probably wanted his successors to live and preach and now he is a marxist?????

Cardinals are handpicked by the pope both to choose his successor and to assist in the daily needs of the church.

The pope has a right to say: «I am the successor of St. Peter!»

For now, all we Cuban Catholics can do is acknowledge the fact that the first pope, Saint Peter, made many, many mistakes, and that none of his successors have been infallible when it comes to politics.

After a stroke felled our superior general, the pope appointed his own representative as our leader (rather than allowing the normal procedure, which was for us to elect a successor).

However, as the barbarians became Christian and either through their conversion or by abandoning Arianism became members of the Catholic Church, they looked to Rome as the geographic center of their faith, made pilgrimages to its shrines, and regarded the Popes as the successors of Peter and as possessing the authority which, they were taught, had been entrusted by Christ, as His representative, to Peter.

A major obstacle was the insistence of the Popes that, as successors of Peter, they were the rightful heads of the Catholic Church.

Utmost the pope would be Peter's successor, if you relate the popes essence only to the carnal desires of Peter which he overcame after Pentecost.

Have a look on wikipedia and you will see that from 1076 onward the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (a former pope had made Germany the successor of the Roman Empire) just were called merely kings.

Have a look on wikipedia and you will see that from 1076 onward the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (a former pope had made Germany the successor of the Roman Empire) just were called merely kings (before 1076 they were called emperors).

Catholics believe that the next pope will be the 265th successor to St. Peter as the unique Vicar of Christ on earth.