Is Pope has any spiritual power or he is just human-being like us?

Answer 1

Just human, and as those go, the present one is not a very bright one either.

Answer 2

He's just a man.

He's not the successor to Peter; the only apostle to get a successor was Judas, because he fell by transgression. His office was given to another (Acts 1:16-20) as punishment for his great sin.

Peter didn't even have any more power or authority than the other apostles; they were all told that they would be given the "power of binding and loosing" (Matthew 18:18), which in the original Greek means that they could bind anything that was already bound in heaven, and could loose anything that was already loosed in heaven. They could only do what God had already declared should be done.

Peter wasn't infallible, either. Paul "withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed" (Galatians 2:11). Until this was declared dogma in 1870, even faithful Catholics claimed that the pope wasn't infallible, and no Catholic ever believed such.

Answer 3

We are all Homo Sapiens, and the Pope is just a symbol of the evolution of religion at this particular point in history. AT some point in the near distant future I fear the Catholic religion will no longer exist. Will the new leader of the new religion have any spiritual power?

Answer 4

The Pope is certainly a human being. He is not like most of us in that he can literally alter history through his teachings. He is the head of a government. He is as much like us as a king or a president of a nation.

Answer 5

I think that the Poope Benedictor 16 aka Joseph Krasinger is just a human being, but he is definitely not like me.

Answer 6

Both.

"891 "The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful - who confirms his brethren in the faith he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals. . . . The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, they exercise the supreme Magisterium," above all in an Ecumenical Council. When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine "for belief as being divinely revealed," and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions "must be adhered to with the obedience of faith." This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself.

892 Divine assistance is also given to the successors of the apostles, teaching in communion with the successor of Peter, and, in a particular way, to the bishop of Rome, pastor of the whole Church, when, without arriving at an infallible definition and without pronouncing in a "definitive manner," they propose in the exercise of the ordinary Magisterium a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals. To this ordinary teaching the faithful "are to adhere to it with religious assent" which, though distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it."

Answer 7

He is nothing special, just a man. A sinner like the rest of us. Only by the saving power of Jesus Christ can he enter into Heaven.

Answer 8

He is problably a incarnated demon.
an ant is more enlightened then him.
Jesus Christ just get sick by mentioning the name 'pope'.
No Divine being likes the pope.

Answer 9

human being...if he was a holy man he wouldnt be elected as pope would he?
being a pope is all political

Answer 10

Although he is a very important person, he is just as human as the rest of us.