He is the Catholic Pope, not my Pope or any non-Catholic's Pope isn't he, shouldn't we be more specific than just calling him the Pope?
2006-09-17 00:04:55 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you're right. From now on let's always call him the Catholic Pope
2006-09-17 00:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
People know the Pope is head of the Catholic. The phrase "Catholic Pope" is a needless redundancy. No one is going to confuse the "Catholic Pope with the "Methodist pope", or the "Evangelical pope", or the "Lutheran pope", or the "Presbyterian pope". We needn't concern ourselves with confusing the "Catholic Pope" with the Jewish pope, or the Islamic pope, or the Buddhist pope, or the Hindu pope.
Why complicate something is, oh, so very simple?
2006-09-18 04:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Welllll....the thing is, the Catholics have the Pope. He's the only Pope well known enough to be called 'the Pope', and only the Catholics particularly listen to him. Why would annnnny other group actually WANT to give up the moral law of their life to a big-hatted bloke being carried around insulting everyone else? One Pope is quite enough to bugger up the world, surely? :o)
2006-09-18 03:20:24 · answer #3 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to school with a Jason Pope. I never referred to him as the Catholic Jason Pope though. It was just understood.
2006-09-17 05:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a point there. There are a whole lot of people that seem to think the the Roman Catholic Pope is the leader of all Christianity and that just ain't so.
You might want say Roman Catholic Pope because there is a whole Catholic church that split from the Vatican back in the late 60's.
2006-09-17 00:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Vicki 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Everybody knows the Pope is Catholic.
2006-09-17 00:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by Scorpius59 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's understood that the Pope represents the Catholics.
2006-09-18 02:55:26 · answer #7 · answered by freeetibet 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nicely, the Anglican Church has countless perspectives on those and diverse issues, because that's no longer unified in doctrine because the Roman Catholic or Orthodox church homes are. some oppose equivalent sex marriage, others do no longer ignore it sinful. Many have favoured the ordination of ladies even as many do not favour it in any respect. The equivalent is going for abortion, birth control. some evaluate interior the authentic Presence of Christ interior the Blessed Sacrament, others remember the Mass a symbolic gesture.
2016-10-16 01:03:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't know if there are any other Pope in other religions, I have always heard about the catholic one, but if there are others, you are right, he should be called Catholic Pope.
2006-09-17 06:37:39 · answer #9 · answered by Mel 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The pope is a catholic?
Just kidding.
This is your own little private dream of separation.
We all have them. I truth we are all brothers.
There is only one pope spoken of in common usage so why would you see it as necessary to specify which pope we were talking about.
Would you also say.
The Buddhist Dali Lama is not my Dali Lama, why don't people ever include Buddhist when speaking of him?
It all depends on how silly we want to get I guess.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-17 00:14:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is only one pope in the entire world (at a time anyway). Therefore a person should not need further explanation. If I say Queen Elizabeth people should know who I am talking about even though here in the US I have no queen.
2006-09-18 07:24:59 · answer #11 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋