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hows this for a numerology lesson:
The official title of the pope is "Vicarius Filii Dei", which translated is, "Representative of the Son of God". To confirm, the Catholic newspaper Our Sunday Visitor of April 18, 1915 wrote: "The engraved letter on the pope's Mitre is as follows: 'Vicarius Filii Dei '". Since in Latin certain letters have numerical values, we only need to add them up to come to 666;
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Answer 1

No, the official title of the Pope is NOT "Vicarius Filli Dei". Vicarius Filii Dei (Latin: Vicar or Representative of the Son of God) is a phrase used in the forged mediaeval Donation of Constantine to refer to Saint Peter. A picture of the Papal crown can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Tiara and you can see there is NO writing on it.

Everyone knows Barney,... that cute purple dinosaur.
But here's something that you may not know:

1. Start with the given:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2. Change all U's to V's (which is proper Latin anyway)
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3. Extract all Roman Numerals:
CV V L DI V

4. Convert these into Arabic values:
100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5. Add these numbers up:
100
5
5
50
500
1
+ 5
----
666
There you have it.....
A valid mathematical proof that Barney is the Antichrist!

Some people will believe ANYTHING to support their prejudices.

Answer 2

You are seriously misinformed. This silly myth has no basis in fact, and such a statement was never printed in any Catholic publication. First of all, there is no engraved words on the Pope's miter at all, and never has been. Secondly, "Vicarius Fillii Dei" is not an official title of the Pope, and never has been. You cannot find any reference to it in any Catholic literature, present or historical. This phrase was designed by anti-Catholic bigots with the specific intent tof totalling 666 (not that it would matter one bit if this actually was the Pope's title - numerology is an ungodly and dangerous practice which Catholics don't participate in). For your education and edification, the Pope's official title is "Vicarius Christi" - "Vicar of Christ".

Incidentally, if you add up the letters of name of the founder of 7th Day Adventism, they equal 666. But who believes in numerology?
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Answer 3

The title "Vicarius Filii Dei" has NEVER been an official title of the Pope. Someone made it up.

NONE of the Pope's REAL titles add up to the number in question.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Vicarius Filii Dei (Latin: Vicar or Representative of the Son of God) is a phrase used in the forged mediaeval Donation of Constantine to refer to Saint Peter. Some Protestant groups claim that it is a title of the Roman Catholic pope, and that the letters add up to 666, the "number of the beast" in the Book of Revelation. The Catholic Church dismisses the claim as an "anti-Catholic myth" and states that popes have never possessed such a title.

The story seems to owe its modern origins to a written answer to a question published in an American Roman Catholic magazine, Our Sunday Visitor of 15 November 1914, in which a contributor, a priest, referred to the supposed title. The author who repeated the claim later in April 1915 then withdrew it. Among the errors he said he made was to mix up tiaras (about which the question was concerned) and mitres (the word he used in the answer). Though the magazine itself discussed the topic again in September 1917 and August 1941, it never denied the claim of the 1915 article that the title had appeared on the miter. Critics of the Seventh-day Adventist interpretation of the comment have argued that, firstly, if there was some secret Catholic title that the Church was denying, it would have been unlikely then to publish the "secret" in a widely available magazine read by people from all faiths. Secondly, they argue that if it was such a secret, and the questioner was asking about papal tiaras, why then would the priest-author have proceeded to answer a question he wasn't asked, about supposedly secret mitres. When questioned, the magazine wrote to the Seventh-day Adventist Church to inform them that the contributing priest had gotten his facts wrong. The Seventh-day Adventist Church no longer regards the magazine article as anything other than an error and no longer promotes belief in the claim that Vicarius Filii Dei is a papal title.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church abandoned the search for the 'evidence' after years of searching. However, some minority groups within the church still hold on to the belief that such a tiara with such a title existed. The search was resurrected by a minority of individual members when a member of the Church reproduced the original Our Sunday Visitor article, the article itself being treated as evidence that efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to 'suppress' the truth had failed. (Because the magazine's claim was being used by anti-Catholic campaigners in the United States as proof that the pope was the antichrist, the magazine removed that particular issue from its archives, leading to further accusations of a Catholic conspiracy to suppress the 'truth'.)

Though no other evidence apart from one article in one magazine in 1914, repeated in 1915, which subsequently stated twice that it had got its facts wrong, has ever been produced, and photographic evidence disproves claims about the 1939 papal coronation using a tiara with the words emblazoned on it, some groups, both within and outside of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, continue trying to prove both existence of such a papal title and of a tiara bearing the title.

Due to the failure to provide any evidence for the existence of the title over the two-thousand year history of the Roman Catholic Church, other than a forged mediaeval document and a mention in a minor magazine, subsequently disowned, and the failure of any of those promoting the claim to provide photographic evidence (while claiming a photograph exists) historians, academics and religious leaders view the story as a classic anti-Catholic urban legend, for which not the slightest shred of evidence has been found.

Answer 5

Okay first I'll faint cause I haven't seen Liverpool touch that trophy since I was 12 years old. Then I'll party for like a month and give all my Man U friends a really hard time for a year. I'll play 'You'll never walk alone' everyday at work. But honestly I don't how much I celebrate cause I'll be in 7th heaven.

Answer 6

is it really that the pope is the anti christ on the book of revelation,if he is really a man of god why ride on the bullet froof car.if dies or killed then for sure some one will replace him and continue the real works of GOD,so many have been misled on the teaching of the catholism.i am for one .thank GOD the bible corrects the teaching of catholism.

Answer 7

Nice try. I'm certain that's what the PROTESTANT Church had in mind when they selected that particular title for the Pope. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist in Catholicism.

The Pope never held that title, nor does it exist in any Catholic documentation.

You might wish to check your facts prior to spewing.

Answer 8

Where are you getting a numerical value chart for Latin/English alphabet? Those numbers are similar to Hebrew, except the zeros... is there some cheating going on? Otherwise, I'd surely like to do the Gematria myself.

Answer 9

Sorry but I would need an enlargement of your avatar to make sense of it, but the answer to this post is that no, the Pope is not the anti-Christ and many Popes before him have been labelled with this and it was as unsound then as now, please read Revelations properly to understand what the real anti-Christ will be.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian.......no need for mathematics and the bible to be mixed....it's a farce.

Besides....Don Mattingly wore #23 and that's good enough for me (he was and still is my favorite Yankee).