Question 2 for Roman Catholics?

Question

What does the pope do? Is he the 'Prime minister' of the Roman Catholic Church or is more like a prophet, who speaks for God?

Answer 1

In lay terms, he is the equivalent (structure wise) as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Only he is the head Bishop of The Church, in charge as St. Peter was 2007 years ago.
His job is to lead The Church. He is not a prophet, but the leading interpreter of the Word of God.

Answer 2

Of your two choices Prime Minister is closer. He is not a prophet. He is a priest. As others have said, one of his official titles is Bishop of Rome. Of course, his job does not really entail the day-to-day management of churches and priests. He is the earthly leader of the Roman Catholic church.

Off the subject - there is no official requirement for the Pope to be a Cardinal or even a priest. The only requirements are that the Pope must be Catholic and must be a man. I am holding out hope. Pope would be a sweet job!

Answer 3

He is not a prophet. He is the Bishop of Rome - the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 4

The pope is the chief priest of the Catholic church and head of state of Vatican City which is a very small country.

Answer 5

Pastor Billy says read Isaiah22:21-23

The pope who is also the bishop of Rome is a steward of God's earthly Church. He sits in the seat of Peter much like the first peoples of the book followed the spiritual and moral instructions of the high priest who sat in the seat of Moses.
Once the Savior Jesus Christ came in the incarnation he cam to make all things new in doing so he abolished the levitical priesthood and established his Church (Catholic of course) and appointed a new authority in his apostles who were the first bishops and the prime bishop of them was Peter. Study the scriptures Peter is first among the apostles and Jesus we are told knew Peter loved him the most, read the final chapter of John very important verses where Jesus questions Peter and his love and Peter responds not once but 3 times as if to make up for his denial of Christ 3 times. Jesus than proceeds to affirm Peter in the position of authority to lead his Church in his physical absence.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

He's our top pastor. Pastor of the entire Catholic Church. When John XXIII became Pope, he said he had always wanted to be a pastor.

Answer 8

He is the leader of the Catholic Church. The one that holds everything together, ideally.

Answer 9

Neither. he his the head of the Church... not head of the religion, not a prophet, not divine. Why would you imply otherwise. He's like a a step above that guy Haggerty, or whatever his name is, without the meth and male whores.

Answer 10

John 21:15-17 states:

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

He then said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." (Jesus) said to him, "Feed my sheep.

Matthew 16:17-19 states:

Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

The Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.

The Pope is the senior pastor of 1.1 billion Catholics, the direct successor of Simon Peter.

The Pope’s main roles include teaching, sanctifying, and governing.

With love in Christ.