what temporal role does the pope play today?

Question

what influences does the pope have over world political affairs? can you think of a specific example of a pope asserting his authority/opinion over a country's law?

Answer 1

H is antichrist, and is the front man for the black pope, and his army of Jesuit soldiers, having much more influence than the sleeping masses will ever guess.

Answer 2

I don't think he really wields much direct political authority, but he is influential. When the pope speaks, people listen.

Here's an example: A few years back, a man was scheduled for execution in the state of Missouri. He was to be executed the same day that Pope John Paul II was to visit St. Louis, and the pope asked that the man's life be spared. Well, out of respect for the pope, Governor Carnahan commuted the sentence to life in prison.

The pope's influence is indirect, but John Paul II was not afraid to use it when he could.

Answer 3

The Church is primarily a spiritual body. But she is also a moral teacher.

If people are going to make moral issues into political ones then they should not complain when the Church uses its freedoms of speech and religion.

When you look at the 1.1 billion believers worshiping in over 200,000 parishes worldwide you can see that the Catholic Church is a spiritual entity.

However the Church is also a moral teacher and has been teaching the world what it believes God thinks is right and wrong for almost 2,000 years.

The Church looks to protect human dignity and human rights and does not for look for political power. Church leaders are barred from political office by Church law (not civil law).

Jesus said, "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Matthew 28:18-20)

The Catholic Church has been teaching world governments what it believes is right and wrong since the ancient Romans stopped persecuting it and long before anyone heard of the freedom of speech.

The Catholic Church protested about the blood sports in the Roman Colosseum and they were stopped.

The Catholic Church supported the Polish Solidarity movement and the Soviet Union fell apart.

I don't think the Church is going to (or should) stop teaching the world governments what is right or wrong now.

Remember the Catholic Church proposes. It does not impose.

With love in Christ.