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9. Of course he did!

Reply to jerseyjack (Reply #6)

Tue May 22, 2012, 02:46 PM

May 2012

OK, the Jesus mentioned in Luke lived before the existence of popes or an organized church. But Jesus is, according to Catholic dogma, the second person of the Trinity and one with God, eternal and equal and identical in all things. Thus He knew that the Catholic Church and its popes would exist and have human imperfections and need admonishment. So the passage does mean the pope (or the bishops in general, of which the pope is one). There, I've run rings around you logically