Pope Francis announces his own supremacy, violating Christ's body
Author: Cripplegate. Roman Catholicism installed Francis as pope. And much has been made of his bus rides and apartment dwelling back home in Buenos Aires . (The fact that people are impressed by his studied avoidance of opulence actually speaks volumes about Roman Catholicism in general). But while the press fawns and Rome beams over his supposed humility, what should Bible-believing Protestants say? Probably something like this: “How great sin have you heaped up for yourself, when you cut yourself off from so many flocks! For it is yourself that you have cut off. Do not deceive yourself!” Now that would probably not make the cut for a Christianity Today editorial, like A Pope for All Christians , but it is how Christians responded the first time a bishop in Rome made the incredibly arrogant claim that he was supreme pontiff. Conflicting over Church Membership Stephen, the bishop of Rome in the third century (d. A.D. 257), was actually the first guy to pull the “no, you kiss my...