Why do I have to listen to the Pope?

Listening to the Pope? What about the Bible? What about Jesus? You Catholics trust in men, and not in God!
Find out why trusting the Pope proves our trust in God in this Young Catholic Minute!

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[youngcatholic]

No, our 'logic' doesn't say Hitler never personally killed the jews. Hitler ordered the Holocaust. No pope has EVER ordered the selling of indulgences

Indulgences are granted if requirements are met by a faithful Catholic. The indulgence doesn't give a free pass to heaven, it wipes away punishment for old sins. The problem arose when certain people in the Church under the pope were abusing the indulgence granted for almsgiving. That abuse was condemned at the time by Vatican Cardinal Cajetan.

[youngcatholic]

The pope is only infallible when it comes to matters of faith and morals. So if he were to say 'the earth is the center of the universe' he wouldn't be speaking about either faith/morals, and he'd be wrong. Pope John Paul II openly said, for example, that the Galileo deal was not handled well. And it is a historical fact that the pope has never sold indulgences, that was done only by corrupt people within churches in Europe. P.S. Copurnicus (came up with heliocentric model) was a Catholic priest

[TheCorner3364]

I like the way they started the video off. It was a good way of relating the weird situation to the serious matter they wanted to convey

[mytruepower2]

@SerJahPhoto

I think I can answer some of these. The doctrines surrounding Purgatory and indulgences remain in effect, but just aren't talked about very often in certain parishes, unfortunately, because they're both beautiful doctrines. Customs are not doctrines, and it was never Catholic Church custom to burn anyone. This was done by individuals acting on their own initiative.

Lastly, the latin mass was never abrogated.

[felicetanka]

Father Lamaitre offered what now is called the "big bang" theory regarding the study of astronomy.

[omGOP3]

"I have a deep personal relationship with my washing machine" LOL-this is amazing!

[TheJazuma]

@SerJahPhoto What??

[SerJahPhoto]

Pope the Repairman...

If you call yourself a catholic, you will share from one cup with your predecessors-inquisitors.

You've corrupt your catholic teachings already. Where is your doctrine of purgatory and indulgences? Where is the good old custom of burning the protestants at a stake? Why have you forsaken Latin mass?

It's all inside of you, covered with a mask of democracy...

Now you can burn me for my blasphemy against the pope...

Can i choose to be beheaded first? Please.. Thank you.

[cburton103]

@stinkygeorgia1 Indeed, Jesus is the High Priest. It is of utmost importance to follow the High Priest, who said in John 20:21-23: "21 ...Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you. 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."

Jesus established his Church on the apostles, and he desires that we all may be one in His Church.

[stinkygeorgia1]

@cburton103 >>> "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.” (Hebrews 8:10-12)  You don't need a priest when you can have the High Priest - Jesus.

[cburton103]

@stinkygeorgia1 You're misunderstanding CCC 978. That means that even after we are baptized and our sins are forgiven, we are still humans, therefore we still have the natural inclination towards sin (aka concupiscence). Would you say that after we accept Christ we no longer have the inclination to sin as humans? If you wouldn't say this, then I do not see your disagreement with CCC 978.

[stinkygeorgia1]

@cburton103 >>> It's obvious that the gospel message must be explained, and that is what Peter did. Even your Catechism says Baptism "delivers no one." "Yet the grace of Baptism delivers no one from all the weakness of nature. On the contrary, we must still combat the movements of concupiscence that never cease leading us into evil " - Catechism of the Catholic Church 978 >>> Jesus Christ delivers.