Catholic doctrine considers the pope to be God's delegate on Earth.
From the suntimes.com
Your catholic family should pay more attention to what their pope is saying.
From the newscientist.com
Just look up to Obama, Bush, Putin, Chinas glorious leaders, Irans islamist leaders, the pope of the catholic church, etc.
From the economist.com
I'm also completely incompetent on matters of catholic faith, so I've no idea whether Ratzinger is a good pope or not.
From the economist.com
That was over an edict from the pope giving south America to Portugal and Spain, England was not catholic by that time.
From the economist.com
Catholic bishops in Third World countries have asked the pope to allow them to ordain married men because of the continuing worldwide shortage of priests, Allen said.
From the tennessean.com
Call it divine intervention, or the luck of the draw, but the pope continued his holy expansion into cyberspace after .catholic in Chinese was the first new domain name to be drawn.
From the guardian.co.uk
But if the pope did not want for followers, when it came to following other Twitter users the Vatican communications team were far from catholic in their interests.