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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.