The bishops, priests as well as lay people help minister to the Church worldwide.
The Church is constructed with a hierarchy. The hierarchy is put in place to assist the pope in transmitting the Faith and the sacraments as well as Church law, proclamations and declarations and any directives from the Holy See. Foremost in this chain are the bishops who are in charge of individual regions called dioceses. The bishops are further aided and supported by the priests, who service the parishes where the faithful gather to pray.
The bishops, priests as well as lay people help minister to the Church worldwide.
The Curia helps administer the day to day running of the Church.
The pope is a priest and bishop and. as such, can administer all 7 sacraments.
As of March 2013 the pope of the worldwide Catholic Church is Pope Francis.
encyclicals- letters from the pope to the whole church
holy spirit
The only requirement is that you must be a male Catholic. However, it also helps to be a cardinal. The Church has not had a non-cardinal as pope in many centuries.
Pope Francis is the pope of the Philippines as he is for the entire world. Individual countries do not have popes, there is just one pope for the entire Catholic Church.
Jesus Christ started the Church and the apostles under the leadership of Pope Saint Peter spread that faith around the known world.
The pope is the head of the Catholic Church. There is only one Catholic Church and it is not a sect. To be a Catholic Church, a church must be in union with the pope. If they are not in union with the pope, they are not Catholic.
Jesus Christ is the head of the Catholic Church (Col 1:18), His vicar on earth: the pope, today Pope Benedict XVI, is the spiritual leader of the world's Catholics.
The pope does not rule the world. He is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and his ecclesiastical jurisdiction encompasses what is often called the "Holy See".
The Pope is the temporal leader of the Catholic Church, and a Bishop has power over a small portion of the world [called a Diocese], but he must ultimately answer to the Pope.