Why is the pope an important man?

Answer 1

He, (the Pope) ,is the head of the Catholic church.The position of Pope is the highest achievement with Catholicism.

He important because, he is the first non-italian to occupy the throne of st.peters

Answer 2

Because he is respected by everyone in the catholic religion because he blessess them and makes them feel good and helps them. He also helps other people too. People happen to think that he does "miracles" but no one knows he might with the power of God.

Answer 3

Catholic AnswerThe Pope is very important as Jesus gave him the responsibility of leading His Church. He gave him the power of the keys (Matt 16:19) and we can only know if we are following Christ if we are in communion with the Holy Father.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

880 When Christ instituted the Twelve, "he constituted [them] in the form of a college or permanent assembly, a the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from among them." (Lumen gentium 19; cf Lk 6:13; Jn 21:15-17) Just as "by the Lord's institution, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a single apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are related with and united to one another." (Lumen gentium 22; cf. Codex Iuris Canonici, can 330.)

881 The Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock. (Cf. Mt16:18-10; Jn 21:15-17.) "The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of apostles united to its head." (Lumen gentium 22 section 2) This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church's very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope.

882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful." (Lumen gentium 23) For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered. (Lumen gentium 22; cf. Christus Dominus 2, 9.)

Answer 4

The pope is important to Roman Catholics because he is the head of the church.

Before Jesus died, he assigned St. Peter to continue Jesus' work after he was gone. Each of the popes is a considered by Catholics to be a successor of Peter as head of the church, Peter was a successor of Jesus, so that is why the pope is important to Catholics.

Answer 5

He is the Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth and the visible head of the Catholic Church.

The pope is important because he is the Vicar of Christ on Earth as well as the temporal leader of the Catholic Church.

Because being the pope means to be the 'rock of the church'. Thus being the most important.

Background:

Jesus tells Peter to take care of His mother and that he is the rock of the church. Which means to be the foundation of the church's people.

Catholic AnswerThe short answer, and the complete answer, is that the Pope is important to the Christian Church because Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, appointed the pope as His Vicar on earth. He built His Church on the Pope, without the Pope, there is no Church. Read St. Matthew 16:17-19 to read where Our Blessed Lord appointed St. Peter as his first pope. When Our Blessed Lord is talking about the "rock" He is referring back to Isaiah 22:15-25. Thus the office of Pope, or Vicar, has a long history going all the way back to the Davidic Kingdom.

Answer

The pope assures that all members of the Church follow the same doctrines and teachings of the Church and do not deviate from them. Look at what has happened to the Protestants. They have no central leadership and have gone from two sects (Lutheran and Anglican) to over 30,000 denominations today since no one is certain what their beliefs should be. Each disagrees with the other over what is central to their beliefs.

Answer

The Pope is an important figure in the Roman Catholic church because he is the leader of the Catholic church. Jesus asked saint Peter to be the "rock" of the church, a metaphorical way of telling him to be leader and to guide and support it. And the Catholic church still has a Pope today, Benedict XVI, who is based in the Vatican, and striving to carry out Jesus' will.

Answer 6

because he took care of everyone and the got taken care of, he made the final decisions to his catholic church

Answer 7

He is the head of the church on earth.