Popes

Pope Leo I, who is also known as St. Leo the Great by Catholics, was Bishop of Rome and thus Pope from 440 to 461. Leo strengthened the central authority of the Bishop of Rome in the early church, and is famous for going out to meet Attila the Hun to convince him not to invade and plunder Rome.

In 451, he sent a letter, known as the Tome, to the Council of Chalcedon. When the letter was read to the bishops in attendance, they are recorded as proclaiming "Peter has spoken through Leo". This was perhaps the first public expression of what is now called the "Petrine authority" of the pope as successor of St. Peter.

Papal such as the papal vestments, the papal apartments, etc..

The Pope is Our Blessed Lord's Vicar on earth, He first appointed St. Peter as head of His Church (see St. Matthew Gospel, 16:17-19). The Pope, and his successors are the visible sign of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ's, unity and headship of His Church. Like the Prime Minister on which Our Blessed Lord based it (see Isaiah 22:15-25) there is only one at any one time.

No, they don't have a shrine.

Actually catholics do have shrines. For example in Lewiston, NY there is a shrine called "Lady fatima shrine" so yes, catholics do have shrines.

make up your minds that do or thay dont ? ..x..

The following is a list of popes who have served the Church during the twentieth century:

* Leo XIII (1878-1903) * St. Pius X (1903-14)

* Benedict XV (1914-22) * Pius XI (1922-39) * Pius XII (1939-58) * Blessed John XXIII (1958-63) * Paul VI (1963-78) * John Paul I (1978) * John Paul II (1978-2005) * Benedict XVI (2005-present)

His reign as pope began February 6, 1922.

Short of being a cardinal, archbishop, or bishop, or a member of the pope's staff, a private audience with the Pope normally requires a request or letter of introduction from one's bishop and the acceptance of the invitation by the pope or the pope's staff. My understanding is that this was the general policy during the reign of Pope John Paul II. When I met John Paul II it was in the context of his morning Mass at the Apostolic Palace followed by a brief audience with all of the attendees afterwards. (Even though we were not 1-on-1 with the pope, I believe this is considered a 'private' audience as the meeting did not take place at, for example, the 'public' Wednesday audience.) I was among a group of seminarians who had asked our bishop to write a letter some 3-4 months before our trip. I seem to remember that in the letter we needed to indicate where we were staying in Rome (phone number), so that we could be reached if/when we were chosen to come over. The evening of our last night in Rome, we were called at the hotel and told to be at the bronze doors at 6:30am. I seem to remember that we needed to have our passports and that there was a security screen of some type. After about 1/2 hour - 45 minutes, we were lead up several grand stairways, through a courtyard, up some more stairs, and through the palace to the ante-room at the papal apartment. There we vested for Mass and were given some basic protocol instructions by Msgr. Dziwisz. We seminarians were handed some mimeographed books (marked "English"?) and asked to sing at the Mass. (The music was not very good, as I recall... shockingly lousy 70's/80's stuff, surprisingly.) The papal photographer and Swiss Guards are present at all times. No doubt, there is a dress code, but all I know is that bishops/priests and seminarians were expected to be dressed in clerical dress appropriate to their rank. It seemed everyone else was wearing black business attire (it looked like a Blues Brothers convention or a mob movie, I am not sure). I don't remember if the women were veiled, although I seem to remember there was some protocol about that. While we were there as "pilgrims", I suppose, "business" meetings with the pope presumably follow the same basic protocol for arranging them... a letter from your bishop and an invitation from the pope's staff. When he was healthy, JP2 was reported to be in constant motion, meeting with people all day long, including at meals. My understanding is that Pope Benedict XVI does not typically invite visitors and pilgrims to his morning Mass as John Paul II did, and my impression from various news reports is that he does not hold nearly as many "business" meetings as his predecessor did, either. Benedict seems much more an introvert, preferring to allow more 'business' to take place at the hands of his underlings... this is the good practice of 'subsidiarity' within an organization. Of note, most 'business' can and should be done with the various dicasteries, commissions, and offices of the Vatican and need not go directly to the pope. A wise piece of advice would be to make sure that any 'business' take place at the lowest point possible in the 'chain of command' before asking to see the pope. The only meetings which the pope is required to have, it would seem, are meetings with the worlds' bishops every 5 years, called "ad limina" visits. The various bishops of the world are on a rotation where they come at 5 year intervals. At these meetings, a group of bishops across a territory come to Rome and meet the pope and the various offices of the Vatican. At some point, each bishop gets a small bit of time (10? 15? minutes at least) to tell the pope about his diocese and the work going on there.

It was written by Palestrina during the renaissance so it would be between 1450-1600, closer to the early 1500's i believe about 1525.

Pope John Paul II from Poland was elected in 1978.

Spain and Portugal over the settlement of South America.

Pope Pius X is the only 20th Century pope canonized so far. However, there are 5 others who are at various stages of canonization: Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II.

In Catholicism, the spiritual heirs of Peter would be the succession of popes.

If Pope Gregory XI has truth on his side he needs no defense from Wycliffe. The problem is that what is at the heart of the whole issue for many is the question of whether or not the scripture is the whole and sufficient basis for the Christian faith or whether Christians need traditions of the church, which have, in the end been created by men. So, people will be discussing the matter from a different base assumption and so be talking at cross purposes.

If Pope Gregory XI and the tradition he was defending was indeed defensible, then he also would have nothing to fear from people having free access to the truth of the word of God in their own language. In fact, if he wanted them to have the truth then he would be promoting the spread of the word of God, as indeed did a number of well known Catholic missionaries in the centuries before him.

In fact, this would also have helped his cause since the clear truth would have refuted the ideas of Wycliffe if they were indeed false. The fact that he took the position he did, against the word of God, and against the spread of its eternal light, indicates his position fairly clearly.

Refers I believe to the any official document issued by the Pope . (Refered to as Bull) Happy Anthony

Pope Leo XIII was the predecessor of Pope Pius X.

Cardinals of the Roman Curia make the day to day decisions to keep the Church running smoothly. However, they will make no major decisions. Those will be left to the new pope to make. The camarlengo takes care of the day to day running of the Church in the absence of a pope.

Castel Gandolfo is the summer residence of the pope.

Rome was the capitol of the Papal States.

There have been 23 popes named John. Please specify one of them.

The Church is charged by Our Blessed Lord with preaching the faith to all people. He has entrusted the faith to His Church, and given it the awesome responsibility of passing that faith on and bringing people to repentance and salvation. Heretics are those who were bound to the faith of the Church, they had been brought up in it, or had converted to it, and subsequently had turned against it and rejected some or many aspects of the faith. In an effort to both bring them back to the truth, AND to protect the faithful, the Church send some of its clergy out to try and bring them back to the faith and keep the damage that they were doing to others to a minimum.

There is only one pope at a time and there have been 266 popes over the years in the Catholic Church. However, there are also a few Orthodox sects that call their leader a pope.

Jesus Christ. John 21:15-17 states: When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." He then said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." (Jesus) said to him, "Feed my sheep. Matthew 16:17-19 states: Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." The Catholic Church believes 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. The Pope is the senior pastor of 1.1 billion Catholic Christians, the direct successor of Simon Peter. The Pope's main roles include teaching, sanctifying, and governing.

If you are present in the Vatican City during an address by the Pope, he will sometimes bless rosaries and other religious items you have with you. However, the Pope does not do a "mass-blessing" of rosaries to be sold in stores or online.

Sure we pray for the Pope. He is the Head of God's Church and the Holy Father of the catholic people.