Our pastor was upset by what he heard on CNBC over the weekend, saying that the world does not "get" it in seeing the papacy purely in political terms: (a paraphrase)
The Pope was a figure of interest not because he was his celebrity but because he is the St. Peter that God has given us, and to hope that the next pope will change doctrine is to miss the point of everything. The papacy is the embodiment of Christ risking Himself in the Church, making himself vulnerable by putting Himself in the hands of humans...The crucifix is another embodiment of His showing that he will become vulnerable to us and put himself in our hands, as he does today literally in the Eucharist.
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