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Vicar of Christ

NOUN
  1. the head of the Roman Catholic Church

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  • In Catholicism, when the Bishop of Rome invokes his authority as Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, and speaks from the Chair of Peter, his pronouncement is binding on all Catholics throughout the world. Snow Angels
  • The Humanitarians who followed the religious deception of the Antichrist and the tiny flock of the Catholic Church, led by the Vicar of Christ. Archive 2009-03-08
  • It is impossible for me," he writes to Nagni, the French nuncio, 2 April, 1629, "to put in jeopardy the common fatherhood and, in consequence, to be no longer able to heal and pacify, which is the proper business of the pope as vicar of Christ The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • In the case of the Vicar of Christ, prayer is an appeal to his immediate superior. Archive 2009-05-01
  • But some other times, the spiritual glory as the successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
  • Where the people are Catholic and submissive to the law of God, as declared and applied by the vicar of Christ and supreme pastor of the church, democracy may be a good form of government; but combined with Protestantism or infidelity in the people, its inevitable tendency is to lower the standard of morality, to enfeeble intellect, to abase character, and to retard civilization, as even our short American experience amply proves. GOP Confronts Its Future Viability
  • Some canonists argued on the pope's authority as ‘vicar of Christ,’ because the pope, being something more than a man, can put asunder a marriage!
  • O God, who didst fill the soul of Saint Pius X with a burning charity and called him to be the Vicar of Christ, grant that through his intercession we may follow in the footsteps of Jesus, Our Divine Master; and may our prayers to this saintly Pope be fruitful for life both here and hereafter, through the same Christ Our Lord. Feast of St. Pius X
  • Obama getting an audience with the Vicar of Christ, who invited him to rethink his hellish beliefs on the "life issues". Outrage in Malaysia
  • As to subject-matter, the term constitution, if used in a restricted sense, denotes some statute which the Vicar of Christ issues in solemn form either to the whole Christian world or to part of it, with the intention of permanently binding those to whom it is addressed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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