Protestant Christians: What would you like to see the next Pope accomplish?

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Mike_SoCal said:
How about a clear straight forward salvation message.

The Pope could build on this verse:

John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
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The Eucharist is indeed the bread of life, the flesh of our Blessed Lord.

When have you eaten the flesh of Our Lord, friend? If you want to be saved, you should become a Catholic in order to partake of the Holy Eucharist.
 
Marie5890 said:
Do you see that as a realistic accomplishment that is within the Pope’s ability to achieve?

I dont in all honesty.

Abortion will end when hearts are changed.
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I think that before a Pope, or hearts change irresponsible attitudes to sexual ethics, our own biological mistakes will do it for us…

… that is the massive and unmanageable amount of antibiotic resistant infections we will be seeing thanks to people turning themselves into human petry dishes - catching STDs, popping constant antibiotics, and growing antibiotic resistant pathogens.

Most of the big problems people are moaning about at the moment will be pretty insignificant once this takes hold, because we will have no antibiotics left that work (which is where we are almost at now). To the point where even routine minor ops will carry a risk of death because there will be no way to treat infections we have hitherto considered insignificant. We are approaching this problem at a rate of knots.

I suspect that the appeal of depraved lifestyles will lessen somewhat, and convenience abortions with it.

What a shame that humanity continuously ignores the simple truth and gets itself into a mess, huh?
 
I would like to see the Pope encourage more education among Catholics about their own faith. Very few Catholics I have met in person can articulate what they believe on any topic.

Please don’t take this personally, Catholics on this forum are not like those I met in person! My first encounters with Catholics were very confusing to me. I asked simple questions out of curiosity and they did not know the answers. I never can understand how a person can claim steadfast belief in things they know nothing about. I have not encountered this sort of ignorance in other religions or denominations. For example I asked my Buddhist friend why he does not eat Garlic… he explained that it has to do with garlic affecting human emotion and arouses unhealthy passions. I asked a Catholic years ago about not eating meat on Fridays and the answer was “I dunno, we just don’t.” (don’t worry I understand it now this was only an example)

Maybe its my own area where I live, but I think it is more widespread than that. So, Id like to see a Pope that strongly encourages Catholics to study their own beliefs and practices.
 
Abolish Abortion, Abolish priestly celibacy,

This one will sound odd to most but the bible states the small remnant will
persecuted by the majority. World wide law stating any heretic (person not in unity with the world wide system) would not have his good confiscated and put death. But alas no law will stop bible prophecy.

Rev 13:15
Luke 21:16
John 16:2
Revelation 11:7
Revelation 13:17
 
I’d really like to see the Pope approve women and married people as priests, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

I would like to see a youngish pope elected from Latin America or Africa, as those areas are growing in the number of Catholics who live there. I hope the next pope will use social media as Benedict has.

I agree with Syele that Catholics need to be educated about their own faith. I became a Catholic in 1986. Before that I was a Methodist. I remember attending a Catholic chuch once and having the priest encourage people to read the Bible. I was surprised; I thought they did that already. That was years ago, though.
 
Lisa1967 said:
I’d really like to see the Pope approve women and married people as priests, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
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The Roman Catholic Church is comprised of 23 independent churches - all of which are in union with the Pope. One of those independent churches is a “Western Church” that practices the Latin Rite. The other 22 churches are “Eastern Churches” that are Roman Catholic Churches. Most of the Eastern Catholic Churches not only “allow” married people to be priests, but essentially REQUIRE marriage before they can be ordained a priest.

The confusion comes when people in the west look at the Latin Church and assume that the practices of this church comprise the entire Catholic Church.

The word “independent” is used in an administrative sense.

However, none of these churches in union with the Pope ordain women.
 
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