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Papal supremacy

Inscription at front of Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome: Sacros(ancta) Lateran(ensis) eccles(ia) omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput meaning "Most Holy Lateran Church, of all the churches in the city and the world, the Mother and Head"

In the Roman Catholic Church, the pope is seen as the highest clergy and as the head of the church. In short, anything the pope says in his function of head of the church is valid for the whole church. The pope has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered:[1] that, in brief, "the Pope enjoys, by divine institution, supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls."[2] This means that the situation of the pope is similar to that of an absolute monarch or the leader of a Fascist state.

  1. ↑ Paragraph 882 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997).
  2. ↑ Paragraph 937 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997).

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