What a crazy, ridiculous statement. What part of "I am the way, the truth and the life. NO MAN comes to the Father but by me" does he not understand? He's taking what our creator did on the cross and making it meaningless.

I feel so sorry for the hundreds of millions of people who hang on the Pope's every word. As far as number of followers, protestants and catholics are split evenly. In the parable of the ten virgins, I've always wondered if the Catholic church is represented by the half of the virgins who knew of him, but who Jesus said He never "knew". I'm guessing most Catholics don't understand being born again and they (the majority) currently don't believe in the rapture either. On top of that, there have been reports that they believe in aliens--they have one of the largest observatories in the world in Arizona and the third secret of Fatima story alludes to aliens having some future part with the church. The stage seems to be set to the point that the Pope could very well have a major role as the False Prophet once the rapture takes place. God said he will send strong delusion to those who didn't believe in Jesus for their salvation. Catholics already believe in the infallibility of the Pope, so if there is a disappearing of a large number of christians, they will surely rationalize that it must be something like aliens because there is no way they wouldn't be taken. Then all of those people will follow whatever he says. I'm sure the one world religion will follow as well and many will be led astray. So sad.

Steve M