"Yes, he is the head of the Roman Catholic Church."
"Do you not believe that it would be better to have your church organization complete in this country and have no foreign allegiance?"
"I would think so if the pope were an ordinary man."
"Mr. McBryan, will you please explain to me in what sense the pope is not an ordinary man?"
"The pope is the vicar of Christ, and as such is infallible."
"How did the pope get to be vicar of Christ?"
"He is the lawful successor of St. Peter."
"I deny that St. Peter was a pope. He never claimed to have any authority of an ecclesiastical nature not possessed by the other apostles. The other apostles did not recognize any such authority vested in him. Paul, in referring to a disagreement with him, said, 'I withstood him to his face.' If there were any power vested in him that was not shared by the other apostles the Bible makes no provision for a successor."
"That's the way you Protestants interpret the Bible, but you are fallible and we have an infallible interpreter."
"If we were to grant for the sake of argument that the pope is the successor of Peter, what makes him infallible?"