I like following the work of the Pope. Since I am not Roman Catholic, the Pope has no inherent spiritual authority over me, but he does exercise a kind of spiritual authority for all Christians. It would be absurd to say that since I am not Catholic, the Pope does not matter. After all, there are more than one billion Catholics in our world---that means about one out of every six human beings are Catholic! Those are impressive numbers. And to think that one human being has spiritual authority over that group is doubly impressive. If we wanted a comparison, the best comparison would be the nation of China. That nation also has over one billion in population. And it, too, is governed by a single president, Xi Jinping. Even he does not have the kind of authority that the Pope has. But I am not really interested in the issue of authority---either religious or political. I am actually interested in the person who is el...