What Should We Make of the Rampant Speculation That the Next Pope Could Be the Last Pope?
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I'm not aware of any valid speculation that a pope should even exist in the first place.
Reunification ?
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church... is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy .
Each constituent church is self-governing;[2] its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a patriarch, a metropolitan or an archbishop) reports to no higher authority.
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as close as they get.
I will concede that Eastern Orthodox has less issues than the main Catholic church. However, even though they don't believe in a pope, they still have issues.
If every Catholic prays 50 hail Marys per day, that's 70 billion prayers per day made to Mary. 47 million prayers per minute, 780,000 prayers per second. To believe Mary could do such a thing is to hold her to be omnipotent.
Even if Mary only heard Eastern Orthodox prayers, that's 8 million prayers per minute.
Only God is omnipotent. Praying to saints or Mary wasn't a thing specified to be done in the 66 canonical books.