Perhaps you forget how Jesus taught us to pray:

“On earth as it is in heaven.”

Earth is also God’s kingdom. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

As for titles and lineage, Christ set up the church and instructed the apostles in administration of the sacraments. The bishops are appointed and ordained all the way back to the apostles as Christ instructed through sacred tradition. If your catholic friend doesn’t recognize apostolic succession, she is in error. It’s one thing to recognize that humans are flawed; it’s another to deny apostolic succession.

This gal was coerced. She did not trust her priest or bishop or pope with this information; she weighed the options and reluctantly realized that she was going to be prohibited from helping in her kids school so she caved under duress. If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand the term “coercion.”

Perhaps you forget how Jesus taught us to pray:

“On earth as it is in heaven.”

Earth is also God’s kingdom. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”