Why Evangelicals Should Care Who Becomes Pope

In a sermon a couple of weeks ago, I made two comments about the Roman Catholic Church's search for the next pope (who at the time was not yet chosen): (1) ecclesiastically speaking, we Protestants have no dog in this fight (2) culturally speaking, we Protestants should still hope and pray for a conservative pope to be chosen.

In the link below, Justin Taylor gives some helpful excepts from Carl Trueman, church historian at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. Trueman is hardly an ecumenical fan of the Roman Catholic Church (see his fascinating article here, http://www.reformation21.org/articles/pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain-roman-catholic-history-and-the-e.php, yet he is always full of good sense. And his comments in the link below do a better job at making clear what I was trying to say two weeks ago.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2013/03/14/why-protestants-should-be-interested-in-rome/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+between2worlds+%28Between+Two+Worlds%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher