text: I beg to differ, and the bishops agree, the Catholic Church has authority over all matters.  When Jesus placed the three-tiered crown on Peter's head He gave him full authority over everything under heaven and agreed that heaven would act in accord with his decisions.  Now, of course, we have a magisterium as well as Peter's successor, but the deal is the same: the church is the boss of you and me.  If only we could return to the great age of christianity when papal authority extended to the secular sphere as well as the spiritual.  As all can agree, that was truly a golden age for all mankind.  Now, all we have left are the rituals and garments from that era, and the holy ground of the Vatican.