The Pope is God on Earth?

[johnnys4life]

Well I have just read the Catholic overview, not sure how accurate that is, but it said that Catholics consider the pope to be the head of the body of Christ on earth. Is this true?
I understand the Pope is the highest position on earth for the Catholic faith, and he can give ordinances and the like, but how can he be the head of the church when Jesus is the head of the church and He is God. Obviously you are not saying the pope is actually God on earth. So what exactly is his position?
I know that some Seventh Day Adventists think the Pope is the Antichrist because so many Catholics revere him "too highly" almost like an idol.

(Also this is beside the point but I have a funny story: back when I was a little girl I went to this Protestant community church once where I was told in Sunday school that Bill Clinton was the Antichrist. Lol darned if they weren't close.)

 

[Scott1]

The episcopal college and its head, the Pope

880 When Christ instituted the Twelve, "he constituted [them] in the form of a college or permanent assembly, at the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from among them."398 Just as "by the Lord's institution, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a single apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are related with and united to one another."399

881 The Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.400 "The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of apostles united to its head."401 This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church's very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope.

882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful."402 "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."403

883 "The college or body of bishops has no authority unless united with the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, as its head." As such, this college has "supreme and full authority over the universal Church; but this power cannot be exercised without the agreement of the Roman Pontiff."404

884 "The college of bishops exercises power over the universal Church in a solemn manner in an ecumenical council."405 But "there never is an ecumenical council which is not confirmed or at least recognized as such by Peter's successor."406

885 "This college, in so far as it is composed of many members, is the expression of the variety and universality of the People of God; and of the unity of the flock of Christ, in so far as it is assembled under one head."407