This is blasphemy! The very idea that the Pope can forgive sins is blasphemy. Blasphemy as it's understood by John in Rev 13 is to put one self up as God in a position as one to forgive sin. Rev 13:5 "It was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies," How do we know this? Because when Jesus forgave sins this was the claim by the Jews, that Jesus wasn't about to be stoned because of his works, but by "blasphemy" for his claim to forgive sin! John 10:33 "The Jews answered him: “We are stoning you, not for a fine work, but for blasphemy; for you, although being a man, make yourself a god.†Just another identifier of the small horn/Roman Catholic church!