While the Bishops may be equal, I have seen the Papacy started as the Bishop of Rome, it is generally accepted that the Arch Bishop is one step higher. The American Cardinals have the title of Cardinal ArchBishop of ____ what ever major city they reside in.
Exclusive of that, it took the Catholic church centuries to accept Jesus was a Jew.
ALL RIGHT, SO I HAVE TO BE A CATHOLIC OR A PROTESTANT TO GET THIS JOKE? I'VE BEEN BOTH SO I SHOULD DOUBLE QUALIFY AND I UNDERSTAND THE RABI TOO. AFTER ALL JESUS WAS A JEW! THAT IS IN BODY; IN SPIRIT HE IS GOD!!!
Ho-ho-ho!...Ha-ha-ha!...He-he-he!...what a GREAT joke - NOT! Absolute RUBBISH!
BTW LeAna, implying that Catholics don't have a sense of humour while Protestants *do* is just more of the 'we're better than you' nonsense that stirs up anger and hatred and ultimately fighting and wars.
I think this is a lot funnier to Protestants than to Catholics. We have a sense of humor, but we'd probably find it funnier if whoever wrote the joke had realized that a bishop and an arch-bishop are the same thing, just that an arch-bishop is head of an arch-diocese, which just gets its name because it's somehow important to Catholic history.