Christendom comprised mainly of Roman Catholics and Pentecostals

Finnish theologian and Fuller Theological Seminary professor, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, who interestingly was sent back to Finland (yet now has returned) after 9/11, mentions these remarkable statistics in regards to denominations in Christendom:

"If currently Roman Catholics are the largest Christian group, then classical Pentecostals are now the second largest and gaining fast. Catholics now number about one half of all Christians, while Pentecostals make up almost a quarter." (An Introduction to Ecclesiology, 69)

Prayer with the Pope in the Context of Hebrews

In the prayer service at Washington Church, as the pope makes his US tour, a woman just read from the letter to the Hebrews on the great person & work of Jesus as our High Priest.

And I can’t help but think did not this scene supposedly done in worship to Jesus in fact misrepresent him. The golden symbols of candles and altars, the elevation of the pope as Vicar of Christ, the arrayed bishop apparel, the reverence of the altar of the transubstantiated Eucharist...

Is not all this shadows and substitutions for the Substance and Substitute?

It's as if by reading Hebrews they rebuked the very things they stood for and performed.