Posted on 05/26/2016 5:39:09 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Personal chastity habits of sexual-freedom endorsing clerics are covered under privacy rights, but does anyone in their right mind imagine there's no relation to how they confidentially live their personal lives?
The St. Gallen self-avowed "mafia" isn't disturbed when Pope Francis temporarily feints right to make traditional-conservative remarks about authentic Catholic Church teaching. Because their goal has already been met: Destabilization of Papal authority. Future Pontiffs' solemn declarations will have minimal public importance because Francis' verbal intemperance has met the goal of delegitimizing the office itself.
Anticipate especially the Truffle Kardinals of the German Bishops' Conference working behind the scenes against faithful Africans like Robert Cardinal Sarah, the most papabile traditional candidate.
Anyone who remains a Catholic does so of their own free will.
You can remain a true Catholic without mindlessly listening to Francis. BTW, is this Pope Catholic?
See #4.
There have been weak popes in the past, and the Church founded by Jesus Christ survived and will continue to survive because it is lead by the Holy Spirit and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. That is Christ’s promise.
No, he is not a Catholic. He is a formal heretic and outside the Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church, and therefore by Divine Law and by the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, he is not the pope.
All they need is to find someone even worse than Bergogilio, and then he can step down while Ratzinger is still alive, and they now have a three person committee, whose formal 'papal' members can then add their own adjunct members - and that is how it starts - and then only THEY elect members to succeed them.
“is this Pope Catholic?”
He has me questioning whether that bear actually defecates in the woods.
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