1) Remind yourself that the Pope was probably mistranslated
2) Remind yourself the Pope isn't supposed to be infallible
3) Remind yourself that the Sedevacantists are taking new members
Remember that the bishop of Rome has no more insight or power than any one else on earth comes the judgment
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Comments like this are why this should have been a caucus thread.
That's the position of the Orthodox Catholic Church. They've survived a thousand years of leftist attacks and takeover attempts.
1) Remind yourself that the pope was probably misunderstood by liberals, or conservatives, depending on which side you are on, like as you do with their interpretation of church teaching, for which they often look the non-infallible words and actions of popes and prelates.
2) If the pope seems to be speaking as a liberal and you are a conservative, remind yourself that the pope was not speaking infallibly, then to counter him quote a conservative pope who also was not speaking infallibly.
3) If you are a liberal then remind yourself that the pope is overall making you feel even more comfortable. If you are a conservative, remind yourself that if the pope really is a far left liberal then you can become, even if perhaps informally, part of the SSPX or SSPV sects, or the beloved EO schism.
4) If you are a liberal then tell liberal Prots they are brothers, but warn them of the evangelicals who vote too much as a block against liberal PC politicians and oppose liberal values more than Catholics. If you are a conservative, continue to attack evangelicals as hopelessly divided and your foremost single theological threat, and promote the pope and prelates as the interpretive solution to sects and division.
4) Remind yourself to use the Bible as your source and not what some guy tells you from day to day.