Quite simply, prepare for the worst: an attempt to abuse papal authority to compel acceptance of that which is clearly contrary to the Faith — a demand that whatever Pope Francis says about contraception or any other matter of faith and morals must be accepted simply and only because he has said it and he is the Pope, even if he has contradicted all of his predecessors on the same matter. That is, an attempt to impose sheer papal positivism upon the Church without regard to objective truth.
So now maybe we traditional Catholics split off from the Vatican II church. Been waiting my whole life for this.
The article sounds like Pope Francis is wanting to expand the, heretofore, limited definition of the “papal infallibility.”
What next?
Ideally, a lightning or meteor strike on the Vatican.
I will keep practicing the Catholic Faith, search out good Bishops, and pray that God use these things to set the ship right.
As far as pronouncements from Francis, that will be sunject to discernment in the light of Tradition and Church Dogma.
He has not seen fit to make any solemn declarations that are coherent and binding on the whole Church, placing his babblings at a level below dicta, and not worthy of any special consideration.
I’ve been preaching this here for months, as much as you all don’t want to hear it. The Papacy is essentially a dictatorship. The dissenters will be punished, then banished. Schism is all but inevitable.