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I already have a full life in Jesus Christ withion the Roman Catholic Faith. If you think this pope is bad (and he is), you should check out Alexander VI (Borgia) who would make Pope Francis with all his drawbacks look like (name your favorite saint). I nearly left for a conservative American version of Russian Orthodoxy at the depth of the post-Vatican II horror show. A year later Go sent John Paul I and St. John Paul II.

The priest (and I have an excellent one) reads Scripture from the pulpit and gives a homily based on either the Gospel passage of the day or the Epistle passage of the day. These things all Christian churches have in common. Only the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches have valid Apostolic Succession, the Mass (the Tridentine Latin Mass at my Church) and the validly consecrated Holy Eucharist. I cannot imagine leaving the Roman Catholic Church at this stage of life over some second rate pope. He will be gone soon enough and the Roman Catholic Church will still be the Roman Catholic Church. If I did leave, it would be only for Orthodoxy.

I am sure that others will disagree with those choices but they are my choices nonetheless with all due respect to those others, though they be my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.