“Pre-Vatican II popes didn’t make comments that went against Catholic teaching. Francis does and Catholics still defend it.”
Oh, I see. So you’re saying that because the popes of old were all super-orthodox in your view they were worthy of papal idolatry (as you put it)? And since popes in the present day “went against Catholic teaching” in your opinion now, all-of-a-sudden, that “papal idolatry” is now bad? So it isn’t the “papal idolatry” that is wrong, it’s whether or not the pope is orthodox enough to warrant it according to piusv on FR?
NO, that’s not what I’m saying. Papal idolatry is wrong either way. My point is that in days of yore you wouldn’t have popes making modernist comments and the lay folk defending it. Now we have the lay folk defending Francis as if he can do no wrong despite his modernist, un-Catholic comments. Therein lies the idolatry.
As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26 But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
Acts 10:25-26