And yet most of the Catholics here think Ratzinger is the bomb. It has come to light that he lied about the Third Secret of Fatima. If he is the bomb and the true pope (vs the anti-pope Bergoglio) then why hasn't he told the full truth about the Secret?
Both of you are infected with the same kind of ridiculous ultra-Montanism that the liberals are. You inflate papal authority beyond its true bounds.
Go look up what happened to Honorius I in the Monothelite controversy. He was *anathematized* by an ecumenical council for basically playing cute with Sergius and the Monothelites. Was Benedict’s alleged “heresy” worse than that?
And you fault Paul VI for chopping up the Roman Missal, don’t you? Well good, so do I. But go read how St. Pius X butchered the Roman Breviary and tell me that was any better.
Bergoglio is a complete, unadulterated mess. I hope he is swiftly deposed. But the one silver lining in all of this is that it may kill forever the idea that papal authority extends to anything more than *defending the deposit of faith transmitted once and for all to the Apostles.*
Study Church history deeply and you’ll find that in many ages there was a jumping off point where people could have said “I’m outta here.” I am NOT saying what the Popes did in those times was right. I’m just trying to give you some perspective that even the occupant of the See of Peter does titanically stupid things from time to time and needs to be corrected. If you go forward with that in mind, you’ll be less likely to spin off into absurd schisms.