The Roman Catholic church is always one conclave away from going the way of the Anglicans and the idea that the Holy Spirit would never let that happen is pure superstition.
And if a future Pope embraces, say, Homosexual marriage what can the faithful do but accept and embrace it too.
Whereas we Protestant have the freedom to abandon our rotting denominations and move to a Spirit filled church.
You really don't understand Catholicism very well if you think it means being faithful to a Pope who preaches heresy.
A Pope who attempts to formally impose an heretical opinion like that would cease to be the Pope, and a substantial number of the Catholic faithful would recognize that and probably move to elect a real Pope.
Nonsense. If that were possible, it would have happened in 1968.
Let me lay the groundwork. First, in 1930, the Lambeth Conference (Anglican) became the first Christian church in the world to break with a 20 century consensus, and endorse contracepted sex acts. Then, a generation later, by 1968, all the elites -- religious, academic, government, medical, cultural, everyone --- including many Catholic bishops and cardinals --- had OK'd this form of unnatural sex as well. Hell, the majority of the Papally-appointed study commission - had endorsed birth control.
It's hard at this point, 45 years later, to remember the name of anybody, anybody at all who was against unnatural contracepted sex by 1968. It was taken to be as harmless as penicillin, soap and sliced bread.
It was then that Pope Paul VI published Humanae Vitae, reiterating the ages-old Bible-consistent stand in defense of natural, procreative sex. Nobody else then, and almost nobody now, is prepared to defend God's design for sex as natural, marital and as procreative.
It as then that the banners should have blazoned against the sky these noble words: "Habemus Papam."
You say "The idea that the Holy Spirit would never let that happen is pure superstition."
Really? Re-read the above. I've got proof.
"And if a future Pope embraces, say, Homosexual marriage what can the faithful do but accept and embrace it too."
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