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"Moslems simply misunderstand God's true nature."

The rejection of God cannot be adequately explained in terms of ignorance. It is not the case that the Catholic Faith will come to be accepted if Catholics merely approach other religions with an eye towards simply dispelling their misconceptions, as if that was all that was necessary. It is not the case that all deviation from Catholic truth can be accounted for because those outside it are misguided or don't have the fullness of the Truth. People are not opposed to the Catholic Faith for reasons that can be fully accounted for in terms of lack of knowledge.

People reject the Faith because their wills are hardened against Catholic Truth.

"Scripture teaches that even pagans can have glimpses of the True God."

Is this some sort of recent, brilliant insight heretofore not known, except be it for the enlightenment gifted to us by the Conciliar Church? This is a platitude at best. Everybody knows about prefigurings of all things Catholic beyond just Israel but also among the gentiles; everybody has one or another awareness of a semina verbi. This is a no-brainer. But unless someone takes that seminal word, or whatever pre-figurement type of data they have to work with, and push it all the way through to it's conclusion in a visible existance in the Catholic Church, then somewhere along that path they're going to get sucked down into syncretism and universalism. If it isn't brought all the way home to the Catholic truth, it's worthless.

The Pope does not teach heresy.

He allows it. He tolerates it. It's safe to say that his permission of it indicates that he is of the same mind as what he permits, to one degree or another. If he is not of same or similar mind as what he permits, one has every right to wonder why he does not move to condemn what's contrary to the Faith. And if there is nothing contrary to the Faith, why does he not clarify for the sake of the those who are scandalized?

His silence, toleration and permission of what is scandalous leads one to believe that he, to one degree or another, is of the same heart and mind as those who do the scandalizing.

This is reasonable and logical. It cannot be denied. Denial is unreasonable and illogical.

Is this some sort of recent, brilliant insight heretofore not known, except be it for the enlightenment gifted to us by the Conciliar Church?

There is no such thing as the "Conciliar Church", unless you are referring to Archbishop Lefebvre's schismatic organization. There is only the Catholic Church, and St. Paul did not live after the Vatican II Council, I hate to remind you. Please read the Epistle to the Romans. As for the Pope, I think he has done quite a bit to shore up orthodoxy in the Church, much more than the schismatics who are intent on destruction of the Church. And even if he was an awful Pope, he has taught no heresy. Being an ineffective, incompetent or even sinful Pope does not justify rebellion against legitimate authority. Again, one goes back to the crimes and misdemeanors of the Renaissance popes. People from Luther and Calvin onwards use their wrongs to justify their rebellion against the One True Church. The SSPX are nothing more than Luthers and Calvins in the current day.