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A shame you don't take my word for what I intended when I posted. Oh well. As for "taking rsponsibility" for it, I wrote in the same post "If that appears to be the case, then I apologize." Does that seem like an attempt to evade responsibility?

I take it that you see nothing "derisive" or disrespectful in your own words concerning the Holy Father?

Blind obedience to mistaken judgments by the Pontiff is no virtue, not in God's eyes, not by the teachings of The Church. Our duty is not to churchmen if it becomes a matter of obeying them, or else obeying God and His Church. It's not unknown that heresies have taken on the names of the churchmen who invented them.

If the Pope's writings and teachings are subject to your approval, then you are the Pope. It's that simple.

If the Pope's writings and teachings are subject to your approval,

For every Catholic - and every Pope. That's 2000 years of history.

The High Priest at Mass, if not 'new order', isn't the Pope. The Church is protected from error on rare ex cathedra occasions, but not by the Pope. The Catholic standard was not written by the Pope. But he's expected to obey.

You confuse the high office of the papacy with the acts of any Pope. Such judgments may easily be mistaken, and lead souls to ruin. He himself is not the Catholic standard. The Catholic standard is. St. Peter did not say - because I say so.

The devil leaves many traps for us. You might self-righteously pronounce judgment on Catholics for defending God and His Church, thinking you are doing the Lord's work. You might pray about that. You might find when the mind clears that it isn't God's work you're doing. You'll have to answer that for yourself. Because you know my opinion concerning Church teaching, and have rejected it.