[markomalley]

This is a train wreck and no Catholic who expresses grave concern over this train wreck should be denigrated or castigated for expressing concern.

You're absolutely right and I don't pretend otherwise.

But there is a big difference between expressing concern and taking up a de facto sedevacanist position. I have seen things in the past year that have utterly shocked me (and I am not easily shocked).

Frankly, this hasn't come out of nowhere. The chickens spoken about by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos), Pius IX (Quanta Cura and the Syllabus of Errors), Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae), and Pius X (Paschendi) are coming home to roost, as it were.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

You're absolutely right and I don't pretend otherwise.

But there is a big difference between expressing concern and taking up a de facto sedevacanist position.

Agreed, thanks.

If (and that's a mighty big if) anything heterodox comes out of the Synod this fall, we're going to have to take a really close look at the "two Popes" conundrum.