So the state of the church is an example of the Holy Spirit protecting it?
Then why did He let this pope or any bad pope, get elected in the first place?
Doesn’t He guide the college of cardinals in the selection of the pope?
Throughout history, the Church has gone through good times and bad. Things looked bad when Christ was crucified, no? Imagine how the Apostles must have felt then!
But the Church is still standing, even tho like a disease corruption has attacked the body, and we will get through this as we have all the other problems.
As to the choice of pope, the Holy Spirit guides the cardinals. How does that work out? Is that sometimes the cardinals do not listen? Is it that God planned for a certain person to be pope and he made himself into a bad-enough sinner to disturb rather than to uplift the people? I don’t know. I trust in God for all that.
It’s obvious.
GOD is testing the folks to see if they follow BAD leadership.
So far; not a single one has!!
—Poorly_Catechized_Dude(Hail Mary!!)