We have to remember that this is the Pope speaking, not the Church. He will have no effect on the Magisterium. For a time he invigorates the leftist bishops who exist in Europe and America but this, too, shall pass. There is a reason for this man. We can’t see it yet but it is there. There have been bad Popes before. This one’s difference is that he tries to affect the tenets of the Church. Previous bad apples were only interested in personal aggrandizement and political power for themselves. They paid no attention to the Ground of the Church. I won’t go running off to another church because there is no other Church. My beliefs just don’t change because we get a flake at the top.
When the whole place seems to be becoming about men rather than about God — well then if you want “true Church” you will be looking for congregations that really do make it about God.
Fortunately I have a Church to go to.
Since 1989 I consider myself to be a sedevacantist who believes that everything that transpired subsequent to Vatican II had one goal: to establish a NEW religion. Since no pope subsequent to Pius XII did anything to reverse this evil caused by the secular humanists, then they are sycophants.
If one would take the time to review Vatican II to see who was involved in tossing rubrics, tenets and liturgy out the window they’d find that six leftist protestants were involved.
The term ‘catholic’ means universal and before Vatican II this was true. One could venture into a Catholic church in, say, Spain and that person would know exactly what was going in in the liturgy.
Today, a Novus Ordo visit in Buffalo, New York, and a ‘service’ in Sacramento, California would give one two different views of what’s happening. Forget going into a Spanish church.
Well said!
I, also, will not be driven from the one true Church.