[BlackElk]

Am I? Is the wrong Catholic I am tagging another one of the little group of professional malcontents including schismatics who define their Catholicism by their resistance to John Paul II?

Well, you can understand the confusion you have caused. Actual Catholics do not despise the pope. They obey him. They follow him as befits the regard we owe to the Vicar of Christ on Earth. If you want to be regarded as Catholic your submission to ecclesiastical authority needs a tuneup.

Et cum Spiritu Tuo!

How you treat Peter is how you treat Jesus Christ Who sent Him.

[LuisBasco]

Actually my secular griping is aimed more at Pope Paul who, with the assistance of protestant clergy, rewrote the mass to make it more ecumenical.

Many faithful have griped about what the successor to Peter does and has done, but that doesn't mean that they are in schism. My greater argument is with the bishops of American and what they have failed to do. It's as though America is their own private see to do with as they see fit without any meddling from Rome.