[Arguss]

"Well, we have to choose between following Pope John Paul II and following a dead French archbishop who has been formally excommunicated from the Church."

I don't think that is the choice at all. And I don't think that choice is consciously on the minds of any who question where the Church has gone, or is going.

The choice is apostacy or not, and whether one will take the narrow, hard to navigate path, or follow the lemmings off the cliff.

The other lemmings are certain to call out that you are going in the wrong direction, but their only view is the butt of the lemming ahead of them as they dash on the rocks below. Apostacy loves company.

[sinkspur]

You, of course, set yourself up as the arbiter of who is a "lemming" and who follows the "straight and narrow path."

Martin Luther did the same thing, Arguss.