How many Catholics here AGREE with the current pope?
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I didn’t think so......
The safeguarding of the Gospel and the transmission of truth was not entrusted to the individual. It was revealed by Christ and handed on to the Apostles who passed it on to their successors. The Church, in other words. The task of the Church and the Pope in particular, is simply to pass it on, intact, without monkeying with it.
"Individualism" is not synonymous with disagreeing with the current Pope. "Individualism" and subjectivism refer to the personal, subjective interpretation of Scripture, divorced from apostolic tradition and the rejection of the Church's authority.
The issues which Catholics have with the current Pope stem from precisely his own "individualism" in certain contexts. The Pope is a servant of the Church and a 2,000 year Catholic tradition and ensuring that he is faithful to this tradition does not constitute "individualism".