Francis is an unmitigated disaster. Too bad they can’t do a papal election recall. But that would imply fallibility in the process.
Would it? Since Francis was elected while his predecessor is still alive, is the election valid?
There is no infallibility in the choice of a Pope as far as I know.
And a recall isn’t necessary, if there is manifest heresy I think the Cardinals could declare the see vacant and re-elect. No earthly clue what the process would be on that, but it has generally been accepted as a theoretical possibility.
Just to be clear though, I don’t think Francis is a heretic so much as a gabber who doesn’t consider what he says. I cannot imagine him obstinately holding to a heretical position per se.
Maybe Malachi was right after all, and this is the idiot that takes down the Church.
I once heard an interesting interpretation of the Mustard Seed parable. Jesus said that the Mustard seed was one of the smallest seeds, but it made a huge tree, big enough to house the ‘fowls of the air’.
This gent pointed out that while its true that Mustard seeds are some of the smallest seeds (a reference to the single person of Christ) it is also true that mustard plants can be large (like the Church would be).
However, not large enough for birds to nest in, but big enough for them to hide under. ‘fowls of the air’ may have been a suggestion that the devil’s agents would infiltrate the church and work within and beneath its many branches. Were enough birds to actually try and land on a mustard plant, it would break off its branches and eventually die.
If the soil were good, new plants would begin from the original seeds.
It was an interesting and thought provoking interpretation, suggesting that Jesus knew and foreshadowed that Satan would eventually use the Church against God.
Francis has had me thinking about this interpretation since the smoke went up the chimney.