As long as you do not know the limits of your own knowledge, your assertions are baseless. You are no more capable of knowing Bergoglio’s interior states in 2012 than his interior states in 2017.
Anyone can know that Bergoglio is a rotten, destructive Pope or putative Pope. If, in fact, he has fallen from the Papacy, no one other than God can know for certain. God has not provided US with a mechanism for knowing this—PRECISELY BECAUSE OUR SALVATION DOES NOT DEPEND ON IT.
I.e., it is NOT necessary for our salvation to know, day to day, or year to year, with certitude, who is or is not Pope. It is necessary to know the content of the Catholic Faith.
Wrong.
We are required to be in submission to the Pope.
If we mistake a heretic for the Pope yet we attempt the submission due the Pope we will be misled by his heresy. Our souls will be thus lost.
If on the other hand we believe one to be Pope and we refuse him our submission we by that very act stand condemned.
Protestant theology that flies in the face of the submission owed Peter will not aid us on judgment day.
When you have a half-hour or so, give a listen to the following refutations of The Remnant’s contributors on the necessity of knowing who is pope and or if there even is one present, and the necessity of obedience.
“...You are no more capable of knowing Bergoglio’s interior states in 2012 than his interior states in 2017...”
Practicing heresy invalidates one’s candidacy for the high office. Such candidacy is not dependent on the man’s internal state. If he is teaching heresy he defacto cannot be a Pope.
It is very uncomplicated.