If you were elected Pope and *Universally Accepted*, the Gates of Hell would prevail against the Catholic Church. Not going to happen.
Then the second thing I would be would be to excommunicate XavierSem and Lover of Truth (just for good measure).
Thank you for your contribution to the thread. Obviously I will never be Pope. But the point of this thread it to make more concrete WHAT a Pope should do, in our opinion, to restore the Church.
But I imagine you think that no restoration is needed. You, not actually being a Traditional Catholic, would probably just make minor changes and would put band-aids on what has been a radical transformation of the Catholic Church into a non-Catholic entity.
Explain what you would do.
No, every Bishop ... well, except a small handful, would need to be deposed and are not even salvageable as Catholic bishops. They need to be deposed for crimes against God and the Church and can never be trusted with power in the Church again.
Let's say that happened and that a schismatic Novus Ordo Church formed, with these bishops refusing to step down. What percentage of "Catholics" do you believe would stay with the schismatic NO bishops? Probably 90%. That tells you how few there are who still have the Catholic faith. Go ahead and mandate (again) that no Catholics who use contraception that they are forbidden from receiving Communion. 90% of them would leave the Church.
I've had some thoughts along the lines of, well, it might be better to do it gradually. No, there has to be a radical transformation. In fact, the Church MUST be greatly reduced in numbers to excise the pollution from the Body of True Catholics who remain in the Church.
That's the only way to do it ... depose ever darn one of these criminals and replace them with the closest Traditional Catholic priest.