ENOUGH discussion about the Pope question. It is off-topic and belongs in the "Crisis in the Church" subforum ONLY.
I think I'll go back in this thread and delete some posts which violate the above rule. See you in a bit.
EDIT: Ok, I'm back. This is a VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC, much more practical and useful (and hence, important) than the Pope question, which is neither here nor there unless you're a Bishop, cleric or have a special calling. For all of us laymen (which is the majority of CathInfo)
we just have to keep the Faith and be Traditional Catholics, completely rejecting Vatican II and its de-facto new religion. Do this, and we have a chance of saving our souls. Do it not, and our souls have a 100X greater chance of losing the Faith and being lost.
The Pope question is a complete red herring for Traditional Catholics. We have much bigger fish to fry, as demonstrated and discussed in this thread!
SSPX and other Trad Catholics are losing their sons and daughters to the World and to satan -- but they don't care, as long as they think they have the Pope question figured out! Madness!I've pointed out many times that Sedevacantism offers zero practical benefit over and above the immense benefits of the Traditional Movement itself. Now whether it causes any harm seems to be open for debate.
I personally go so far as to say that the exact nature of the Crisis in the Church is a bona fide
supernatural mystery, one that literally can't be known, achieved or grasped by human reason alone, without the aid of Divine Revelation -- and God hasn't revealed it yet! That is to say, if all the best minds and theologians in Tradition got together for a 1-month conference, they wouldn't be able to figure out the Crisis in the Church, unless God joined their little conference.
This is my perspective, as one who has been in the actual Traditional movement for over 4 decades.
If you want to discuss these points, please head to a new thread I've created for this purpose. This thread needs to stay on topic -- it's a broad and rich enough topic already, I assure you!
https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/the-crisis-in-the-church-is-a-supernatural-mystery/