...so you're right, Stubborn. "...knowledge of his sins in no way qualifies us to declare the pope deprived of his office, or never to have been elected." But evidently this knowledge does enable us to withhold our obedience. How can that be meritorious, if we're withholding obedience from a genuine Vicar of Christ? And knowledge about the specifics behind the true situation of the Church does equip us to see what's coming.
I have details, but they'll have to wait for another time.
Yes, this knowledge
does enable us to withhold our obedience to the pope - and withhold our obedience to everyone and anyone, even an angel if that would be the case.
It is meritorious because God expects us to obey Him, even and especially when that means disobeying a Genuine Vicar of Christ in order to remain faithful to God.
If the pope really is the pope and we obey him, we would be just as displeasing to God as if we obeyed a non-pope - agreed?
I understand that SVs will not or cannot accept this most fundamental of all Catholic logic, SVs choose instead to preach the Chair is vacant, as if they could prove or knew such a thing to be fact, which, in this life, is impossible.
Topic: Stuck in a Rut: Anti-Sedevacantism in the Age of Bergoglio (Read 4708 times)