We need a pope so we do not set up false sects, or, as doctor and St. Francis de Sales said, set up "other altars."
The horror of schism leads to the horror of heresy, without fail and inevitably. We hold the ground against heresy here, here, on the sacred ground of the Church. And do not run off and splinter the body of Christ into pieces which cannot be put back together. A crack can be fixed; a shattered vessel is irretrievably lost . . . forever.
There is one body, one Church of Christ. We suffer with it, and tell the pope he is off when he departs from Tradition and the faith "once delivered to the saints."