So, Bergoglio has "respect" and "patience" for even the devil-possessed atheistic Communist Chinese:
It is not easy to understand the Chinese mentality, but it should be respected, I always respect this.
But don't you DARE be a wicked Traditional Catholic. If Bergoglio actually believed in an eternal Hell, he'd put Trad Catholics down at the bottom of the pit with Judas, while Mao would be several levels higher.
Jєωs? No problem, they can be saved. Atheists. Hey, why not? Trad Catholics ... they've pretty much committed the unforgivable sin against the Holy Ghost.
I am getting so sick of the SSPX and R&R types who keep claiming that this man is Catholic. He's not even remotely Catholic. But I guess that so long as they have some clown parading around Rome in white vestments, well, that somehow maintains the indefectibility of the Church.
Just don't ask why it even matters that there be a perpetual (falsely equated by R&R with "perpetually-occupied") papcy when this "papacy" is capable of destroying the faith and the Church. Behold .. there is Bergoglio with a white cassock, so the Church carries on. I don't understand the mental defect involved with allowing this to make any sense.
If the papacy were capable of destroying the faith (instead of serving as the "rock" upon which it remains solid), then we'd have been much better off without a papacy, much less a continually-occupied papacy. It's only every hundred years or so on average that Papal teaching has to be taken seriously. Other than in those exceptional and rare circuмstances, Papal "Magisterium" has no more weight than if some lay woman were opining on an internet blog. In both cases, if it's true, then it's true, but if it's false then it's false. Whether Ratzinges was writing books as a university professor or whether he was issuing "Encyclicals" as Pope, it's all the same and there's no difference between the two.
R&R is some kind of mental illness, and those who hold it need psychiatric evaluation. I'm tired of mincing words here. More and more people who hold R&R are becoming Old Catholics ... as we see it playing out here on the forum. While trying, allegedly, to keep the faith, they're destroying it.
Catholic Encyclopedia article on The Church:
Among the prerogatives conferred on His Church by Christ is the gift of indefectibility. By this term is signified, not merely that the Church will persist to the end of time, but further, that it will preserve unimpaired its essential characteristics. The Church can never undergo any constitutional change which will make it, as a social organism, something different from what it was originally. It can never become corrupt in faith or in morals; nor can it ever lose the Apostolic hierarchy, or the sacraments through which Christ communicates grace to men. The gift of indefectibility is expressly promised to the Church by Christ, in the words in which He declares that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It is manifest that, could the storms which the Church encounters so shake it as to alter its essential characteristics and make it other than Christ intended it to be, the gates of hell, i.e. the powers of evil, would have prevailed. It is clear, too, that could the Church suffer substantial change, it would no longer be an instrument capable of accomplishing the work for which God called it in to being. He established it that it might be to all men the school of holiness. This it would cease to be if ever it could set up a false and corrupt moral standard.
This does not mean that every papal utterance is absolutely infallible, but it does mean that the Papal Magisterium in incapable of substatially corrupting or altering the faith, setting up a public orship that is offensive to God and harmful to souls, producing fake "saints" whose examples causes scandal, etc.
R&R is blasphemous, and those who claim that this is possible, for legitimate papal authority, freely exercised, to do these things, you're just nothing but run-of-the-mill blasphemers ... and heretics. It's not all that far removed from the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, by attributing evil to the activity of the Holy Ghost. None who beleive these things about the Catholic Church should have the temerity to call themselves Catholics. Probably the only thing saving them from subjective formal heresy is the confusion of these times, and the devil has managed to diabolically disorient, as it were, the brains of even Trad Catholics (of the R&R variety). You would be much better off playing the coservative-Catholic "hermeneutic of continuity" game and pretending this stuff can be reconcilized (even if through great violence) with Catholicism.
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