Calm down, Caminus. I assured Catholic Martyr that I would
read his blog postings, nothing more.
Catholic Martyr -- I have a question for you. Do you believe that there have been other anti-popes prior to Benedict XV? I'm not talking about rival claimants to the chair. I'm talking about individual Popes who have been historically accepted as legitimate. For instance, do you believe that Liberius was an anti-pope?
I have no idea what to do really.
That makes two of us.
For anyone who cares to know, I'm 48, married with kids, I've been a Catholic for just over 25 years, and I attend a Novus Ordo parish (inwardly resisting everything that happens in the liturgy except the words of consecration). My wife wants nothing to do with the Traditional Mass or anything associated with it. My situation is complicated, to say the least. I've made many compromises with the devil over the years, and because of my weakness will probably continue to do so. I'm in no position to judge anyone, and I consider the affair of my own salvation to be uncertain in the extreme.
Before anyone asks why I don't attend a Traditional Mass if it is available in my area (which it is), I have my reasons and do not intend to discuss them here. Suffice to say that if I was a better Catholic and a stronger man, I would be attending the Traditional Mass with my family and living a truly Catholic life. Unfortunately, I'm a lousy Catholic and a weak man. There you have it. In the words of Forrest Gump, that's all that I have to say about that.