for you it's all about appearances and the Mass. As long as you have your oasis, your haven, you couldn't care less that ROME BURNS.
So spoke the sedevacantist, who gives up all hope on Rome and the entire "novus ordo branch" of the Catholic Church. The irony.
It's hard to try to save lives when so many reject your efforts -- but you know what? You still have to try. It's not easy, it's not satisfying, it's not fun. But it's the right (and
only, IMO) thing to do.
You know, Catholic teaching is that the ignorant should be instructed, and that the sinner should be admonished. Aren't the bishops, priests, and Novus Ordo faithful valid matter for that activity? Or are they all "icky, tainted by the novus ordo stench" so you give up on them, just write them all off?
They're Catholic in the meantime, until they leave the Church
formally. And a Pope can't be deposed, so that gets really tricky.
But let's leave the Pope issue aside. What about the Bishops, priests, and faithful? Can it be that little old Raoul76, who has been Catholic as long as my youngest daughter (age 1), can issue summary judgments on the Catholic life of hundreds of millions of people worldwide?
Heck, with laymen like that, who
needs a pope!
Matthew