It was Bergoglio himself who started out with refusing to call himself "Pope", manifesting febronian tendencies. His subjects are simply following his example.

It appears that they are planning to abolish the conciliar 'papacy'.

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It appears that they are planning to abolish the conciliar 'papacy'.

And it will not be done overtly.  Over the next few years I think the term will simply drop out of use.  By the next conclave the news headlines will read:  "Cardinals flock to the Vatican to elect a new Bishop of Rome".  

The very term, "pope", will become as rare as "heresy", "sin", "sacrifice", etc.  It will be something known in an historical way but not relevant to the contemporary church.

You are probably right with your prediction.  When this does happen, you can be assured that the Novus Ordo church will have lost the last tiny vestige of it's Catholicity, and is no longer Catholic.  It will then just be another heretical Christian sect among many.  Of course there are those who already believe this has happened right now.

I remember thinking when I was new to tradition and saw the picture of Paul VI giving away the tiara that something wasn't quite right. Then, I added it all up with Paul VI: giving away the tiara, a satanic crucifix used in procession, etc., not to mention JPII hamming it up for the cameras. It seems that there was a program in place - now exercised by Francis - to strip everything regal from the papacy, to reduce it to almost nothing. I don't think it's accidental, needless to say.

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Charlemagne is absolutely right!

The post-Vatican II popes are all following a specific program.  I haven't put my finger on it yet.  It's more insidious than merely being modernists.  There is something very big and very wrong afoot.  It's not an accident or a coincidence.

They are luciferians.  The sooner one accepts that, the sooner their actions make sense.  Their actions only confuse if one falsely believes these men are Christians.

These evil men John XXIII, Paul VI, JPI, JPII, Benedict XVI, and Francis I are not just "modernists" or bad theologians.
No, it is much more satanic than that.
These sinister men, who pretend to be Catholic Popes, are guilty of deliberately attempting to erase our beloved Catholic religion.

It is our duty as Catholics to pray for the Church in this dark hour, and to tell other Catholics about this serious matter of these make-believe "popes".

Maybe it's a gradual way of conditioning a reunification with the Eastern schismatic Church, in a way for Rome not to swallow their pride and making it appear as if they were "wrong" the whole time.

I hope the Orthodox are not fooled by the tricks of Rome and realize they are still far more Catholic than the heretical and unfolding apostate Newchurch. If the Orthodox accept reunification with Newchurch Rome, without the abolishment of Vatican II and its counterfeit religion, then the evidence will be clear the Eastern Church has fallen victim to Satan's deception, which is ultimately geared to establishing an apostate one world religion that is anti-Christ. (The result being "the daily sacrifice is abolished"; and "abomination of desolation standing where it ought not"; and "standing in the holy place"; and "so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God"). I wonder who will first be infected by the Satanic virus that will fool them into joining apostate Rome - the neo-SSPX or the Orthodox? I pray neither.

If it happens, there will still be holdouts of Orthodox that will not go along with such reunification, similar to SSPX, CMRI, independents, etc. in the Resistance against heretical Rome. It would be great if the Orthodox rejected their own few heresies and reconciled with the true Catholic Church, then the Remnant would be that much larger.