I think that the Popes from John XXIII to the current occupant, Benedict XVI are Sede and know they are not true popes. Here is why, not one of them has ever spoken Ex Cathedra. Nothing ever to risk the wrath of the Holy Spirit. Again, I say that they are aware of the fact that they are teaching thoughts and ideas alien to Catholic thinking, Forget alien and call it what it is HERETICAL. They are busy trying to balance between starting their new religion of brotherly love and equality, and freedom to be you and me with no regrets. They know that they teach falsehoods and that they are robber barons and that is why they never impose anything upon us and just when it is possibe that the people might shake of the fog and say, whoa did he just bow to Mecca? He comes out with some some words about, abortion is evil and everyone goes back to Novus Ordo LaLa land. Really, the very least a Catholic Pope should is that abortion is evil-a real no brainer.
By what they do and fail to do they show themselves for what they are, "Robber Barons."