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You are right to be concerned.
Hearken to the voice you hear.........
At my chapel, we have had two sermons in a row telling us "do not criticize the Pope." Romans 1:13 was also quoted. I am stunned. What? St. Thomas Aquinas? Athanacious? Any thoughts?
There is a reason for the message not to criticize the Pope.
In days like these, when the Pope is doing things and saying
things that make an embarrassment out of being Catholic,
criticizing the pope ends up taking on a life of its own. You
find you have more and more in common with Protestants.
Or, in the other extreme (which has two divisions) you find
you have more and more in common with sedevacantists.
One division is the home-aloner approach, that you can't
find anyone anymore who's Catholic by your estimation,
so you just stay home and forget about Mass.
And the other division is the cultish trend you find in sede
groups where their cutting themselves off from the head
of the Church doesn't leave them with any life from the
vine, and their faith withers. The answer to all problems
is the pope is not the pope and the bishops are not the
bishops, and actually, most of the priests are not priests.
We are now living in the great chastisement. Those with
eyes to see, let them see: and those with ears to hear, let
them hear. But those who will not see and will not hear:
let them be anathema.
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