We had a member here back over the summer who claimed to have visions about David Bawden, a brilliant lunatic in Kansas with no Holy Orders that claims to be pope.
I say "brilliant lunatic" because even in this era of digital communication where the current pontiff is followed like a rock star, where people have made up their own opinions of who or who doesn't claim the Chair of St. Peter and hopefully attained - even in the Novus Ordo - the most rudimentary Catholic education on how a pope is elected in a conclave of his peers, some people will seemingly think a man born of the American bourgeoisie with, I imagine, little seminary formation and an "apostolate" somewhere in the bleak grains of the Midwest can somehow be the Holy Father.
It's a whole movement known as "Conclavism", and it is at that point one has distorted traditional Catholicism into a type of Roman schizophrenia where the acts of Vatican II promulgating religious liberty, vernacular Masses and the redaction of centuries of anti-Jєωιѕн sentiment have gotten so egregious, thinking that we've gone 58 years - nearly 2/3rds into the life of an average adult male - is not enough, so they elect their own pope.
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