"Bp. Schneider's self-serving tautology: Recognize Bergoglio as Pope because Bergoglio is the Pope. How do we know Bergoglio is the Pope? Because (the more His Excellency elaborates on this, the clearer his own convictions become) there is no such thing as right or wrong"

Once again, Bishop Schneider peddles his self-serving tautology: we must all recognize Bergoglio as Pope because Bergoglio is the Pope. How do we know Bergoglio is the Pope? Because (the more His Excellency elaborates on this, the clearer his own convictions become) there is no such thing as right or wrong. "To heal in the root" doesn't mean, for Bishop Schneider, what the Church has always meant; it now means to repeal the law of non-contradiction. Bishop Schneider invokes cases in Church history when rival claims to the papacy were resolved this way, without noting that either claimant could have been Pope. An apostate cannot. You cannot hold that Bergoglio's occupancy of the Chair of Peter can be "healed in the root" any more than you could hold this about a "marriage" between two men or two women.

As for those seeking to set the whole problem aside with the "we get the leaders we deserve" capitulation, that doesn't demonstrate that any man is or isn't a valid papal claimant. We could be chastised by divine providence by a Pope or by an antipope. All it proves is that is that everyone who sees Bergoglio as legitimately dressed in white does so because they have succumbed to the essential error of Amoris laetitia Chapter 8; namely, that there is no such thing as truth or falsehood, Revelation or its diabolical inversion; only practicalities, which are supposedly good enough for God. The Kasperites argue that people in invalid "second" marriages must be seen as spouses because to deal with reality would be too difficult for all involved. Once we start questioning whether people who appear to be married actually are married, we would be attacking and undermining the Sacrament of Matrimony itself, which is a visible institution. Who are we to say Christ was wrong, by questioning whether certain unions are valid or not? Bishop Schneider's "surer way" is merely the "logic" of Footnote 351 applied to its author instead.

And as for the supposedly super devout people confusing the "submission" required of a Catholic with the conception of that term in other religious contexts, maybe divine providence is allowing all this precisely in order to give us an opportunity to straighten our spines, sort through all the pro-Bergoglian whining, and stop deserving to be chastised by instead standing for the truth about who Bergoglio is (and isn't), contra mundum.

Note: This piece is written by a Catholic Monitor contributor. 

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.