"[T]raditionalist Catholics are threatening to reject the magisterial authority of the next pope if he is a progressive..truly Catholic pope would ..condemn..the 'heresies & errors'.. ‘acts of the magisterium,’ such as Amoris Laetitia, Fiducia Supplicans"
... Schism on the Horizon
Meanwhile, traditionalist Catholics are threatening to reject the magisterial authority of the next pope if he is a progressive. On Monday, Bishop Joseph Strickland endorsed an op-ed by LifeSiteNews which counseled that “Catholics must refuse to accept a public heretic as pope.”
“Some will seek a ‘liberal’ pope who will continue the radical revolution advanced by Francis, while others will long for a ‘conservative’ pope who will turn the clock back to 2013, or some other period in the past,” the article stated. “The papacy is not a plaything that can be passed between ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ factions every time there is an election.”
“If a man is elected who holds more moderate or conservative views compared to Francis” and “indicated that he was not going to be radical like Francis,” he would be “far more dangerous” because he “would in fact stabilize and confirm departures from Catholic orthodoxy.”
The article stated that the test of a truly Catholic pope would be his condemnation of the “heresies and errors” which “have been apparently enshrined as ‘acts of the magisterium,’ such as Amoris Laetitia, Fiducia Supplicans, as well as the amendment of the catechism that directly contradicts Catholic teaching on capital punishment.”
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