I’m going to save you many wasted years. Any trad group that insists Vatican II taught heresy implies that the Catholic Church defected. You can’t have the Church teaching heresy for sixty years and apostolic succession requires at least one bishop with legal authority
Traditionalists, confronted by a Church in crisis, know that something has gone wrong somewhere. As a result, they are, I believe, more sober in assessing whether or not the Church exercises infallibility in a given case. That, allied to their looking at the present through the eyes of the past, helps traditionalists to see that the onus is on the present, not the past, to justify itself." - Fr. Chad Ripprger
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Only God or a consortium of Bishops have the authority to depose a heretical Pope. Until that happens, we cannot say "there is no Pope", "the seat is vacant". That is to cease to be a Catholic and place oneself outside the Church thereby losing salvation. As Fr. Kramer states, one can remain inside the Church by never adopting heresy or error promulgated by a bad Pope. Catholics must maintain a respect for the Pope, despite recognizing his errors, for the sake of the Office of Peter. To disrespect the Papacy holds a grave danger of disrespecting Christ. Fr. Malachi Martin stated it is a danger to one's soul to recklessly speak disrespectfully about the Pope.
As with the case of Anacletus, it is possible Francis was a antipope if his election contradicted or violated the constitution promulgated by Pope John Paul II for electing his successor.
Bishop Rene Gracida brings forward evidence that the conclave that elected Francis was invalid because there were "serious irregularities" against John Paul II's constitution that governed the 2013 conclave.
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You can turn around for years, trying to figure out what happened, but traditional Catholic theology what SSPX and more radical groups claim contradicts dogma. If they are right, the Church is wrong, and if the Church is wrong, they themselves are wrong.
the real story is more tragic, a coup was carried out by “experts” and ideologically motivated organizations who manipulated all the players (Pope, bishops, priests, and laity alike) into thinking that all the others wanted more and more radical liturgical “change”, putting everyone, in the interim, into such a state of psychosis, like COVID-19 or the Great Terror of the French Revolution - James Green
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Was Francis not just a heretic, but an antipope?
As with the case of Anacletus, it is possible Francis was a antipope if his election contradicted or violated the constitution promulgated by Pope John Paul II for electing his successor.
Bishop Rene Gracida brings forward evidence that the conclave that elected Francis was invalid because there were "serious irregularities" against John Paul II's constitution that governed the 2013 conclave.