Thank you Dr. Edmund Mazza for allowing The Catholic Monitor to crosspost your article: https://www.edmundmazza.com/2023/07/04/if-francis-is-pope/ If Francis is Pope… July 4, 2023 “Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you [plural: i.e. Peter & his successors], that he may sift you [plural] as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.” (St. Luke 22: 31-32) If Francis is Pope… Then Pope Saint Lucius I, Martyr, (r. 253-254) was WRONG when he said: “The Roman Apostolic Church is the mother of all Churches and has never been shown to have wandered from the path of Apostolic tradition, nor being deformed, succumbed to heretical novelties according to the promise of the Lord himself [to Peter]… ‘I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not… ’(Lk 22:31-32) ” [1] Then Pope Saint Felix I, Martyr, (r. 269-274), was WRONG when speaking of the Roman Church he said: “As it took up in the ...