So then, we have now come to this. This is indeed sad. Not sad that they did so, but sad that they had to. I have already said that I refuse to try to protect him anymore. It is obvious that we have a "less than faithful" Pope; Archbishop Vigano has shown that to us and no one has even attempted (with any cogency) to refute his claims. Now it appears also that we have a Pope who is an open heretic. I did not want to write those words, but this is where we are, and this is what the Lord has allowed for us.
I think of the same experience when Obama was chosen as the President of the USA (twice! how embarrassing is that?). I kept telling people, "God often gives us the leaders we deserve, and not the leaders we want". That is also the case in the Church, and with all the compromise (and failure to repent of it) that is prevailing in the Catholic Church, we should not be surprised that this is what we have come to. Francis is the product of the moral and theological degradation that occurred after the abuses of Vatican II took hold throughout the Church. "Garbage in, garbage out".
I have been trying for a few years now just to teach the truth as clear as possible (without coming across as accusing or attacking the Holy Father), so that my people will hear what is good and right, and know how to reject the errors of Pope Francis. Although I have seen good results in my own parishes, nothing appears to be happening to stop the steady stream of errors and confusing statements that the Pope makes. It must be the Bishops. Hence, the following paragraph from the document:
Yet in so grave and unprecedented an emergency we believe that it will no longer suffice to teach the truth as it were abstractly, or even to deprecate ‘confusion’ in the Church in rather general terms. For Catholics will hardly believe that the pope is attacking the faith unless this be said expressly; and hence, merely abstract denunciations risk providing a cover for Pope Francis to advance and to achieve his goal.As the document says, it is not our place to "declare" Francis a heretic, but it is our place to say "this is what we see" and to ask our Bishops (as the document does) to do something (anything) about this. That is where the rubber hits the road. Who will be brave enough to step out and do something? Will this just be one more motion that is ignored and swept under the rug? If Francis is a heretic, that is certainly what he and his cohorts want to have happen. If he is not a heretic, this should be easy to resolve; if he is, then we must do something now for the sake of the holiness of the Church (how many souls have already been lost because of something Francis said or did?).
We (everyone who is not a Bishop) need to be in prayer. We need to bathe this in prayer. We need to drench this in prayer. We need to be hammering on the gates of Heaven, pleading with our Lord to have mercy on us at this time. Pray for your Bishop; that is what I am doing right now.
Here is the link to the document in case you do not already have it.
