Pope Francis has sowed a great deal of confusion during his papacy. From all the
“Pope on a plane” impromptu interviews to his official pronouncements, many (if not most) Mass-attending Catholics do not believe that the Church is heading in the right direction.
This will not help.
The National Catholic Register:
At his Aug. 27 extraordinary consistory — a meeting of all the world’s cardinals — Pope Francis is expected to create 16 new cardinals who will be electors, bringing the total number of cardinals who are eligible to vote for the next pope in a future conclave to 132. The Pope will also create four new cardinals who have already passed 80 years of age…
By the end of the consistory, 63% of the college will have been appointed by Pope Francis, with the remainder appointed by Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. John Paul II and Benedict XVI — as well as Pope John Paul I — were all appointed cardinals by Paul VI. Benedict XVI is the only surviving cardinal created by him.
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI returned to the long-standing tradition requiring a two-thirds majority to elect a pope; St. John Paul II had allowed for a simple majority for a valid election in the case of extended deadlock.
The good news is that when the Church is righted it will be evident that it was righted through supernatural means because it will not be man who does it. Honestly, nobody but God can right the Church now. Veering into globalism, socialism, and secularism, this Vatican requires God’s intervention to return it to its Christly mission.
Pray for the Church.
August 26, 2022 at 9:17 am
The concept of cardinals is the tool God used to destroy Satan’s church. Its brilliant. God had Satan’s church create the idea of a bishop who oversees a PO box fake church so that it would proliferate these fake bishops and over the course of a few centuries out itself as a clownshow from the devil. Or God didn’t even do this and the devil is just that stupid and destroyed his own church. Lol. And not one traditionalist Catholic retard even sees that the very creation of cardinals (prior to the Reformation, in what the 1200?) is what destroyed thwir previous Church of Satan and not just “muh vatican two.”
August 26, 2022 at 11:40 am
uhh…time to get back on the meds.
August 26, 2022 at 1:16 pm
does the Catholic church support modern psychology? Lol. Of course since its from Satan.
August 26, 2022 at 9:20 am
“The good news is that when the Church is righted it will be evident that it was righted through supernatural means”
The only thing that could “right” it is acknowledging that cardinals is a fake office, but that would lead to acknowledging that the pope is a fake office too, and this it would be righted by Catholics dropping Catholicism.
August 26, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Matt, I agree with you 100%. The only one who can restore and redirect the Church is God and I believe that God has permitted all that has happened because then we know that it is not our doing but His doing.
For far too long, we have heard from both sides of the argument, that this or that will save the Church. From liturgy to dialogue to establishing leadership further removed from the sheep to whatever it may be, both sides of the debate/conversation have said their “way” will save and restore the Church. Yet these things are based on man’s ability instead of letting God do what He needs to. I honestly believe that the truth lies somewhere in the middle of both sides and the only one who can show us what that looks like is God. We are called to holiness and love of neighbor but sometimes that gets lost in the bickering and fighting or in our pride that tells us that we are the only ones who are right. We need to pray for our leadership and that they do things that are good for the Church whether that is at the parish level or all the way up to the halls of the Vatican.
August 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm
“The only one who can restore and redirect the Church is God”
That’s what the Reformation was for. Since then the Catholic church has only waxed more and more corrupt because it was judged to be unreformable trash and new churches were created and everyone with any sense went to them. You descend from brainded low iq knuckledraggers who stayed in Satan’s church and you are so low iq you STILL don’t get it.
August 29, 2022 at 11:52 am
“uhh…time to get back on the meds.”
I second the motion.
August 26, 2022 at 1:08 pm
Reading the recent history of changes popes have made to canon laws about the number of cardinals, the num of cardinals that can participate in a papal conclave, the age beyond which they can vote….it brings up an obvious question: How can a pope change the law that elects popes? Shouldn’t only a council be able to do this? This is like the President being able yo change how presidential elections work. Its plainly stupid.
August 26, 2022 at 6:28 pm
Alas, the Catholic Church is not a Democracy.
The Pope does indeed have the power to alter the College of Cardinals. He has always had this power.
While the Church is a Theocracy, it is governed by mortal men. As it’s history has shown, some are good, some not so good.
However, God is always in charge.
August 26, 2022 at 11:16 pm
Cardinals didn’t exist prior to 800s so “always” is a bit of a stretch.