The Pope is Resting Peacefully

Who besides me thinks that the pope is on life support while the horrible cardinals run around doing whatever they need to do to assure that the conclave results in Francis II?

Francis predicted that he would split the Church because he knew he was going to recreate it in his own image and he knew that some people -- like the hopelessly archaic people who actually believe in the Magisterium -- might cause a formal schism. If only. I want to belong to Pope Benedicts small remnant and officially divorce myself from the gay disco that Francis has turned the Church into. I wonder what it would take for Cardinal Burke or Bishop Strickland to stick up a paw and say "Line up after me." The official Church is opening defying Jesus (not to mention St. Paul and the Holy Spirit) and that hasn't done it. The future will be interesting.

Meanwhile, I will be happily hiding out in the Ordinariate, where our priest is so great it has resulted in our church having been burned down not once, but twice. Meet Fr. Doc Holiday, former Marine, former member of the Orlando SWAT team, former bad boy who still rides a motorcycle. And I never worry about some nutcase coming into the back door with a rifle during Mass, because I am 100% certain that Father is packing.

I wish the pope would die so I could stop feeling guilty about wishing the pope would die. I hate wishing that someone would die, but I am so tired of watching him systematically destroy Holy Mother Church. I have been praying for God's will for his health, though, because God might be able to use this near death experience to make him see the error of his ways. I doubt that will happen, but all things are possible with God.

Francis is just the icing on the cake of decades of destruction of the Church, to be fair. We have reached the point where if someone tells me that they are Catholic, I have no idea what they mean. If they are a happy-clappy Catholic who adores Pope Francis and thought that bubble Mass was a great idea, then I don't consider them to be Catholic. Without aiming to or wanting to, I have become one of those "traddy" Catholics who doesn't believe that someone is Catholic unless they go to Latin Mass (if they can find one) or they belong to the Ordinariate or one of the eastern rite congregations. I guess I could make a determination quickly by asking the "Catholic" person whether he/she believes in Apostolic Succession or "Synodality." I'll have to start trying that.

Disclaimer: There seem to be churches who have reverent Nouvus Ordo Masses, and we belonged to one when we lived in North Carolina. But now we live in Orlando, where there is no such thing.

It's simple. I'm a convert. I love Holy Mother Church.

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