Whether intentionally or not, Pope Francis’ papacy has emboldened the heretical, heterodox left of the Church, usually people my age and older, clergy, religious and laity with not a few cardinals and lesser bishops. For them, it is the 1970’s all over again.
But in fact, it is the pre-Trent, Protestant Reformation time for them. They live in the glory days of the 1500’s and would make Martin Luther blush at their radical reformation proposals.
Germany is on the brink of a new/neo Protestant Reformation. The question, though, and this is unprecedented, what side will the Pope take? Will he approve the heterodox/heretical movement there and simply keep them from going into an actual schism (separating from the papacy) or will he act as Pope St. Paul II acted with the Lefeberist movement?
At least the SSPX today are not heterodox, except in the manner in which they question an ecumenical council and Papal authority in the Church.
How odd would it be if the orthodox Catholics in Germany are seen as the rigid schismatic ones and the heterodox are embraced as the Church of the future in this grand epochal change in the Church and world?
Talk about heterodoxy and actual schism based on heresy, read these two articles:
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It's not even that running the Church via synods and local councils is a bad idea. The real problem is there is no mechanism to deal with things when they do go array. And my saying for the west applies: With Bishops' like these, who needs enemies. If all of the Bishops upheld the faith in the West, I do not think anyone would have a problem with what's being proposed. For one person to be n charge can't make things easy.
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