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The Popes and the Modern Crisis. Get the whole talk here By Br. André Marie, M.I.C.M. This is an excellent rebuttal of sedevacantism. Sedevacantists maintain that there has been no legitimate pope …More
The Popes and the Modern Crisis.

Get the whole talk here

By Br. André Marie, M.I.C.M.

This is an excellent rebuttal of sedevacantism. Sedevacantists maintain that there has been no legitimate pope since Pius XII. Every pope after him, they say, was a heretic; and if you’re a heretic you are outside the Church. Therefore, since the past four popes were heretics (and the present pope is a heretic), then they were not members of the Church and one must be a Catholic to be a valid pope. This aberration is infecting the minds of too many good Catholics every day. The movement’s leading promoters are as tenacious as they are unrelenting in their determination to win converts, not to Roman Catholicism, but to sedevacantism. Indeed, in their minds, if you reject the sedevacantist position you are not a true Roman Catholic. Traditional Catholics are easy prey, especially those who have more zeal than knowledge. They have become so discouraged by the scandalous mess caused by the Church’s hierarchy, beginning with the pope, that they are tempted to believe that God would never allow the Barque of Peter to have such liberal men at the helm. Add to that temptation some apparently convincing arguments from clever, sedevacantist theologians and you have the recipe for schism.