This is unlikely to happen since the College of Cardinals is packed with ultra-liberals and unironic liberation theologians, and Pope Francis is continuing to promote and install liberal cardinals. John Paul II wasn't really a conservative per se (supported dual covenant theology, did nothing to promote TLM/Tridentine, basically ignored sodomite priests) and neither was Benedict XVI (again made only baby steps on the extraordinary form, and made little progress on reform-of-reform). There is unlikely ever to be a Pius XII-style Pope ever again, simply because Liberals Popes will appoint Liberal Cardinals and those Cardinals will pick Liberal popes.
What will happen to the Church? We can't let them without doing nothing… However if this is God's will, then so be it.
Jaxson Allen
This. The best we can hope for it a pro-VII conservative like Burke or Schoenborn, but not a Pius X or Innocent III, not for at least another few generations. Maybe once our generation matures, we can have such men, but not currently.
You might call it complacency, but I am not personally worried by it, since the Church has had much, much worse going on. If it can survive Arianism, in which virtually every diocese in Christendom apostatised, and the 9-11C Saeculum Obscurum, in which we had a literal demon worshipper as Pope, then the Gates of Hell really never, ever will prevail over the Church.
Nathaniel Myers
Abp Cdl Sarah would be a good Pope, though I'm not Church of Rome. He has the right view of the presbytery and the episcopate.
heresy 1 a : adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma 2) They were accused of heresy. b : denial of a revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church c : an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma 2 a : dissent or deviation from a dominant theory, opinion, or practice To disagree with the party leadership was heresy. b : an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards
Wew lad. That photo.
Ian Ross
I still don't understand this liberal cardinals thingy. Did they say or do anything wrong?
Jeremiah Cruz
God gives us the clergy we deserve. orthodox cardinals and traditional priests/bishops is something we don't deserve but desperately need.
