10/03/2022

One of us is right

 Eric Sammons has a really great article at Crisis magazine about the four camps in the Catholic Church. You should read his article here

This is how Fr. Z summarized that description of those four camps or factions:

In summary: the hyperpapalists want a Catholicism that is only the current pope; the sedevacantists want a Catholicism that only has a perfect pope; the liberals want a Catholicism where the zeitgeist is the pope; and the restorationists want a Catholicism that includes all the popes, past and present.

How can these four camps be reconciled? To be blunt, they can’t. They are, in practice, four different religions, currently contained within one visible Church. When the very rule of faith is different, then so is the religion. This is a situation that cannot hold; eventually, the veneer of unity will wear thin and disappear. And, if we are being honest, none of the above camps can exist for the long-term.

What we must realize is the unifying purpose of the Magisterium, much neglected by the episcopacy for too long. 

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