The party line of the ultramontanes is that the Pope is some sort of super clever man who is smoking-out the heterodox and forcing their hands so that he can resolve the differences twixt orthodoxy and heterodoxy and cause all of those differences (Tradition and ecumenical novelties and heterodox praxis) to be reconciled and resolved by him within orthodox Catholicism, for he, the Pope, is the putative sign of universal stability and unity, within the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church.
In red, from the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia on the Pope;
In red, from the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia on the Pope;
He
is to be the principle of unity, of stability, and of increase. He
is the principle of unity, since what is not joined to that
foundation is no part of the Church; of stability, since it is the
firmness of this foundation in virtue of which the Church remains
unshaken by the storms which buffet her; of increase, since, if she
grows, it is because new stones are laid on this foundation.
However, the
sad reality is Our Pope and Our Cross is not the principle of unity and stability, but, rather, he is the principle cause of confusion and chaos and regularly emotively erupts with
either refusals to judge (as Pope it is his duty to judge and if he refuses to judge, we are denied the judgment of Christ on Earth - see Vatican
1 *) or captiously condemns as Pharisees the faithful who resist his
surprises and which emotive eruptions causes serial tsunamis of confusion and chaos which swamp the Catholic faithful leaving them frustrated and flummoxed.
* Chapter 2. On the permanence of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman pontiffs
* Chapter 2. On the permanence of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman pontiffs
- That which our lord Jesus Christ, the prince of shepherds and great shepherd of the sheep, established in the blessed apostle Peter, for the continual salvation and permanent benefit of the church, must of necessity remain for ever, by Christ's authority, in the church which, founded as it is upon a rock, will stand firm until the end of time [45] .
- For no one can be in doubt, indeed it was known in every age that the holy and most blessed Peter, prince and head of the apostles, the pillar of faith and the foundation of the catholic church, received the keys of the kingdom from our lord Jesus Christ, the saviour and redeemer of the human race, and that to this day and for ever he lives and presides and exercises judgment in his successors the bishops of the holy Roman see, which he founded and consecrated with his blood
Watching Franciscus being Pope is like watching Afghanis doing jumping jacks