I am completely serious. The problem with the mass hypnosis going on about the Pope is that there is no actual measuring stick among the sycophants that are praising him.
I've been watching Mitch Pacwa on EWTN spin like James Carville this week.
The whole point of the media talking about how "conservative" and "rigid" JPII was is for the effort to basically trash all of his predecessors then, to include him with his predecessors. Now we need a "less rigid" Pope.
We just had the most liberal Pope in the history of the Church and the results are disastrous.
Now they think the liberal Pope is conservative and we now need a liberal Pope?
C'mon. I can't believe so many people are falling for this.
Pope St. Pius X spelled this all out: "Hence, by those who study more closely the ideas of the Modernists, evolution is described as a resultant from the conflict of two forces, one of them tending towards progress, the other towards conservation. The conserving force exists in the Church and is found in tradition; tradition is represented by religious authority, and this both by right and in fact. By right, for it is in the very nature of authority to protect tradition: and in fact, since authority, raised as it is above the contingencies of life, feels hardly, or not at all, the spurs of progress. The progressive force, on the contrary, which responds to the inner needs, lies in the individual consciences and works in them—especially in such of them as are in more close and intimate contact with life. Already we observe, Venerable Brethren, the introduction of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity the factor of progress in the Church. Now it is by a species of covenant and compromise between these two forces of conservation and progress, that is to say between authority and individual consciences, that changes and advances take place. The individual consciences, or some of them, act on the collective conscience, which brings pressure to bear on the depositories of authority to make terms and to keep to them." (encyclical Pascendi Domini Gregis)
I knew you were serious.
I was trying to show how silly you are.
Ah, a follower of Marcel Le Frog and 19th Century Ultramontanism speaks...