• entwine413@lemm.ee
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      If they’re anything like my grandmother, who was a devout Catholic, they’ll say the Pope needs to mind his own business.

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        Wasn’t there a whole contigent of catholics that explicitly said the last pope was illegitimate? I figure they’ll just keep playing that same tune until it’s someone that’s as shitty as they are. Then the same process that was “broken” before will suddenly be perfectly fine.

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          There’s a conspiracy theory that every Pope has been illegitimate since 1958. The reasoning is pretty dumb, but I’ll put it out here:

          • The reforms made during Vatican II are blasphemous.
          • No legitimate pope could endorse the blasphemy due to infallibility
          • Therefore the popes have been illegitimate.

          I’m not Catholic, but I can see the fallacy there.

          Interesting enough, the sedevacantists think the entire line after 1958 are pure antipopes, there’s a splinter group of sedeprivationists, who think like you said: the post-1958 line can regain legitimacy once they renounce the so-called heresy.