The Pope is Dead

When Joseph Radzinger cum Pope Benedict xvi, (who had fought in Hitler's Nazi forces in his youth) resigned as pope amidst the pressure of drowning in a sea of scandals of internationally orchestrated conspiracies to protect pedophile sex criminal clergy at the expense of not protecting hundreds of thousands of victimized defenseless Roman Catholic children on a global scale, Jorge Bergoglio took his place. This Jesuit from Argentina took the alias 'Pope Francis' referring to Radzinger ironically as his "dad", and asserted a divine mandate to 'transform' the Roman Catholic Church. 

Transform it he most certainly did. After responding to a question concerning homosexuality and lesbianism with the response "who am I to judge" in open rejection of The Word of God discounting passages such as The Epistle to The Romans Chapter One, he progressed even further telling Roman Catholic priests to bless same sex marriages, placing the benediction of the Church of Rome on homosexual and lesbian marital unions, while not actually performing the nuptial liturgy. The hypocrisy failed to satiate the demands of homosexuals & lesbians for a full same sex nuptial mass, but infuriated Roman Catholic traditionalists for granting religious sanction to same sex matrimony in violation of their moral teaching and church dogma. 

Cardinal Pell of Australia called Pope Francis a 'disaster'. Some viewed Vatican abandonment when Pell was imprisoned for child molestation (but later acquitted due to insufficient evidence) as retribution. Cardinal Carlo Vigano was literally excommunicated by Pope Francis for being schismatic when Vigano objected to Pope Francis restoring criminally convicted serial pedophile Cardinal McKenrick of Washington DC to ministry as a papal liaison to China. Pope Francis also removed Texas Archbishop Joseph Strickland from office for his objections to Pope Francis' position on LGBTQ+ issues.

Pell and Vigano had both ranked among the powerful senior cardinals in the Pontifical Curia. Yet, his progressivist pro same sex activism had only been one cause of discontent among more conservative elements of Roman Catholicism. Francis was more progressive activist than clergyman in the opinion of many Roman Catholic clergy and laymen alike. He denounced the opposition to illegal immigration policies of Donald Trump, endorsed scientifically disputed radial green agendas and other left-wing ideologies in an attempt to use religion to dictate the political agendas he subscribed to as the political policies Roman Catholics should support on religious grounds.

While our own strong theological disagreement with Roman Catholicism doctrinally is very well established, this is not to say that we do not share common ground with Roman Catholics on the contemporary socially divisive crises of sexual morality upholding heterosexuality as natural divinely designed normality and deviations from it as perversion (as well as on issues of non-therapeutic abortion). Without hatred or personal acrimony towards homosexuals & lesbians, we do, as do traditional Roman Catholics, hinge our values to "God created them male and female". Bergoglio did not need to judge; God already has, and Bergoglio used his pontificate to defy Him.

Jesus commanded "Call no man on earth your Father" (as a religious title), for One is your Father who is in Heaven" (Matthew 23:9). Yet, rejecting the command of Jesus, Bergoglio usurped the place of the Almighty and called himself "The Holy Father". Now he knows that he wasn't. The Greek term antichrist (antikristos) co-equally means in opposition to and in place of Christ. Translated to Latin this is "vicarious Christos", the 'Vicar of Christ'. God's word however tells us that it is His Holy Spirit who acts vicariously for Christ. Popes place themselves in place of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

The Apostle Peter claimed no primacy (1Peter 5:1) but described himself only as a "fellow elder". In the first church council in Jerusalem in Acts 15 it was James, not Peter, who presided. Peter plainly was no monarchial pontiff.  Neither did Peter anywhere decree such a position was to be inherited by future bishops in Rome. Pontiff was the Pontificus Maximus title of the pagan Roman emperor as bridge building head of the Pantheon of idols that St. Paul identified to be demons (1 Corinthians 10:20). 

The Vatican is the miniature restoration by Hitler's allie, the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, of the Medieval Papal States at the Concordat of San Giovanni Latereno..  Jesus however insisted that "His Kingdom was NOT of this world" (John 18:36). The papacy has always been an institutionalized den of political and financial corruption besmirched by an ugly history of moral debauchery. This is not to state that Calvin's Geneva, or other Protestant states were any better, but it is to face the undeniable legacy of the papacy. 

The papacy has always been a dynasty of popes given to wickedness, crime, treachery, bank fraud, and reprobation. Carol Wojtyla / John Paul II gave refuge to wanted clergy inside the Vatican, including the Ambrosiano bank collapse and Calvi affair that involved dozens and dozens of murders and saw the Vatican paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. The unceasing pedophilia fiascos in country after country and the coverups that racketeers wouldn't perpetrate under Radzinger followed. 

No, Bergoglio was not the first nefarious pope - not by a long shot. But as honest Roman Catholics, including the senior cardinals and bishops who opposed him themselves have admitted - Jorge Bergoglio, alias Pope Francis, diabolically dragged the papacy to an all-time low. He was not The Holy Father, he was rather of his father the Devil (John 8:44). 

J. Jacob Prasch