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[–] [email protected] 29 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

If they're anything like my grandmother, who was a devout Catholic, they'll say the Pope needs to mind his own business.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

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.