| > “New Pope in 2025?” Kind of a different topic but there's a growing number of people who identify as sedevacantist who don't believe Catholics have had a pope since 1958, since the papal claimants since then seen to contradict prior Catholic teachings For example Vatican 2 taught in Dignitatis humanae: > This Vatican synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom ... within due limits http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/vatican2/... Obviously if I just said that I thought it was fine to steal from you unprovoked because my "religion" gives me the freedom to do so, this would come in conflict with the normal laws against stealing. Thus religious freedom has clear "limits"; Vatican 2 doesn't define where these "due" limits are and is ambiguous, opening the door to all kinds of confusion and contradiction. Past teaching was clearer that (note that the proposition stated is considered to be "condemned" or false): > Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, # 78: "Hence in certain regions of Catholic name, it has been laudably sanctioned by law that men immigrating there be allowed to have public exercises of any form of worship of their own." - Condemned.[58] However it's thought by some that once it becomes apparent these contradictions exist, it will lead to a kind of reorganization of things and an election of a forthcoming pope... and the issue of gambling will present itself again. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism
People get up to the wildest ideas. Thanks for sharing