Guys, what do you think of Bishop Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, Pope Sixtus VI?
I mean, a lot of priests who knew him said that he went to seminary to simply get a secular education and that for years afterwards, he essentially had common-law wives. I think this guy just got elevated due to how he looks. He has totally up-ended Roman Catholic doctrine, especially with female priests, already causing a schism with the conservative elements, and has agreed to union with Patriarch Bartholomew and the Turkish and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, hand-waving away our serious doctrinal differences.
I would hate to be a sedevacantist, as I was brought up in the Church, but maybe they are right? How could he really be Pope if he is teaching material heresy? Or am I over-reacting, do these changes not relate to faith and morals? And, if Pope Sixtus VI is really Antipope Thomas Cruise Mapother, who's the real Pope then?
I mean, a lot of priests who knew him said that he went to seminary to simply get a secular education and that for years afterwards, he essentially had common-law wives. I think this guy just got elevated due to how he looks. He has totally up-ended Roman Catholic doctrine, especially with female priests, already causing a schism with the conservative elements, and has agreed to union with Patriarch Bartholomew and the Turkish and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, hand-waving away our serious doctrinal differences.
I would hate to be a sedevacantist, as I was brought up in the Church, but maybe they are right? How could he really be Pope if he is teaching material heresy? Or am I over-reacting, do these changes not relate to faith and morals? And, if Pope Sixtus VI is really Antipope Thomas Cruise Mapother, who's the real Pope then?