hey what the fuck is going on with the catholics rn???
The short, simple version is this:
There’s a splinter group of ultra conservative (religiously and politically) “Catholics” who have for several decades claimed that the Church has strayed from the true Catholicism since the Vatican II reforms of the mid 20th century. They have been warned about their actions by multiple popes at this point.
The breaking point this week was that they consecrated bishops within their sect after being expressly forbidden to do so by Pope Leo. Essentially this group is denying that the current pope is truly part of the succession of St Peter — more or less they’re saying the pope isn’t Catholic enough.
This may not seem like a huge deal from the outside, but it is essentially treasonous in terms of severity. So they have been kicked out of the Catholic church.
To be clear, I’m on the Pope’s side here, which yeah came as a surprise to me as well, but this schismatic sect (SSPX) sucks really bad
I have to admit that watching all of this is really satisfying even from the outside, bc we so rarely see this specific kind of asshole face Real Consequences, but it seems to be Really Fucking Great for all of the Catholics and ex-Catholics around me.
Claire was talking about the truly bitchy little letter SSPX wrote to Leo, and it's killing me. Like, sirs, if you think the Pope is wrong on theology, uh... ? Isn't that like... ? Are you gonna nail this letter to a church door? I hear that's traditional in these circumstances.
