Considered by a growing minority as a non-Catholic antipope who continued the “Vatican 2” revolt against Catholicism, the late “Francis” in our view continually pushed heterodox ideology at odds with traditional Catholic belief and practice.

While I do not necessarily agree with the all these critiques of him or how they’re delivered, here’s a laundry list of articles that viewed him in the most negative light, from a “traditional Catholic” (sedevacantist) perspective: https://novusordowatch.org/francis/

It would be nice to see at this point before a new “pope” is elected to continue the confusion, of there being a global rejection of Vatican 2’s “reforms” and of there then being a conclave to elect an unquestionably Catholic pope.

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    The basic Catholic / Lutheran (protestant) rift was: Catholics believe faith and works justify, protestants believe “faith alone” justifies. Ergo saying Luther is correct on justification seems to logically imply no need for works for salvation which is contrary to Catholic teaching.

    And actually a lot of “evangelicals” according to recent polls (2017) do seem to believe salvation is by faith and works (even though this is traditionally associated with Catholicism): https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/31/poll-most-protestants-and-catholics-believe-faith-and-works-are-necessary

    At the very least, it would be important for “Francis” to make sure this distinction is upheld and to affirm Luther was justly excommunicated for heresy. The continued acts of “Francis” show he is clearly trying to bend or deny this distinction. He hasn’t done something like this once, but literally dozens of times, for example this defunct site lists some questionable statements made: https://web.archive.org/web/20200115152651/http://www.francisquotes.com/

    Y / N ?

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      It is semantics in the end. Protestants believe that Faith produces good works. So in both scenarios, a saved person is one who is doing good works. It’s just the mentality is different.