In this second part of a two-part essay [Part 1 here], we will look at some further approaches to explaining where the Church is during a time when the seat is empty, or, if you prefer, occupied by a usurper, anti-pope, or false pope.Although the explanations differ and the final answer is reached by different paths, the essential point is that one must arrive at the only logical conclusion that protects the claims and doctrines of the Catholic Church: the postconciliar popes cannot be true popes, and the religion advanced since the Second Vatican Council is not Catholicism.This is important for many reasons, but one of the most significant is that many people outside the faith are waking up to what is happening in Catholicism. It has now become commonplace for Protestants, and others whom we want to bring into the faith, no longer to raise objections primarily against our doctrines or traditions, but rather against the fact that the current usurpers in the Synodal hierarchy and the Synodal religion contradict what we have claimed Catholicism to be for two millennia.

Originally published in Radical Fidelity. Read original article