One of my greatest frustrations, to the point of being infuriated, is that many otherwise sane and intelligent Traditional Catholics can, with great intellectual prowess and precision, diagnose the problems in the Church, but when it comes to drawing the Catholic conclusion, some mysterious short-circuit apparently takes place.I believe that this is one of the many tools God uses to increase the virtues of charity and patience in me, because Our Lord knows I struggle with this phenomenon.So this week, in my ongoing attempt to come at the same problem from different angles, I want to prove to those Traditional Catholics who experience a blackout of reason at the most crucial point of their own argument, that they already hold the position that the See is empty, that Leo and Bergoglio and the rest of them are/ were not true popes, and that the religion that has been advanced from Rome since Vatican II is not Catholicism.

Originally published in Radical Fidelity. Read original article