Christ is the Head of the Church, Not the Pope! by Michael J. Matt Saint Catherine of Siena, Pray for Pope Leo, Pray the Church, Pray for Us Momentous things are happening in this clash between Revolution and Counterrevolution and between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. We need to fight this Holy War with the tools and the armor God provides. Those of us who have been in these trenches all our lives know what to do. When it comes to the diabolically disordered post-conciliar popes, we must keep a supernatural vision of what is happening to our Church in crisis. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, not the mystical body of the Pope. The Church has only one head, Jesus Christ, and it is He—not the pope! —Who made the infallible promise to us that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Catholic Church. We need not be constantly fixated on the Pope, whose words and acts on a daily basis are fallible. We need not parse his every word. We must not make him the pivotal point of our life as baptized Christians. For us, the pivotable point is Jesus Christ, especially in the Holy Eucharist and in the daily sacrifice of the altar all throughout the world. Whatever Pope Leo turns out to be, we can live out our Catholic Faith because God has already given us the means to do so—His Holy Word, the Deposit of Faith, the Mass of all ages, the Blessed Sacrament, the Catechism, and the constant protection of Our Lady, the Angels, and Saints. In her Divine element, the Church is inviolate. The Church in her human element is not, and the reality is that God has allowed some very bad popes, some of whom lived immoral lives or even favored heresies and ambiguities in doctrine. But the Church always survived every chastisement, even the worst popes in history. Again, it’s the Mass that matters because it’s the Faith that matters, and the Latin Mass—as touchstone of the Faith—defends and teaches the Doctrine better than every pope in history. So, what do we do if a pope preaches errors and commit scandals through his connivence with error and immoral events? We do what traditionalists have always done—we reject it first in our mind and heart, and then publicly, always maintaining respect for the august office of the papacy. The pope is human. He can sin, he can even go to hell—only neo-Catholics and sedevacantists would say otherwise. And when God allows a bad pope, we must not succumb to the all-too-human reactions of anger and bitterness. Instead, and with deep sorrow in our hearts, we must double our prayers and sacrifices for the conversion of the Pope, just as children of a bad and scandalous father must recognize his errors and then continue to love him and pray for him. As victim of the deceit created by Modernists, we pray for the liberation of Pope Leo XIV from his spiritual captivity. We pray God to help him recognize the clarity, integrity and beauty of the Faith and Liturgy of all ages, and start to confirm the entire Church in Faith and to provide her with faithful shepherds who are truly men of God, defenders of the Catholic Faith, and mortal enemies of any collaboration with the ideological agenda of the world, the flesh, and the Devil. That is what we must do. And that is what the five thousand did in Rome last month, when they expressed gratitude to Pope Leo for having liberated the Mass in his own Basilica, prayed for him, and then sent a message to the whole world that it’s the Mass that matters—even more than popes and princes—because in and of itself the Latin Mass has the God-given power to confuse the tongues of the builders of the new Tower of Babel and make men into saints, sons of God, and heirs of heaven. More than anything else on earth, the Latin Mass will restore all things in Christ. READ MORE HERE>>> remnantnewspaper.com/web/ind…

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