Tradicat

 + JMJ   Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  I move through a number of different Catholic 'circles'. Conservative Modern Catholic, Diocesan Latin Mass, and SSPX Traditional Catholic, The sedevacantist issue has popped up once in a while in my 40+ years as a Traditional Catholic. Pope Francis has, in some ways, become a unifying point. I've had to talk some Modern Catholics off the Sedevacantist ledge because Pope St. John Paul II was the only thread of Catholicism that they knew. So here's my off the top of my head points vs sedevacantism: When one stands on the judgment that a current Pope isn't the Vicar of Christ, then what is to stop someone else from making the same judgment on previous Pontiffs?   I know a person who started down that path with Pope B16, and found that Pope JP2 also didn't pass muster. Next fell Pope P12, B15 and so on down the line.   So where does it stop?  Well with the people I know, la...