The Mother of All Betrayal: Cardinals Without Faith

 For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.

— Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi, No. 22

Faith

Jaime Gurpegui, writing on InfoVaticana.com (10 March), raises the frightening question of whether the cardinals who will vote in the next conclave are Catholic.

Judging by some of their recent statements, he has his doubts.

The Church is divided between those who see in Francis's pontificate an opportunity to water down the faith and those who insist on the truth of Christ and on juridical rigour, Gurpegui analyses.

If those who elect the next Pope do not believe in the reality of the Church, "what is the point of the whole process?"

Gurpegui therefore urges the cardinals to clarify their beliefs before entering the conclave, for example on the Resurrection of Christ, the Real Presence, the male priesthood, the infallibility of the Church and Catholic [= natural] morality.

He stresses that "the scandal of a corrupt cardinal or one who has led a dissolute life, although painful, is less serious than that of a cardinal who has no faith".

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