I have a protestant friend, who some ten years ago thought seriously of becoming a Catholic, but instead chose to remain a heretic, joining the Anglican sect. Yesterday he made a trenchant post on Facebook. It ties in closely with this video.
The 'Anglo-Catholic' Anglicans, with which my friend identifies, like to pretend that they are really Catholic. I refer to their 'clerics' as laymen playing dress up. So when Francis made his latest foray into anti-Catholicism, attacking Scripture, the Words of Christ therein, the Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, and every Pope who has ever addressed the problem (including his two extremely anti-death penalty predecessors), my friend remarked that Francis made him glad he had never become a Catholic!
This highlights the conundrum the questioner poses to the Chevalier. How do you evangelise when the Pope is an anti-Catholic who rejects the Doctrine of Christ's Church? He has some sound and profound advice on the subject.
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