Cardinal Müller is calling for Church unity based on orthodoxy, while Pope Francis’ closest supporters are rejecting any unity that would reverse the pontiff’s attempted changes to the Church.
The pope or a bishop may be, by virtue of his office, a member of the magisterium, but his teaching, if it contradicts the received previous magisterial teaching, is not magisterial. Such false teaching simply fails to meet the necessary criteria.
On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland calls on people to have hope in Christ because He has conquered evil, and discusses the development of doctrine.
Among the more striking changes advanced by Pope Francis is his recent encouragement of priests to bless homosexual unions, in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful acts.
John Henry Cardinal Newman at one time hoped the current problematic pope would be 'driven from Rome, and will not continue the Council, or that there will be another Pope.'