Jorge Bergoglio is not now, never was, nor ever will be, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, thanks be to God. I am short on time today, so can we just all agree that a non-Catholic cannot be head of the Church he doesn’t belong to?
Today is the feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, a saint who performed miracles while he yet lived. He mistakenly backed an antipope for a time, but the man he back was fully Catholic, just as all previous antipopes have been Catholic. That is what makes the current situation so obvious.
St. Vincent, Angel of the Judgment, pray for us.
Commemoration of SAINT VINCENT FERRER
Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) was a great Spanish Dominican missionary and master of souls. One biographer claims that Vincent’s labors in Spain brought 25,000 Jews into the Church; he also won numerous Moorish converts for the Faith. In addition to carrying on an inspired apostolate in Spain, he preached to thousands of persons in France, Switzerland, and Italy [By his preaching and miracles, he converted thousands of sinners and heretics.]. He pleaded so eloquently for penance that he was known as the “Angel of the Judgment.”
Second Collect: O God, who didst vouchsafe to glorify Thy Church by the merits and preaching of blessed Vincent, Thy Confessor: grant to us Thy servants that we may be taught by his example, and delivered by his patronage from all adversities…
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