Editor’s Note: It has long been the vice of the enemies of Christ to accuse Christians of the crimes they themselves perpetrate and desire to perpetrate. They call our love hatred, and their hatred love. So it is remarkable that in this post Ann Barnhardt ridicules the present age for insisting it is a virtue to be wrong, while insisting on her own private opinion, in defiance with all the Doctors, Fathers and Popes of the Catholic Church, who say the Roman Church by Apostolic Right has the authority and liberty to elect Her own Bishop: a thing which was done on January 30, 2023, when with the College of Cardinals failing to convene to elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who was pope until the day of his death, on Deb. 31, 2022 — AS ANN BARNHARDT ADMITS — the Faithful of the Roman Church elected his successor in the person of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, there being no other candidates proposed by anyone in attendance or not in attendance, including Ann Barnhardt (who was not in attendance and ridiculed the election as invalid, thereafter). — It remains to my mind a most shameful thing that after denying Apostolic Tradition, Ann has gone one to imitate the hypocrisy of Christ’s enemies and the private judgement of protestants, in denying the Church of Rome its right to elect its Bishop. — The moral of this story is, that if you break with the Roman Church, you will be dashed upon the Rock of Peter.
Barnhardt made a shipwreck of her recently acquired Catholic Faith, by insisting on grifting on the issue more than honestly seeking the good of the Church. She rather preferred to plunge her soul into the hatred of the man, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, rather than into the love of the whole Mystical Body, which has need to be in communion with a validly elected pope, even when no honorable man has the courage and integrity to present himself as a candidate. Cradle Catholics know this by default, since they know the Pope exists for the Church, and not the Church for the personal agenda or preferences of any man or woman. If there are many who are displeased at the outcome of the election, there are far too few of them who have truly assessed or recognized the grave moral fault of their own guilt in not promoting a worthy candidate to be chosen by the Assembly on January 30, 2023.
Let us pray for such humility and honesty, without which no one, who rejects the juridically valid elections of Roman Pontiffs can be saved.