This makes it sound like this is what Catholics believe??

I am so confused. Misleading, or is there any truth? Just a schism group? What is up with this???? I am so confused. Does this seem to be heretical, or is it just me?

http://www.truecatholic.org/

-- Prose (arpeggio69@hotmail.com), March 19, 2003

Answers

Hello Prose. You are correct, this is a schismatic group. They even named their own (fake) pope. :-)

I agree with you the website is quite misleading and designed to be so.

God bless you,

Mateo

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), March 19, 2003.

They are called sedevacantists. They believe that the Chair of Peter is vacant, and they have taken it upon themselves to remedy the perceived problem.

There is a real sedavacante, but it refers to that short time after the death of one pope and the election of another, where there really is a temporary vacancy of the Chair of Peter.

These people at truecatholic.org are outside the Church; pray that they come back into it.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), March 19, 2003.

Just plain sedevacantists.

But I got curious: who is the "pope" they elected? The guy is not even a bishop!

-- Atila (me@somewhere.com), March 19, 2003.

Indeed there are a lot of loose cannons out there, but there is a degree of truth in some of the statements. Of course this man is not a pope, however the pope that we do have, is not a very good pope.Pray for his soul and our own. We all need it now that this rotten war has started.

-- Ed Richards (loztra@yahoo.com), March 19, 2003.

Ed - Your comment re: Pope Jean Paul irks me. Should you have time there is a very fine book titled " In The Shoes Of The Fisherman " written I believe in the 60's.

My point being is the parallels with the novel's pope and our current Pope is staggering. You and others may not agree with his methods but I feel he the finest gift to the church in many years.

-- jean bouchard (jeanb@cwk.imag.net), March 19, 2003.

Prose please disregard the comment from Ed "however the pope that we do have, is not a very good pope". Ed is a seriously unbalanced chap, please pray for his soul.

-- Kiwi (csisherwood@hotmail.com), March 20, 2003.

It is said that the worste Pope we ever had was hand-picked by Jesus: our first pope, St. Peter. (Thrice denying Jesus, losing Faith while walking across the water, etc...)

-- Anna <>< (flower@youknow.com), March 20, 2003.