Megaforgery

You didn't like Blessed John Paul II, so you wouldn't listen to him.

You didn't like Benedict XVI, so you wouldn't listen to him.

That you like Pope Francis is not why you ought to listen to him. But it is at least why you might.

As Lefebvrism or sedevacantism is to Hans Küng, and vice versa;

As the treatment of the Irish or Italian diaspora ghettoes of 1950s Anglophonia as theologically normative is to the treatment of the explosion of the 1960s counterculture into mainstream society in the 1970s as theologically normative, and vice versa;

As those who imagine that celibacy is of the esse of the Priesthood are to those who suggest that its normative status is the Latin Rite ought to be discontinued, and vice versa;

As those who maintain that there is a theological bar to women as Cardinals (for example) are to those who assert that there is no theological bar to the ordination of women, and vice versa;

As the most precious of ritualists are to the most cavalier of liturgical vandals, and vice versa;

As those who will have nothing but the Extraordinary Form are to those who will not have it at all, and vice versa;

As those who would condemn Natural Family Planning are to those who would condone artificial contraception or even abortion, and vice versa;

As the attempted conformity of the Faith to global capitalism and its wars is to the attempted conformity of the Faith to Marxism and its ongoing bloody legacy, and vice versa;

As those who would blame the Jews collectively for the Death of Our Lord are to those who would not share the Gospel with Jews or who might propagate lies about the Church's, and especially Pius XII's, record in relation to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and vice versa;

So are the Fatima conspiracy theorists to the Medjugorje cultists, and vice versa.

Follow Peter.