"Playing with the Pope?” — A Rebuttal in Defence of Truth

 

 A deflection in favor of a Modernist Papal Impostor revealing more about the speaker’s loyalty to appearances than concern for truth.

Preamble: 

Recently, in response to my article “Living Distortion?: Another Modernist Inverted Accusation”, a fellow replied with a sneer:

Why are you playing with the Pope and thought you'll be heard?”

Like me, he claims the Catholic name — but tragically remains ensnared in the Modernist, ecumenical, synodal, Pan-Religious impostor church that now occupies Catholic buildings. 

This question, likely intended as a rebuke, is in fact a revealing symptom of the present confusion gripping so many souls: a confusion between faith and sentiment, between fidelity to Christ and blind loyalty to a person or an office. Let us take a moment to unpack it.

1. “Playing with the Pope” – The Error of Misplaced Reverence 

The fact is that I do not “play with the Pope.” That accusation presumes irreverence or mockery—but I have done neither. Rather, I offer testimony to the Catholic truth. As Our Lord said to Pilate:

 “For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice.” (John 18:37)

Now, if a man claims to be Pope and yet teaches doctrines which have been condemned by previous Popes and councils—what is a Catholic to do? Are we to suspend our reason, our conscience, our faith, and submit to error simply because it wears white?

The saints didn’t. The Fathers didn’t. The true Popes didn’t demand it.

To question whether a Modernist heretic can validly hold the Papal office is not to "play" with the Papacy. It is to take it so seriously that we insist it must, and can, never be associated with error, blasphemy, or heresy.

2. “The Pope” – A Title Without Discernment

The objector refers to “the Pope” as if merely holding the title ends the discussion. But the crisis we face today is precisely about the identity and legitimacy of that title, in light of the unbroken teaching of the Church regarding the Papacy.

As someone rightly said in a tweet:

"What is required by DIVINE LAW for this appointment (to the Papacy): … that the appointment be of a member of the Church. HERETICS and APOSTATES (at least public ones) are therefore EXCLUDED.” (Coronata)

Yes! 

• Divine Law bars heretics from the Papacy. 
• Christ’s Vicar must be in the Church, not against it. 
• No apostate can sit on Peter’s throne legitimately. 
• A man outside the Church cannot head the Church. 
• The keys are not given to wolves - no matter the conclave, no matter the crowd.

To recognize someone as Pope simply because of appearances, media, or majority opinion, while closing one’s eyes to their open contradictions of the Faith, is not faith—it is credulity. 

• A true Pope cannot teach heresy. 
• A true Pope cannot approve what the Church has condemned. 
• A true Pope cannot promote syncretism, doctrinal relativism, and moral inversion—and remain the Vicar of Christ.

Thus, it is not I who am playing games, but those who cling to the shell of authority while denying the substance of the Faith.

3. “And Thought You'll Be Heard?” – The Mindset of the World

Here, the critic assumes that standing apart from the mainstream—especially the visible Church structure occupied by modernists—renders one irrelevant or deluded. But this is to think not with the mind of Christ, but with the world.

• Was Noe “heard” before the flood?
• Was Jeremias “heard” before the captivity?
• Was St. Athanasius “heard” by the majority of bishops when they fell into Arianism?

No. But they were right—and they were vindicated not by numbers, not by office, but by truth.

It is precisely in times of general apostasy that God raises up voices in the wilderness to cry out: “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight His paths.” (Matt. 3:3) And it is the duty of every Catholic to heed those cries when they echo the unchanging doctrine of the Church.

Summing Up: Truth Before Titles

The line—“Why are you playing with the Pope and thought you'll be heard?”—is not an argument. It is a deflection. It reveals more about the speaker’s loyalty to appearances than concern for truth.

But we are not called to be “heard” by men. We are called to be faithful to Christ.

The Catholic Faith is not a cult of personality. It is not submission to error dressed in ecclesiastical garments. It is the unbroken doctrine handed down through the centuries—unchanged, unchangeable.

So I repeat, with calmness of conscience:

• If I am wrong, show me—not by slogans or sentiments—but by the doctrine of the saints.
• If I am right, then stop defending titles and start defending the truth.

That is how saints are made.

Postscript: 

• The true Papacy is a bulwark of truth—not a license for error. 
• And if a claimant to Peter’s throne teaches heresy, he proves not the Papacy false—but himself.

Let us love the Papacy enough to defend it from impostors, and love the truth enough to follow it at any cost.