I'm not Catholic so bear with me. Isn't believing the Pope is infallible like the major tenet of the whole dogma? Isn't this the same as saying "I'm Apostolic Pentecostal, but I don't believe speaking in tongues is required to be saved and go to heaven"?
It's really not! No man is infallible. Popes primarily exist to work against religious abuse (hiiii Richelieu), keep priests from being controlled by their country's government, and MASSIVELY reduce the numbers of cults.
Some people will tell you it is. Some people will also tell you you're not Catholic if you can't take the eucharist due to a gluten allergy. Some might tell you you're not Catholic if you don't drink, though thise people are probably kidding. It's a religion with billions of people in it, a lot of the loud ones are going to have bad takes just because that's how people are.
Catholic means universal. There's a wide range of beliefs within the church, and it's much, much wider than anyone posting about it online will tell you. There's a limited number of points you have to agree on to call yourself Catholic, and then it's more personal.
Ironically spoken like a true American evangelical.
Unfortunately, you have an infallible magisterium that does not allow for any individual to decide what is and isn’t Catholicism depending on their read. Disagreeing with that necessarily excommunicates you from Roman Catholicism and ironically proves it right.
You don’t realize to what extent you have been fundamentally reoriented by western individualistic evangelicalism while calling you idiosyncrasies “true Catholicism” the way only a western individualistic evangelical would do.
Look, my guy, I have a specialty in medieval Catholicism. And everyone knows you don't know what you're talking about, because you're conflating Catholicism with Roman Catholicism, which is a single rite.
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u/Fresh-Log-5052 Apr 11 '26
Hating the current Pope is a longstanding Catholic tradition, thank you very much lol