I really marvelled at the kind of excitement and joy with which, on October 4^th, a friend and brother (a well committed Novus Ordite though!) announced to me that “the pope” had excommunicated a dissident Catholic priest! “I told you,” he said. “This pope is wise! He knows what he’s doing! The Holy Spirit is leading him!”

I couldn’t just laugh, and I couldn’t cry. I only gazed at him, mute! MORE