8.9. But I see holiness in the lives of Catholics today, even in the Novus Ordo. How can that be if it’s not the true Church?

8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges

Jun 21

God’s grace is not limited by the crisis in the Church. He can work even in darkness, just as He granted conversions and virtue under corrupt popes or in pagan lands. But isolated acts of devotion do not validate a false religion.

Consider this: Protestants may be sincere and prayerful, but that doesn’t make Protestantism true. Similarly, individuals in the Novus Ordo may have good intentions, but they are living in a system that is objectively divorced from the faith of all time. Their sincere piety is in spite of, not because of, Vatican II innovations.

We pray for these souls to receive the fullness of truth, especially through grace in the valid sacraments they may receive from older or traditional priests.

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Steve John

8.9. But I see holiness in the lives of Catholics today, even in the Novus Ordo. How can that be if it’s not the true Church?

8.8. Don’t you fear that without formal unity with Rome, your faith practice becomes merely subjective or fragmented?

8.10. What authority do you follow now? Without a pope or formal hierarchy, who governs you?