4.6. If God desires all men to be saved then have you not created your own extremely narrow path?
It’s a legitimate and heartfelt question. And it’s one that many faithful Catholics wrestled with when they began to sense something was deeply wrong after Vatican II. To help understand it, let’s use your metaphor of the narrow path.
Christ clearly taught:
“Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it.”
For nearly 2,000 years, the Church faithfully walked this narrow path. Christ established it. His apostles walked it. Holy popes, bishops, priests, and saints followed it — teaching the same doctrine, offering the same sacraments, and calling all peoples to conversion, not compromise. The Church, like a caravan on pilgrimage, stayed the course through persecution, schism, heresy, and reform — always guided by true shepherds who kept their bearings through sacred tradition and infallible teaching.
But the devil, who hates this path, never stopped plotting. Scripture warns us:
“For I know that after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.”
“There shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition.”
“For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
These enemies of God — long prophesied by Our Lady (e.g., at La Salette and Fatima) and documented in credible sources like the Alta Vendita — slowly infiltrated the Church’s visible structures. They maneuvered their way to positions of influence and authority. And when the last true pope (Pius XII) died, they placed one of their own as “shepherd” at the front of the procession. Though he wore the same uniform and spoke Catholic-sounding words, this new leader gradually turned the people off the true path.
At Vatican II, this counterfeit leadership formally introduced a new road — the “Novus Ordo” (New Order). It looked similar at first, but it diverged subtly from the true path. Over time, this new path grew wider and more accommodating, inviting those of other faiths to walk alongside without conversion, softening moral teachings, and diluting doctrine — all in the name of relevance, dialogue, and progress.
Scripture foretold this too:
“They received not the love of the truth… therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying.”
“There is a way that seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.”
Many Catholics didn’t realize they had left the true road — it was a slow and gradual detour, packaged with slogans like “renewal,” “aggiornamento,” and “active participation.” And the new “shepherds” kept assuring them it was the same road. But those who knew the original path — by doctrine, by liturgy, by sacramental theology — began to notice that the landscape had changed. The Mass was unrecognizable. The sacraments were altered. The teachings no longer matched what the Church had always proclaimed. The signs along the way no longer pointed to Heaven.
These faithful souls began to backtrack. They studied the maps (Scripture and infallible magisterial teaching). They listened to the true voice of the Chief Shepherd. They found their way back to the narrow path, where a remnant of valid bishops and priests remained — offering the true Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and administering valid sacraments, which are the nourishing food for this difficult journey.
“Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting.”
Meanwhile, on the wide path, the false sacraments — with invalid matter or form — are spiritually poisonous. They lack grace and fail to heal the soul. This is why many in the modern Church feel empty, disillusioned, morally weak, and spiritually malnourished. They walk and walk, but they are not on the road to Heaven.
Some are starting to wake up. They notice that the signs along the new road have changed. The destination seems unclear. The leaders contradict one another and even contradict Christ. So they begin to search. And some, by God’s grace, rediscover the true path, now walked by a small but faithful remnant — those who have not changed the faith, nor abandoned the cross.
The path is not new. It is not a preference. It is the one true way Christ gave His Church. It cannot be widened, shortened, or merged with other roads. It was not lost. It has not become narrower, as if it is only for a select few now, but rather there a less on this path now. It was simply left behind by those who trusted imposters.
“My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.”
We sedevacantist Catholics do not claim to be better. We simply desire to follow Christ’s voice along the path He marked out — the path of Tradition, of the true Sacraments, of the unchanging Catholic Faith.