“Pope Michael” died yesterday, I understand from a brain hemorrhage, may he rest in peace. But there’s a problem. He actually created a verifiable sect of priests he ordained and a wider group of laity. No doubt in the weeks ahead we’ll read that the “Vatican-in-Exile” up there in Topeka has elected one of its priests (by now probably consecrated a Bishop by Bawden, who did receive valid Holy Orders)) as the new “Pope.” We deserve this state of confusion, IMO, the Church as a whole, going back before VII, having become lukewarm and compromised.