For St. Josephe's Feast Day -- Are Catholics in Communion with Pope Francis?

Amici,

I see a lot of talk about "being in Communion" with Bergi. I'm not having that. 

We're in Communion with the office of the papacy, the Petrine Office. After all, Our Lord created the Petrine office directly, whereas the Apostles more clearly created the office of bishop in general (and diaconate) and delineated the seven sacraments (such as ordination). When they died, the Apostolic offices were ended, and bishops were subsequently the leaders of the Church. All of them passing on, each generation to each, the Most Holy Eucharist, the Divine Blood Oath, sworn on the Body and Blood of God, they they saw Our Lord after He had risen from the Dead. and they created the regular priest level of the job via ordaining "elders" (presbyter/presbuteros) in specific faculties out of the seven sacraments, leaving the rite of ordination to themselves solely. 

Yet bishops and bishoprics come and go. Laodicea no longer has a bishop (unless some Vatican bureaucrat has been given the empty title.) For example, Tsar Peter the Great ("the First Peter" the Russians call him) nixed the office of the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church; Pete just said nyet to it, and the Russian Dox were governed (till the Communist Rev) by a "Holy Synod", as is the Greek Dox Church today. Proud Constantinople is reduced to a small ghetto in Istanbul, the Patriarch himself, a Turkish citizen, is tolerated on sufferance by the Muslims; they could extinguish that office in a moment. 

But Rome is unique in being the "Thou art Peter" bishopric. So, obviously, the office itself takes precedence over who is in it. Being actually in it is what gives the office holder his power. (Notice one is elected to it, not ordained to it.) So therefore we're in Communion with the Petrine office, not necessarily the man holding it at a given time, especially if he clearly is working against its purpose and duties, which Bergi is. Bergi is supposed to be the slave of Scripture and Tradition, but he's too busy rewriting it for such slavery. He's supposed to be the servant of the law, not its master.

So, the particular man in the office is temporary, but the office abides.

Look at "the Great Western Schism" (1378-1417) when we had at first two, then THREE popes! There were canonized saints supporting the various contenders. Clearly it was the office, regardless of who claimed it, that they were in Communion with. And in our case, when the man holding the office is a heretic, he still maintains his priestly and episcopal faculties, even if he denies them. Bergi would have to publicly and formally announce he's abdicated (something Ratzinger seems hesitant to do fully, as he still wears white, etc.). Therefore, I think it fair to say we're in Communion with God through the Petrine Office, and not necessarily the man – especially should he go wacky.

FWIW. At least it gets us out of the no-win situation of having to say were in full Communion with a guy who is not Catholic, or perhaps even a Christian as traditionally understood. And we pray St. Joseph, Protector of the Church and Terror of Demons, intercede with Our Lord to save the Church. 

An Préachán