I reprise a comment in another posting from almost a month ago:

I admire him. I pray for him. I hope for his salvation. But are we looking at this from man's perspective or God's? I quote one who is among the greatest graced intellects in the history of the Church: Saint Augustine: “No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have the sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church.” (Sermo ad Caesariensis Ecclesia plebem)

@Marysrose Francis' church is not the One True Church gifted to the world by Our Lord. But neither was Montini's church, Wojtyla's church or Ratzinger's church. The Second Vatican Council altered the lens through which the Church looked at Herself and the world - and morphed into the Conciliar church. The Restorationist Pope will need to erase most - if not all - of the Conciliar effects of the past 60 years.

Fr. Murray is the author of a Canon Law thesis written for his J.C.D. requirements at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His thesis maintained that Archbishop Lefebvre did not commit a schismatic act with the 1988 Consecrations of 3 bishops - and that his excommunication was, therefore, not in conformity with Canon Law. Surprisingly (because the Jesuit College is so leftist), he received high grades from the Gregorianum Professors. But when he returned to the States, he repudiated his own thesis (w/out explanation as far as I know).

Question: then, did he return his J.C.D. degree?

There were various speculations as to the reason why he repudiated his own thesis. Among them was because, at the time, he belonged to the Society of the Holy Cross - an arm of Opus Dei. Opus Dei is no friend of the SSPX.

Joseph Ratzinger in an interview published in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemine (1990s): "Vatican II did not use Pius XII’s expression according to which ‘the Roman Catholic Church is the only Church of Christ.’ Instead, it preferred the expression ‘The Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church...’ because," he said, "it wished to ‘affirm that the being of the Church as such is a larger identity than the Roman Catholic Church’."

That Bishop was raised in the counterfeit church designed at Vatican II by the Montinis, Wojtylas and the Ratzingers. It's what they've been taught. It's all they know. (They could know more, but most of them are rather dull blades.)

I admire them. I pray for them. I hope for their salvation. But are we looking at this from man's perspective or God's? I quote one who is among the greatest graced intellects in the history of the Church: Saint Augustine: “No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have the sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church.” (Sermo ad Caesariensis Ecclesia plebem)