Francis Admitted That He Has Encouraged Priests To Become Schismatics

Since you asked, yes, I am for real. No, I am not defending this dreadful Pope. However, he -is- Pope as you said and he is -not- a schismatic. The truth exists independently of my personal like and dislikes, or yours, or anyone else's.

Long before you joined GTV, others made a similar error. Recognizing a Pope's claim to the Papacy or his status within The Church does not imply support for a Pope's policies or his beliefs.

An example from EU politics will highlight the distinction. Angela Merkel is Chancellor of Germany. I may dislike Angela Merkel's immigration policies, her communist background, and a great many things more besides. But that doesn't change the fact that Angela Merkel is, indeed, Chancellor of Germany.

Many Catholics, I'm sorry to say, seem to believe reality is subject to their whims... magical thinking whereby saying something instantly makes it true. On GTV, the popular examples you'll encounter are: "Pope Francis is... a.) an antipope b.) not validly elected. c.) not really pope d.) a heretic, e.) a schismatic f.) a sodomite". Technically, in spite of Pope Francis' many demonstrable failings, he none those things, however.

Factually correcting people with a delusional world-view tends to enrage them as reality often does. Ages ago, one truly dedicated user made a personal hobby out of defaming me on this point, "bearing false witness" in the biblical sense of the term, so much so, I was compelled to address the most popular of them point by point.

Over a year ago
, I wrote, "I do not support Pope Francis. I don't like Pope Francis. I don't approve of Pope Francis. But Pope Francis is the Pope. I don't like that either. I have repeatedly explained this to KristianKeller. I've repeatedly explained this to many people here."

...many people, now including you. ;-)

Pope Pius XI– The Communist system, with its authors and abettors condemned
-Communism is intrinsically wrong and no one may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith– Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication
Pope John XXIII– No Catholic can subscribe even to moderate Socialism – opposition between Communism and Christianity is fundamental.

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Formal prohibition to join or favor Communist Parties – latae sententiae excommunication

Questions:
1. Whether it is lawful to join Communist Parties or to favour them;
2. whether it is lawful to publish, disseminate, or read books, periodicals, newspapers or leaflets which support the teaching or action of Communists, or to write in them;
3. whether the faithful who knowingly and freely perform the acts specified in questions 1 and 2 may be admitted to the Sacraments;
4. whether the faithful who profess the materialistic and anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists, and particularly those who defend or propagate this doctrine, contract ipso facto excommunication specially reserved to the Apostolic See as apostates from the Catholic faith.

The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Fathers entrusted with the supervision of matters concerning the safeguarding of Faith and morals, having previously heard the opinion of the Reverend Lords Consultors, decreed in the plenary session held on Tuesday (instead of Wednesday), June 28, 1949, that the answers should be as follows:
To 1. in the negative: because Communism is materialistic and anti-Christian; and the leaders of the Communists, although they sometimes profess in words that they do not oppose religion, do in fact show themselves, both in their teaching and in their actions, to be the enemies of God, of the true religion and of the Church of Christ;
to 2. in the negative: they are prohibited ipso iure (cf. Can. 1399 of the Codex Iuris Canonici);
to 3. in the negative, in accordance with the ordinary principles concerning the refusal of the Sacraments to those who are not disposed;
to 4. in the affirmative. (Replies confirmed by Pius XII on June 30) (Denzinger-Hünermann 3865. Decree of the Holy Office, July 1, 1949)