
According to Saint Luke, all the nations of the Earth were present in Jerusalem on the day of the first Pentecost. On Pentecost — and on all other days — you can find all the nations of the Earth at the Nag’s Head in Holloway, near the church of Saints Joseph and Padarn. Here I bumped into a sedevacantist. Having identified me as a ‘Lefebvrist’, it was not long until he exposed his certainty that Francis is not the Pope. ‘Bergoglio is a heretic,’ he said ‘and no heretic is a member of the Church. Therefore, Bergoglio cannot be pope.’ Moreover, as charitably as he could, he accused me and the Society of being formally disobedient and closet-sedevacantists: ‘because,’ he said ‘while you purport to believe that Francis is the Pope, you disobey him by not following his every command while knowing that obedience to the Pope is necessary for salvation.’ (He himself, by the way, is formally obedient to the Pope because he will obey him once he decides that he is the Pope).