This is a long one, but I think it's worth the read.  Before getting into the recent news in the Vatican, we need to go through a few definitions.  Apostasy is the denial of Christ by a person who once claimed to be Christian.  Heresy is the denial of one or several dogmas of the Catholic Church.  Schism is to break ties with the Pope in Rome and/or the Holy See. However, the last definition requires some qualification.  A Catholic cannot be called "a schismatic" for failure to join his heart and mind to a heretic.  A Christian cannot be called "a schismatic" for failure to unite to a heretic. [...]

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, Who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”—Apocalypse 19:4. I have spent a lot of time around the Mediterranean the last two years in places like Greece, Egypt and Israel. This was primarily a reconnaissance mission to discover what it will take to get Muslims to become Christian, and to find what it will take to get Eastern Christians to become Catholic. The outcome of my travels, research and experiences was this: They will only become Catholic when we take our own patrimony seriously and stop denying our own Divine Revelation. Today's article is going [...]

This summer, Monsignor Nicola Bux claimed that Pope Benedict XVI wrote him about public accusations that he had bifurcated the papacy before he died.  Among other things, the late Pontiff allegedly wrote the Italian priest in 2014: "To suggest that I resigned only from the exercise of the ministry and not from the munus is contrary to clear dogmatic and canonical doctrine. If some journalists speak of a 'creeping schism', they do not deserve any attention." Even if Pope Benedict XVI had written that (something I doubt) the late Pontiff is still the one to blame for that rumor that there was a "contemplative Pope" and an "active Pope" over [...]