Nine years into Pope Francis’ reign on the throne of St. Peter, one of his closest collaborators anonymously circulated a memorandum among fellow cardinals that delivered a stark verdict: “Commentators of every school…agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe.” The critique focused on the pontiff’s undermining of the Church’s bedrock of magisterial clarity and consistency, supplanting the time-honored maxim Roma locuta, causa finita est—“Rome has spoken; the case is closed”—with a prevailing ethos of erroneous teaching and ambiguity: Roma loquitur, confusio augetur—“Rome speaks; confusion grows.” In a time when the Deposit of Faith demands unwavering guardianship, this book stands as a solemn act of fidelity to the apostolic charge on all the faithful: to preserve the integrity of faith and morals for the sake of the salvation of souls. Spanning the breadth of sacred doctrine, it rigorously juxtaposes the teachings of Pope Francis with Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the perennial Magisterium.
