Cadinal Sarah nails it

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I’ve found pretty much everything he says is true, but the whole point is that even when artificial labels are used to paint this cardinal as ‘conservative’ or another as ‘liberal’, or claiming that one label person ‘opposes’ the Pope, it’s usually not the case at all.
 
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Good for the Cardinal.

There are certainly layman and even Churchman who do oppose the Holy Father. God for Sarah for setting things straight.
 
It depends what he means by being “against the Pope.” I’m sure he means it the correct way, but many (especially anti-Catholics) can take it to mean something exaggerated.

Obviously, there is a sense by which one becomes separated from the unity of the Church by opposing the Pope (like, say, the separated Eastern Churches). But the Pope is not a god, to whom we owe absolute submission to remain in the Church. As the traditional axiom goes, the Pope’s power is ad aedificationem non ad destructionem ecclesiae. Therefore, as the opportunity arises and based on our abilities and station in life, we support him in those things that are ad aedificationem ecclesiae and not those things that are ad destructionem ecclesiae.

More precisely, the office of the Pope exists to serve the following ends: the freedom, peace, and exaltation of the Church; the extirpation of schism and heresy (aka the unity of Christians in the one faith and one Church, to put it more ecumenically); and the propagation of the Catholic faith.

There are plenty of times, going all the way back to St. Paul’s famous opposition to St. Peter, when many in the Church, including saints, did not support the Pope in some act or word, because in good conscience they believed it was contrary to those ends of the papacy (the Easter controversy involving St. Victor I and opposition from St. Irenaeus and many others is another great example).

Of course, just like we should with anyone else, if the opportunity arises, we should also support him in his personal virtue and not support him in any sins he commits.

To sum up, all Catholics must be “for the Pope,” supporting him in his true mission, even when--especially when–the Pope does not seem interested in fulfilling it. We should never work against or oppose him in his mission. At the same time, however, no Pope has the power to act against his own delegated authority and mandate and no one should support him if, God forbid, he tried to do so.
 
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I think this article is also expressing your thoughts. ?
" Church, in her long history, has never been confronted with the situation like the one in which she now finds herself. Pope Francis recently spoke of a possible schism within the Church, a schism that does not frighten him. We have had many schisms in the past, he says, and there will be schisms in the future. So, there is nothing to fear in the present. However, it is the nature of the present possible schism that is new, and this unprecedented new schism is frightening.". Link above
 
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His recent statements in the Catholic Herald are consistent with words given in his latest book, The Day is Now Far Spent (Ignatius Press, 2019, pp. 134-5):
The sign of Satan is division. [. . .] The Devil loves to divide the Church. The prince of darkness wants first to sow opposition among us. He sets a terrible trap for us through the media amplification of the least important episcopal statements. Everyone is ordered to take sides, to choose a camp. But in the Church, there are no sides! There are no camps! The Synods are not political assemblies. Is each Christian supposed to judge everything? This sometimes hysterical politicization of what ought to remain a calm debate among theologians who love the same God is the mark of the demon. He lures us into his own terrain. He leads us towards hatred, invective, manipulation, and Machiavellian calculation. Must we give up denouncing error? Certainly not! But we must do so in the spirit that is Catholic, in other words, profoundly supernatural and benevolent.

When the barque of the Church is beset by storms, the demon tries to terrify us. He sows anguish. He secretes doubt and suspicion. People look for scapegoat on which to take out these anxieties. While certain that they are defending the good, they perform a work of hatred. Then the devil bursts out into cold laughter. He has won: the children of God are tearing each other apart. The spirit of faith and charity is covered by a glacial fog of mistrust and lying. Let us listen to the words of Jesus in the storm: “Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?” (Mt 8:26). If Jesus is in the boat with us, even though he seems to be asleep, we are not in danger at all. Peace and joy are the signs of God; fear and sadness are the attributes of hell.
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Anyone who attempts to attach labels to Cardinal Sarah or pit him against Pope Francis and the Magisterium do the very things the cardinal denounces in the most severe terms. If we are to be united as the One, Holy, and Apostolic Church, we cannot sow division by forming factions and fighting among ourselves, or else we become the antithesis of the Church established by Jesus Christ and succeeded through the ages from Peter onward.
 
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I hope certain people don’t brand Cardinal Sarah as a ‘traitor’ for this. I have reservations about some things the pope says and does, but I’m not opposing him…
 
‘Whoever is against the Pope is ipso facto outside the Church.’

This is an aspect that I’ve been wondering about of late. I’ve never felt compelled in any way to discuss the Church with the sedavacantists in the way that it is often profitable to speak to other faiths.

I’ve lately here been sensing that sedavacantism inside the Church. Having read Cdl Sarah’s words ‘Whoever is against the Pope is ipso facto outside the Church’, I’ll not be entering into dialogue with any person that rejects Pope Francis authority from here on in.

Thankyou Cdl Sarah.
 
To expand upon your point, allow me to quote Lumen Gentium, a Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, promulgated by St. Paul VI in 1964, on the religious assent we owe both to the bishops and especially the pope:
Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place. For bishops are preachers of the faith, who lead new disciples to Christ, and they are authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people committed to them the faith they must believe and put into practice, and by the light of the Holy Spirit illustrate that faith. They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old, making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock. Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent. This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will. His mind and will in the matter may be known either from the character of the documents, from his frequent repetition of the same doctrine, or from his manner of speaking.
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To be against the pope in the most radical sense is to deny Christ and his authority, for it is Christ who has endowed the apostles his teaching authority, which has been faithfully preserved through the ages and made manifest through Apostolic succession. We cannot stand within the visible Church if we do not stand in union with the pope and the magisterium.

To all those souls out there who are anxious and uncertain in their faith in the magisterium, let Cardinal Sarah reassure you:
When the storm is raging over a ship, it is important to be secured to something stable and solid. It is not the time to run after fashionable novelties that are in great danger of fading even before anyone has had a chance to grasp them. It is necessary to stay on course, without swerving, while waiting for the horizon to be revealed. I wish to say to Christians: Do not let yourselves be troubled! You have in your hands the treasure of the Church’s faith. It was passed on to you by centuries of contemplation, by the constant teaching of the popes. You can nourish your faith life on it without fear.
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(The Day is Now Far Spent, p. 93)
 
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