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FALSE POPES Versus INFALLIBILITY FALSE POPES versus INFALLIBILITY It is a fact, and an article of faith, that Jesus Christ founded only one Church – the Holy Catholic Church. To It alone He gave His Mission, Power and Authority. Our Holy Mother the Catholic Church is the Mystic Ark outside of which there is no salvation. The Catholic Faith is our most precious treasure. It is not just the Faith of our fathers, It is the one true Faith given to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. We have compiled the following text to help Catholics make sense out of the confusion; to clarify apparent contradictions and to encourage Catholics to love and appreciate the great gift they have in the Catholic Faith – Truth. ONE GOD, ONE TRUTH, ONE CHURCH, ONE DOCTRINE We know from Sacred Scripture and Tradition that God is unchanging Truth, “For I am the Lord, and I change not,” 1 and that He can never “deceive nor be deceived.” 2 We also know that truths revealed by God are absolute and incapable of change , “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” (Mark 13:31) We also know from Sacred Scripture and Tradition that Jesus Christ founded on earth a Church − the Catholic Church 3 − to continue the work of redemption. “Upon this rock I will build My Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against It.” (Matt. 16:18) Christ promised to be with His Church “all days, even until the consummation of the world.” (Matt. 28:20) It was only to the Catholic Church that Jesus Christ gave His Authority. “He that heareth you heareth Me.” (Luke 10:16) “Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in Heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven.” (Matt. 16:19) He furthermore promised to Saint Peter the Apostle, and to all his lawful successors, that the Holy Ghost would preserve them from ever teaching error. “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not, and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.” (Luke 22:32) This promise was not temporary, but for all times: “I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, that He may abide with you forever: the Spirit of Truth.” (John 14:16-17) This preservation from ever teaching error is called infallibility and was solemnly defined by the Vatican Council (1870): “We [Pope Pius IX] teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra , that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church , he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the Divine Redeemer willed His Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Holy Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable. So then, should anyone, which God forbid, have the temerity to reject this definition of ours: let him be anathema .” This is at the core of the problem for those who hold to traditional Catholicism – infallibility: the infallibly defined doctrines taught by the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church before “Vatican Council II” 4 and the doctrines taught since. In examining the teachings of the Church before “Vatican Council II” and the teachings that were promulgated by “Vatican Council II”, we are faced with irreconcilable differences – irreconcilable doctrinal differences. Some examples of these doctrinal differences can be found in the doctrines of “no salvation outside of the Catholic Church,” the doctrines on interfaithing with other religions, the doctrines on the Sacraments, etc. So how are we to reconcile these doctrinal differences? Who and what are we to believe? PAPAL INFALLIBILITY It is a simple matter of historical record that for over 1,900 years the Church and Her over 260 popes, that is, from St. Peter through His Holiness, Pius XII, have taught ONE set of doctrines. But since John XXIII and the introduction of “Vatican Council II” the whole world was taught new and contradictory doctrines. So, how does one reconcile this disparity of teaching in view of Holy Mother Church’s definition on papal infallibility? Right reasoning allows for the following possibilities: 1. The Church was wrong, popes are fallible; 2. St. Peter and his 260 successors in office have all taught error and only the last 5 “popes” have been teaching truth; 3. The last 5 “popes” taught error and the first 261 popes have taught Truth. The first two “possibilities” are not possibilities at all, because they would destroy the Apostles’ Mission to teach all nations 5 and also nullify Christ’s Promise that the “Spirit of Truth” would be with His Church “forever.” Jesus Christ−the Way, the Truth and the Life−would thereby be turned into the universal deceiver of mankind. So that leaves us with the only other possible answer: that the five “popes” who came after Pope Pius XII, who have introduced new and contradictory doctrines, are not true popes. This will be proved shortly. But first we must consider the following question: how could this happen? Popes Are Infallible, Not Impeccable October 4, 1965. Paul VI turns over to the As noted above, while popes are preserved United Nations the Papal by the Holy Ghost from teaching error to Tiara (a symbol of the papacy) and called the us, they are not preserved by the Holy United Nations the “the Ghost from falling into error themselves. last, the best hope of Under certain conditions popes are mankind.” absolutely infallible, but under no conditions are they impeccable. Like the This last hope of mankind rest of us, they are capable of all sin, is not Catholicism. It is not the Virgin Mary. It is not including the sin of heresy. even God! Rather it was a body of men who were As to how a pope could commit heresy, we largely anti-Catholic, and have two factual possibilities: 1) He was among their number were guilty of heresy prior to his election to the even some who had been papacy, or 2), he fell into personal heresy guilty of spilling the blood of Catholics. after his election. The end result for either scenario is the same. Possibility #1 – A Heretic is Elected Pope Fearing infiltration into the Church by those who held heretical beliefs or who had strayed from the Catholic Faith, His Holiness, Pope Paul IV, by publishing his Apostolic Constitution, forever excluded them from holding any office in the Church’s hierarchy under any conditions whatsoever: “[by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity We enact, determine, decree and define:] that if ever at any time it shall happen that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff , prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff , has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy : i. the promotion or elevation , even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless ; ii. it shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff , or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing situation; iii. it shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way; iv. to any so promoted to be Bishops, or Archbishops, or Patriarchs, or Primates or elevated as Cardinals, or as Roman Pontiff , no authority shall have been granted, nor shall it be considered to have been so granted either in the spiritual or the temporal domain; v. each and all of their words, deeds, actions and enactments, howsoever made, and anything whatsoever to which these may give rise, shall be without force and shall grant no stability whatsoever nor any right to anyone; vi. those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honor, title, authority, office and power .” ( Cum ex Apostolatus Officio , 1559) The principle that Pope Paul IV employed in his Apostolic Constitution is explained by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church: “This principle is most certain. The non-Christian cannot in any way be Pope , as Cajetan himself admits. 6 The reason for this is that he cannot be head of what he is not a member ; now he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian , as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian, 7 St. Athanasius, 8 St. Augustine, 9 St. Jerome, 10 and others; therefore the manifest heretic cannot be Pope .” ( De Romano Pontifice , II, 30.) Conclusion: A heretic cannot become pope. Possibility #2 – A Pope Falls into Heresy Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical Mystici Corporis, broadly defines who are and who are not members of the Catholic Church: “Only those are to be accounted really members of the Church who have been regenerated by the waters of Baptism and profess the True Faith, and have not cut themselves off from the structure of the Body by their own unhappy act or been severed therefrom, for very grave crimes… such as schism or heresy or apostasy.” Popes are included in this doctrine regarding membership in the Catholic Church: “A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head , just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church… This is the teaching of all the ancient fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.” (St.
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