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![“Whoever is outside of the bosom of the Catholic Church, however praiseworthy may otherwise appear his conduct, will not enjoy eternal life and the wrath of God remains upon him because of the guilt of his crime, namely, by living separated from Jesus Christ.”
[St. Augustine, Council of Cirta, 412]
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![“On 25 October 1964, while the Second Vatican Council was still in session, I wrote a personal letter to Pope Paul VI. This letter had also been signed by more than 430 French priests. Its intention was to expose the doctrinal, liturgical and moral errors which were already starting to emerge throughout the Catholic world, under the guise of the Council's move towards "aggiornamento."
This letter, signed - let me make it absolutely clear - by over 430 priests of all ages, remained unanswered in spite of my having taken it to Rome myself, so that there could be no question of its not having been delivered to the Pope. And what is more, I know for a fact that he did receive it.
I wrote another letter on 10 November 1970. This time I took steps to make the authorities answer me by making the letter public, although it had originally been addressed to the Pope in person.
Yet again: total silence. The only answer I received was a letter from Cardinal Duval, Archbishop of Algiers and my former diocesan, begging me to put an end to what he termed "my abuse of the Holy Father."
To me, and to all my fellow Catholics who no longer understood the changes which had been imposed upon us with such callous brutality, and to which Paul VI seemed utterly indifferent, his attitude was bewildering. This is why my second letter ended with the twofold question, "Who are you? How do you plead?"
Because I am still waiting for an answer from the only person able to enlighten us, and whose duty it is to do so, I propose to try to deduce what this answer might be from the actions, words and the calculated silences of Pope Paul.”
[Fr. Barbara, Fortes in Fidei, Volume 1, #5, ~1975]
this, and the 2nd letter (bottom of page), is at https://crusader.surge.sh/sif-1-5.html](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreie4jqc5xmxg2narmhqscwvj7zcl2lgjxka6hproqftli6laudjiom)
![“The servant, according to the Apostle, “By his own lord stands or falls.” Because of that the same Apostle says, “Who are you who judges another man’s servant?” [73] Since the Roman Pontiff has no other lord than God, then who can throw him out or trample him underfoot, no matter how much he may lose his savor? When it can be said to him, “Enfold your justification into your own heart”? [74] Nevertheless he should not mistakenly flatter himself about his power, nor rashly glory in his eminence or honor, for the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. I say “less” because he can be judged by men, or rather shown to be judged, if he clearly loses his savor to heresy, [75] since he “who does not believe, is already judged.” [76] It is only in this case that it should be understood of him that, If the salt loses its savor, it is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and to be trodden on by men.”
[Pope Innocent III, Sermon #4, On the Consecration of Pontiffs, 13th century]
[73] Rom. 14:4.
[74] D. 21 c. 7 (Friedberg, 1:71) which this and the previous two sentences together paraphrase. Reportedly, Pope Marcellinus (296-304) had apostatized during the savage persecution under Diocletian, and the bishops who were called upon to try him would not. They cautioned that the case rested in the pontiff’s own heart. Repenting his lapse, Marcellinus died a martyr. The account of the alleged incident is one of the Symmachian falsifications which seek to demonstrate the adage, “the first chair is judged by no one”; see Synodi Sinuessanae de Marcellino papa, PL 6: 11-20 and the Encyclopedia of the Early Church, s.v. “Marcellinus” and “Symmachus.” Nevertheless, it exemplifies the principle of papal immunity from oversight also illustrated in D. 17 ante c. 7; D. 21 cc. 4, 7; C. 9 q. 3 cc.10-18; C. 17 q. 4 c. 30; see Brian Tierney, Foundations of Conciliar Theory: The Contribution ...
you can find the rest at https://crusader.surge.sh/heresy.html
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![“In fact, unless I am grounded in faith, how can I make others firm in faith? It is certain that faith belongs especially to my office. The Lord publicly proclaimed it: “I,” he said, “have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith may not fail, and you, once being converted, must confirm your brothers.” [51] He asked, and he received, because “He was heard in all things by virtue of his reverence.” [52] For that reason the faith of the apostolic seat has never failed even during turbulent times, but has remained whole and unharmed, so that the privilege [53] of Peter continues to be unshaken. So necessary is faith for me as Pope, that, while I have God alone as the judge of my other sins, I can be judged by the church only for any sin committed against the Faith. For “he who does not believe, is already judged.” [54]”
[Pope Innocent III, Sermon #2, On the Consecration of the Supreme Pontiff, February 22, 1198]
[51] Lk. 22:32.
[52] Heb. 5:7, discussing Christ’s role as High Priest.
[53] Privilegium, “A legal enactment concerning a specific person or case and involving an exemption from common rules.” Berger, s.v. privilegium, in this case a law which applies only to Peter and his successors.
[54] Jn. 3:18. That the Pope can be judged by men as to the orthodoxy of his faith is a major topic of Sermon Four.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreihagibcpcpbzl6zoaqqgg55jflnyhbnhqkysairskcs76b2uhcxz4)
![“We read that the Roman Pontiff has always possessed authority to pass judgment on the heads of all the Churches (i.e., the patriarchs and bishops), but nowhere do we read that he has been the subject of judgment by others. It is true that Honorius was posthumously anathematised by the Eastern churches, but it must be borne in mind that he had been accused of heresy, the only offence which renders lawful the resistance of subordinates to their superiors, and their rejection of the latter's pernicious teachings.”
[Pope Hadrian II, 9th century]
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![“It is certain, in contradiction to the blasphemies of Luther and Calvin, that God does not impose a law that is impossible to be observed. On the other hand, it is certain, that without the assistance of grace the observance of the law is impossible; as Innocent I declared against the Pelagians when he said, “It is certain, that as we overcome by the aid of God, so without his aid we must be overcome.” [2] Pope Celestine declared the same thing. Therefore, if God gives to all men a possible law, it follows that he also gives to all men the grace necessary to observe it, whether immediately, or mediately, by means of prayer, as the Council of Trent has most clearly defined: “God does not command impossibilities; but by commanding he admonishes you both to do what you can, and to ask for that which is beyond your power, and by his help enables you to do it.’ [1] Otherwise, if God refused us both the proximate and remote grace to enable us to fulfil the law, either the law would have been given in vain, or sin would be necessary, and if necessary would be no longer sin, as we shall shortly prove at some length.”
[St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection, pp. 133-134, 1759]
[2] Necesse est ut, quo (Deo) auxiliante vincimus, eo non adjuvante vincamur.”—Rescr. ad Conc. Carthag.
[1] “Deus impossiblia non jubet, sed jubendo monet, et facere quod possis et petere quod non possis; et adjuvat ut possis.”— Sess. 6, cap. Il.
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![“It is unlawful for Catholics in any way to assist actively at or take part in the worship of non-Catholics (Canon 1258). Such assistance is intrinsically and gravely evil; for (a) if the worship is non-Catholic in its form (e.g., Mohammedan ablutions, the Jewish paschal meal, revivalistic ‘‘hitting the trail,’’ the right hand of fellowship, etc.), it expresses a belief in the false creed symbolized; (b) if the worship is Catholic in form, but is under the auspices of a non-Catholic body (e.g., Baptism as administered by a Protestant minister, or Mass as celebrated by a schismatical priest), it expresses either faith in a false religious body or rebellion against the true Church.”
[McHugh & Callan, Moral Theology - A Complete Course, Volume 1, #964, p. 376, 1929]
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![But if anyone has either been excommunicated or stripped of episcopal or clerical dignity by Bishop Nestorius or by those who follow him, after they began to preach such things [heresy], it is manifest that such a person has continued firmly and still continues firmly in Our communion, and We judge him not to have been removed: because the sentence of that man who had already shown that he himself should be removed was not able to remove anyone." [Pope St. Celestine I, To John Of Antioch, 430]
"Nevertheless, lest the sentence of him who had already called down a divine sentence upon himself should appear to have force even for a time, the authority of Our Apostolic See has openly ordained that no bishop, cleric, or Christian of any profession, who were deposed from their position or from communion by Nestorius and those of his ilk from the time they began to preach heresy, is to be seen as either deposed or excommunicated. But all these have been and until now remain in Our communion, because he who stumbled in preaching such things was not able to depose or remove anyone." [Pope St. Celestine I, To the Clergy And People Of Constantinople, 430]
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"... all heretics corrupt the true expressions of the Holy Spirit with their own evil minds and they draw down on their own heads an inextinguishable flame." [Pope St. Celestine I, Council of Ephesus, 431]
"Pray that the faith may be granted to infidels; that idolaters may be delivered from the errors of their impiety; that the light of truth may be visible to the Jews, and the veil of their hearts may be removed; that heretics may come to their senses through a comprehension of the Catholic faith; that schismatics may receive the spirit of renewed charity." [Pope St. Celestine I, 431]
https://crusader.surge.sh/heresy.html
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![Julius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for an everlasting record. From a consideration that the detestable crime of simony is forbidden by both divine and human law..[if] the election of the Roman pontiff is made or effected by the person who is elected, or by one or several members of the college of cardinals, giving their votes in a manner that in any way involves simony being committed..by the person elected or by one or several other persons..even if the election resulted in a majority of two-thirds or in the unanimous choice of all the cardinals, or even in a spontaneous agreement on the part of all, without a scrutiny being made, then not only is this election or choice itself null, and does not bestow on the person elected or chosen in this fashion any right of either spiritual or temporal administration, but also there can be alleged and presented, against the person elected or chosen in this manner, by any one of the cardinals who has taken part in the election, the charge of simony, as a true and unquestionable heresy, so that the one elected is not regarded by anyone as the Roman pontiff.
..the person elected in this manner is automatically deprived, without the need of any other declaration, of his cardinal’s rank and of all other honours whatsoever..the elected person is to be regarded as an apostate and, like Simon, a magician and a heresiarch..election of this kind is never at any time to be made valid by a subsequent enthronement or the passage of time, or even by the act of adoration or obedience of all the cardinals..It shall be lawful..withdraw without penalty and at any time from obedience and loyalty to the person so elected even if he has been enthroned.. avoid him as a magician, a heathen, a publican and a heresiarch...
Those who break off obedience to him are not to be subject to any penalties and censures for the said separation, as though they were tearing the Lord’s garment.. https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum18.htm](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreid3xc2op7bcgpav5dc7dn2cjk5ohbabn4xkxuezvg7hnwo66fzur4)
!["Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church...
Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre- eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere." [St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3:1:1 & 3:3:2, 180]
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm
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![“To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name. Men who really believe in the existence of God must, in order to be consistent with themselves and to avoid absurd conclusions, understand that differing modes of divine worship involving dissimilarity and conflict even on most important points cannot all be equally probable, equally good, and equally acceptable to God...
To exclude the Church, founded by God Himself, from life, from laws, from the education of youth, from domestic society is a grave and fatal error. A State from which religion is banished can never be well regulated; and already perhaps more than is desirable is known of the nature and tendency of the so-called civil philosophy of life and morals. The Church of Christ is the true and sole teacher of virtue and guardian of morals. She it is who preserves in their purity the principles from which duties flow, and, by setting forth most urgent reasons for virtuous life, bids us not only to turn away from wicked deeds, but even to curb all movements of the mind that are opposed to reason, even though they be not carried out in action.
To wish the Church to be subject to the civil power in the exercise of her duty is a great folly and a sheer injustice...”
[Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, #'s 31-33, November 1, 1885]
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13sta.htm
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![“It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members... by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.”
[Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum, #14, May 5, 1824]
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo12/l12ubipr.htm
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![“Freedom of will [arbitrium voluntatis] weakened in the first man cannot
be repaired except through the grace of baptism; ‘once it has been lost,
it cannot be restored except by him by whom it could be given. Thus
Truth itself says: “If the Son makes you free, you will be free
indeed. [John 8:36]”’ [St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, 14.11]... According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the salvation of their soul. We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.”
[Pope. St. Felix IV, Second Council of Orange, Canon 13, 529]
from
[Peter M. Folan, Martin Luther and the Council of Trent, p. 185, 2022]
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Orange_(529)
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![“The immediate prelude to Golgotha is the Via Dolorosa. It is on this narrow way that we first behold the sorrow-filled but sinless Mother of God silently weeping for her tom and bleeding Child. He, who knew nothing of sin, is on the way to pay the price of sin as it could never be given to another to pay; and it is she - the Sea of Bitterness - who so compassionates Him in His suffering that it can be said that while He journeys up to Calvary, there to redeem us by the flow of His Precious Blood, she attends Him on the way, there to co-redeem us by the flow of her bitter tears.”
[Rev. William J. Manning, Thoughts From Saint Bonaventure About the Mother of God, p. 2-3, 1955]
https://dn760008.eu.archive.org/0/items/the-catholic-archive-ocred/Image_and_OCR_layers/Thoughts%20from%20Saint%20Bonaventure%20About%20the%20Mother%20of%20God%2C%20Fr.%20William%20Manning%2C%201955.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreick7z6soyj3nrr6ihjh7bhq4qabgw6mxxczo4hbwjkyyg45bxlxjy)
![“How then shall we say what her [the Blessed Virgin Mary] woes are like? Holy men have tried to do so, and they have done it by calling her the co-redemptress of the world, and speaking of her sorrows as they blended with the Precious Blood, and the two made but one sacrifice for the sins of the world. There is a deep truth, and a most substantial one, hidden under these great words, and yet they may easily be understood in a sense in which they would not be true. They are the expressions of an excellent devotion, striving to assist the feebleness of our understandings to a true conception of Mary's grandeurs. They are accuracies, not exaggerations. Yet they need cautious wording and careful explanation.”
[Rev. Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross, Chapter 1, Section 1, 1858]
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BfwCAAAAQAAJ
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!["Divine scripture testifies that an equal punishment is due to those who commit an evil and to those who assent to it [Rom. 1:32]."
[Pope St. Gregory VII, To The Clergy and Laity of Germany, 1075]
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![“To the blessed Pope Leo [Pope St. Leo IX], Peter, the monks' least servant, sends the homage of his proper devotion. Since we know from the mouth of Truth itself that the Apostolic See is the mother of all churches, it is proper that if any doubt should arise in matters pertaining to the welfare of souls, one should have recourse to her as to the teacher and, as one might say, to the source of heavenly wisdom, so that from this unique principle of ecclesiastical discipline a light may go forth by which the entire body of the Church is bathed in the utter brilliance that Truth imparts, once the darkness of uncertainty has been dispelled.”
[St. Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah, p. 1, 1049]
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You can find the Book of Gomorrah in the book "The Fathers of the Church - Mediaeval Continuation - The Letters of Peter Damian - Letters 31-60", translated by Owen Blum, O.F.M., 1990, which you can download here:
https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-fathers-of-the-church-medieval-continuation/The%20Fathers%20of%20the%20Church%20Mediaeval%20Continuation%202%20The%20Letters%20of%20Peter%20Damian%20%2831-60%29%20%281990%29.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreih6ixlgrmssfgpup3siz3dmibah323xffmkdmcxho6rqozuvijb5i)
![“For one like you [St. Peter Damian] who has so raised the arm of the spirit against the obscenity of lust, has surely subdued the savagery of the flesh. This execrable vice sets one far apart from the Author of virtue who, since He is pure, admits of nothing that is impure. Nor can one who will subject himself to sordid pleasure share in His company. Clerics, indeed, whose most impure life you in your prudence have lamentably and also intelligently discussed, verily and most assuredly will have no share in His inheritance, from which by their voluptuous pleasures they have withdrawn. If they lived purely, they would be called, not only the holy temple of the Lord, but also His very sanctuary, in which with snow white splendor the illustrious Lamb of God is offered, by whom the foul corruption of all the world is washed away. Such clerics, indeed, profess, if not in words, at least by the evidence of their actions, that they are not what they are thought to be... he who does not attack vice, but deals lightly with it, is rightly judged to be guilty of his death, along with the one who dies in sin.”
[Pope St. Leo IX, Letter to St. Peter Damian, 1049]
From the book "The Fathers of the Church - Mediaeval Continuation - The Letters of Peter Damian - Letters 31-60", translated by Owen Blum, O.F.M., 1990, which you can download here:
https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-fathers-of-the-church-medieval-continuation/The%20Fathers%20of%20the%20Church%20Mediaeval%20Continuation%202%20The%20Letters%20of%20Peter%20Damian%20%2831-60%29%20%281990%29.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreicw4n7v27ee36llod2zktzmnqmfpbziqc6znskiacslptrl5vaijq)
![“The Catholic Faith professes that the Sacrament of Order instituted by Christ, by which are conferred spiritual power and grace to perform properly ecclesiastical functions, is one and the same for the universal Church; for, just as Our Lord Jesus Christ gave to the Church but one and the same government under the Prince of the Apostles, one and the same faith, one and the same sacrifice, so too He gave her but one and the same treasury of efficacious signs of grace, that is, Sacraments. For these Sacraments instituted by Christ Our Lord, the Church in the course of the centuries never substituted other Sacraments, nor could she do so, since, as the Council of Trent teaches (Conc. Trid., Sess. VII, can. 1, De Sacram, in genere), the seven Sacraments of the New Law were all instituted by Jesus Christ Our Lord, and the Church has no power over “the substance of the Sacraments,” that is, over those things which, as is proved from the sources of divine revelation, Christ the Lord Himself established to be kept as sacramental signs...
As to the matter and form in the conferring of each Order, We of Our same supreme Apostolic Authority decree and provide as follows: In the Episcopal Ordination or Consecration... the form consists of the words of the ‘Preface,’ of which the following are essential and therefore required for validity: ‘Perfect in Thy priest the fullness of Thy ministry and, clothing him in all the ornaments of spiritual glorification, sanctify him with the Heavenly anointing.’”
[Pope Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, November 30, 1947]
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![“... a further distinction must be made which will constatly recur, between the sentenced and the unsentenced heretic. The latter is a heretic who is bound by the ipso facto excommunication attached to the delict of heresy, but who has not been personally dealt with by the judicial authorities of the Church; he has been excommunicated by the law itself, but has not been sentenced by ecclesiastical officials. The former is a heretic whose delict has come to the official notice of the Church, has been proved in judicial process, and has been made the basis of either a condemnatory or declaratory sentence.”
[Rev. Eric F. Mackenzie, The Delict of Heresy, pp. 41-42, 1932]
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![“III. Appointment to the office of the Primacy [i.e. papacy].
1- What is required by divine law for this appointment: (a) It is required that the appointment be of a man who possesses the use of reason — and this at least because of the ordination the Primate must receive to possess the power of Holy Orders. Indeed, this is required for the validity of the appointment.
Also required for validity is that the appointment be of a member of the Church. Heretics and apostates (at least public ones) are therefore excluded. ...
2- Loss of office of the Roman Pontiff. This can occur in various ways: ...
c) Notorious heresy. Certain authors deny the supposition that the Roman Pontiff can indeed become a heretic.
It cannot be proven however that the Roman Pontiff, as a private teacher, cannot become a heretic — if, for example, he would contumaciously deny a previously defined dogma. Such impeccability was never promised by God. Indeed, Pope Innocent III expressly admits such a case is possible.
If indeed such a situation would happen, he [the Roman Pontiff] would, by divine law, fall from office without any sentence, indeed, without even a declaratory one. He who openly professes heresy places himself outside the Church, and it is not likely that Christ would preserve the Primacy of His Church in one so unworthy. Wherefore, if the Roman Pontiff were to profess heresy, before any condemnatory sentence (which would be impossible anyway) he would lose his authority.”
[Fr. Matthaeus Conte a Coronata O.F.M., Institutiones Iuris Canonici (Rome: Marietti 1:312, 316), 1950]
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found here:
Traditionalists, Infallibility and the Pope (1995, 2006)
by Rev. Anthony Cekada
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![“And closely following upon the footsteps of Our predecessor of happy memory Paul IV, We renew, in accordance with this motu proprio, the constitution against heretics and schismatics [Cum ex Apostolatus Officio] previously issued by the same predecessor Paul... and We also confirm it as inviolable and wish and command that it be observed to the letter, according to its contents and wording.”
[Pope St. Pius V, Inter Multiplices, December 21, 1566]
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![“I respond to this conclusion by saying that the Pope has no superior judge on Earth, except in cases of heresy... Deviant from the faith means, when one departs from the faith persistently and falls from the Rock of the Faith, on which it was founded.(cfr. Mt. XVI) [The Pope] becomes minor and inferior to any of the faithful and can, therefore, be judged by the Church, or rather, declared already condemned, according to what has been written that whoever does not believe has already been judged, and the Pope cannot establish a law that he cannot be accused of heresy, since it would jeopardize the entire Church and confuse its general status.”
[Cardinal Giovanni di Torquemada, on Corpus Iuris Canonici, 15th century]
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![“... the Catholic Church alone is the body of Christ, of which He is the Head and Saviour of His body. [Ephesians 5:23] Outside this body the Holy Spirit gives life to no one seeing that, as the apostle says himself, "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us;" [Romans 5:5] but he is not a partaker of the divine love who is the enemy of unity. Therefore they have not the Holy Ghost who are outside the Church; for it is written of them, "They separate themselves being sensual, having not the Spirit." [Jude 19] But neither does he receive it who is insincerely in the Church, since this is also the intent of what is written: "For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee deceit." [Wisdom 1:5] If any one, therefore, wishes to receive the Holy Spirit, let him beware of continuing in alienation from the Church, let him beware of entering it in the spirit of dissimulation; or if he has already entered it in such wise, let him beware of persisting in such dissimulation, in order that he may truly and indeed become united with the tree of life.”
[St. Augustine, Letter 185 to Boniface, Chapter 11, #50, 5th century]
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![“When the bases of the interior life are considered, we cannot discuss the action of Christ, the universal Mediator, on His mystical body without also speaking of the influence of Mary Mediatrix. As we remarked, many persons delude themselves, maintaining that they reach union with God without having continual recourse to our Lord, who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist in wishing to go to our Lord without going first to Mary, whom the Church calls in a special feast the Mediatrix of all graces.
Protestants have fallen into this last error. Without going as far as this deviation, there are Catholics who do not see clearly enough the necessity of having recourse to Mary that they may attain to intimacy with the Savior. Blessed Grignion de Montfort speaks even of “doctors who know the Mother of God only in a speculative, dry, sterile, and indifferent manner; who fear that devotion to the Blessed Virgin is abused, and that injury is done to our Lord by honoring too greatly His holy Mother. If they speak of devotion to Mary, it is less to recommend it than to destroy the abuses that have grown up around it.” [313]
They seem to believe that Mary is a hindrance to reaching divine union. According to Blessed Grignion, we lack humility if we neglect the mediators whom God has given us because of our frailty. Intimacy with our Lord in prayer will be greatly facilitated by a true and profound devotion to Mary.”
[Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The Three Ages of the Interior Life, Chapter 6, 1948]
[313] Blessed Grignion de Montfort, Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, chap. 2, a. I, § I. See also The Secret of Mary, by the same author. It is a summary of the preceding treatise.
? - https://archive.org/details/threeagesofinter0001garr
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![“Further, if ever at any time it becomes clear that any Bishop, even one conducting himself as an Archbishop, Patriarch, or primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, even as mentioned, a Legate; or likewise any Roman Pontiff before his promotion or elevation as a Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, [has strayed from the Catholic Faith or] fallen into some heresy, [or has incurred schism], then his promotion or elevation shall be null, invalid and void. It cannot be declared valid or become valid through his acceptance of the office, his consecration, subsequent possession or seeming possession of government and administration, or by the enthronement of or homage paid to the same Roman Pontiff, or by universal obedience accorded him, or by the passage of any time in said circumstances, [nor shall it be held as quasi-legitimate.] It shall not be considered to have given or to give any power of administration in matters spiritual or temporal, to such persons promoted as Archbishops, Patriarchs or primates or elevated as Cardinals or as Roman Pontiff. Rather, each and, every one of their statements, deeds, enactments, and administrative acts, of any kind, and any result thereof whatsoever, shall be without force and shall confer no legality or right on anyone. The persons themselves so promoted and elevated shall, ipso facto and without need for any further declaration, be deprived of any dignity, position, honor, title, authority, office and power, [without any exception as regards those who might have been promoted or elevated before they deviated from the faith, became heretics, incurred schism, or committed or encouraged any or all of these.]”
[Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Dryden), February 15, 1559]
https://crusader.surge.sh/popes/paul_iv/cum_ex_apostolatus_officio_dryden.html
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!["Pope John XXIII [sic] (our Mason Brother Angelo Roncalli in the world)..." -Massoneria Universale Grande Oriente Democratico
https://www.grandeoriente-democratico.com/Matteo-Zuppi-appena-creato-Cardinale-cita-significativamente-San-Giovanni-XXIII-il-Fratello-Angelo-Roncalli-a-proposito-di-paternita-e-fraternita-spirituale.html
he's on the far right
https://ecclesiasticalfreemasonry.com/2023/01/27/little-known-picture-reveals-a-lot-about-john-xxiii/
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![“And so too are all they seriously mistaken who, occupying themselves with the welfare of the people, and especially upholding the cause of the lower classes, seek to promote above all else the material well-being of the body and of life, but are utterly silent about their spiritual welfare and the very serious duties which their profession as Christians enjoins upon them.”
[Pope St. Pius X, Iucunda Sane, #26, March 12, 1904]
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![“In addition, [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 appear 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, honour, title, authority, office and power.”
[Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, #6, February 15, 1559]
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![“Confirmation is complementary to baptism and crowns its work but it is certain that baptism only is necessary for salvation. “Wherefore the sick who after baptism depart this world without having received the laying on of hands from the bishop are nonetheless deemed perfect Christians”, pro perfectis fidelibus. [2]
This dogma was expressed unambiguously in the third century and has never varied; it led to the charitable innovation of Pope St. Silvester who in the fourth century ordered simple priests, the ordinary ministers of baptism, to anoint the neophytes with chrism in order that any who should die without the sacrament of confirmation should not wholly lose the grace mediated by it. The attitude of the Fathers is that confirmation is a perfecting and fulfilling of the grace conferred in baptism, or else something additional, over and above the graces of baptism; not that baptismal regeneration is of itself incomplete, for it is perfect and sufficient...”
[Dom Pierre De Puniet, O.S.B., The Roman Pontifical, p. 66, 1932]
[2] Anonymus, De rebaptismate, in the Works of St. Cyprian, ed. Hartel, II, 74.
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!["Melchior Cano teaches that heretics are neither parts nor members of the Church, and he teaches that it's inconceivable that someone is the head and pope who is not a member or a part.
... 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. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.
... Then two years later came the lapse of Liberius, of which we have spoken above. Then indeed the Roman clergy, stripping Liberius of his pontifical dignity, went over to Felix, whom they knew [then] to be a Catholic. From that time, Felix began to be the true Pontiff. For although Liberius was not a heretic, nevertheless he was considered one, on account of the peace he made with the Arians, and by that presumption the pontificate could rightly be taken from him: for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; but when they see that someone is a heretic by his external works, they judge him to be a heretic pure and simple, and condemn him as a heretic.
Finally, the Holy Fathers teach unanimously not only that heretics are outside of the Church, but also that they are "ipso facto" deprived of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction and dignity." [St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Book 2, Chapter 30, 16th century]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreiegjstfmluvz7fhy47x7bd7zbiqcnhxp5nhxg6slr77fiup6gamgq)
![”... that the whole flock of Christ on earth may never be misled, the other that the unity of the Church may always be preserved. Unity of faith generates unity of mind, unity of heart, unity of will. Truth goes before unity. Where truth is divided unity cannot be. Unity before truth is deception. Unity without truth is indifference or unbelief. Truth before unity is the law, and principle, and safeguard of unity. Unity of communion is the effect of unity of faith. The decree then assigns the reason of the definition. It says: "In these days, when the effectual authority of the apostolic office is especially needed, there are not a few who diminish it and speak against it. Therefore, because it is a divine truth, and because it has been contradicted and denied, we judge it to be altogether necessary to declare with all solemnity the prerogative which the Divine Founder of the Church has seen fit to unite with the supreme pastoral office". It seems hardly credible that men with these words before their eyes should impute to the Vatican Council the doctrine of personal infallibility, that is, of infallibility inhering in the person.“
[Cardinal Manning, The True Story of the Vatican Council, p. 183, 1877]
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![”To all who speak to you of 'liberty of conscience' say that without God there is no liberty. He made man free and gifted with reason, but in so doing He imposed upon him obligations and dictated laws for him in order to prevent that native liberty and reason from leading him astray. Among these obligations those laws stand first which pertain to religion — namely, the worship and obedience which are due to God as the Supreme Author and Repairer of human nature. He has Himself determined, and made known to us, in what manner we are thus to honor and serve Him. Nor is it left to the free will of man to refuse it, or to fashion for himself a form of worship and service such as he pleases to render. That worship, that religion alone is true, is good, which God Himself has manifestly willed us to practice. After that it would not only be impious but monstrous to maintain that every form of worship is acceptable and indifferent, that the human conscience is free to adopt whichever form it pleases, and to fashion out a religion to suit itself.
"What! are they then things indifferent, dependent upon our choice and good pleasure, these matters which we call truth and error, the divine glory and God's dishonor?
"What! can it then be a matter of indifference to man to know God or to ignore Him, to revere Him or to worship His creatures, to serve Him as He bids us or to refuse His service?“
[Archbishop Pecci (Leo XIII), On the Current Errors against Religion and Christian Life, 1864]
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from p. 189 of The Life and Work of Pope Leo XIII by McGovern
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![“Assuredly we without doubt believe that those who have hitherto, with so much constancy, undergone the most atrocious persecutions, well-nigh complete miseries, in order that they might walk faultless in the law of the Lord, will never bring it about that they should be polluted by communion with those who have deserted the divine law. Nevertheless, impelled by the zeal of our pastoral office, and with the paternal solicitude whereby we labor unceasingly for the salvation of your souls, we are compelled to warn and to implore you that under no condition should you go to the temples of heretics, or hear their public sermons, or communicate with them in their rites, lest you incur the wrath of God. For it is not licit for you to do these things without detriment to the divine cult and to your own salvation.”
[Pope Paul V, 17th century]
Found here:
Fr. Francisco Suarez, S.J., Defense of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith Against the Errors of Anglicanism, pp. 973-974
https://archive.org/details/defense-of-the-catholic-and-apostolic-faith-against-the-errors-of-anglicanism/page/972/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/defense-of-the-catholic-and-apostolic-faith-against-the-errors-of-anglicanism
https://archive.org/download/defense-of-the-catholic-and-apostolic-faith-against-the-errors-of-anglicanism/Defense%20of%20the%20Catholic%20and%20Apostolic%20Faith%20Against%20the%20Errors%20of%20Anglicanism.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreibcarugpcxtlwlz42soxmjihnt4y5vekavokohldnfxp7vunogniq)
![“Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.” [Matthew 10:34-39]
[35] "I came to set a man at variance": Not that this was the end or design of the coming of our Saviour; but that his coming and his doctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance that many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should adhere to him. [Challoner]
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![“Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements which disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic Truth is camouflaged.” [Pope Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, August 28, 1794]
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![“Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.” [Matthew 7:21-23]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreiftvqdrexgw4i5k5wxseuvwz6rg5ag5wtt5fmq6xgzdtqzrdvo5ve)
![“But another very grave crime is to be noted, Venerable Brethren, which regards the taking of the life of the offspring hidden in the mother’s womb. Some wish it to be allowed and left to the will of the father or the mother; others say it is unlawful unless there are weighty reasons which they call by the name of medical, social, or eugenic “indication.” Because this matter falls under the penal laws of the state by which the destruction of the offspring begotten but unborn is forbidden, these people demand that the “indication,” which in one form or another they defend, be recognized as such by the public law and in no way penalized. There are those, moreover, who ask that the public authorities provide aid for these death-dealing operations, a thing, which, sad to say, everyone knows is of very frequent occurrence in some places.
As to the “medical and therapeutic indication” to which, using their own words, we have made reference, Venerable Brethren, however much we may pity the mother whose health and even life is gravely imperiled in the performance of the duty allotted to her by nature, nevertheless what could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: “Thou shalt not kill:”[50] The life of each is equally sacred, and no one has the power, not even the public authority, to destroy it. It is of no use to appeal to the right of taking away life for here it is a question of the innocent, whereas that right has regard only to the guilty...
for the killing of the innocent is unthinkable and contrary to the divine precept promulgated in the words of the Apostle: Evil is not to be done that good may come of it.[52]...
[Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, #'s 63-67, December 31, 1930]
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![“For the Pope in the Church is more than a king in a kingdom: for this king receives power from his own republic, the Pope truly does not receive his power from the Church, but immediately from God: therefore in no case is he able to be deposed by the Church, but only to be declared to have fallen out of the Pontificate. If (God forbid) he were to fall into public heresy, he would accordingly ipso facto cease to be pope, aye, [he would ipso facto cease to be] faithful and Christian.”
[Fr. Cornelius à Lapide, S.J., Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, p. 410, 17th century]
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![“Albertus Magnus [St. Albert the Great] styles Mary the "coadjutrix of our redemption;" and the holy Virgin herself told St. Bridget that as Adam and Eve had sold the world for an apple, thus she and her Son had redeemed it with one heart. God has been able to create the world, but He has not been pleased to redeem it without the cooperation of Mary.
"The blessed Virgin," says Father Suarez, "has concurred in three ways to our redemption: First, in meriting, by congruity, as theologians say, that the Word should become incarnate in her womb; second, by her consent that Jesus might sacrifice Himself for our redemption; and hence it is that the Lord, ever equitable in His decrees, has ordained that she should become for all the mediatrix of salvation.”
[Rev. Henry A. Brann, D.D., The Glories of the Catholic Church, Volume 3, p. 182, 1895]
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Catholic. There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Sedevacante since 1958. Leo XIV is a non-Catholic antipope. https://crusader.surge.sh/