We must first be clear that this new “official 1992 catechism” to which Bergoglio adverts was initiated by the post-Vatican II pontiff and ecumenist John Paul II, the better to align with the Nouveau Theologie ressourcement (a new theology arising from a spurious “return to the sources”) prevalent in the 1960’s — which was the precursor to Vatican II — despite Catechisms already long in use such as “The Baltimore Catechism” from 1885-1967 in four volumes, “A Catechism of Christian Doctrine” (the “Penny Catechism”) first published in England in 1898 and earlier the Catechism of the Council of Trent in 1566, all of which are splendidly clear on Catholic Doctrine and Teaching, as well as Catholic Dogma.

This “new Catechism” was specifically undertaken to promote the socially and religiously “correct” doctrines promoted by the Modernist Council of Vatican II:

 “The Baltimore Catechism and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are not the same thing. ... The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) brought many changes to church life and to the approach to theology and catechesis. Following the Council, there was a great crisis in catechesis, which Blessed Pope John Paul II addressed in his Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae (1979). Twenty years after the conclusion of the Council, Blessed John Paul II asked that a universal catechism be prepared incorporating the teachings of Vatican II within the living tradition of the church. This project was overseen largely by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI” .^1]

“No one can exclude themselves from the Church, we are all saved sinners”   “Nothing and no one can break this bond. ‘Father, let’s think about those who,   have denied the faith   who are apostates   who are the persecutors of the Church [are Judas, Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and every other  mass-murderer and genocidal maniac who detested the Catholic Church, now to be deemed “Saint Adolph Hitler?”, “Saint Josef Stalin?” “Saint Judas Iscariot?” Is every child-molester and murderer, and every indescribable pervert now to be counted in the Litany of Saints?  If “we are all saved”, why not? — ed.]   who have denied their baptism:   “Are these also at home?’ Yes, these too. All of them.”   “The blasphemers, all of them… the saints, the sinners, all.’”          https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2022/documents/20220202-udienza-generale.html

Bergoglio continues: “What, then, is the “Communion of Saints”? The [“updated”] Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms:

“The Communion of Saints IS the Church” (no. 946 — present edition.):
“After confessing “the holy catholic Church,” the Apostles’ Creed adds “the communion of saints.” In a certain sense this article is a further explanation of the preceding: “What is the Church if not the assembly of all the saints?” The Communion of Saints is the Church. [CCC] 945”

[This is incorrect: according to Saint Robert Bellarmine, The Church (Ecclesia) “is a body of men united together by the profession of the same Christian Faith, and by participation in the same sacraments, under the governance of lawful pastors, more especially of the Roman Pontiff, the sole vicar of Christ on earth” (Coetus hominum ejusdem Christianæ fidei professione, et eorumdem sacramentorum communione colligatus, sub regimine legitimorum pastorum et præcipue unius Christi in Terris vicarii Romani Pontificis.” — Bellarmine, De Eccl., III, ii, 9);] — ed.]

To the Contrary:
 

Mirari Vos: On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism

• “The admonition of Pope Agatho [is this]: “nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished; nothing changed; nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards expression and meaning.”[6] Therefore may the unity which is built upon the See of Peter as on a sure foundation stand firm. May it be for all a wall and a security, a safe port, and a treasury of countless blessings.[7] To check the audacity of those who attempt to infringe upon the rights of this Holy See or to sever the union of the churches with the See of Peter, instill in your people a zealous confidence in the papacy and sincere veneration for it. As St. Cyprian wrote: “He who abandons the See of Peter on which the Church was founded, falsely believes himself to be a part of the Church.”[8] (Pope Gregory XVI - 1832, Mirari Vos  —  On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism. ²  ... In these evil and dangerous times, the shepherds must never neglect their duty; they must never be so overcome by fear that they abandon the sheep. Let them never neglect the flock and become sluggish from idleness and apathy. (Ibid 6.)

Mystici Corporis Christi :  Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Mystical Body of Christ

• 22. Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body ... if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered — so the Lord commands — as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body —

• ... for not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy. (22.18)

Pope Leo XII (Ubi Primum #14, May 5, 1824):

“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 ... This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.”

St. Thomas (II-II:11:1) defines heresy as:

• “a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas ... There are, therefore, two ways of deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of infidelity, common to Pagans and Jews;
  the other by restricting belief to certain points of Christ’s doctrine selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is the way of heretics.

• The subject-matter of both faith and heresy is, therefore, the deposit of the faith, that is, the sum total of truths revealed in Scripture and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church. The believer accepts the whole deposit as proposed by the Church; the heretic accepts only such parts of it as commend themselves to his own approval.”

• The heretic who is aware that his belief is at odds with Catholic teaching and yet continues to cling to his belief pertinaciously is a formal heretic. This sort of heresy is sinful because in this case the heretic knowingly holds an opinion that … “is destructive of the virtue of Christian faith ... disturbs the unity, and challenges the Divine authority, of the Church” and “strikes at the very source of faith.” ³

Canon Law:  

• “Without prejudice to the prescript of can. 194.1, n. 2, an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication”  ⁴

• The penalty for a baptized Catholic above the age of 18 who obstinately, publicly, and voluntarily manifests his or her adherence to an objective heresy is automatic excommunication (“latae sententiae”) according to Can. 1364 par.1 CIC.
   

• Religious Indifferentism
  The term given, in general, to all those theories, which, for one reason or another, deny that it is the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion. ⁵
  
  If He [God] revealed a religion, reason certainly tells us that such a religion must be true, and all others that disagree with it false, and that He desires men to embrace it; otherwise, why should He have given any revelation at all?
   

• “In the Catholic Church, [Indifferentism is] the [heretical] belief that one religion is as good as another, and that all religions are equally efficacious and sufficient means to salvation, is believed to be false. One argument the Church advances is that that nobody believes that a religion based on human sacrifice and the subjugation of rivals is as good, true, and beautiful as one based on heroic love of God and neighbor. The condemnation of indifferentism as a heresy is closely linked to the dogmatic definition that outside the Church there is no salvation.” ⁶
  
   

Thus far we have argued merely from the canons of reason — that is to say, we have prescinded from the most Primary Sources that exceed the limitations of reason: to wit, the unimpeachable canon of Sacred Scripture itself.


 

The Heresy of Universal Salvation Summarized