
HERESY..?
APOSTASY..?

DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!
Jorge’s “Catechesis
on Saint Joseph”
and the Communion of Saints
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
“Then He shall say to
them also that shall be on His left hand: Depart from Me, you
cursed,
into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels.” (Saint Matthew 25:41)
Francis and the Heresy of Universal Salvation
Preface by the Editor
Father Ludwig Ott, Ph.D.,
the most pre-eminent
Catholic Dogmatic Theologian of the 20th century, in his
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, unequivocally
asserts the following:
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“If a baptized
person deliberately denies or doubts a dogma properly so-called,
he is guilty of the sin of heresy (CIC 1325, Par. 2) and
automatically becomes subject to the punishment of
excommunication
(CIC 2314, Par. 1).” … As against Modernism,
the Catholic Church stresses that dogma according to
its content is of truly Divine origin, that is, it is the
expression of an objective truth, and its content is
immutable.” (Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Intro.
P. 5.)
St. Cyprian [210 – 258 AD]: “Outside the Church there is no salvation”
(salus extra Ecclesiam non est; Ep. 73,21) (Father
Ludwig Ott, Ph.D. —1906-1985 — Fundamentals
of Catholic Dogma — the most pre-eminent Catholic
Dogmatic Theologian of the 20th century)
Saint Augustine
himself, most eminent among the Church Fathers, argues in
his Retractions “That ... those who
will be punished in the eternal fire do not return to God, from whom
they detached themselves” (1:7:6). The logical consequence
of
“Origen’s theory of apokatastasis (ἀποκατάστασις), or
universal salvation, resulted in Augustine’s indictment
of Origen as ‘the most merciful of all’ in that he even
hypothesized the eschatological salvation of the devil.”
De gestis Pelagii 1:3:9
First: Understanding
the Hersey of Indifferentism
Before
we review Bergoglio’s “Catechesis” of February 2,
2022, we must first have a clear understanding
of the theological assertion of Indifferentism:
which is the heretical belief that there
is no difference between any and all religions inasmuch
as each suffices of itself as a means to redemption
and beatitude. In other words, one religion is as
correct and good as any other religion — however
contradictory and antagonistic to
every other religion.
This is logically indefensible:
it is a breach of the logical Law of Non-Contradiction:
to wit: contradictory propositions
cannot both be true in the same sense at the same
time, e.g. the proposition that “the Holy
Eucharist really IS the Body, Blood,
Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ” as Catholics
maintain, AND “the Holy Eucharist is NOT
really the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus
Christ” as Protestants and Pagans maintain, is
an incoherent proposition. Each proposition is categorically a denial and
repudiation of the other. To hold that 1+1=2
and 1+1=5 because we
wish it to be so, does not —
and cannot possibly — make it so. They are
inherently contradictory statements. The condemnation of indifferentism as a heresy
is closely linked to the dogmatic definition that
outside the Church there is no salvation.]
NOW,
BERGOGLIO’s uNIQUE “CATECHESIS” (ex
capite) fOLLOWS:
“What is the communion of saints?” Bergoglio asks rhetorically.
“The [1992]
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”
“It means that it [the
Church] is the community of saved sinners”.
(i.e. the Heresy of Universal
Salvation)
What is more: “Sometimes
even Christianity can fall into forms of devotion that seem
to reflect a mentality that is more pagan than Christian ... Christ
is the bond that unites us to him and to each other … this
bond that unites us all, between ourselves and us with Christ,
it is the “communion of saints”.
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]
Continuing his address,
Bergoglio enumerates the errors that CANNOT exclude
anyone from salvation:
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“No
one can exclude themselves from the Church,
we are all saved
sinners”
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“Nothing and
no one can break this bond.
‘Father, let’s think about those who,
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have denied the faith
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who are apostates
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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.]
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who have denied their baptism:
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“Are these also at home?’
Yes,
these too. All of them.”
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“The
blasphemers, all of them… the saints, the
sinners, all.’”
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2022/documents/20220202-udienza-generale.html
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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
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“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
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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 —
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... 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:
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“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.
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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.”
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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:
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“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
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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.
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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?
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“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
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Bergoglio:
“No one can exclude themselves from the Church ... The blasphemers,
all of them… the saints, the sinners, all.”
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Jesus Christ and
His Apostles:
Saint Matthew 7.21-23
“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.”
Saint Matthew 25:31-46 (the Eschatological Discourse):
“And when the Son of man shall come
in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall He sit upon
the seat of His majesty. And all nations shall be gathered together
before Him, and He shall separate them one from another, as the
shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: And He shall set the
sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then shall
the King say to them that shall be on His right hand: Come, ye blessed
of My Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me to eat;
I was thirsty, and you gave Me to drink; I was a stranger, and you
took Me in: Naked, and you covered Me: sick, and you visited Me:
I was in prison, and you came to Me. Then shall the just answer
Him, saying: Lord, when did we see Thee hungry, and fed Thee; thirsty,
and gave Thee drink? And when did we see Thee a stranger, and took
Thee in? or naked, and covered Thee? Or when did we see Thee sick
or in prison, and came to Thee? And the King answering, shall say
to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these
My least brethren, you did it to Me.
Then He shall say to them also that shall be on His left hand:
Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared
for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave
Me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave Me not to drink. I was
a stranger, and you took Me not in: naked, and you covered Me not:
sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me. Then they also shall
answer Him, saying: Lord, when did we see Thee hungry, or thirsty,
or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
to Thee? Then He shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as
long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do
it to Me. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.”
Saint John 13.26-27
“Jesus answered: He it is to whom I
shall reach bread dipped. And when He had dipped the bread, he gave
it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the morsel, Satan entered into him.”
Saint Luke 12:5
“I will show you whom you shall fear:
fear ye Him, who after He hath killed, hath power to cast into
Hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.”
Saint Luke 13:23-28
“And a certain man said to Him: Lord,
are they few that are saved? But He said to them: Strive to enter
by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter,
and shall not be able. But when the master of the house shall
be gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without,
and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And He answering,
shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Then you
shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in Thy presence, and
Thou hast taught in our streets. And He shall say to you: I know
you not, whence you are: depart from He, all ye workers of iniquity.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom
of God, and you yourselves thrust out...”
Saint Mark 9:41-47
“And whosoever shall scandalize
one of these little ones that believe in Me; it were better for
him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he were cast
into the sea. And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is
better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands
to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: Where their worm dieth
not, and the fire is not extinguished. And if thy foot scandalize
thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter lame into life
everlasting, than having two feet, to be cast into the hell of
unquenchable fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
extinguished. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out.
It is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of
God, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire: Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.”
(Saint Paul) I Cor. 6:9-10
“Know you not that the unjust
shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers
with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers,
nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.”
(Saint Paul) Galatians 5:19-21
“Now the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,
idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths,
quarrels, dissensions, sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to
you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom
of God.”
(Saint Paul) Ephesians 5:5
“For know you this and understand,
that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which
is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and of God.”
(Saint Paul) Philippians 3:18-19
“For many walk, of whom I have
told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies
of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction”
2 Saint Peter 2:4-10
“For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to
the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:
And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth
person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly. And reducing the cities of the Sodomites,
and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown,
making them an example to those that should after act wickedly.
And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation
of the wicked. For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among
them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation,
but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment
to be tormented. And especially them who walk after the
flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, audacious,
self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.”
Apocalypse 21:8
“But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion
in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the
second death.”
Apocalypse 22:13-15
“I am Alpha and Omega, the First and
the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are they that wash
their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right
to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Without [outside] are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and
murderers, and servers of idols, and every one that loveth and maketh
a lie.”
The above citations from Holy Scripture are by no means
exhaustive — nor are the arguments from discursive reason
compendious. Each, however, suffices to demonstrate the rationally
flawed, theologically inconsistent, and formally heretical
propositions put forth by Francis (Bergoglio) in a failed attempt
to bring the specious documents resulting from the calamitous convocation
(Vatican II) to mature, albeit illogical, realization in the
formerly (pre-Vatican II) condemned and heretical notion of “Ecumenism”
first promoted by 1,213 Protestant theologians in
the early 20th century at the Assembly Hall of the United Free
Church of Scotland in Edinburgh in 1910.
“Ecumenism”, together
with the reciprocal notion of Universal Salvation, was
never a Catholic doctrine, let alone a mandate
— until Vatican beginning 1962 and presently culminating in the incoherent person of
Jorge Bergoglio (Francis) — as its most vigorous and vociferous proponent.
(Deus, miserere nobis!)
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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1
https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/are-the-baltimore-catechism-and-catechism-of-the-catholic-church-the-same/15337
2
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Greg16/g16mirar.htm
3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_in_the_Catholic_Church
4 http://www.canonlaw.info/blogarch08.htm
5 https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07759a.htm
6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indifferentism
Also see: “The Devil’s
Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism”
by scholar Michael McClymond
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/march-web-only/michael-mcclymond-devils-redemption-universalism.html
(“The more robust arguments for universalism hold that God’s purposes
in creating the world will fail if even one intelligent creature should
finally be separated from God. This line of reasoning implies that not
only human sinners but also fallen angels [demons] will finally be saved.
The title of my book, The Devil’s Redemption, is an allusion
to that idea ... Universalism is theologically untrue and pastorally
unhelpful.”)
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