VIDEO: The End of A Divisive Papacy

Gavin Ashenden Distills the Last 12 Years of Pope Francis so Poignantly and Pointedly. Begin at 5:17 minute marker.

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Indeed, even if Pope Francis had resigned from his post, as Pope Benedict XVI did, this would not have been enough to heal the terrible wound of a heretical pope, because the destructive elements and poisonous fruits of his pontificate would have remained:

1. The Acta Apostolica will continue to contain uncondemned heresies.

2. Heretical moral teachings such as those expressed in the Amoris Laetitia would ostensibly remain official teachings of the Church and would seduce the faithful into committing grave sins.

3. Many other heretical remarks by the Pope that directly contradict the solemn words of Christ and the dogmas of the Church would not be expunged from the corpus of Church teaching, such as:

a. Francis's (private but repeated) "teaching" on the emptiness of hell and the non-existence of eternal punishment,

b. the affirmation of annihilation instead of eternal punishment for incurable sinners, a typical teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses, incompatible with several dogmas.

c. The sentence in the Abu Dhabi Declaration on God's Will Since Creation concerning the plurality of religions (including those that deny the divinity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, redemption by Christ alone, etc.) which is more apostatic than heretical, would not be removed from the Acta Apostolica but would remain prescribed for all bishops and rectors of seminaries throughout the world to teach in seminaries in the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia as part of the preparation of seminarians for holy orders. This apostatic sentence would remain in the eyes of the faithful a "teaching of the Church", but it is in reality not only un-Catholic, even anti-Catholic, but also anti-Christian,which would cause immense harm to faith and morals if it were left in the Acta Apostolica.

3. Furthermore, only if Francis, after the Church has examined and condemned his heresies which are far worse than those of any previous Pope like John XXII, were posthumously declared not to have been the true Pope, could many of the actions taken by the Pope (papal praise and celebration of Reformation Day, statue, stamp and praise of Luther) be considered measures that must be repressed; cult of Pasha Mamma in St. Peter's; blessings of homosexual and adulterous couples, false claim that adulterous and remarried couples can know by their conscience that God wants them to remain in the sin of adultery, rather than follow the perpetual teaching of the Church on marriage expressed in Familiaris Consortio 83 , etc., etc.), could no longer be considered legitimate Catholic actions and teachings, and his documents would no longer be accepted as part of true Catholic teaching.

Consequently, according to the infallible papal teaching of Paul IV and St. Pius V, in my opinion, Francis's appointment of 80% of the cardinals-elect (who, humanly speaking, will be likely to elect a pope who might continue to teach Francis's heresies) will be retracted and will cease to be a horrible threat to the next conclave and the election of a new pope.

MERCY, MERCY, MERCY

Pope Francis' overemphasis on a naked mercy, of a somewhat superficial sort, without those other and quite crucial elements of the Faith, accounts for many of the divisions in the Church of recent years:

• Communion for the divorced and remarried,
• the “blessing” of gay couples,
• the overturning of the teaching on the death penalty,
• an essentially unrealistic plea to welcome even greater illegal immigration,
• a shocking lack of urgency about missionary work (and fear of “proselytizing”),
• a false universalism and indifferentism that views all religions as “valid paths” to God.

Yes, amidst all the talk of mercy, there have also been some words about following Jesus. But when you ignore the Lord’s own teachings, sometimes even changing the words he’s recorded to have said, and the doctrines of His Church developed over centuries by men and women of great learning and holiness, it’s difficult to see what mercy is, other than a kindliness understood in current worldly, not Christian, terms.

The Church in the coming years needs to speak of a more robust mercy that understands, forgives, and expects weakness and sin, but isn’t sentimentally indulgent. The Church was founded by a Savior who had to suffer and die a horrible death to redeem us from all that. Because the stakes, not only in this life but in the next are crucially, cosmically, eternally high.

As Monsignor Charles Pope makes clear in his stunning new book The Hell There Is: An Exploration of an Often-Rejected Doctrine of the Church, Jesus spoke often of Hell and even warned us that few find the way that leads to eternal life.  The good monsignor recounts, however, what is probably not all that rare a response to that teaching these days:

Some years ago, I was preaching on heaven and hell since the Gospel for that Sunday was of the wide and narrow roads just mentioned. Afterward, a woman approached me, angry that I had mentioned hell at all, and said, “Father, I didn’t hear the Jesus I know in your words today.” I replied, “But Ma’am, I was quoting Him directly.” She didn’t miss a beat and simply replied, “Well, we know He never really said that.”

If we’re looking for a program for the next papacy, we could do worse than reaffirming that, in His love for us, God gave us freedom to choose between Good and Evil. (Without that freedom, our love for Him would be impossible since we’d simply be beings determined by our environment.) The next pope should directly counter the false belief that virtually everyone ends up in Heaven, which probably leads a good woman to believe that she knows what Jesus said and meant better than what the Gospels tell us he said.

7 OF THE HERESIES OF POPE FRANCIS (follow this link to read entire letter and official Church teaching):

I. A justified person has not the strength with God’s grace to carry out the objective demands of thedivine law, as though any of the commandments of God are impossible for the justified; or as meaningthat God’s grace, when it produces justification in an individual, does not invariably and of its natureproduce conversion from all serious sin, or is not sufficient for conversion from all serious sin.

II. A Christian believer can have full knowledge of a divine law and voluntarily choose to break it in aserious matter, but not be in a state of mortal sin as a result of this action.

III. A person is able, while he obeys a divine prohibition, to sin against God by that very act ofobedience.

IV. Conscience can truly and rightly judge that sexual acts between persons who have contracted a civilmarriage with each other, although one or both of them is sacramentally married to another person, cansometimes be morally right, or requested or even commanded by God.

V. It is false that the only sexual acts that are good of their kind and morally licit are acts betweenhusband and wife.

VI. Moral principles and moral truths contained in divine revelation and in the natural law do notinclude negative prohibitions that absolutely forbid particular kinds of action, inasmuch as these arealways gravely unlawful on account of their object.

VII. God not only permits, but positively wills, the pluralism and diversity of religions, both Christianand non-Christian.