Benedict XVI (the Heresies of Benedict XVI File)

By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond

 

 

Please click here: The Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file]

This article is a must read; it contains the most devastating exposé of Benedict XVI’s heresies and many color pictures.  As is the case with the other articles on this website, this material is written by Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond.  This article is based on research of 24 of Benedict XVI’s books and many of his speeches.  The rest of the material on our website, in our DVDs, and in our books is based on years of the most intense research, including: a study of every papal encyclical since 1740 (the year when the modern form of encyclical was introduced), a study of the decrees of all the ecumenical councils in Church history and other papal bulls, research of every published issue of the Vatican’s weekly newspaper from April 4, 1968 to the present, an intense study of Catholic history, and much more.

 

-Some other recent heresies from Benedict XVI (the article above contains a more complete exposé of his worst heresies)

 

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20.  The Heresies of Benedict XVI (2005-)

 

Benedict XVI “Hailed for Praying like Muslims Toward Mecca,” Dec 1, 2006 — ISTANBUL (Reuters) – “Pope Benedict ended a sensitive, fence-mending visit to Turkey on Friday amid praise for visiting Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque and praying there facing toward Mecca ‘like Muslims.’… ‘The Pope's dreaded visit was concluded with a wonderful surprise,’ wrote daily Aksam on its front page.  ‘In Sultan Ahmet Mosque, he turned toward Mecca and prayed like Muslims,’...’”[1]

 

Benedict XVI praying like Muslims toward Mecca in a mosque, with arms crossed in the Muslim prayer gesture called “the gesture of tranquility,” on Nov. 30, 2006

 

 

Benedict XVI is Joseph Ratzinger.  Joseph Ratzinger was one of the most radical theologians at Vatican II, where his ideas were influential in guiding the revolutionary course of the council. 

 

Karl Rahner (left) with Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (right) at Vatican II[2]

 

At Vatican II, Ratzinger hung around with notorious heretics such as Karl Rahner.  And even though he was a priest, Joseph Ratzinger showed up at Vatican II not in clerical garb, but in a suit and tie. 

 

Ratzinger was named a  “cardinal” by Paul VI in 1977, and became Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith five years later. 

 

 

During these years, Ratzinger wrote a staggering number of books.  The heresies from Ratzinger that will be covered here come from having read many of his speeches and 24 books written by him.

 

 

 

The document on the so-called “Third Secret,” entitled The Message of Fatima, was authored by Ratzinger and “Cardinal” Bertone.  It was an attempt to “debunk” the Message of Fatima, as the Los Angeles Times was forced to admit.  In the document, Ratzinger referred to only one Fatima scholar, Fr. Edouard Dhanis.  Fr. Dhanis held that large portions of the Message of Fatima were fabrications of Lucy.  By referring to Dhanis as his Fatima “expert,” Ratzinger showed that he also holds that the Message of Fatima is a fabrication. 

 

This reveals one of the primary characteristics of Ratzinger.  He is a deceiver.  He will give the appearance of devotion to something (e.g. Fatima), while trying to rip apart its meaning.  He will give the appearance of conservatism, while inculcating the most abominable heresies.  We will now cover the astounding heresies of Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI.

 

BENEDICT XVI’S HERESIES ON THE JEWS

 

 

Based on Scripture and Tradition, the Catholic Church teaches infallibly that it is necessary for salvation to believe in Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith. 

 

John 8:23-24-“… for if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sin.”

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith… it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ... the Son of God is God and man...”[3]

 

The Catholic Church also teaches infallibly that the Old Covenant ceased with the coming of Christ, and was replaced with the New Covenant.  The Council of Florence taught that those who practice the Old Law and the Jewish religion are sinning mortally and are “alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors.”[4]

 

 

 In section II, A, 5, The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible states:

 

“Jewish messianic expectation is not in vain...”[5] 

 

In section II, A, 7, The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible states:

 

“…to read the Bible as Judaism does necessarily involves an implicit acceptance of all its presuppositions, that is, the full acceptance of what Judaism is, in particular, the authority of its writings and rabbinic traditions, which exclude faith in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God… Christians can and ought to admit that the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one…”[6]

 

This is antichrist!

 

1 John 2:22 – “... he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist…”

 

Heresy is a rejection of a dogma of the Catholic Faith; apostasy is a rejection of the entire Christian Faith.  This book contains both heresy and apostasy, fully endorsed by Benedict XVI.

 

Benedict XVI teaches that Jesus doesn’t have to be seen as the Messiah

 

Benedict XVI teaches the same denial of Jesus Christ in a number of his books:

 

Benedict XVI, God and the World, 2000, p. 209: “It is of course possible to read the Old Testament so that it is not directed toward Christ; it does not point quite unequivocally to Christ.  And if Jews cannot see the promises as being fulfilled in him, this is not just ill will on their part, but genuinely because of the obscurity of the texts…  There are perfectly good reasons, then, for denying that the Old Testament refers to Christ and for saying, No, that is not what he said.  And there are also good reasons for referring it to him – that is what the dispute between Jews and Christians is about.”[7]

 

Benedict XVI says that there are perfectly good reasons for not believing that the Old Testament refers to Christ as the prophesied Messiah.  He says that the Old Testament doesn’t point unequivocally to Our Lord as the Messiah.  This is another total denial of the Christian Faith.

 

What makes this apostasy all the more outrageous is the fact that the New Testament is filled with passages which declare that Our Lord is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.  To quote just one passage of many, in John 5 Our Lord specifically tells the Jews that what is written in the Old Testament concerning Him will convict them.

 

John 5:39, 45-47 – “Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me… the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.  For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.”

 

But, according to Benedict XVI, all of these Biblical declarations that Our Lord is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, including Our Lord’s own words, may be false.  According to Benedict XVI, the Jewish reading that Our Lord is not the Messiah, not the Son of God, and not foretold in the Old Testament, is possible and valid.  This is totally heretical, apostate and antichrist.

 

Benedict XVI also denies Jesus Christ in his book Milestones:

 

Benedict XVI, Milestones, 1998, pages 53-54: “I have ever more come to the realization that Judaism… and the Christian faith described in the New Testament are two ways of appropriating Israel’s Scriptures, two ways that, in the end, are both determined by the position one assumes with regard to the figure of Jesus of Nazareth.  The Scripture we today call Old Testament is in itself open to both ways…”[8]

 

Benedict XVI again declares that Scripture is open to holding the Jewish view of Jesus, that Jesus is not the Son of God.  This is precisely why Benedict XVI repeatedly teaches the heresy that Jews don’t need to believe in Christ for salvation.

 

Benedict XVI, Zenit News story, Sept. 5, 2000: “[W]e are in agreement that a Jew, and this is true for believers of other religions, does not need to know or acknowledge Christ as the Son of God in order to be saved…”[9]

 

Benedict XVI, God and the World, 2000, pages 150-151: “…their [the Jews] No to Christ brings the Israelites into conflict with the subsequent acts of God, but at the same time we know that they are assured of the faithfulness of God.  They are not excluded from salvation…”[10]

 

This is a total rejection of Catholic dogma.

 

 

 

 

All of this is why on August 19, 2005 – a Friday at noon, the same day and hour that Jesus was crucified – Benedict XVI arrived at the Jewish Synagogue in Cologne, Germany and took active part in a Jewish worship service.  To take active part in non-Catholic worship is a sin against the divine law and the First Commandment, as was always taught before Vatican II.

 

St. Ambrose, Sermo 37, The Two Ships: “The faithlessness of the Synagogue is an insult to the Savior.  Therefore He chose the bark of Peter, and deserted that of Moses; that is, He rejected the faithless Synagogue, and adopts the believing Church.”[11]

 

Benedict XVI in the synagogue of the Jews, taking active part in Jewish worship on Aug. 19, 2005[12]

 

In taking part in a Jewish worship service, Benedict XVI committed a public act of apostasy.  At the synagogue, Benedict XVI was seated prominently near the front.  The synagogue was packed with Jews who were there to see him.  Benedict XVI was not only an integral part of the Jewish worship service, he was its main feature.  This is without any doubt active participation in the Jewish religion.

 

 

Very close to Benedict XVI, the cantor of the synagogue prayed and sang Jewish prayers at the top of his lungs.  Benedict made gestures, such as bowing his head and clapping his hands, to show his approval and participation in the Jewish service.  He joined the Jews in the Kaddish prayer, and Yiddish music blared in the background.   

 

 

When Benedict XVI rose to speak (and eventually to pray) in the synagogue, the entire synagogue rose to its feet and applauded him – applauded him for his acceptance of their religion.  Everyone on earth who saw this event knows that it had one meaning: Benedict XVI has no problem with Jews who reject Jesus Christ, and (according to him) they have no obligation to accept Jesus Christ to be saved.

 

 

Benedict XVI teaches that Jews can be saved, that the Old Covenant is valid, and that Jesus Christ is not necessarily the Messiah.  He is a bold heretic against the Gospel and the Catholic Faith.

 

 

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives…”[13]

 

 

Benedict XVI encourages the Chief Rabbi of Rome in his “mission”

 

Benedict XVI exchanges a gift with rabbis at Castelgandolfo, Sept. 15, 2005[14]

 

Benedict XVI, Address to Chief Rabbi of Rome, Jan. 16, 2006: “Distinguished Chief Rabbi, you were recently entrusted with the spiritual guidance of Rome’s Jewish Community; you have taken on this responsibility enriched by your experience as a scholar and a doctor who has shared in the joys and sufferings of a great many people.  I offer you my heartfelt good wishes for your mission, and I assure you of my own and my collaborators’ cordial esteem and friendship.”[15]

 

This is apostasy.  Benedict XVI encourages the Chief Rabbi in his “mission”!   He also expresses his esteem for the Rabbi and his Christ-rejecting apostolate.

 

Benedict XVI, General Audience, Jan. 17, 2007: “For almost 20 years now the Italian Bishops’ Conference has dedicated this Judaism Day to furthering knowledge and esteem for it and for developing the relationship of reciprocal friendship between the Christian and Jewish communities, a relationship that has developed positively since the Second Vatican Council and the historic visit of the Servant of God John Paul II to the Major Synagogue in Rome…. Today I invite you all to address an ardent prayer to the Lord that Jews and Christians may respect and esteem one another…”[16]

He speaks positively of a day dedicated to Judaism.  This day, according to Benedict XVI, is to further esteem for Judaism (a false religion which rejects Christ).  This is an utter rejection of the Catholic Faith and Jesus Christ. 

 

 

 

 

BENEDICT XVI TEACHES THAT PROTESTANTS AND SCHISMATICS DON’T NEED TO BE CONVERTED

 

Benedict XVI as a “cardinal” in 1984 meeting with Syrian schismatic Patriarch Zakka[17]

 

Heretics and schismatics, such as Protestants and the Eastern Orthodox, are outside the Catholic Church and must be converted to the Catholic Faith for unity and salvation.  It’s necessary for them to accept all the Catholic dogmas and councils, including the dogmatic definitions at Vatican I in 1870.  This is infallible Catholic teaching.

 

However, Benedict XVI teaches that Protestants and Eastern Schismatics don’t need to be converted, and don’t need to accept Vatican Council I.  We are providing extra context for this quotation, despite its length, since it’s such a significant heresy.

 

Benedict XVI, Principles of Catholic Theology, 1982, pp. 197-198: “Against this background we can now weigh the possibilities that are open to Christian ecumenism.  The maximum demands on which the search for unity must certainly founder are immediately clear.  On the part of the West, the maximum demand would be that the East recognize the primacy of the bishop of Rome in the full scope of the definition of 1870 and in so doing submit in practice, to a primacy such as has been accepted by the Uniate churches.  On the part of the East, the maximum demand would be that the West declare the 1870 doctrine of primacy erroneous and in so doing submit, in practice, to a primacy such as has been accepted with the removal of the Filioque from the Creed and including the Marian dogmas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  As regards Protestantism, the maximum demand of the Catholic Church would be that the Protestant ecclesiological ministers be regarded as totally invalid and that Protestants be converted to Catholicism; the maximum demand of Protestants, on the other hand, would be that the Catholic Church accept, along with the unconditional acknowledgement of all Protestant ministries, the Protestant concept of ministry and their understanding of the Church and thus, in practice, renounce the apostolic and sacramental structure of the Church, which would mean, in practice, the conversion of Catholics to Protestantism and their acceptance of a multiplicity of distinct community structures as the historical form of the Church.  While the first three maximum demands are today rather unanimously rejected by Christian consciousness, the fourth exercises a kind of fascination for it – as it were, a certain conclusiveness that makes it appear to be the real solution to the problem.  This