Heresies
of the Week of John Paul II and the Vatican II sect regarding Heretics and
Schismatics
By Bro. Michael
Dimond, O.S.B.
and Bro. Peter Dimond,
O.S.B.
Week of 12/17/04
John Paul II gives the relics of two of
the greatest Catholic Doctors, St. Gregory Nazienzen
and St. John Chrysostom, to the Eastern Schismatics
On Saturday,
Nov. 27, 2004, the relics of two of the great Eastern Doctors of the Catholic
Church were transferred by Antipope John Paul II from
Antipope John Paul II, Message for the Transferral
of Relics, Nov. 27, 2004: “…the relics of Sts Gregory the Theologian and
John Chrysostom, two Fathers of the Eastern Church…
return to
This
statement by Antipope John Paul II means that St. Gregory Nazienzen
and St. John Chrysostom had the schismatic Faith of
Constantinople. This is a total abomination; these Catholic pillars of
the early Church cry out from heaven against this act. Antipope John Paul
II is mocking these Catholic Saints; he is mocking the dogma of the Papacy,
which the Eastern “Orthodox” reject; and he is mocking all the Catholics in
history who suffered persecution and torture not to become Eastern Schismatics. All
those who refuse to denounce this apostate as an apostate mock these great
Saints as well.
Remember,
heresy and schism are not only manifested by word, but also by deed.
Canonists and theologians teach that external heresy consists not only in words,
but also in “signs, deeds, and the omission of deeds.” (Merkelbach,
Summa Theologiae
Moralis 1:746.)
Antipope John Paul II shows that he is a schismatic by this deed as well
as by the words that accompany it.
To
vindicate these two great Catholic Doctors (Gregory Nazienzen
and John Chrysostom) from this schismatic act of
Antipope John Paul II, both of whom accepted the dogma of the Papacy as all
Catholics did, I will quote two passages from each which show how they both
accepted that St. Peter was the first Pope, the Rock upon which the Church was
built – which is the very truth denied
by the “Orthodox” and which is at the heart of their schism and all their
heresies.
St. Gregory Nazienzen
(c. A.D. 329-389), Oration 26: “Seest thou that of the disciples of Christ, all of whom
were great and deserving of the choice, one
is called Rock, and is entrusted with the foundations of the Church…”
St. Gregory Nazienzen
(c. A.D. 329-389): “Neither does a man know, though he be the parent of an evil
like unto Judas, whether his offspring shall be called the godlike Paul, or be
like unto Peter – Peter who became the
unbroken rock, and who had the keys delivered to him.” (Carm. 2, in Berington
and Kirk, Faith of Catholics, 2:21)
St. John Chrysostom,
Acts of the Apostles, Homily 33
(Commentary on Acts 15): “See how Paul speaks after Peter, and no one
restrains: James waits and starts not up, for
he [Peter] it was to whom had been entrusted the government (primacy).”
St. John Chrysostom,
Acts of the Apostles, Homily 3:
“[Peter] always is the first to begin the discourse. Lo, there were a hundred and twenty [Acts
1:15]; and he asks for one out of the whole multitude. Justly:
he has the first authority in the matter, as having had all entrusted to him. For to him Christ said, and ‘thou being
converted, confirm thy brethren’ [Lk. 22:31-32].”
Week of 10/29/04
John Paul II venerates a schismatic sect
again
Antipope John Paul
II, Address to President of Romania,
Sept. 30, 2004: “A pilgrim of faith and hope, I was warmly and enthusiastically
welcomed by you and by the State Authorities, by His Beatitude Patriarch Teoctist and by
all the people of the venerable Orthodox Church of
So, the schismatic, non-Catholic, Papacy-denying,
Immaculate-Conception-denying, divorce-allowing sect of the “Orthodox” is
venerable, according to Antipope John Paul II.
Again, if you have seen all of this evidence, and the other evidence
available in our material, and you still can’t bring yourself to say that John
Paul II is definitely not a Catholic, then you are a heretic.
Week of 10/15/04
John Paul II commemorates the
Schismatic Petros VII and flushes Catholic dogma down
the toilet
Antipope
John Paul II, Telegram released upon the death of Greek “Orthodox” Patriarch Petros VII, Sept. 13, 2004: “I was deeply saddened to learn
of the tragic death of His Beatitude Petros VII, Patriarch of the Illustrious See of Alexandria,
whom the Lord has called to himself together with their Excellencies
Metropolitans Irinaios of Pelusium
and Chrysostomos of Karthegena…
The tragic death of Patriarch Petros VII during a
journey to the Holy Mountain is a source
of great sorrow and grief for the Orthodox Sister Churches of the
Patriarchate of Alexandria, for the Bishop of Rome and in the Catholic Church, and for all those who esteemed the late
Patriarch’s ministry to the Church in Africa and his commitment to
Christian unity.
“I myself recall with gratitude our
fraternal exchanges of letters, our spiritual closeness, the participation of
the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria in significant events like the ‘World Day of Prayer for World Peace’ in
Assisi in 2002, and his constructive contributions to theological dialogue
in the Orthodox Churches as a whole and with the International Mixed
Commission.
“I pray that the Lord will grant ‘grace upon
grace’ to his faithful servant and will welcome him and his earthly
traveling companions into the eternal light and peace reserved for God’s
righteous ones. At the same time I
beseech the spirit of wisdom to guide and sustain the Patriarchate of
Alexandria at this time of sadness.” (L’Osservatore Romano,
Sept. 22, p. 12.)
Comment: Could Antipope John Paul II show in a more
clear way that he holds that the Catholic Faith is meaningless? Antipope John Paul II commemorates the death
of the non-Catholic, schismatic Patriarch of Alexandria. He indicates that the schismatic is among the
faithfully departed; that the Lord has called this schismatic to himself; that
this schismatic served the Church in
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Session 6,
Chap. 16, ex cathedra:
"After this Catholic doctrine of justification - which, unless he
faithfully and firmly accepts, no one can be justified - it seemed good to
the holy Synod to add these canons, so that all may know, not only what they
must hold and follow, but also what they ought to shun and avoid."
Even though the schismatics don’t hold the same heresies as the Protestants
in regard to Justification, they don’t accept the Council of Trent and all of
its canons and chapters on Justification as binding. Thus, they cannot be justified, according to
the definition of
Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, Dec. 8, 1854: “…by the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, and by Our own, We declare, pronounce,
and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary at
the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of
Almighty God, in virtue of the merits of Christ Jesus, the Savior of the human
race, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been
revealed by God, and on this account must be firmly and constantly believed by
all the faithful. Wherefore, if any
should presume to think in their hearts otherwise than as it has been defined
by Us, which God forbid, let them know and understand that they are condemned
by their own judgment; that they have suffered shipwreck in regard to faith,
and have revolted from the unity of the Church; and what is more, that by
their own act they subject themselves to the penalties established by law, if,
what they think in their heart, they should dare to signify by word or writing
or any other external means.”
The Eastern Schismatics
don’t accept the Immaculate Conception as a dogma that must be believed by
all. It is true that some of them would
be of the opinion that Mary was Immaculate, but many others would not, and even
those who are of such opinion don’t believe it is a binding dogma. Thus, the fact that Petros
VII did not accept this truth as a binding dogma (if he believed in it all) is
flushed down the toilet by Antipope John Paul II. It is not hindrance to his salvation or his
being a member of the true Church, according to Antipope John Paul II.
Pope Pius IX, First
Vatican Council, Session 4, Chap. 3, ex
cathedra:
"We renew the definition of the Ecumenical Council of Florence, by which all the faithful of Christ must believe
that the Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world,
and the Pontiff of Rome himself is the successor of the blessed Peter, the
chief of the apostles, and is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole
Church... This is the doctrine of Catholic truth from which no one can
deviate and keep his faith and salvation."
But, most of all, the above dogma on the Papacy is
again flushed down the toilet by Antipope John Paul II, for the schismatic Petros VII totally rejected the dogma of the Papacy and
Papal Infallibility.
Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio, May 27, 1832: “Be not deceived, my
brother; if anyone follows a schismatic, he will not attain to the inheritance
of the
Week of 9/17/04
John Paul II gives the Icon of Our
Lady of Kazan to the Schismatics
and denies the Faith again
Antipope
John Paul II, Homily, August 25,
2004: “…the venerable Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan,
which is on the point of setting out on the return journey to Russia, which it left one day long ago… From
the very first, I wanted this holy Icon to return to its own
Comment: The extraordinary image of Our Lady of Kazan is an ancient Russian image of Our Lady that had been
in the custody of the Blue Army since the 1950’s. Their plan was that when
Notice a few things about Antipope John Paul II’s homily quoted above: 1) He calls the blatant
non-Catholic heretic and schismatic, Alexei II, “His Holiness.” 2) He says that
these Schismatic Russian Bishops have “faithful entrusted to their care.” This is totally heretical.
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#15),
June 29, 1896 – Bishops Separated from
Peter and his Successors Lose All Jurisdiction: “From this it must be
clearly understood that Bishops are deprived of the right and power of ruling,
if they deliberately secede from Peter and his successors; because, by this
secession, they are separated from the foundation on which the whole edifice
must rest… No one, therefore, unless in
communion with Peter can share in his authority, since it is absurd to imagine
that he who is outside can command in the Church.”
By stating that the Schismatic Russian “Orthodox”
sect has the faithful of Christ “entrusted” to its care, Antipope John Paul II
is stating that this non-Catholic sect possesses ordinary jurisdiction in the
Church of Christ without accepting the Papacy, and that the Schismatic Bishops
of the “Orthodox” sect are part of the true Church. This is totally heretical and schismatical and it again makes a mockery of the Papacy,
Papal Infallibility, the last 13 dogmatic Councils and all the Catholic martyrs
who were tortured in history not to become Russian “Orthodox” Schismatics.
3) Antipope
John Paul II calls the Schismatic Russian sect the “
Bonus Heresy
In last week’s Heresy of the Week we didn’t fit
this statement from Antipope John Paul II in, so we are including it as a
“bonus” heresy here.
Antipope John Paul
II, Message to Russian Catholic youth,
July 26, 2004: “This meeting is an important moment for the Church which lives
in the
Here we can see Antipope John Paul II stating that
Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants have all been together in loyalty to Christ
and in the confession of the perennial truths of the Faith. This is heresy. In this context, he also states that “the most convincing form of ecumenism is
the ecumenism of the saints and of the martyrs,” which means that
Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants all have saints and martyrs. This is also formal heresy.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate
Domino, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and proclaims that… no one, whatever almsgiving he has
practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved,
unless he has remained within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Week of 7/16/04
John Paul II meets with the Schismatic
“Orthodox” Patriarch Bartholomew and denies the Catholic Faith again
Antipope John Paul II, Homily to
Schismatic Patriarch Bartholomew I, June 29, 2004: “I would like to express my warm gratitude to you [Bartholomew I] for
coming here, Your Holiness, and for the reflections that you have
desired to offer us. I am also
delighted to celebrate together with you… that blessed meeting in Jerusalem of
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I… That
meeting cannot be merely a memory. It is
challenge for us! It shows us the road to reciprocal rediscovery and reconciliation…
We know very well that the unity we seek
is first and foremost a gift of God.
However, we are aware that
hastening the time of its total achievement also depends on us, on our prayers
and on our conversion to Christ. ” (L’Osservatore Romano, July 7, 2004, p. 6/7.)
Comment: On June 29, 2004, Antipope John Paul II
met with the non-Catholic, Schismatic “Orthodox” Patriarch of Constantinople,
Bartholomew I – who rejects the dogma of the Papacy, the last 13 Councils of
the Church, the binding nature of the Immaculate Conception, etc. Antipope John Paul II has had countless
meetings with these Schismatics, and never once has
he called them to conversion – on the contrary, in meeting after meeting he has
explicitly repudiated any intention to proselytize them, as we have documented
in the past.
In his meeting with the Schismatic Bartholomew in
late June to early July, Antipope John Paul II made 5 separate speeches to him:
a welcome address, a Common Declaration, an Angelus address, a homily, and a
farewell address. Not once, of course,
does he mention that it is necessary for the Eastern Schismatic to convert to
Catholicism or accept the Papacy. On the
contrary, he mentioned approximately 5 times the heretical meeting between Paul
VI and the Schismatic Patriarch of Constantinople in the 1960’s, when both men
repudiated the reciprocal excommunications of 1054. In other words, Antipope John Paul II
indicated over and over again that the Eastern Schismatics
(according to him) are not excommunicated – by commemorating Paul VI’s
overturning of the excommunications against them.
In fact, in the above speech, we see again that he
calls the Schismatic Bartholomew “Your Holiness,” and he says that the road to
reconciliation is “reciprocal.” Reciprocal means mutual! In other words, it’s not that the Orthodox Schismatics need to reconcile with the Church, no; it is
rather that both sides need to reconcile, according to the apostate Antipope
John Paul II. This is blatant heresy and
proves again that Antipope John Paul II is not trying to convert them.
Finally, Antipope John Paul II says that hastening
the time of unity with the Schismatics depends on
“our conversion,” that is, a conversion on both sides – and not on the
conversion of the Schismatics to an acceptance of the
dogma of the Papacy and the rest of the Catholic Faith.
Pope Pius IX,
Vatican Council I, Sess. 4, Chap. 3, ex cathedra:
“Furthermore We teach and declare that the Roman Church, by the disposition of
the Lord, holds the sovereignty of ordinary power over all others… This is the doctrine of Catholic truth
from which no one can deviate and keep his faith and salvation.”
With these facts in mind, one can see why we point
out that those who comprehend these facts and still regard Antipope John Paul
II as a Catholic (and not a heretic and schismatic) are heretics.
Week of 6/25/04
John Paul II calls the Eastern
Schismatic Sect “venerable,” and more
Antipope
John Paul II, Message, May 13, 2004: “As a pilgrim of faith and hope, I was
welcomed at that time [in
Comment: To “venerate” something is to regard it with reverence,
consider it as exalted or sacred. The
schismatic Orthodox sect of
Pope Pius IX, Graves
ac diuturnae (#’s 1-4), March 23, 1875: “… the new heretics who call themselves ‘Old
Catholics’… these schismatics and heretics… their
wicked sect… these sons of darkness… their wicked faction… this deplorable
sect… This sect overthrows the foundations of the Catholic religion,
shamelessly rejects the dogmatic definitions of the Ecumenical Vatican Council,
and devotes itself to the ruin of souls in so many ways. We have decreed and declared in Our letter of
21 November 1873 that those unfortunate men who belong to, adhere to, and
support that sect should be considered as schismatics
and separated from communion with the Church.”
That’s quite a different view of schism than Antipope John Paul II’s view of the “Orthodox,” isn’t it? Yes, that is because Antipope John Paul II is
not a Catholic. To call the non-Catholic, heretical and schismatical
Orthodox sect “venerable” is heretical and schismatical
without a doubt. Notice how Antipope
John Paul II also refers to the non-Catholic Patriarch of Romania as “His
Beatitude,” which indicates that this schismatic holds some position of honor
and authority in the
We get a kick out of it sometimes when people in the Vatican II sect
under Antipope John Paul II won’t refer to us as “Bro.” Michael Dimond or
“Bro.” Peter Dimond because we are not in communion with Antipope John Paul
II. Yet, these same people have no
problem referring to Antipope John Paul II as “His Holiness,” when Antipope
John Paul II refers to non-Catholic schismatics as
“His Beatitude”! These people are
hypocrites and the Lord will vomit them out of His mouth.
But there’s more from Antipope John Paul II.
Antipope John Paul II, Address to Ambassador of Tunisia, May
27, 2004, p. 8: “I am delighted, therefore, by your Country’s engagement to
establish a sincere dialogue between the cultures and the religions. This is an important goal which must lead to
relations that show greater solidarity between human and religious
communities. For its part, the modest Catholic community that lives
in
The “Catholic community” in
Notice that he also calls Muslims “believers.” He does this quite frequently, when, in fact,
Muslims are “infidels,” which means “unbelievers” – exactly the opposite of
“believers.”
Week of 4/16/04
The Vatican II Sect commemorates
Mennonite “martyrdom”
“In a common statement, Catholics
and Mennonites together regret that they and other Christians ‘were unable to
resolve the problems of the Church of that time in such a way as to prevent divisions
in the Body of Christ that have lasted to the present day.’” (L’Osservatore Romano,
March 24, 2004, p. 10.)
Comment: In
early March (see our Heresy of the Week for 3/19/04), the Vatican II sect was
following Antipope John Paul II’s lead in
commemorating the Lutheran pastor Paul Schneider. Late in March, the Vatican II sect
commemorates Mennonite “martyrdom.” This
is formal heresy coming out basically on a weekly basis. Could Antipope John Paul II’s
sect deny the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation any more clearly
or consistently? What kind of “Catholic”
could affirm communion with such a “hierarchy” while aware of these facts?
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate
Domino, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra:“… no one,
whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name
of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained within the bosom and unity
of the Catholic Church.”
Notice also that the common statement above
presents the divisions between Catholics and Mennonites as “problems of the Church at that time,”
for which seemingly both sides were to blame.
In other words, the Mennonites aren’t the ones guilty of heresy for
leaving the Body of Christ and following their man-made religion! Notice also that the document says that the Body
of Christ is divided. Such a notion is
heretical. The Body of Christ is
indivisible by nature.
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#
4), June 29, 1896:
"The Church in respect of its unity
belongs to the category of things indivisible
by nature, though heretics try to divide it into many parts."
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 4):
"Furthermore, the eminence of the Church arises from its unity, as the
principle of its constitution - a unity surpassing all else, and having nothing
like unto it or equal to it."
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (#
5):
"'There is one God, and one Christ; and His Church is one and the faith is
one; and one people, joined together in the solid unity of the body in the bond
of concord. This unity cannot be broken, nor the one body divided by the
separation of its constituent parts.'"
When people become Mennonite heretics, they don’t
divide the Body of Christ. They simply
separate themselves from the Body. But
the Vatican II sect consistently teaches that the Body of Christ is divided by
the various “Christian” sects, which means that it considers these sects part
of the Body of Christ. All of this shows
that the Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II is not the Catholic Church,
but a non-Catholic sect in communion with heretics, which recognizes
non-Catholic “Saints,” and which holds that the
Week of 3/5/04 – Major Heresy
The Vatican II sect praises and
celebrates John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist sect
Fr.
Donald Bolen, Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Feb. 2004: “2003
was an eventful year in relations between the Catholic Church and the World
Methodist Council… In June 2003,
Methodists worldwide celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of John
Wesley, and in small but significant ways, invited the Catholic Church to
join in these celebrations… Cardinal
Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity, preached at the Methodist Church in Rome on the occasion of the 300th
anniversary of the birth of John Wesley.
Later in the year, he sent a message to a celebration marking both the
anniversary of Wesley’s birth and that of the Chapel Wesley opened in London 225 years ago.
“Cardinal Kasper
made use of the opportunity provided by these occasions to contribute to a
Catholic reassessment of John Wesley, particularly attentive to ‘his
wholehearted commitment to spreading the good news of salvation, his fostering
of Scriptural holiness and structuring of communities of Christians for witness
and mission.’
“Cardinal Kasper
noted that ‘We must also seek a wider view, to see what dynamized Wesley’s ministry, to see the evangelical passion
which gave direction to his life and the movement he started.’
“Kasper stressed that
this reassessment of Wesley, which was ‘rich with possibilities,’ was possible because Catholics could now look to Wesley
through eyes educated by our international dialogue and by the emergence of
friendship and shared mission in various local contexts throughout the world,
wherein ‘we have come to recognize
each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.’
“Addressing the congregation of Methodists Cardinal Kasper
noted that just as Methodists ‘continue to
turn to the ministry of John Wesley for inspiration and guidance, we can
look to see and find in him the evangelical zeal, the pursuit of holiness,
the concern for the poor, the virtues
and goodness which we have come to know and respect in you. Cardinal Kasper’s homily and message were
warmly received and much appreciated. (L’Osservatore Romano,
Feb. 18, 2004)
Comment: John Wesley was a non-Catholic heretic,
and the founder of his own religion! He
started out as an Anglican and then formed Methodism. He denied the Papacy; he denied all of the
dogmatic Councils of the Catholic Church; he denied apostolic succession; he
denied all but two of the seven sacraments, admitting only Baptism and the
Eucharist, but he rejected that Baptism confers sanctifying grace and he denied
that Our Lord is truly present in the Eucharist. He denied Purgatory, and he held that man is
justified by faith alone and thereby assured of his salvation. How is that for “wholehearted commitment to spreading the good news of salvation”?
How is that for “fostering of Scriptural
holiness and structuring of communities of Christians”? How is that for “evangelical zeal, the pursuit of holiness… the virtues and goodness
which we have come to know and respect in you”? Yes, heresy, schism and the spreading of
false doctrines of the worst kind – including the evil doctrine of faith alone
– are “virtues” that the Vatican II sect wants to come to know and respect in
everyone.
To praise and commemorate the founder of this sect
is a complete rejection of the Catholic faith!
This article, I remind the reader, appeared in the official Vatican
newspaper, because it is perfectly in accord with the mind and teaching of
Antipope John Paul II.
The article also calls for the Methodists to affirm
the Joint Declaration with the Lutherans
on Justification, which totally repudiates the Council of Trent.
Fr. Donald Bolen,
Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Feb. 2004: “In June 2003,
Methodists worldwide celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of John
Wesley, and in small but significant ways, invited the Catholic Church to join
in these celebrations. It was also a
year in which a promising initiative
took important steps forward – towards a Methodist affirmation of the
agreement reached by Lutherans and Catholics in the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Feb. 18, 2004)
All of this is total heresy and schism. And those who affirm communion with these
men, after being aware of the facts, are heretics.
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215,
Constitution 3:
“We
excommunicate and anathematize every heresy raising itself up against this
holy, orthodox, and Catholic faith which we have expounded above. We condemn all heretics, whatever names they
may go under. They have different faces
indeed but their tails are tied together in as much as they are alike in their
pride.”
Pope Pelagius II, epistle (1) Quod ad dilectionem,
585:
“If
anyone, however, either suggests or believes or presumes to teach contrary to
this faith, let him know that he is condemned and also anathematized according
to the opinion of the same Fathers.” (Denz. 246)
Pope St. Martin I, First Lateran Council, 649, Can. 17:
“If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to
the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that has been down and preached
in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God, and likewise by the holy
Fathers and the five venerable Councils, let
him be anathema.” (Denz. 270)
Week of 2/13/04 – Major Heresy
Antipope John Paul II denies the
Council of Trent again by commemorating the heretical JD with the Lutherans on
Justification
Antipope
John Paul II, Jan. 19, 2004, At a Meeting
with Lutherans From Finland: “… I wish to express my gratitude for the
ecumenical progress made between Catholics and Lutherans in the five years since
the signing of the Joint Declaration on
the Doctrine of Justification… It is
my hope that Lutherans and Catholics will increasingly practice a spirituality
of communion, which draws on those elements of ecclesial life which they
already share and which will strengthen their fellowship in prayer and in
witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 28, 2004, p. 4.)
Comment: The Joint Declaration with the Lutherans
on the Doctrine of Justification is so heretical that there are almost no words
to describe it. It completely repudiates
the Council of Trent. Since some of the
defenders of Antipope John Paul II and even some of the “traditionalists” have
offered some of the most ridiculous and dishonest attempts to defend this
agreement, I will briefly review why this document is heretical, why it is a
complete repudiation of the Council of Trent, and why it actually constitutes
an official declaration by John Paul II himself that his sect is a
non-Catholic, Protestant “Church.”
1) Joint Declaration With Lutherans
on Justification: “# 5. THE PRESENT JOINT DECLARATION…
does not cover all that either church teaches about justification; it does
encompass a consensus on basic truths of the doctrine of justification and SHOWS
THAT THE REMAINING DIFFERENCES ARE NO LONGER THE OCCASION FOR DOCTRINAL
CONDEMNATIONS.”
This means that the
remaining differences between Lutherans and Catholics on Justification – for
example, the fact that Lutherans don’t
accept the Council of Trent’s Decree on Justification
as dogmatic – are no longer the occasion for doctrinal condemnations. This is blatantly HERETICAL. The very fact that the Lutherans don’t accept
the Council of Trent’s Decree on Justification as
dogmatic is an occasion for their doctrinal condemnation.
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 16, ex cathedra:
"After this Catholic doctrine of justification [defined by Trent] - which,
unless he faithfully and firmly accepts, no one can be justified - it
seemed good to the holy Synod to add these canons, so that all may know, not
only what they must hold and follow, but also what they ought to shun and
avoid."
Pope Paul III,
Council of Trent, Sess. 6, On Justification,
Introduction, ex cathedra:"...the
holy ecumenical and general synod of Trent lawfully assembled in the Holy
Spirit... purpose to expound to all the faithful of Christ the true and
salutary doctrine of justification… strictly forbidding that anyone
henceforth may presume to believe, preach or teach, otherwise than is defined
and declared by this present decree."
(2) Joint Declaration With the Lutherans on Justification: "41.
Thus the doctrinal condemnations of the 16th century [i.e., the Council of
Trent], in so far as they are related to the doctrine of justification, appear
in a new light: The teaching of the
Lutheran churches presented in this Declaration does not fall under the
condemnations from the Council of Trent."
This means that none
of the teaching of the Lutherans in the JD is condemned by the Council of
Trent! But in the JD (Joint
Declaration), besides the other heresies taught by the Lutherans (as we will
see), the Lutheran churches teach the heresy of Justification by “faith
alone,” which was condemned by the Council of Trent approximately 13
times.
Joint Declaration With the Lutherans on Justification: "26. According
to Lutheran understanding, God justifies sinners in faith alone (sola fide)."
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 10, ex
cathedra :
"'You see, that by works a man is justified and not by faith alone'
(Jas. 2:24)."
Thus, the statement in #41 of the JD means that the
“Catholic” side agrees that all the dogmatic canons and decrees in Trent
condemning faith alone are overturned, and that faith alone is no longer
contrary to or condemned by Trent. It is
not possible for heresy to be any more formal than this.
3) Joint Declaration With the Lutherans on Justification: “# 13. IN LIGHT OF THIS CONSENSUS, THE
CORRESPONDING DOCTRINAL CONDEMNATIONS OF THE 16TH CENTURY [the Council of
Trent] DO NOT APPLY TO TODAY’S PARTNER.”
This again means that the fact that the Lutherans
don’t accept the Council of Trent’s Decree on
Justification in totality is not
heretical, which is a denial of the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent condemned as heretical anyone
who does not accept all of its teaching.
So, don’t be misled by those liars who try
to convince people that the JD didn’t really deny the Council of Trent, or that
“it’s much more complicated than that.” These people are used by the devil to defend
the apostate Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II. The Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on
the Doctrine of Justification completely rejects the dogmatic Council of
Trent. Anyone who denies this is simply
a liar.
SOME OTHER HERESIES IN THE JOINT DECLARATION
In fact, besides “faith alone,” there are hordes
of other heresies in the JD which were specifically condemned by Trent. See the article on our site Joint Declaration With the Lutherans on
Justification for all the gory details.
The JD has heresy spilling out of it.
Here are just a few others.
JD With Lutherans: "21. According to the Lutheran teaching, human beings are incapable of
cooperating in their salvation, because as sinners they actively oppose
God and his saving action." –HERESY CONDEMNED BY TRENT!
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 6, Can. 4:
"If anyone shall say that man's free will moved and aroused by God does
not cooperate by assenting to God who rouses and calls, whereby it disposes
and prepares itself to obtain the grace of justification, and that it cannot
dissent, if it wishes, but that like something inanimate it does nothing at all
and is merely in a passive state: let him be anathema."
JD With Lutherans: "23. …Lutherans... intend rather to express that
justification remains free from human cooperation and is not
dependent upon the life-renewing effects of grace in human beings." –
HERESY CONDEMNED BY TRENT!
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 6, Can. 1:
"If anyone shall say that man can be justified before God by his own
works which are done either by his own natural powers, or through the teaching
of the Law, and without divine grace through Christ Jesus: let him be
anathema."
JD With Lutherans: "29. Lutherans understand this condition of
the Christian as a being 'at the same time righteous and sinner'. Believers
are totally righteous, in that God forgives their sins through Word and
Sacrament and grants the righteousness of Christ which they appropriate in
faith. In Christ, they are made just before God. Looking at themselves
through the law, however, they recognize that they remain totally sinners."
– HERESY CONDEMNED BY TRENT!
This heresy is also called “simul justus et peccator”
(at the same time just and sinner) and was one of Martin Luther’s
favorites. It was vigorously condemned
by Trent in the following two passages.
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 5:
"If anyone denies that by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is
conferred in baptism, the guilt of original sin is remitted, or even
asserts that the whole of that which has the true and proper nature of sin is
not taken away, but says that it is only touched in person or is not
imputed, let him be anathema."
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 5:
"For in those who are born again
[Justified], God hates nothing, because 'there is no condemnation,
to those who are truly buried together with Christ by baptism unto death' (Rom.
6:4), who do not 'walk according to the flesh' (Rom. 8:1), but putting off 'the
old man' and putting on the 'new, who is created according to God' (Eph. 4:22
ff.; Col. 3:9), are made innocent, immaculate, pure, guiltless,
and beloved sons of God, 'heirs indeed of God, but co-heirs with Christ' (Rom.
8:17), so that there is nothing whatever to retard their entrance into heaven."
JD With Lutherans: "29... Lutherans say that justified persons are
also sinners and that their opposition to God is truly sin, they do not deny
that, despite this sin, they are not separated from God and that this is a
'ruled' sin." – HERESY CONDEMNED BY TRENT
Pope Paul III, Council
of Trent, Session 6, Chap. 15:
"... the doctrine of divine law which excludes from the kingdom of God not
only the unbelievers, but also the faithful who are fornicators, adulterers,
effeminate, liers with mankind, thieves, covetous,
drunkards, railers, extortioners
(1 Cor. 6:9), and all others who commit deadly
sins, from which with the assistance of divine grace they can refrain
and for which they are separated from the grace of God."
I could go on, but there is a whole article on this
on our website. Some of the false teachers who have tried to belittle the
significance of the JD have tried to deceive their readers and listeners by
saying that the two other documents which go alone with the JD actually
clarify everything. THIS IS PURE
HOGWASH! The two other documents that go
along with the JD: 1) The Official Common
Statement by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church and 2)
the Annex to the Official Common
Statement not only confirm the JD, but in fact, the Annex shows that the
“Catholic” side not only accepts the heresy of faith alone, as stated in the JD,
but also professes belief in faith alone!
Annex to the Official Common Statement, #2, C [“Catholic” side and
Lutheran side together]: "Justification takes place by grace alone, by faith
alone, the person is justified apart from works."
But, as said above, even if the Annex didn’t assert
this abominable heresy, it wouldn’t matter, because all of the heresies catalogued
above – whether on the Lutheran side or the “Catholic” side of the JD – are
accepted as not condemned by the Council of Trent. Furthermore, as proven in point 1 of this
column, the JD specifically says that the Lutherans’ remaining differences with
Catholics on Justification are not an occasion for doctrinal
condemnations. So don’t be fooled by
those liars who tell you that “yeah,
there are problems with the JD, but none of the heresies appear on the Catholic
side, just on the Lutheran side.” It
is simply not true and, more importantly, it doesn’t make a difference.
I will conclude this Heresy of the Week with a
quote from an article WHICH APPEARED IN L’OSSERVATORE
ROMANO (the official newspaper of the Vatican) DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH ANTIPOPE
JOHN PAUL II’S MEETING WITH THE FINNISH PROTESTANTS QUOTED AT THE TOP OF THIS
COLUMN.
Mons. John A. Radano, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity, (L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 28, 2004, p. 4.): “This
latter meeting [between Baptists and “Catholics”] , 5-6 December, at the
suggestion of the Baptists focused one day on the Joint Declaration on the
Doctrine of Justification (JD) signed by the Catholic Church and
the Lutheran World Federation in 1999…”
This means that the “Church” of John Paul II officially
accepts the Joint Declaration with
the Lutherans on the Doctrine of Justification and rejects the Council of
Trent. The Catholic Church, on the other
hand, retains and will always retain the Council of Trent’s
Doctrine on Justification, which was delivered by Christ to the Apostles.
Pope Paul III,
Council of Trent, Sess. 6, On Justification,
Introduction: "...the holy
ecumenical and general synod of Trent lawfully assembled in the Holy
Spirit... cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and apostolic legates a latere, presiding therein in the name of our Most Holy
Father and Lord in Christ, Paul, the third Pope by the providence of God, for
the praise and glory of Almighty God, for the tranquility of the Church and the
salvation of souls, purpose to expound to
all the faithful of Christ the
true and salutary doctrine of justification, which the "son of
justice" (Mal. 4:2), Christ Jesus, "the author and finisher of our
faith" (Heb. 12:2) taught, the apostles transmitted and the Catholic
Church, under the instigation of the Holy Spirit, has always retained..."
Thus, the “Church” of
John Paul II is not the Catholic Church, and those who are aware of these facts
and then affirm communion with it are simply affirming communion with a
non-Catholic “Church” and are not Catholics – period.
Week of 3/19/04 – Formal Heresy
Non-Catholic “Saints” and “Martyrs”
Commemorated by the Vatican II sect and John Paul II
Fr.
Matthias Turk, Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, March, 2004: “Among
the more significant events was the
touching ecumenical celebration organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio on 1 February 2003 in
“This testimony, as the Holy Father has
said, ‘speaks louder than the things which divide us.’” (L’Osservatore Romano, March 10, 2004, p. 11.)
Comment: Here we see the Vatican Council for
Promoting Christian Unity commemorating a Lutheran heretic as a martyr for the
faith. This is formal heresy against the
Council of Florence.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate
Domino, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex
cathedra:“… no one,
whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name
of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained within the bosom and unity
of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Pelagius II, epistle (2) Dilectionis vestrae, 585:
“Those who were not willing to be at agreement in the Church of God,
cannot remain with God; although given over to flames and fires, they burn,
or thrown to wild beasts, they lay down their lives, there will not be for them
that crown of faith, but the punishment of faithlessness, not a glorious
result (of religious virtue), but the ruin of despair. Such a one can be slain, he cannot be
crowned.”
But in promoting this clear (and formal) heresy in
the official Vatican newspaper of last week, the members of the Vatican Council
for Promoting Christian Unity are just following Antipope John Paul II’s lead, who has stated again and again and again
that there are saints and martyrs in non-Catholic sects.
Antipope John Paul
II, Ut Unum Sint (#
82), May 25, 1995:
“All Christian Communities know that, thanks
to the power given by the Spirit, obeying that will and overcoming those
obstacles are not beyond their reach. All of them in fact have martyrs for the
Christian faith.”
Antipope
John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (#
84), May 25, 1995:
“Albeit
in an invisible way, the communion between our Communities, even if still
incomplete, is truly and solidly grounded in the full communion of the saints -
those who, at end of a life faithful to grace, are in communion with Christ in
glory. These saints come from all
the Churches and Ecclesial Communities which gave them entrance into the
communion of salvation.”
Antipope
John Paul II, speech to schismatic
non-Catholic Patriarch Karekin II, Nov. 9,
2000:
“Again,
I thank Your Holiness for your
willingness to be part of that liturgy in the person of your
representative. In effect, ‘perhaps the most convincing form of
ecumenism is the ecumenism of the saints and of the martyrs. The communio sanctorum
speaks louder than the things which divide us.’”
Antipope
John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (#
1), May 25, 1995:
“The courageous witness of so many
martyrs of our century, including members of Churches and Ecclesial Communities
not in full communion with the Catholic Church, gives new vigor to the
Council’s call and reminds us of our duty to listen to and put into practice
its exhortation.”
Antipope
John Paul II, Salvifici Doloris (#
22), Feb. 11, 1984:
“Christ’s resurrection has revealed ‘the glory of the future age’
and, at the same time, has confirmed ‘the boast of the cross’:
the glory that is hidden in the very
suffering of Christ and which has
been and is often mirrored in human suffering, as an expression of man’s
spiritual greatness. This glory must be acknowledged not only in
the martyrs for the Faith but in many others also who, at times, even
without belief in Christ, suffer and give their lives for the truth and for
a just cause. In the sufferings of
all of these people the great dignity of man is strikingly confirmed.”
Antipope
John Paul II, Angelus Address, Sept.
19, 1993:
“In
the unbounded space of Eastern Europe, the
Orthodox Church too can well say
at the end of this century what the Fathers of the Church had proclaimed about
the initial spread of the Gospel: ‘Sanguis martyrum – semen Christianorum’ [the
blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians].”
Antipope
John Paul II, Tertio Millennio Adveniente (# 37),
Nov. 10, 1994:
“The witness to Christ borne even to
the shedding of blood has become a common inheritance of Catholics,
Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants, as Pope Paul VI pointed out in his
Homily for the Canonization of the Ugandan Martyrs.”
Antipope
John Paul II, Tertio Millennio Adveniente (# 37),
Nov. 10, 1994:
“… the local Churches should do
everything possible to ensure that the
memory of those who have suffered martyrdom should be safeguarded, gathering
the necessary documentation. This gesture
cannot fail to have an ecumenical character and expression. Perhaps the most convincing form of
ecumenism is the ecumenism of the saints and martyrs. The communio sanctorum
speaks louder than the things which divide us.”
Antipope
John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (#
84), May 25, 1995:
“In a theocentric vision, we
Christians already have a common martyrology.
This includes the martyrs of our own century, more numerous than one
might think…”
Antipope
John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (#
84), May 25, 1995:
“In the radiance of the ‘heritage
of the saints’ belonging to all Communities, the ‘dialogue of conversion’ toward full and visible unity
thus appears as a source of hope. The
universal presence of the saints is in fact a proof of the transcendent power
of the Spirit.”
Antipope
John Paul II, General Audience, May
12, 1999: “The experience of martyrdom
joined Christians of various denominations in Romania. The
Orthodox, Catholic and Protestants gave a united witness to Christ by
the sacrifice of their lives.”
All of this is repeated, public and formal
heresy. And to think that some
“traditionalists” have the audacity to assert that Antipope John Paul II has
not denied any dogma! What an outrage
and a lie! This heresy alone, without
even considering the others, proves without any doubt that he is not a
Catholic.
St. Alphonsus Liguori: "We
should not forget that the devil has his
martyrs, and that he infuses into them a false constancy. It is not the
punishment, but the cause that makes the martyr; that is: the confession of the true faith." (Victories of the Martyrs)
Week of 1/16/04 – Major Heresy!
John Paul II approves and celebrates the
“lifting” of the excommunications against the “Orthodox”!
Antipope
John Paul II, Nov. 29, 2003, to Schismatic Patriarch Bartholomew I: “During the
celebrations for this Anniversary, I also thought back over the many events
that have marked my commitment to making the Church of Christ breathe more
deeply with both her lungs; so that the Churches of the West and of the East,
which for one millennium could develop and express their great living
traditions together, may draw closer and closer to the full communion that the historical
circumstances of the second millennium undermined… Subsequently,
through God’s grace, Rome and Constantinople set out on the same path and, before
the Council assembly, formally lifted the excommunications of 1054. We will soon be celebrating the 40th
anniversary of this event, the symbol and guarantee of our commitment and resolutions.”
(L’Osservatore Romano,
Jan. 7, 2004, p. 5.)
Comment: In the year 1054, the Patriarch of
Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, broke communion
with the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome.
Cerularius rejected the supreme authority of
the Pope, closed Roman Rite churches in Constantinople and declared the Roman
Rite of Mass invalid because it implemented unleavened instead of leavened
bread. Cerularius
was promptly excommunicated by Pope St. Leo IX and the Great Schism of the East
was formalized. Fr. John Laux describes it.
Fr. John Laux, Church History,
pp. 295-296: “Cerularius himself closed the churches of the Latins in Constantinople and impiously ordered the Blessed
Sacrament to be cast out and trodden under foot as invalid… Pope St. Leo IX
sent three legates to Constantinople, but Cerularius
obstinately refused to receive them.
Thereupon they laid the document containing his excommunication on the
altar of St. Sophia… It was the 16th of July, 1054.”
Thus, “the excommunications of 1054” mentioned by
Antipope John Paul II above refer to the excommunications leveled by the
Catholic Church against those who followed Michael Cerularius
outside the Church into schism and into a rejection of the Papacy. Antipope Paul VI “lifted” these excommunications
at Vatican II, and Antipope John Paul II (as we can see above) is not only
praising the “lifting” of these excommunications, but he is actually going to
be commemorating the anniversary of the “lifting” the 1054
excommunications by Paul VI. Ladies and
Gentleman, this means that Antipope John Paul II is “overturning” the Papacy
as a dogma which must be believed under pain of heresy. Can you say “formal heresy”? Can you say “blatant, formal heresy”? Can you say “formal heresy right in your face
by celebrating the anniversary of it”?
The First Vatican Council solemnly and repeatedly anathematized anyone
who would deny the Papacy. I will only
quote one passage from the dogmatic Council; I could quote many.
Pope Pius IX, First
Vatican Council, Session 4, Chap. 3, ex
cathedra:
"We renew the definition of the Ecumenical Council of Florence, by which all the faithful of Christ must believe
that the Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world,
and the Pontiff of Rome himself is the successor of the blessed Peter, the
chief of the apostles, and is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole
Church... This is the doctrine of Catholic truth from which no one can
deviate and keep his faith and salvation."
But it’s
just another day at the office for Antipope John Paul II: defend the Great
Schism of the East to a Schismatic, reaffirm the overturning of the Papacy
as a dogma which must be believed, and prepare to celebrate the event. Here is what Pope Pius XI and Benedict XIV
had to say about the excommunications of 1054 and the Great Schism which
followed.
Pope Pius XI, Ecclesiam Dei (#4), Nov. 12, 1923: “The greatest
and most deplorable defection of all was the separation of the Greeks from the
unity of the Church universal. The
Councils of Lyons and Florence held out hopes of healing this breach; these
hopes were illusory. The schism was
renewed and has lasted to the present day, with enormous injury to souls… On their side the Roman Pontiffs left
nothing undone to bring back these peoples to the unity of the Church. Some popes even made the salvation of the
Eastern Slavs one of the most important purposes of their pontificates.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Allatae Sunt (#7), July 26, 1755: “Michael Cerularius,
the impious restorer of the schism…”