The Scandals and Heresies of John XXIII
By Bro. Michael Dimond,
O.S.B.
John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli)
The Man who called Vatican II and claimed to be
Pope from 1958-1963
Angelo Roncalli was born in 1881 and held
diplomatic posts in Bulgaria, Turkey and France. Roncalli was also “Patriarch” of Venice.
SOME OF JOHN XXIII’S ACTIVITIES BEFORE HIS “ELECTION” AS
“POPE” IN 1958
For
years the Holy Office had maintained a dossier on Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII)
which read "suspected of Modernism." The file dated back to
1925, when Roncalli, who was known for his unorthodox teachings, was abruptly
removed from his Professorship at the Lateran Seminary in mid-semester (he was
accused of modernism) and shipped off to Bulgaria. This transfer to Bulgaria began his
diplomatic career. Of particular concern to Rome was Roncalli's
continuing, close association with the defrocked priest, Ernesto Buonaiuti, who
was excommunicated for heresy in 1926.(1)
As early as 1926, Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) wrote to one Orthodox
Schismatic:
"Catholics
and Orthodox are not enemies, but brothers. We have the
same faith; we share the same sacraments, and especially the Eucharist.
We are divided by some disagreements concerning the divine constitution
of the Church of Jesus Christ. The persons who were the cause of these
disagreements have been dead for centuries. Let us abandon the old
disputes and, each in his own domain, let us work to make our brothers good, by
giving them good example. Later on, though traveling along
different paths, we shall achieve union among the churches to form together
the true and unique Church of our Lord Jesus Christ."(2)
This statement means that the one true Church has
not yet been established.
In 1935, Angelo Roncalli arrived in Turkey and
became friends with the Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, Naman Rifat
Menemengioglu.(3) One time Menemengioglu
said to Roncalli:
“The
secularity of the State is our fundamental principle and the guarantee of our
liberty.” Roncalli responded: “The Church will be careful not to infringe your
liberty.”(4)
While in Turkey, Roncalli also stated: “You Irish
are impossible. The moment you come into
the world, even before you are baptized, you
begin damning everybody who doesn’t belong to the Church, especially
Protestants!”(5)
“The extreme anti-Catholic faction of the Greek Orthodox Church
gleefully announced an agreement with the Church of England by which each
recognized the validity of the other’s Holy Orders. But
Roncalli was genuinely pleased. To
the Greeks who slyly asked him what he thought of the arrangement, he said
sincerely, ‘I have nothing but praise for our separated brothers for their zeal
in taking a step toward the union of all Christians.’”(6)
Desmond O’ Grady, former Vatican correspondent for
the Washington Post, reported that while stationed in Istanbul in 1944 Roncalli
“gave a sermon on a council to be held
in the postwar period.”(7)
While Roncalli (later John XXIII) was Nuncio to
France, he was appointed Observer for the Holy See to the United Nations
cultural agency, UNESCO. In July 1951 he
gave a speech “lavishly praising UNESCO…”(8) Roncalli called UNESCO “this great international organization…”(9)
When Angelo Roncalli was the nuncio to France he appointed a thirty-third degree
Freemason and close friend, the Baron Yves Marsaudon, as head of the French
branch of the Knights of Malta, a Catholic lay order.(10)
Yves Marsaudon, the French freemason and author, also claims that Roncalli became a
thirty-third degree Mason while a nuncio at France. Mary Ball Martinez wrote that the French Republican Guards from their posts
observed: “…the Nuncio [Roncalli] in civilian clothes leaving his residence to
attend the Thursday evening meetings of the Grand Orient of France. Whereas exposure to such a dramatic conflict
of loyalties would unnerve the average man, be he Catholic or Freemason, Angelo
Roncalli seems to have taken it in his stride.”(11)
The
Magazine 30 Days also held an
interview several years ago with the head of the Italian Freemasons. The Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy
stated: “As for that, it seems that John
XXIII was initiated (into a Masonic Lodge) in Paris and participated in the
work of the Istanbul Workshops.”(12)
One time in Paris “Msgr.” Roncalli once attended a
banquet and was seated next to a woman who was dressed in a very immodest
low-cut gown. The company with Roncalli
felt slightly ill at ease. The guests
shot looks at the “Papal Nuncio.”
Roncalli broke the silence by stating with humor:
”I
can’t imagine why all the guests keep looking at me, a poor old sinner, when my
neighbor, our charming hostess, is so much younger and more attractive.”(13)
When John XXIII
was later “elevated” to the College of Cardinals, he insisted upon receiving
the red hat from the atheist and notoriously anti-clerical socialist(14)
Vincent Auriol, President of the country of France(15) (whom he had described
as "an honest socialist").
John XXIII, as a Cardinal, choosing to receive his
Cardinal's hat from notorious Anti-Catholic Vincent Auriol
Angelo
Roncalli (Antipope John XXIII) Socializing with Catholic killer
At social functions in Paris, Roncalli (John XXIII) was frequently seen socializing with the Soviet
ambassador, M. Bogomolov, even though Bogomolov's government had resumed its
pre-war policy of brutal extermination of Catholics in Russia. He
was also known as a "good friend and confidant" of Edouard Herriot,
Secretary of the Anti-Catholic Radical Socialists (of France).(18) “Perhaps Roncalli’s greatest friend was the
grand old socialist and anti-clerical, Edouard Herriot.”(19)
Before Roncalli left Paris he gave a farewell
dinner for his friends. “The guests
included politicians on the Right, the Left, and the Center united on this one
occasion in their affection for their genial host.”(20)
When Roncalli was “Cardinal” of Venice he “offered
the Communists no grounds on which to criticize him. Habitual anti-clerical insults gave way to
respectful silence.”(21)
While in Venice, “Cardinal” Roncalli “exhorted the faithful to welcome the
Socialists of all Italy, who were holding their thirty-second party” in
Venice.(22)
“The
Patriarch (John XXIII) had notices placed on the walls all over Venice for the
opening of the thirty-second Congress of the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI) in
February, 1957. They read as follows: ‘I
welcome the exceptional significance of this event, which is so important for
the future of our country. I should like
to believe that the decisive motive for your assembly is to understand
contemporary conditions and to devote yourselves to doing everything possible
to improve living conditions and social well-being.’”(23)
Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno #120, May 15, 1931:
“No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”(24)
Roncalli once spoke at the Venice town hall. He stated:
“…I am happy to be here, even though there may be some present who do not
call themselves Christians, but who can be acknowledged as such because of
their good deeds.”(25)
JOHN XXIII’S ACTIVITIES AND STATEMENTS AFTER HIS ELECTION
AS “POPE” IN 1958
Shortly after being “elected” and moving into the
Vatican, “John XXIII found an ancient statue of Hippolytus, an antipope of the
Third Century. He had the statue
restored and placed at the entrance of the Vatican Library.”(26)
“Disappointed faces appeared everywhere in St.
Peter’s Square when John XXIII began his first papal blessing, for he hardly
raised his arms. His sign of the cross
seemed to the Romans a pitiful gesture, for he appeared to be moving his wrist
at about hip level.”(27)
“John XXIII
pronounced himself embarrassed at being addressed as ‘Holiness’ [or] ‘Holy
Father’…”(28) “For a long time John
XXIII said ‘I’ instead of ‘we’ in his official talks. Popes are expected to use ‘we’ and ‘us’ at
least on official occasions.”(29)
When John XXIII published an encyclical on penance
it proclaimed no fast nor even any obligatory day of abstinence from food or
secular pleasures.(30) John XXIII said of himself: “I’m the Pope who keeps stepping on the
accelerator.”(31)
John XXIII’s father was a winegrower. Speaking of his father, John XXIII said:
”There are only three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and …
farming. My father chose the most boring of the three.”(32)
In this statement John XXIII seems to be saying
that ruining oneself with gambling or women is exciting.
JOHN XXIII ON HERETICS, SCHISMATICS AND NON-CATHOLICS
John XXIII with Eastern
Schismatics at Vatican II
This is a picture of
Antipope John XXIII meeting with Eastern Schismatics at Vatican II. John XXIII,
the initiator of the Vatican II apostasy, brokered the "great deal"
that was the Vatican-Moscow Agreement. The Vatican agreed not to condemn
Communism at Vatican II, in exchange for, get this, Eastern Schismatics to come
and observe the proceedings! What a joke. The point is that John XXIII was
clearly a Communist and a Freemason, who began the massive conspiracy and
apostasy that is the Vatican II sect now headed by Antipope John Paul II.
John XXIII described what he thought the Second
Vatican Council’s attitude toward the non-Catholic sects should be with these
words: “We do not intend to conduct a trial of the past. We do
not want to prove who was right or who was wrong. All we want to say is, ‘Let us come together;
let us make an end of our divisions.’”(33)
His instructions to “Cardinal” Bea, head of the Council’s Secretariat
for the Union of Christians, were, “We
must leave aside, for the moment, those elements on which we differ.”(34)
One time a “Congressman suddenly blurted out: ‘I’m
a Baptist.’ Smiling John XXIII said,
‘Well, I’m John.’”(35)
John XXIII said to the non-Catholic Roger Schultz, founder of the ecumenical
community at Taize (a Protestant monastery): "You are in the Church, be at peace."
Schultz exclaimed: "But then, we are Catholics!" John XXIII said: "Yes; we are no longer
separated."(36)
Pope Vigilius, Second
Council of Constantinople, 553:
"Our teaching is and has been all that they have defined concerning the
one faith. We consider those who do not accept these things as foreign
to the Catholic Church. Furthermore, we condemn and anathematize,
along with all other heretics who have been condemned and anathematized by the
same four holy councils and by the holy, Catholic, and apostolic
Church..."(37)
John XXIII received at the Vatican the first
“Archbishop” of Canterbury, the first “prelate” of the U.S. Episcopal Church,
and the first Shinto high priest. (38)
John XXIII once
remarked: “If I were born a Muslim, I believe that I would have always stayed a
good Muslim, faithful to my religion.”(39)
One of John XXIII’s first acts was to receive the
Muslim Shah of Iran in audience. When
the Shah of Iran was about to leave “John
XXIII gave him his benediction which he had rephrased delicately to avoid
offending the Mohammedan’s religious principles: ‘May the most abundant
favor of Almighty God be with you.’”(40)
By rephrasing the blessing, John XXIII
1) removed the Most Holy Trinity who is invoked in the blessing so that
he wouldn’t offend the unbeliever; and 2) he gave a blessing to a member of a
false religion.
On July 18, 1959, John XXIII suppressed the
following prayer: "Be Thou King of
all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or Islam."(41) In his Apostolic Brief on October 17, 1925, Pope
Pius XI ordered that this prayer be publicly recited on the feast of Christ the
King.(42) John XXIII removed from the
Calendar of Saints the Fourteen Holy Helpers and a number of other Saints,
including St. Philomena.(43)
Under Pope Gregory XVI, the Sacred Congregation of
Rites gave a full and favorable decision in favor of the cult of St. Philomena;
in addition, Pope Gregory XVI gave Saint Philomena the titles of: "Great
Wonder Worker of the 19th century" and "Patroness of the
Living Rosary."(44) She was canonized by the same Pope in 1837.
A Canonization of a saint
is "a public and official declaration of the heroic virtue of a person and
the inclusion of his or her name in the canon (roll or register) of the
saints... This judgment of the Church is infallible and irreformable."(45)
John XXIII stated: “…whoever shouts is unjust! We must always respect the dignity of man
standing before us, and above all the freedom of every man.”(46)
John XXIII wanted the clergy of “Orthodox” Churches
of Russia (many of whom were KGB agents) to participate at Vatican II. The “Orthodox” said that some of their clergy
would attend provided that there was no condemnation of Communism at Vatican
II. John XXIII promised the schismatics
– in exchange for their participation at Vatican II – that there would not be
any condemnation of Communism at Vatican II.(47) That’s some deal, isn’t it!
John XXIII saw where the non-Catholic observers at
Vatican II were going to be seated and stated: “That won’t do! Put our separated brothers close to me.”
As one pleased Anglican put it: “So, there we were – bang in the front
row.”(48)
On October
11, 1962 John XXIII gave his opening Speech to the Council:
“They say that our era,
in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a
full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious
liberty. We feel we must disagree
with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though
the end of the world were at hand. In
the present order of things, Divine Providence is leading us to a new
order of human relations…”
“…errors vanish as
quickly as they arise, like fog before the sun.
The Church has always opposed these errors. Frequently she has condemned them with the
greatest severity. Nowadays, however, the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the
medicine of mercy rather than that of severity. She (the Church) considers that she meets the
needs of the present day by demonstrating the validity of her teaching rather than by condemnations. …Unfortunately, the entire Christian family
has not yet fully attained this visible unity in truth.”(49)
In his opening speech at Vatican II, John XXIII
states that the Church has historically opposed and condemned errors, but now
his Church is not going to issue any condemnations. He also utters the heresy that the “entire
Christian family has not yet fully attained this visible unity in truth.” First, the “entire Christian family” is only made up of Catholics. To say that the “entire Christian family”
includes non-Catholics, as John XXIII does above, is heresy. Second, John XXIII says the Christian family
(which is the Catholic Church) “has not yet fully attained this visible unity
in truth.” This is heresy. It is a clear-cut denial of the unity of the
true Church of Christ, the Catholic Church.
The true Church (the Catholic Church) is one in faith; and the Catholic Church
has already attained and will always maintain a “visible unity in truth.”
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.'"
John XXIII changed the rubrics for the Breviary and
Missal.(50) He ordered the suppression of the Leonine Prayers, the
prayers prescribed by Pope Leo XIII to be recited after Mass. These prayers were also prescribed by Pope
St. Pius X and Pope Pius XI.(51) This
included the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, a prayer that specifically
makes mention of the battle that the Church wages against the devil. He removed the Psalm Judica me from
the Mass.(52) John XXIII then suppressed
the Last Gospel, the Gospel of St. John.
This Gospel is also used in exorcisms.(53)
Next, John XXIII eliminated the second Confiteor in
the Mass – that which is said immediately before the Communion of the
priest. Only after all these changes did he introduce a change into the Canon
of the Mass by inserting the name of St. Joseph.(54) The request to have St. Joseph’s name placed
in the canon was officially rejected by Pope Pius VII on September 16, 1815
(55) and Pope Leo XIII on August 15, 1892.(56)
The other major changes regarding the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass came
into effect the first Sunday in Advent, 1964.(57)
JOHN XXIII ON SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
John XXIII wrote a letter praising Marc Sangnier,
the founder of the Sillon. The Sillon
was an organization which was condemned by Pope Pius X. John XXIII wrote about Sangnier: “The
powerful fascination of his (Sangnier’s) words, of his soul, had thrilled me, and the liveliest memories of my entire
priestly youth are for his person and his political and social activity…”(58)
In John XXIII’s encyclical Mater et Magistra (on Christianity and social progress), he
promotes socialist ideals and does not condemn contraception or Communism even
once.
Being asked why he would reply to the greeting of a
Communist dictator, John XXIII answered: "I am Pope John, not because of
any personal merit, but because of an act of God, and God is in every one of
us."(59) “John enjoyed himself
thoroughly with the Communists; one might have thought they were his own
brothers.”(60)
Communism was condemned 35 times by Pope Pius XI
and 123 times by Pope Pius XII. (61)
On March 6, 1963 John XXIII received Aleksei
Adzhubei and his wife Rada in a special audience. Rada was Premier Khrushchev’s daughter. Rada (Khrushchev’s daughter) spoke about her
meeting with John XXIII: “…he handed Aleksei and me a pair of symbolic gifts,
which were intended for my father, too and he said: ‘…That’s for your Papa.’”(62)
Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Soviet Premier
said, “We applaud the taking of positions of Pope John XXIII in favor of
peace.”(63)
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday (Nov. 25,
1961), John XXIII received a telegram from Khrushchev offering his
“congratulations and sincere wishes for good health and success in his noble
aspirations to contribute to … peace on earth.”(64)
General
Secretary of the British Communist Party, John Gollan, before
television cameras on April 21, said the
“encyclical (Pacem in Terris) [of
John XXIII] had surprised and gladdened” him and, therefore, he had
externalized his “most sincere satisfaction at the recent 28th Party
Congress.”(65)
One of John XXIII’s good friends was the Communist
and Lenin Peace Prize winner Giacomo Manzu.(66)
John XXIII said: “I see no reason why a Christian could not vote for a
Marxist if he finds the latter to be more fit to follow such a political line
and historical destiny.”(67)
The Catholic Church has condemned Communism on more
than 200 occasions.(68)
JOHN XXIII PRAISED BY FREEMASONS AND COMMUNISTS DURING HIS
“PONTIFICATE”
John XXIII, Pacem in terris #14, April 11, 1963:
“Also among man’s rights is that of being able to worship God in accordance
with the right dictates of his own conscience, and to profess his religion both
in private and in public.”
This
is heresy. It is not man’s right to
worship false gods in public. This has
been condemned by many Popes.
When
the theologian of the Holy Office, Fr. Ciappi, told John XXIII that his
encyclical Pacem in Terris
contradicted the teaching of Popes Gregory XVI and Pius IX on religious
liberty, John XXIII responded: “I won’t be offended by a few spots if most of
it shines.” (68a)
John
XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris was
praised by Masonic leaders themselves as a Masonic document. Here are just a few examples:
Below is quoted an article taken from the Masonic Bulletin, official organ of the
Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Masons, for the Masonic District of the United States of Mexico, located at 56
Lucerna St., Mexico, D.F. (Year 18, No. 220, May 1963).
THE
LIGHT OF THE
GREAT
ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
ENLIGHTENS
THE VATICAN
“Generally speaking, the encyclical Pacem in Terris, addressed to all men of
goodwill, has inspired comfort and hope. Both in democratic and Communist countries it
has been universally praised. Only
the Catholic dictatorships have frowned upon it and distorted its spirit.
“To us many concepts and doctrines it
contains are familiar. We have heard
them from illustrious rationalist, liberal, and socialist brothers. After
having carefully weighed the meaning of each word, we might say that, the
proverbial and typical Vatican literary rubbish notwithstanding, the encyclical Pacem in Terris is a vigorous statement of Masonic doctrine...we do
not hesitate to recommend its thoughtful reading.”(69)
In
the book Resurgence du Temple,
published and edited by the Knights Templar (Freemasons), 1975:149, the
following quote is of interest: “The
direction of our action: Continuation of the Work of John XXIII and all those
who have followed him on the way to Templar Universalism.”(70)
JOHN XXIII AND THE JEWS
John XXIII also did things like stopping his car so
that he could bless Jews leaving their "Sabbath" worship.(71) John XXIII once greeted some Jewish
visitors with the words, "I am Joseph, your brother."(72)
Just before his death, John XXIII composed the
following prayer for the Jews. This
prayer was confirmed by the Vatican as being the work of John XXIII. (73)
"We
realize today how blind we have been throughout the centuries and how we did
not appreciate the beauty of the Chosen People
nor the features of our favored brothers.
We are aware of the divine mark of Cain placed upon our forehead. In the course of centuries our brother, Abel,
has been lying bleeding and in tears on the ground through our fault, only
because we had forgotten thy love.
Forgive us our unjustified condemnation of the Jews. Forgive us that by crucifying them we have
crucified You for the second time.
Forgive us. We did not know what
we were doing."(74)
John XXIII says here that the Jews are still the
chosen people, which is heretical.
The phrase "perfidious Jews" was the
expression used by Catholics in the Good Friday Liturgy until John XXIII
removed it in 1960.(75) The word
perfidious means unfaithful.(76) “On
Good Friday, 1963, the Cardinal who was the celebrant in St. Peter’s said the
old words (perfidious Jews) from force of habit. John XXIII stunned the worshippers by
stopping him in midstream with the words, ‘Say it over the new way.’”(77)
Pope Benedict XIV, A
Quo Primum, June 14, 1751:
"Another threat to Christians has been the influence of Jewish
faithlessness... Surely it is not in vain that the Church has
established the universal prayer which is offered up for the faithless Jews
from the rising of the sun to its setting, that they may be rescued from their
darkness into the light of truth."(78)
To a recently baptized Jewish boy, John XXIII said:
“By becoming a Catholic you do not become less a Jew.” (78a)
On the night of John XXIII's death, the Chief Rabbi
of Rome and other leaders of the Jewish community gathered with hundreds of
thousands in Saint Peter's Square to mourn.(79)
Alden Hatch, author of A Man Named John, The Life of John XXIII, stated about John XXIII:
“…surely none (previous Popes) had so touched the hearts of people of all
faiths – and of no faith. For they knew
he loved them no matter what they were or what they believed.”(80)
THE DEATH OF JOHN XXIII
After his death, the Vatican sent for Gennar
Goglia, who with his colleagues embalmed John XXIII. Goglia injected ten liters of embalming fluid
into John XXIII’s wrist and stomach to neutralize any putrefaction.(81) This is why John XXIII’s body did not decompose
like normal bodies. When John XXIII was
originally buried, he was buried in a wood coffin.(82) In January 2001 John XXIII’s body was exhumed
and placed in a new bullet-proof crystal coffin now on display in St. Peter’s
basilica. John XXIII’s face and hands
were also covered in wax.(83)
STATEMENTS FROM FREEMASONS, COMMUNISTS AND NON-CATHOLICS
PRAISING JOHN XXIII AFTER HIS DEATH
After the death of John XXIII, numerous documents
from Communists, Masons, and Jews were sent to the Vatican expressing their
sorrow for the death of John XXIII.
Persons like “Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev sent messages of praise
and sorrow.”(84)
From the June 4, 1963, edition of The Reporter (El
Informador);
“The Great Western Mexican Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons,
on the occasion of the death of John
XXIII, makes known its sorrow for
the disappearance of this great man who revolutionized the ideas, thoughts,
and forms of the Roman Catholic liturgy. His encyclicals Mater et Magistra and Pacem
in Terris have revolutionized the concepts favoring human rights and
liberty. Mankind has lost a great man, and we Masons acknowledge his high
principles, his humanitarianism, and his being a great liberal.
Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico, June 3, 1963
Dr. Jose
Guadalupe Zuno Hernandez (85)”
Charles Riandey,
a sovereign Grand Master of secret societies, in his preface
to a book by Yves Marsaudon (State Minister of the Supreme Council of French
secret societies), stated:
"To
the memory of Angelo Roncalli, priest, Archbishop of
Messamaris, Apostolic Nuncio in Paris, Cardinal of the Roman Church, Patriarch
of Venice, Pope under the name of John
XXIII, who has deigned to give us his benediction, his understanding, and his protection."(86) A second preface to the book was addressed to
“his august continuer, His Holiness Pope Paul VI.”(87)
The high ranking
Freemason, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, wrote in the Journal de Geneve: “I know Cardinal Roncalli very well. He was a Deist and a Rationalist
whose strength did not lie in the ability to believe in miracles and to
venerate the sacred.”(88)
A HERETIC
CANNOT BE A VALID POPE
The Catholic
Church teaches that a heretic cannot be validly elected Pope, since a heretic
is not a member of the Catholic Church.
The facts in this article prove that John XXIII, the man who called
Vatican II and began the apostate Conciliar Church, was clearly a heretic. He was not a valid Pope.
Pope Paul IV, Bull
Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Feb. 15, 1559: “6. In addition, [by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in
perpetuity We enact, determine, decree and define:-] that if ever at any
time it shall appear that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop,
Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has
already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his
promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the
Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy:
(i) the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and
by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless;
(ii) it shall not be possible for it to
acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it has thus acquired validity)
through the acceptance of the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority,
nor through possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement
of a Roman Pontiff, or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by all, nor
through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing situation;
(iii) it shall not be held as partially
legitimate in any way…
(vi) those thus promoted or elevated shall be
deprived automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all
dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and power….
10. No one at all, therefore, may infringe this document of our
approbation, re-introduction, sanction, statute and derogation of wills and
decrees, or by rash presumption contradict it. If anyone, however, should presume to attempt this, let him know that
he is destined to incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles,
Peter and Paul.
Given in Rome at Saint Peter's in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1559,
15th February, in the fourth year of our Pontificate.
+ I, Paul, Bishop of the Catholic Church…”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “A pope
who is a manifest heretic automatically (per
se) ceases to be pope and head, just
as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by
the Church. This is the teaching of all the ancient Fathers who teach that
manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30)
Angelo Roncalli
(John XXIII) was an Antipope.
THE AMAZING
PARALLELS BETWEEN ANTIPOPE JOHN XXIII OF THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM AND ANTIPOPE
JOHN XXIII OF VATICAN II
The name “John”
had been avoided by Popes for five hundred years because the last man to have
it was the notorious Antipope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa) of the Great
Western Schism. The parallels between
the first Antipope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa) and the second are striking:
The
reign of the first Antipope John XXIII spanned five years, from 1410 to 1415,
just like the reign of the recent Antipope John XXIII, which spanned five
years, from 1958 to 1963.
The
first Antipope John XXIII called a phony council, the Council of Constance. (The Council of Constance later became a true
ecumenical council, with certain sessions approved by the true Pope; but at the
time that Antipope John XXIII opened it, it was a false council.) Likewise, the
recent Antipope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) also called a false council,
Vatican Council II!
The
first Antipope John XXIII opened his false council at Constance in the 4th year
of his reign, 1414. The recent Antipope John XXIII opened Vatican II in the 4th
year of his reign, 1962.
The first
Antipope John XXIII’s reign was ended shortly before the 3rd Session of his
false Council, in 1415. The recent
Antipope John XXIII died shortly before the 3rd Session of Vatican II, in 1963,
thus ending his reign.
We believe that
the similarities between the first Antipope John XXIII and the second are not
merely coincidences.
The first Antipope
John XXIII was also the last Antipope to reign from Rome. Was Angelo Roncalli,
the recent Antipope John XXIII, by taking that name, indicating symbolically
that he is continuing in the line of Antipopes to reign from Rome?
Cardinal Heenan, who was present at the 1958
conclave which gave us John XXIII, once mentioned: "There was no great mystery about Pope
John's election. He was chosen because he was a very old man. His chief duty
was to make Msgr. Montini (later Paul VI), the Archbishop of Milan, a cardinal
so that he could be elected in the next conclave. That was the policy and it was carried out
precisely."(89)
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ENDNOTES
(1) Lawrence
Elliott, I Will Be Called John, 1973, pp. 90-92.
(2) Luigi
Accattoli, When A Pope Asks Forgiveness, New York: Alba House and
Daughters of St. Paul, 1998, pp. 18-19.
(3) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 93.
(4) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 94.
(5) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 96.
(6) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 98.
(7) St. Anthony’s Messenger, Nov. 1996.
(8) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 117.
(9) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 118.
(10) Paul I. Murphy
and R. Rene Arlington, La Popessa, 1983, pp. 332-333.
(11) Mary Ball
Martinez, The Underminding of the
Catholic Church, p. 117.
(12) Giovanni
Cubeddu, 30 Days, Issue No. 2-1994.,
p. 25.
(13) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p. 90.
(14) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 121.
(15) The Making of the
Pope, London, England: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1962, p. 127.
(16) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 123.
(17) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .99.
(18) Rev. Francis
Murphy, John XXIII Comes To The Vatican, 1959, p. 139.
(19) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 114.
(20) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 125.
(21) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .104.
(22) Mark Fellows, Fatima
in Twilight, p. 159.
(23) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .105.
(24) Claudia
Carlen Ihm, The Papal Encylicals, The
Pierian Press, Vol. 4, p. 434.
(25) Peter
Hebblethwaite, John XXIII, The Pope of
the Council, Doubleday, ed. Le Centurion, 1988, p. 271.
(26) Paul
Johnson, Pope John XXIII, p. 37,
114-115, 130.
(27) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964, p. 24.
(28) Time
Magazine, 1962 Man of the Year: Pope John
XXIII (internet version) at www.catholic.net/RCC/News/
Time Mag/1962.html. p. 7. (from Jan. 4, 1963 issue).
(29) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .49.
(30) Romano
Amerio, Iota Unum, 1998. Angelus
Press, 2918 Tracy Ave. Kansas City, Mo., p. 241
(31) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p. 134.
(32) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964, p. 110.
(33) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 192.
(34) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 192.
(35) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 194.
(36) Luigi Accattoli, When
A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 19.
(37) Decrees
of the Ecumenical Councils, Sheed & Ward and Georgetown Univ. Press,
1990, Vol. 1, p. 113.
(38) Time
Magazine, 1962 Man of the Year: Pope John
XXIII (internet version) at www.catholic.net/RCC/News/
Time Mag/1962.html. p. 7. (from Jan. 4, 1963 issue).
(39) Allegri,
Il Papa che ha cambiato il mondo, ed., Reverdito, 1998, p. 120. Also in Sacerdotium, Issue #11, 2899 East Big Beaver Rd. Suite
308 Troy, MI.) p. 58
(40) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 193.
(41) Luigi Accattoli, When
A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 20.
(42) Fr. F.X. Lasance, My
Prayer Book, 1938 ed., p. 520a.
(43) The Reign of Mary, "A Final
Concern," Spring, 1986, p. 11.
(44) Fr. Paul
O'Sullivan, O.P., Saint Philomena, The Wonder Worker, Rockford, IL: TAN
Books, 1993, pp. 69-70.
(45) A
Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, TAN Books, 1997, p. 72.
(46) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p. 135.
(47) Mark Fellows, Fatima
in Twilight, p. 180.
(48) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 14.
(49) Walter
Abbott, The Documents of Vatican II,
pp. 712; 716; 717.
(50) The
Papal Encyclicals, by Claudia Carlen, Raleigh: The Pierian Press, 1990,
Vol. 5 (1958-1981), p. 5.
(51) The Reign of Mary, Spring, 1986,
p. 10.
(52) An Open
Letter to Confused "Traditionalists," p. 5.
(53) The
Reign of Mary, Vol. XXIX, No. 93, p. 16.
(54) The Reign of Mary, Vol. XXIX, No.
93, p. 16.
(55) The Reign of Mary, Vol. XXII, No.
64, p. 8.
(56) The Reign of Mary, Spring, 1986,
pp. 9-10.
(57) Ursula Oxfort, The Heresy of John XXIII, p. 27.
(58) Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII,
Mission to France, 1944-1953, pp. 124-125.
(59) The Reign of Mary, Spring, 1986,
Spokane, WA: CMRI, p. 9.
(60) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .57.
(61) Piers Compton, The
Broken Cross, Cranbrook, Western Australia: Veritas Pub. Co. Ptd Ltd, 1984,
p. 45.
(62) Kurt
Klinger, A Pope Laughs, Stories of John
XXIII, NY,NY., Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964, p .24.
(63) Fr. Des
Anges, Fatima: Intimate Joy, Vol. IV,
p. 67.
(64) Mark Fellows, Fatima
in Twilight, p. 177. also in Piers Compton, The Broken Cross, Cranbrook,
Western Australia: Veritas Pub. Co. Ptd Ltd, 1984, p. 44.
(65) Ibid.,
p. 170
(66) Curtis
Bill Pepper, An Artist and the Pope,
London, England: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. (Front cover & inside slip
cover of book) also look at p. 5.
(67) Fr.
Joaquin Arriaga, The New Montinian Church
(Brea, Ca.), p. 570
(68) Michael
Davies , Pope John’s Council, 1992. Angelus Press, 2918 Tracy
Ave. Kansas City, Mo., p. 150
(68a) Catholic Restoration, March-April
1992, Madison Heights, MI, p. 29.
(69) Fr.
Joaquin Arriaga, The New Montinian Church
(Brea, Ca.), pp. 147-148
(70) A.D.O.
Datus, “Ab Initio,” p. 60.
(71) George Weigel, Witness
to Hope, New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1999, p. 484.
(72) Bart McDowell, Inside
the Vatican, Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1991, p.
193. Also can be seen in Time Magazine
Jan 4, 1963 issue in the man of the year article p. 6 in internet version.
(73) The Reign of Mary, "John
XXIII and the Jews," Spring, 1986, p. 11.
(74) B'nai B'rith
Messenger, Friday, November 4, 1964.
(75) Luigi Accattoli, When
A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 15.
(76) The Oxford
Illustrated Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, p. 627.
(77) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, p. 192.
(78) The Papal
Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), pp. 41-42.
(78a) Catholic Restoration,
May-June 1993, Madison Heights, MI, p. 24.
(79) Darcy O' Brien, The
Hidden Pope, New York, NY: Daybreak Books, 1998, p. 10.
(80) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, after p. 238 (1st page of insert)
(81) Wendy
Reardon, The Deaths of the Popes,
Jefferson, NC., McFarland & Co., Inc,2004, p. 244.
(82) Wendy
Reardon, The Deaths of the Popes,
Jefferson, NC., McFarland & Co., Inc,2004, p. 244.
(83) Wendy
Reardon, The Deaths of the Popes,
Jefferson, NC., McFarland & Co., Inc,2004, p. 244.
(84) Alden
Hatch, A Man Named John, NY, NY.
Hawthorn Books Inc., 1963, after p. 238 (7th page of insert)
(85) Fr.
Joaquin Arriaga, p.147
(86) Piers Compton, The
Broken Cross, Cranbrook, Western Australia: Veritas Pub. Co. Ptd Ltd, 1984,
p. 50.
(87) Piers Compton, The
Broken Cross, Cranbrook, Western Australia: Veritas Pub. Co. Ptd Ltd, 1984,
p. 50.
(88) A.D.O
Datus, “AB INITIO” p. 60
(89) Cardinal
Heenan’s biography, Crown of Thorns.