The Scandals and Heresies of John Paul I
By Bro. Michael Dimond,
O.S.B.
John Paul I (Albino Luciani)
The Man who claimed to be Pope between Paul VI and
John Paul II for 33 days in 1978
Albino Luciani (John Paul I) was born the son of a committed
Socialist.(1)
John XXIII personally consecrated Luciani a bishop on Dec. 27,
1958.(2) Luciani was named a “Cardinal”
by Paul VI.(3)
Luciani had formed friendships with many non-Catholics. Phillip Potter, Secretary of the World
Council of Churches, had been his house guest.
Other guests of his included Jews, Anglicans and Pentecostal
“Christians.” He had exchanged books and
very friendly letters with Hans Kung.(4)
Luciani (John Paul I) had several times quoted Hans Kung favorably in
his sermons.(5)
Luciani “was aware that a number
of the lay Catholics he knew were members of various lodges (masonic) – in much
the same way that he had friends who were Communists.”(6)
Luciani made a thorough study of “responsible parenthood” and consulted
with many doctors and theologians. Like
John XXIII and Paul VI, Luciani had studied the possibility of the “pill” being
used as a “natural” method of regulating births.(7) Those who had fallen into using artificial
contraception and then went to Confession found Luciani “very
compassionate.”(8)
In April of 1968, Albino Luciani wrote and submitted a report to Paul VI
recommending that the Catholic Church should approve the use of the anovulant
pill developed by Professor Pincus. Luciani recommended that this pill should
become the Catholic birth-control pill.(9)
United Press International (UPI) discovered that Luciani had advocated a
Vatican ruling in favor of artificial birth control. Italian newspapers also carried stories. To substantiate the story, these newspaper
reports referred to the Luciani document which was sent to Paul VI by
“Cardinal” Urbani of Venice, in which the strong recommendation in favor of the
contraceptive pill had been made.(10)
Later on during his “papacy” – when he was “John Paul I” – Luciani often
quoted from the pronouncements and encyclicals of Paul VI. Notably absent was any reference of John Paul
I to Humanae Vitae.(11)
On April 13, 1968 Luciani talked to the people of Vittorio Veneto about
this issue of birth control.(12) Luciani
made the following observations:
“It is easier today, given the confusion caused by
the press, to find married persons who do not believe that they are
sinning. If this should happen it may be opportune, under the usual conditions,
not to disturb them…
“Let us pray that the Lord may help the pope to
resolve this question [whether Catholics should be able to use artificial birth
control]. There has never perhaps been
such a difficult question for the Church – both for the intrinsic difficulties
and for the numerous implications affecting other problems, and for the acute
way in which it is felt by the vast mass of the people.”(13)
When Albino Luciani became “Patriarch” of Venice his personal Secretary
was Father Mario Senigaglia. Senigaglia
discussed with Luciani (with whom he had developed an almost Father-Son
relationship) different moral cases involving parishioners. Luciani
always approved the liberal view that Senigaglia took. Senigaglia said: “He was a very understanding
man. Very many times I would hear him
say to couples, ‘We have made of sex the
only sin, when in fact it is linked to human weakness and frailty and is
therefore perhaps the least of sins.’”(14)
Senigaglia confirmed that Luciani’s personal view on divorce would have
surprised his critics:(15)
“He could and did accept divorcees. He also easily accepted others who were
living in what the Church calls ‘sin.’”(16)
LUCIANI ON A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Luciani: “A gradual, controlled, and universal
disarmament is possible only if an international organization with more
efficient powers and possibilities for sanctions than the present United
Nations comes into being…”(17)
LUCIANI ON CHRISTIANS
Quoting Ghandhi, Luciani said: “I admire Christ but not Christians.”(18)
In an Easter sermon in 1976, Luciani made the following statement:
“Thus Christian morality adopted the theory of the
just war; thus the Church allowed the
legalization of prostitution (even in the Papal States), while obviously it
remained forbidden on a moral level.”(19)
It is a blasphemy to assert that the Catholic Church would ever allow
the legalization of prostitution.
As Patriarch of Venice on December 24, 1977, Albino Luciani stated the
following about the French Revolution:
“…the intentions of those who had kindled insurrection and revolution at the
beginning had been very good ones, and the slogan proclaimed was ‘Liberty,
Fraternity, Equality.’”(20)
Shortly before the 1978 conclave, Luciani
was asked his opinion of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown. Speaking of the test-tube baby and her
parents, Luciani said: “Following the example of God, who desires and loves
human life, I too send my best wishes to the baby. As for the parents, I have no right to judge
them; subjectively, if they acted with
good intentions and in good faith, they may even have great merit before God
for what they have decided and asked the doctors to do.”(21)
Luciani had more than any other “Cardinal” put into practice the spirit
of John XXIII’s Second Vatican Council.(22)
After his “election” to the “papacy” in 1978, John Paul I (Luciani) used
the term “I” instead of “we.” In fact,
he never once used the term “we” that had been used by Popes for nearly 2000
years.(23) John Paul I wanted to be
called pastor rather than pontiff.(24)
John Paul I renounced the papal tiara and replaced the coronation
ceremony with a simple celebration.(25)
The tiara which was sold by Paul VI was now replaced by the pallium, a
white woolen stole around his shoulders.(26)
John Paul I said the following in his first speech announcing the
program for his “pontificate”:
1) “The echo of its daily life gives witness that,
despite all obstacles, it (the Church)
lives in the heart of men, even those who do not share its truth or accept its
message.”(27)
2)”…the
Second Vatican Council (to whose teachings we wish to commit our total ministry)…”(28)
3) ”We wish to continue to put into effect the
heritage of the Second Vatican
Council. Its wise norms should be
followed out and perfected.”(29)
4) ”…we place a priority on the revision of the two
codes of canon law: that of the oriental tradition and that of the Latin
tradition…”(30)
5) “We wish
to continue the ecumenical thrust, which we consider a final directive from
our immediate Predecessors.”(31)
During the Inauguration of John Paul I, he said: “We greet also with reverence and affection all the people in the
world. We regard them and love them
as our brothers and sisters, since they are children of the same heavenly
Father and brothers and sisters in
Christ Jesus.”(32)
John Paul I, when speaking to a
friend about the Schismatic Patriarch of Moscow, Nikodem, called him “a real
saint.”(33)
In a letter to the new schismatic
patriarch of Moscow about the death of the recently deceased schismatic
patriarch of Moscow, John Paul I said:
“…we express to Your Holiness and to the Holy Synod
of the Russian Orthodox Church our feelings of keen sorrow. We
assure you of our prayer for the repose of the soul of this devoted servant
of his Church and constructor of the deepening relations between our
Churches. May God receive him into his joy and his peace.”(34)
John Paul I calls the deceased Russian schismatic, who rejected Papal
Infallibility and the last 13 dogmatic Councils (among other Catholic
teachings), a “devoted servant of his Church.”
In the same audience, John Paul I went on to speak about the Holy
Catholic Church, and stated: “We have our mother. If
mother is sick, if my mother by chance should become lame, I love her even
more. It is the same, in the
Church. If there are, and there are,
defects and shortcomings, our affection for the Church must never
fail.”(35)
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10), Jan. 6, 1928:
“During
the lapse of centuries, the mystical
Spouse of Christ has never been contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be
contaminated, as Cyprian bears witness: ‘The Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse: she is
incorrupt and modest. She knows but one
dwelling, she guards the sanctity of the nuptial chamber chastely and
modestly.”
Pope Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicaea, 787:
“… Christ our God, when He took for His
Bride His Holy Catholic Church, having
no blemish or wrinkle, promised he would guard her and assured his holy
disciples saying, I am with you every day until the consummation of the world.”
What John Paul I says about the Church itself is impossible. The Catholic Church is without any
defects.
John Paul I was the first “Pope” to allow members of the female sex to
his dinner table.(36)
John Paul I “believed in greater power-sharing with the bishops
throughout the world and planned to decentralize the Vatican structure.”(37)
John Paul I said: "The Church should not have power nor possess
wealth... How beautiful it would have been if the pope had himself voluntarily
renounced all temporal power!"(38)
John Paul I told the diplomatic corps that the Vatican renounced all claims
to temporal power.(39)
Pope Pius IX, Nullis Certe Verbis (# 1),
Jan. 19, 1860:
"...in kind letters sent to Us and by pastoral letters of other religious
and learned writings, you vehemently denounced the sacrilegious attacks made
on the civil power of the Roman Church. And defending constantly this
dominion, you proclaimed and taught that God gave the civil power to the
Roman Pontiff, so that he, never subject to any power, might exercise in
full liberty and without any impediment the supreme task of the apostolic
ministry divinely committed to him by Christ our Lord."(40)
John Paul I was told that Paul VI had declined to sleep in John’s bed
“because of his respect for Pope John.” John Paul I responded, “I will sleep in
his bed because of my love for him.”(41)
John Paul I often spoke of Paul VI with admiration and affection: ”He
was a great Pope and suffered much. He
was not understood…”(42)
John Paul I, Angelus Message Sept. 10, 1978: “He (God) is our father; even more he is our mother.”(43)
In his General Audience on September 13, 1978, John Paul I spoke on the
subject of immutable truths and said:
“Those are
the truths: we must walk along the way of these truths, understanding them more
and more, bringing ourselves up-to-date, proposing them in a form suited to the
times. Pope Paul too had the same
thought.”(44)
In September 1978, Luciani was heard in the papal apartments talking to
his Secretary of State, “Cardinal” Villot: “I will be happy to talk to this
United States delegation on the issue.
To my mind we cannot leave the situation as it currently stands.” The “issue” was world population. The “situation” was Humanae Vitae.(45)
At the top of his list of priorities of reform and change was radically
altering the Vatican’s relationship with capitalism and alleviating what he
believed was the suffering that had stemmed directly from Humanae Vitae.(46) [I do not
suggest that Humanae Vitae was a good
document. It taught that couples could
use “natural” birth control and have no children at all. But the point is that Humanae Vitae did denounce artificial contraception, and John Paul
I was very opposed to it for that reason.]
In May of 1978, Luciani had been invited to attend and to speak at an
international congress being held in Milan on June 21-22. The main purpose of the congress was to
celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Luciani had let it be known that he would not speak
at the congress and further that he would not attend.(47)
On September 19, 1978, John Paul I had a meeting with his Secretary of
State, “Cardinal” Villot. He stated:
“Eminence, we have been discussing birth control
for about forty-five minutes. If the
information I have been given, the various statistics, if that information is
accurate, then during the period of time we have been talking, over one
thousand children under the age of five have died of malnutrition. During the next forty-five minutes while you
and I look forward with anticipation to our next meal a further thousand
children will die of malnutrition. By
this time tomorrow thirty thousand children who at this moment are alive, will
be dead–of malnutrition. God does not
always provide.”(48)
The Vatican claimed that John Paul I died of a massive heart attack
around 11p.m. on September 28, 1978.(49)
On October 4, 1978 John Paul I
was buried in a plain (wooden) coffin.(50)
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 Paul I 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)
Albino Luciani (John Paul I) was an
Antipope.
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ENDNOTES
(1) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 60.
(2) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2004, p. 27.
(3) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 58.
(4) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, Bantam Books,
1984, pp. 86, 190.
(5) David Yallop,
In God’s Name, p. 190.
(6) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 201.
(7) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 35.
(8) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 36.
(9) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 32.
(10) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 191.
(11) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192.
(12) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 32.
(13) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 33.
(14) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 61.
(15) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 60.
(16) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 61.
(17) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 62.
(18) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 65.
(19) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 60.
(20) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 120.
(21) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 233.
(22) David Yallop,
In God’s Name, p. 90.
(23) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 97.
(24) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, pp. 179, 184.
(25) Luigi Accattoli, When
A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 37.
(26) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 185.
(27) L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p.
6.
(28) L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p.
6.
(29) L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p.
6.
(30) L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p.
6.
(31) L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p.
6.
(32) L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 7, 1978,
p. 1.
(33) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 64.
(34) L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 14, 1978,
p. 2.
(35) L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 21, 1978,
p. 1.
(36) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 207.
(37) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 189.
(38) Luigi Accattoli,
When A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 44.
(39) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 210.
(40) The Papal
Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p. 359.
(41) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 204.
(42) Raymond
and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope,
p. 44.
(43) L'
Osservatore Romano, September 21, 1978, p. 2.
(44) L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 21, 1978,
p.1.
(45) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192,193.
(46) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 194.
(47) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192.
(48) David
Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 196.
(49)
Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The
Smiling Pope, p. 70.
(50) Wendy Reardon, The Deaths of the Popes, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc,
2004, p. 248.