The Most Specific Heresy in Vatican II – a New
Insight into a Vatican II heresy that is utterly devastating to the false
Council
By Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B.
-The fingerprint of heresy:
Vatican II uses the same word as the Council of Florence –
In our video – and also our article (The Principal Heresies of Vatican II) – we prove
that there are many heresies in Vatican II.
One heresy which we have not expanded upon or examined in depth,
however, is Vatican II’s teaching in Nostra
Aetate #4 (the Declaration on Non-Christian Religions). A closer inspection of this heresy reveals
that this is actually the worst and most specific heresy in all of Vatican II.
Vatican II Declaration, Nostra
Aetate (#4): “Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as
rejected or cursed by God,
as if such views followed from the holy scriptures.”
I recently studied this heresy in more depth. When one does examine this heresy in more
detail, what one discovers is astounding.
Before one even gets into more detail, however, it
should be obvious to all that the text of Nostra
Aetate #4 is heretical. Jews are rejected by God, because all who
reject Jesus Christ are denied by God.
This is a truth that Our Lord specifically revealed in Sacred Scripture.
Matthew
10:33- “But he that shall deny me before
men, I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.”
The word “deny” means to reject or to repudiate. Look it up in the dictionary. Therefore, Vatican II is denying the divinely
revealed truth of Matthew 10:33: he who denies Our Lord is rejected by
Him. Thus, without even going farther
into detail, one should easily see that Vatican II teaches blatant heresy in Nostra Aetate #4. But it gets even worse when one considers
this in more detail.
In case you have any doubt about this heresy… in
case you have doubt whether Nostra Aetate
#4 is directly contradicting Catholic dogma… in case you have been persuaded by
one of those defenders of the Vatican II apostasy, such as:
Christopher Ferrara and Thomas Woods, The Great Façade, p. 88: “Granted, none of the conciliar documents
contains any explicit doctrinal error; and Paul VI did act decisively
in several instances to prevent outright errors from being promulgated as
Catholic doctrine.”
Bob Sungenis: “Let me assure you that I consider Vatican
II a legitimate ecumenical council. I will go one step further and say that it
was a council that contains no error… Here are two men [the Dimond Brothers] who scour Church documents like people scour the
newspaper to see if they won the lottery, and yet they can’t come up with one
indisputable, bone fide error [in Vatican II].”
…please consider the following…
The Council of Florence dogmatically defined that
any individual who has a view contrary to Our Lord or the Trinity – or any one
of the truths about Our Lord or the Trinity – is rejected by God.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1442, ex cathedra: “…the holy Roman Church,
founded on the words of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes and
preaches one true God, almighty, immutable and eternal, Father, Son and Holy Spirit… Therefore
it [the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects, anathematizes and declares
to be outside the Body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds
opposing or contrary views.”
This is very interesting indeed. This is a dogmatic definition on individuals
who have a view on Our Lord Jesus Christ or the Holy Trinity that is contrary
to that of the Church (e.g., Jews, etc.).
The Council of Florence solemnly
defines that whoever has a view contrary to the Church’s teaching on Our Lord
and the Trinity (e.g., the Jews) is condemned and rejected! Note: the Council is not merely saying that the view contrary to Our Lord is
rejected, but that the individual (e.g.,
the Jew) is rejected.
In making this dogmatic declaration, that all who
have a view contrary to faith in Our Lord or the Trinity are rejected, the
original Latin of the Council of Florence uses the word “reprobat,” which means “rejects.”
It is from the Latin verb reprobo,
which means “I reject” or “condemn.”
The Latin of the Council of Florence: “Quoscunque ergo
adversa et contraria sentientes damnat, reprobat
et anathematizat et a Christi corpore, quod est ecclesia, alienos esse
denuntiat.”
Council of Florence, English: “Therefore it condemns, rejects, anathematizes and
declares to be outside the Body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds
opposing or contrary views.”
The Church rejects all who have a view contrary to
faith in Our Lord or the Trinity (e.g.
the Jews). But here’s the bombshell: In Nostra
Aetate #4, in declaring just the opposite, Vatican II uses the same word!
Vatican II, Nostra
Aetate #4, Original Latin: “…Iudaei tamen neque ut a Deo reprobati neque ut maledicti
exhibeantur…”
Nostra Aetate #4 of Vatican II: “…the Jews should not be presented as rejected
or cursed by God...”
Vatican II uses “reprobati,” which is the past participle passive of reprobo – the very same verb that the
Council of Florence used! This
means that Vatican II and the Council of Florence are talking about the exact
same thing – they use the exact same verb – and they teach exactly the
opposite! The Council of Florence
defines that all individuals (Jews, etc.) who have a view contrary to faith in
Christ or the Trinity the Church “reprobat”
(rejects). Vatican II tells us that the
Jews should not be considered as having been “reprobati” (as having been rejected). Vatican II couldn’t contradict Catholic dogma
any more precisely!
There
can be absolutely no doubt that Vatican II denies the dogmatic teaching of the
Council of Florence. In fact, this is
the most specific heresy in all of Vatican II.
Anyone who would deny that Vatican II teaches heresy, in light of these
facts, is simply a liar.
And it doesn’t matter if you want to quibble about
the precise meaning of the verb reprobo
– whether it should be reprobate, disapprove, condemn, reject, etc. Whatever you want to say it means, the
Council of Florence defined as an article of faith that the Jews are such,
while Vatican II says that they are not.
Some totally desperate defender of the Vatican II
religion may attempt to answer by stating: “Vatican
II only said that they are not rejected by God; the Council of Florence defined
that the Church rejects them.”
This, of course, is a ridiculous and heretical
attempt to defend the indefensible. This
response denies that dogmas (such as Florence’s dogmatic definition) constitute
the truth of God.
Pope St. Pius X, Lamentabile, The Errors of
the Modernists, July 3, 1907, #22:
“The dogmas which the Church professes as
revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but they are a kind of
interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind by a laborious
effort prepared for itself.”- Condemned
Dogmas are truths fallen from heaven. They are the truths that God teaches. The Church doesn’t infallibly teach anything
that God doesn’t also teach. When the
Church solemnly defines that it rejects all who have a different view of Our
Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity (such as Jews), this is what God
teaches. This is what has been revealed
by Jesus Christ to the Church. There is
absolutely no way around this heresy in Vatican II. Those who defend it obstinately, or defend
the men who promulgated and spread it (the Vatican II Antipopes), become
enemies of Our Lord.
This heresy in Vatican II’s Declaration Nostra Aetate is the theological
foundation for the Vatican II sect’s current teaching on the Jews. It is the reason that the Vatican currently
publishes books which teach that the Jews are perfectly free to live as if
Christ had not come. It is the reason
that the Vatican II sect teaches that the Old Covenant is valid. It is the reason why John Paul II and
Benedict XVI both made trips to the Synagogue to validate the Jewish
religion.
And, just in case one forgets, this blatant heresy
of Vatican II’s Declaration Nostra Aetate
ended with these solemn words and the signature of Paul VI, proving again that
he was an Antipope:
END OF THE VATICAN II DECLARATION, NOSTRA AETATE: “EACH AND EVERY ONE OF
THE THINGS SET FORTH IN THIS DECREE HAS WON THE CONSENT OF THE FATHERS OF THIS
MOST SACRED COUNCIL. WE, TOO, BY THE
APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY CONFERRED ON US BY CHRIST, JOIN WITH THE VENERABLE
FATHERS IN APPROVING, DECREEING, AND ESTABLISHING THESE THINGS IN THE HOLY
SPIRIT, AND WE DIRECT THAT WHAT HAS THUS BEEN ENACTED IN SYNOD BE PUBLISHED
TO GOD’S GLORY... I, PAUL,
BISHOP OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.”