Why John Paul II was not the Pope – a Comprehensive Presentation

 

By Bro. Michael Dimond, O.S.B.

and Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B.

 

Jesus Christ Founded the Church Upon St. Peter

 

In the 16th chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel, we read the following.  And Jesus said to Peter: “Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.  And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.”

 

It is an indisputable fact of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition that Jesus Christ made Peter the visible head of His Church.  Christ gave the supreme authority to Peter and Peter’s successors as Popes to rule the universal Church of God, to invoke their supreme authority when necessary to teach infallibly on doctrinal issues, and to regulate the Catholic Church’s laws and worship.

 

There Have Been Antipopes

 

But, as many of you know, throughout the 2000 year history of the Catholic Church, there have been some Antipopes, that is to say, men who claimed to hold the authority of Pope, yet who were not canonically elected as head of Christ’s Church. 

 

Some Antipopes were installed by Anti-Catholic Emperors who had taken the true Pope into exile and implanted their own man.

 

Others were elected fraudulently after the true Pope had already been chosen. 

 

One of the most notorious cases in Church history was that of the Antipope Anacletus II, who reigned in Rome from 1130 to 1138.  Anacletus had been implanted in an uncanonical election after Innocent II, the true Pope, had already been chosen.  Despite his invalid and uncanonical election, Antipope Anacletus II gained control of Rome and the support of the majority of the College of Cardinals.  Anacletus held the support of almost the entire populace of Rome until the true Pope regained control of the city in 1138. 

 

It is not our goal in this article to deal in depth with the cases of Antipopes in Church history.  It should suffice to say that in the history of the Church there have been many different cases of Antipopes, cases that have encompassed a wide variety of circumstances.  An entire article could be dedicated to investigating the history surrounding many of these Antipopes’ reigns, since there have been over 40 Antipopes in the history of the Catholic Church.  We simply want to note at the beginning of this article that Antipopes (that is to say, false successors of Peter) have existed, who have deceived a significant part of the Catholic world, and even posed as the true Pope while reigning from Rome itself.  This fact proves that it is not impossible that an Antipope is reigning from Rome right now, an Antipope posing to the world as the true Pope, while in fact being the Church’s bitter enemy.

 

The New Religion Since Vatican II   

 

As many of you know, and as we have documented on our video Vatican II: Council of Apostasy, the incredible changes that have taken place in the Catholic world as a result of the Second Vatican Council, have been a complete break with Traditional Roman Catholicism.  It is simply a fact that Vatican II and the religion it produced were contrary to the unchangeable teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

In the video Vatican II: Council of Apostasy, we proved that the two men who instigated the Vatican II apostasy and revolution – John XXIII and Paul VI – were not legitimate Popes, but actually non-Catholic Antipopes.  In this article we will shine the spotlight on the man who has perpetuated the Vatican II apostasy to levels that far exceed that of John XXIII and Paul VI.  We will shine the spotlight on John Paul II, arguably the greatest heretic in the history of the world, and we will prove that he is not and cannot be the real Pope of the Catholic Church.

 

The Teaching of the Catholic Church on Heresy

 

To understand why John Paul II cannot be the Pope, one must understand heresy and apostasy.  Heresy is the obstinate denial or doubt by a baptized person of an article of divine and Catholic Faith.  In other words, a baptized person who deliberately denies an authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church is a heretic. Pope Leo XIII proclaims this teaching in his encyclical Satis Cognitum.

 

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:

“The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium.”(1)

 

Apostasy, on the other hand, is not merely the denial or doubt of one or more teachings of the Catholic Church, but a complete rejection of the Christian Faith altogether. In this video we will show that John Paul II is both a heretic and an apostate.

 

As the teaching of Pope Leo XIII shows, a heretic is outside Catholic communion and alien to the Church.  The same therefore goes for apostates, since all apostates are also heretics.  The fact that a heretic is outside the Catholic Church is a defined dogma affirmed by many Popes.  A heretic cannot be inside the Catholic Church, because by denying the faith he is automatically expelled from Her.

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics …”(2)

 

We see here that Pope Eugene IV defined infallibly that all heretics are outside the Catholic Church.

 

Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18, 1208:

“By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics, but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of which we believe that no one is saved.”(3)

 

We see in this solemn profession of faith of Pope Innocent III that the one true Church of Christ cannot include heretics. 

 

In fact, so foreign are heretics to the Catholic Church that the Catholic Church has actually defined that heretics are the gates of hell.

 

Pope Vigilius, Second Council of Constantinople, 553:

“… we bear in mind what was promised about the holy Church and Him who said the gates of hell will not prevail against it (by these we understand the death-dealing tongues of heretics)…”(4)

 

Pope St. Leo IX, Sept. 2, 1053:

“The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon Peter… because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would never be overcome.”(5)

 

Thus, it is infallible Catholic truth that a heretic cannot be a member of the Catholic Church.  Many other authorities could be brought forward to further prove this point, but we will simply quote Pope Leo XIII again, who summarizes this dogmatic teaching of the Church quite well.

    

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):

“No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one.  For there may be or may arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to a single one of these he is not a Catholic.”(6)

 

And because a heretic cannot be a Catholic or a member of the Catholic Church, it is a fact that a heretic cannot be a Pope, because a Pope is the head of the Catholic Church.

 

Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Sess. IV, Chap. 3: “… 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…”(7)

 

The Pope is the head of the whole Catholic Church.  And we already saw that heretics cannot be members of the Catholic Church.  Therefore, it is infallible that a heretic cannot be a Pope, because a heretic cannot be the head of that which he is not a member.  This is why the Saints and Doctors of the Church consistently teach that if a Pope were to become a manifest heretic he would immediately lose the office of Pope.

 

St. Antoninus: “In the case in which the pope would become a heretic, he would find himself, by that fact alone and without any other sentence, separated from the Church.  A head separated from a body cannot, as long as it remains separated, be head of the same body from which it was cut off.  A pope who would be separated from the Church by heresy, therefore, would by that very fact itself cease to be head of the Church.  He could not be a heretic and remain pope, because, since he is outside of the Church, he cannot possess the keys of the Church.” (Summa Theologica, cited in Actes de Vatican I. V. Frond pub.)

 

St. Alphonsus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church: “If ever a Pope, as a private person, should fall into heresy, he would at once fall from the Pontificate.” (Oeuvres Complčtes. 9:232)

St. Francis De Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church: “Now when the Pope is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church…” (The Catholic Controversy, TAN Books, pp. 305-306)

St. Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church: “This principle is most certain.  The non-Christian cannot in any way be Pope, as Cajetan himself admits.  The reason for this is that he cannot be head of what he is not a member; now he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian, St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, St. Jerome and others; therefore the manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30)

 

The testimonies of these great Catholic saints show that it is impossible for a heretic to be the head of the Catholic Church, because he is not a member of Her.  This is not to say that a wicked man, who was not a heretic, could not be Pope.  A wicked man who did not deny the faith could certainly be Pope, as Church history shows; but a heretic who denies the faith can never be Pope, because heresy places one outside the Church, while immorality without heresy places one in a state of mortal sin but not outside the Church.

 

Moreover, in judging that John Paul II is a heretic and is not the Pope (and is therefore an Antipope), one is not judging the Holy See; rather, as the teaching already quoted shows, one is correctly identifying that a manifest heretic is outside the Church and therefore cannot occupy the Holy See.

 

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)

 

And the truth expressed by these saints, such as St. Robert Bellarmine, that a heretic cannot be the Pope, is not merely their fallible opinion, as some defenders of John Paul II have argued; rather, the teaching expressed by these saints is a dogmatic fact.  It is rooted in the infallible dogma that heretics cannot be members of the Catholic Church.

 

Therefore, to hold the position that a heretic can be the Pope is heretical.  So let no defender of John Paul II tell you that it does not matter whether or not he is a heretic, or that even if he is a heretic he can still be the Pope.  No, this is not true, as we have proven.  If John Paul II is the Pope, he cannot be a heretic.  He must be a Catholic and a member of the Catholic Church.  But, as we will show, John Paul II is definitely neither a Catholic nor a member of the Catholic Church.  Therefore, he absolutely cannot be its head.

 

Material Heretic vs. Formal Heretic    

 

Some confuse this issue unnecessarily by employing the term “material heretic.”  Some of the people who have realized John Paul II’s major contradictions to Catholic teaching argue that John Paul II is merely a “material heretic”, not a real “formal heretic.”  “Material heretic” is a term used by theologians to describe a Catholic erring in good faith regarding some Church teaching, who has not denied it deliberately.  The only way that one can be a “material heretic” is by being unaware that the position that he holds is contrary to the teaching of the Church.  Such a person would change his position immediately upon being informed of the Church’s teaching on the matter.  Thus, a so-called “material heretic” is not a heretic at all, but rather a confused Catholic who denies nothing of that which he knows the Church to have taught.  The fact that a so-called “material heretic” is not a heretic is proven by the fact that a so-called “material heretic” does not cease to be part of the Church; and we have already proven that all heretics cease to be members of the Church.  Furthermore, a so-called “material heretic” (an erring Catholic) does not bring down on his head eternal punishment for denying the faith; and all heretics bring down on their heads eternal punishment for denying the faith.

 

Pope St. Celestine I, Council of Ephesus, 431:

“… ALL HERETICS corrupt the true expressions of the Holy Spirit with their own evil minds and they draw down on their own heads an inextinguishable flame.”

 

A material heretic, therefore, is not a heretic, but a Catholic who is innocently mistaken about some Church teaching.  Hence, those who claim that John Paul II is unaware of the all of the dogmas that he denies, and is therefore only a quote “material heretic” (in other words, he is a mistaken Catholic) are not only arguing that which is absurd, but that which is IMPOSSIBLE.  It is impossible that John Paul II is only a so-called “material heretic” for three reasons: 

 

Number 1) It is a fact that Antipope John Paul II knows of the many dogmas of the Church which he denies.  For example, in the 1999 agreement with the Lutheran Church on Justification, approved by John Paul II, John Paul II agreed that the Council of Trent no longer applies.

 

Vatican-Lutheran Agreement on the Doctrine of Justification, approved by John Paul II: “# 13.  IN LIGHT OF THIS CONSENSUS, THE CORRESPONDING DOCTRINAL CONDEMNATIONS OF THE 16TH CENTURY [i.e., the canons of the Council of Trent] DO NOT APPLY TO TODAY’S PARTNER.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Special Insert, Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification, November 24, 1999, #13)

 

It goes without saying that he cannot be unaware of the Council of Trent if he holds that it no longer applies.  This, among other things, makes the claim that Antipope John Paul II is only a material heretic impossible.  In fact, John Paul II speaks 14 languages fluently, and has spoken and written intelligently on scholarly subjects more than most people would ever dream.  The amount of material that he has produced is actually staggering.  To assert that he is unaware of the simplest Church teachings that he denies is false and ridiculous in the highest degree.  

 

Number 2) It is impossible for Antipope John Paul II to be only a “material heretic” or a mistaken Catholic because – supposing for a moment that he were unaware of the multitudes of dogmas which he denies (which, as we have stated, is not true) – being a bishop and a man who claims to be the Pope, he is bound to have learned them.  Therefore, there is no excuse for his being unaware of the fundamental Church dogmas which he denies.

 

Number 3) It is impossible that Antipope John Paul II is merely a material heretic because there are certain things that every adult must hold by a necessity of means in order to be a Catholic, and Antipope John Paul II does not hold those things.  To name just a few things: every adult Catholic must believe in the Trinity; that there is only one true Church; that there is only one true faith.  An adult Catholic must also believe that the true Church must be believed and that all non-Catholic religions are false. 

 

John Paul II rejects that there is only one true Church and one true faith, as we will show; he rejects that the Catholic Church should be believed by non-Catholics, by saying that we should not try to convert non-Catholics, as we will show; and he rejects the fact that non-Catholic religions are false, as we will show.  It is not possible for a person who has reached the age of reason to believe these things and still be a Catholic, because such a person does not believe in essential mysteries that must be believed by those who possess the true faith.

 

THE HERESIES OF ANTIPOPE JOHN PAUL II

 

Universal Salvation – that all men will be saved.

 

The only difficulty in treating of the heresies of John Paul II is deciding where to begin.  His heresies are so numerous that one is almost overwhelmed with the decision of where to start.  We decided that a good place to begin is his consistent teaching of universal salvation.  It goes without saying that the idea that all men are saved is contrary to the clear words of the Gospel and numerous Catholic dogmas, especially the dogmas that Outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation and that all who die in original sin or mortal sin cannot be saved.

 

Pope Gregory X, 2nd Council of Lyons, 1274, ex cathedra:

“The souls of those who die in mortal sin or with original sin only… immediately descend into hell, yet to be punished with different punishments.”(8)

 

However, it is a fact that Antipope John Paul II holds and teaches that in the Incarnation, the Son of God united himself with every man in an unbreakable union, which makes it impossible, according to him, for anyone to go to Hell.  Antipope John Paul II explicitly teaches that this union between Christ and each man lasts forever.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (# 13), March 4, 1979:

“We are dealing with each man, for each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and with each one Christ has united Himself forever through this mystery.”(9)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio (# 4), Dec. 7, 1990:

“The Redemption event brings salvation to all, ‘for each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and with each one Christ has united himself forever through this mystery.’”(10)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (# 53):

“We are not dealing here with man in the ‘abstract,’ but with the real, ‘concrete,’ ‘historical’ man.  We are dealing with each individual, since each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and through this mystery Christ has united himself with each one forever.”(11)

 

Notice the word “forever” in all three of these quotations.  Yes, in three different encyclicals, Antipope John Paul II bluntly asserts that every man is united with Christ forever.  This means that all men are saved, because hell is eternal separation from God, and no one is ever separated from God according to Antipope John Paul II.  Everyone is united with God forever.  There is not a more succinct way of teaching universal salvation. 

 

There are many other quotations that one could bring forward to prove that Antipope John Paul II holds that all men are saved.  For example, in 1985, Antipope John Paul II explained how the Redemptive blood of Christ is not merely available to all (which is true), but that it actually reaches all and saves all.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Homily, June 6, 1985:

“The Eucharist is the sacrament of the covenant of the Body and Blood of Christ, of the covenant which is eternal.  This is the covenant which embraces all.  This Blood reaches all and saves all.”(12)

 

In contrast with this, the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church affirms that the blood of Christ does not reach all or save all.

 

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 6, ex cathedra: “But although Christ died for all, yet not all receive the benefit of His death, but those only to whom the merit of His Passion is communicated.”(13)

 

Only those who are freed from original sin by baptism, and united to Him through the sacraments and the true faith, receive the benefit of Christ’s death.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Homily, April 27, 1980:

“… Jesus makes us, in himself, once more sons of his Eternal Father.  He obtains, once and for all, the salvation of man: of each man and of all…”(14)

 

Antipope John Paul II, General Audience, Dec. 27, 1978:

“Jesus is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity become a man; and therefore in Jesus, human nature and therefore the whole of humanity, is redeemed, saved, ennobled to the extent of participating in ‘divine life’ by means of Grace.”(15)

 

Here Antipope John Paul II explains that the whole of humanity has been saved and is participating in the divine life.  The phrase “participating in the divine life” refers to the state of Justification or the state of sanctifying grace. Therefore, by saying that all of humanity participates in the divine life, Antipope John Paul II is saying that all of humanity is in the state of grace.  No one is in mortal or original sin.

 

The Holy Ghost is responsible for Non-Christian Religions

 

Besides his incredible doctrine of universal salvation and universal justification, there are many other heresies of Antipope John Paul II for us to examine.  Of particular note is his teaching on the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Ghost.  What Antipope John Paul II teaches about the Holy Ghost is so blasphemous and heretical that it is arguably his worst heresy.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (# 6):

“Does it not sometimes happen that the firm belief of the followers of the non-Christian religions – a belief that is also an effect of the Spirit of truth operating outside the visible confines of the Mystical Body…”(16)

 

Here Antipope John Paul II says that the firm belief of the followers of non-Christian religions proceeds from the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth.  Since we know from Sacred Scripture and Catholic teaching that Satan is the author of all non-Christian religions, what is being stated here by Antipope John Paul II is that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, is actually the spirit of lies – Satan.  This is an unbelievable blasphemy against God.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio (# 29), Dec. 7, 1990: “The Church’s relationship with other religions is dictated by a twofold respect: ‘Respect for man in his quest for answers to the deepest questions of his life, and respect for the action of the Spirit in man.’”(17)

 

Here Antipope John Paul II says that respect for non-Christian religions is dictated by respect for the action of the Spirit in man.  This clearly means that the Spirit is responsible for these non-Christian religions, which again means that the Holy Spirit is to be understood as the spirit of lies - Satan.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio (# 56):

“Other religions constitute a positive challenge for the Church: they stimulate her both to discover and acknowledge the signs of Christ’s presence and of the working of the Spirit.”(18)

 

While Scripture tells us that the gods of non-Christian religions are devils (1 Corinthians 10:20), and that their members lie in darkness (Colossians 1:13), Antipope John Paul II informs us that other religions stimulate us to discover the presence and the working of the Spirit.  This means that non-Christian religions are a work of the Spirit – the Holy Spirit – which again equates the Spirit of Truth with the spirit of lies: Satan.

 

Religious Indifferentism

 

Antipope John Paul II’s religious indifferentism is perhaps the most common characteristic of his volumes of heretical writings and speeches.  He constantly praises and esteems non-Christian religions, thereby denying the Most Holy Trinity and the necessity of believing in the one true Catholic religion, while making a mockery of the deaths’ of the martyrs.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Address at Airport in Korea, May 3, 1984: “Yours is a proud and sturdy people… bearing splendid fruits in art, religion, and human living.  Your ancestors embraced such overwhelming spiritual worlds as Confucianism and Buddhism, yet made them truly their own, enhanced them, lived them and even transmitted them to others.  Wonhyo and Sosan… eloquently express this feat.”(19)

 

The word “feat” means an extraordinary act.  So Antipope John Paul II says that Buddhism and Confucianism are splendid fruits in religion, and that it was an extraordinary act that the Koreans transmitted these religions of Satan to others!

 

Pope Gregory XVI, Probe Nostis (# 6), Sept. 18, 1840:

“We are thankful for the success of apostolic missions in America, the Indies, and other faithless lands…They search out those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to summon them to the light and life of the Catholic religion… At length they snatch them from the devil’s rule, by the bath of regeneration and promote them to the freedom of God’s adopted sons.”(20)

 

Antipope John Paul II, March 21, 2000:

“May Saint John the Baptist protect Islam and all the people of Jordan...”(21)

 

On March 21st, 2000, Antipope John Paul II asked St. John the Baptist to protect Islam (the religion of the Muslims), which denies Christ and the Trinity, and keeps hundreds of millions of souls in the darkness of the devil that Pope Gregory XVI just described.   This is to ask St. John to protect the denial of Christ and the damnation of souls.

 

Antipope John Paul II, General Audience, Jan. 11, 1995:

“I gladly take this occasion to assure those who follow the Buddhist religion of my deep respect and sincere esteem.”(22)

 

Pope Leo XIII, Dec. 8, 1892:

“Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups.  Know them by their fruits and avoid them.  Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions...”(23)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Homily, April 12, 1997:

“… the Church, which seeks only to be able freely to preach … with respect for… every religion.”(24)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Address, May 22, 2002: “Praise to you, followers of Islam… Praise to you, Jewish people… Praise especially to you, Orthodox Church…”(25)

 

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832:  “They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’ and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him.  Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.”(26)

 

ANTIPOPE JOHN PAUL II, REDEMPTORIS MISSIO (# 10), DEC. 7, 1990: “THE UNIVERSALITY OF SALVATION MEANS THAT IT IS GRANTED NOT ONLY TO THOSE WHO EXPLICITLY BELIEVE IN CHRIST AND HAVE ENTERED THE CHURCH.”(27)

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, dogmatic Athanasian Creed, 1439: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity… But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ...”(28)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio (# 55), Dec. 7, 1990:

“God… does not fail to make himself present in many ways, not only to individuals but also to entire peoples through their spiritual riches, of which their religions are the main and essential expression…”(29)

 

Here again we find a clear expression of Antipope John Paul II’s apostasy.  He says that God makes himself present through the spiritual riches of peoples, of which their religions are the main expression.  This means that God makes himself present to peoples through non-Christian religions, which means that non-Christian religions are true and inspired by God.

 

Pope Pius VIII, May 24, 1829:

“Against these experienced sophists the people must be taught that the profession of the Catholic faith is uniquely true, as the apostle proclaims: one Lord, one faith, one baptism.”(30)

 

In addition to the volumes’ worth of speeches and writings which express Antipope John Paul II’s religious indifferentism and total apostasy, there are a host of actions that cannot be overlooked.

 

Assisi and Total Apostasy

 

The most notorious of these actions was the Assisi world day of prayer for peace on Oct. 27, 1986.  On this day, Antipope John Paul II prayed with over 130 different religious leaders of all kinds of religions, thereby repudiating the teaching of Scripture and the 2000-year teaching of the Catholic Church outlawing prayer with false religions.  During this meeting, the Dalai Lama placed a Buddhist statue on the tabernacle in the Church of St. Francis.  Among the various false religious leaders at Assisi were rabbis, Islamic muftis, Buddhist monks, Shintoists, assorted Protestant ministers, Animists, Jainists and others.  During the meeting a member of each false religion came forward and offered a prayer for peace.  The Animist leader prayed to the “Great Thumb.”  Amid this tremendous display of apostasy, no prayer was offered by Antipope John Paul II for the conversion of these infidels, heretics and pagans.

 

Pope St. Celestine I, Council of Ephesus, 431, Chap. 8:

“… pray that the faith may be granted to infidels; that idolaters may be delivered from the errors of their impiety; that the light of truth may be visible to the Jews, and the veil of their hearts may be removed; that heretics may come to their senses through a comprehension of the Catholic faith; that schismatics may receive the spirit of renewed charity…”(31)

 

The 1986 Assisi event is exactly – I repeat – exactly what Pope Pius XI authoritatively condemned in his encyclical Mortalium Animos.

 

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 2), Jan. 6, 1928:

“For which reason conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every kind, and Christians… Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy...  Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it...”(32)

 

We can see that Pope Pius XI condemns Antipope John Paul II’s pagan prayer meeting in Assisi as outright apostasy – a total rejection of the true religion.  Such activity is a direct violation of the first commandment: “I am the Lord thy God, thou shall have no strange gods before me.”

 

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10):

“So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics…”(33)

 

Antipope John Paul II continued with his wild program of Apostasy, totally condemned by the teaching of the Catholic Church, after the Assisi event.  Antipope John Paul II sponsored pagan prayer meetings at Kyoto (1987), Rome (1988), Warsaw (1989), Bari (1990), and Malta (1991), as well as numerous meetings since that time.  There was also the outrageous pagan prayer meeting in 1999, which was officially dubbed “The Pan-Christian Encounter,” at which a large gathering of false religions came to the Vatican at the request of Antipope John Paul II.

 

This is very interesting considering the fact that, in his encyclical Mortalium Animos, Pope Pius XI described the heretics who promoted religious indifferentism under the title, “These Pan-Christians…”(34)

 

Validating All Religions and Giving a Catholic Church over to Devil Worshippers

 

Most recently there was the spectacle of Assisi 2002.  On Jan. 24, 2002, Antipope John Paul II held another pagan prayer meeting in the city of Assisi Italy, a repeat of the abominable event that took place in 1986.  But this Assisi meeting may have been even worse.  During the prayer meeting the representative of every false religion involved was allowed to come to the pulpit and give a sermon on world peace.  In the presence of Antipope John Paul II, a voodoo high priest came to the pulpit outside the Basilica of St. Francis and gave the voodoo prescription for world peace. (Voodoo, remember, is Satanism).  So, by Antipope John Paul II’s arrangement, from a pulpit outside the historic Basilica of St. Francis, a Satanist was allowed to give a sermon and provide his prescription for world peace.   This would involve slitting the throats of goats, chickens, doves and pigeons, and draining their blood from their arteries.

 

After the Jew, the Buddhist, the Muslim, the Hindu and the rest were finished preaching, the various false religious leaders broke up into different rooms to pray to their false gods.  Antipope John Paul II had it arranged in advance that each religious group was given a separate room in which to worship the devil.  All of the crucifixes were removed, and the crucifixes which could not be removed were covered.  Antipope John Paul II made sure that the infidels and pagans saw no sign of Jesus Christ.

 

The Muslims needed a room which faced East toward Mecca – and it was given to them.  The Zoroastrians needed a room with a window, so that the smoke from the wood chips that they burned to the devil could exit through it – and it was given to them.  The Jews wanted a room that had never before been blessed; in other words, a room that had never been blessed in the name of Jesus Christ – and Antipope John Paul II provided them with one.  Greater abomination, blasphemy and rejection of the true God almost cannot be imagined.

 

In his second Asian journey in 1984, Antipope John Paul II visited the Buddhist Temple.  Before reaching the Temple, he expressed how anxious he was to meet quote “His Holiness, the supreme Buddhist Patriarch in the Temple.”  While in the temple of idolatry, Antipope John Paul II bowed to the Buddhist Patriarch who stood in front of a gigantic statue of Buddha.

 

The Old Covenant Has Never Been Revoked, the Jewish Religion is Valid and True

 

On April 13, 1986, Antipope John Paul II traveled to the Jewish Synagogue in Rome.  There he bowed his head with the Jews as they prayed for the coming of their Messiah.  This incredible act of apostasy by Antipope John Paul II is directly connected to his heretical teaching that the Old Covenant is still in force.  The Catholic Church teaches that with the coming of Jesus Christ and the promulgation of the Gospel, the Old Covenant (that is, the agreement made between God and the Jews through the mediation of Moses) ceased and was replaced with the New Covenant of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  It is true that some aspects of the Old Covenant are still valid because they are included in the New and Eternal Covenant of Jesus Christ, such as the ten commandments, but the Old Covenant itself (the agreement between God and the Jewish people) ceased with the coming of the Messiah.  Therefore, to say that the Old Covenant is still valid is to assert that Judaism is a true religion and that Jesus Christ is not really the Messiah.  It is also to deny defined Catholic dogma, such as the teaching of The Council of Florence, which defined ex cathedra that the Old Law is now dead and that those who practice it (namely, the Jews) cannot be saved.

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1441, ex cathedra:

“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, the Mosaic law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments… after our Lord’s coming… ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began..  All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, the holy Roman Church declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation.”(35)

 

Pope Benedict XIV reiterated this dogma in his encyclical Ex Quo Primum.

 

Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 61):

“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”(36)

 

Antipope John Paul II has repeatedly repudiated this dogma, a dogma taught by the Catholic Church for 2000 years, defined infallibly by the Council of Florence, and affirmed clearly by Pope Benedict XIV.

 

In an address to Jews in West Germany, Nov. 17, 1980, Antipope John Paul II spoke of quote, “the Old Covenant, never revoked by God…”(37)

 

Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 59), March 1, 1756:

“However they are not attempting to observe the precepts of the old Law which as everybody knows have been revoked by the coming of Christ.”(38)

 

We see here that Pope Benedict XIV condemns word for word the heresy taught by Antipope John Paul II, that the Old Covenant has never been revoked by God!  In fact, Antipope John Paul II teaches the same heresy on the Old Covenant in his new Catechism, again word-for-word opposed to Catholic dogma.

 

Antipope John Paul II, New Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 121: “… for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.”(39)

 

As we mentioned in one of our videos, Antipope John Paul II’s best-friend, Jerzy Kluger, is a Jew.  Antipope John Paul II has, of course, never tried to convert Kluger.  Rather, Kluger credits his life-long relationship with John Paul II with “making him feel more Jewish.”  In a letter to Kluger on March 30th 1989, regarding the destruction of a synagogue during World War II, Antipope John Paul II wrote the following:

 

“I venerate… also this place of worship (the synagogue), which the invaders destroyed.”(40)

 

This is blunt apostasy.  By venerating the synagogue, Antipope John Paul II is venerating the Jews’ denial that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

 

But Jerzy Kluger is not the only Jew who has been made to feel more Jewish by Antipope John Paul II.  There is the Jewish Maestro Gilbert Levine.  Levine noted that in his many-year relationship with John Paul II that John Paul II has never given him the slightest indication that he wants to convert him.

 

Antipope John Paul II asked Levine to conduct a concert in the Vatican to commemorate the Holocaust.  Levine agreed, and with Antipope John Paul II in attendance, the concert took place in the Vatican.  All of the crucifixes were covered.  The concert began with “Col Nidra,” the prayer sung on the Holiest day of the Jewish calendar.  A few of the many Jews in attendance also lit candles during the ceremony, which quickly became a Jewish religious service in the Vatican.  After the concert Levine remarked that quote:

 

“It was like I was in a Jewish liturgical service in the Vatican.  It was a night of prayer… of Jewish prayer.”

 

After the concert, John Paul II called for Levine to receive the Vatican Knighthood.  Levine became a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great.  Antipope John Paul II chose Cardinal Lustiger of Paris to bestow the honor.  Lustiger himself, who was raised a Jew, stated in a 1981 interview: “I am a Jew.  For me the two religions are one.”(41)  The honor that Antipope John Paul II had bestowed on Levine is one of the very highest that can be received by laymen.

 

On August 13, 2002, the American Bishops in Union with Antipope John Paul II issued a document on the Jews.  Spearheaded by the notorious apostate William Keeler of Baltimore, and without a peep of objection from Antipope John Paul II, the document publicly declared that quote: “… campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer theologically acceptable in the Catholic Church.”(42)

 

All of this proves that John Paul II and his bishops are complete apostates from the Catholic Faith.

 

John 8:23-24:

“And Jesus said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above.  You are of this world, I am not of this world.  Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins.  For if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sin.”

 

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews … cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives…”(43)

 

On March 26, 2000, Antipope John Paul II prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.  The Western Wall is the stone remnant of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.  The Jews pray at the Western Wall as the holiest site in Judaism.  The destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., leaving only the Western Wall, has always been understood by Catholics to signify God’s judgment on the Jews.  The destruction of the Temple prohibited Jews from being able to offer sacrifice, which meant that their religion had come to an end.  The destruction of the Temple was God’s powerful sign to the Jews that the Messiah had come, that the Old Covenant had ceased, and that the Temple had been replaced by the Catholic Church.  So when a Jew prays at the Western Wall, or leaves a prayer there, it is a denial that Jesus is the Messiah; it is an affirmation that he holds that the Old Covenant is still in force; and it is a pitiful and sad attempt to ignore God’s very obvious sign that the Jews must abandon the destroyed Temple and enter the Catholic Church.

 

So when Antipope John Paul II himself prayed at the Western Wall in March of 2000, it was an attempt to validate Judaism.  It was a denial that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, a direct affirmation that he holds that the Old Covenant is still in force, and a mockery of God’s clear sign that the Jews must abandon the destroyed Temple and enter the Catholic Church.  One informed commentator pointed out that when Antipope John Paul II prayed at the Western Wall, most of the nation of Israel was watching on television.  This means that every Jew watching on television was given the impression by Antipope John Paul II that he does not need to convert to Jesus Christ because he is not the Messiah.

 

The prayer that Antipope John Paul II left at the Western Wall asked forgiveness for sins against the Jewish people. 

 

In late 2001, a Vatican Commission under Antipope John Paul II released a book entitled The Jewish People and the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Bible. The book argues that the Jews’ wait for the coming of the Messiah is still valid.

 

Non-Christian Religions Are Great

 

Antipope John Paul II has also manifested his apostasy countless other times by referring to the various non-Christian religions of the world as “great religions.”

 

Antipope John Paul II, Angelus Address, Sept. 14, 1986:

“… I invited… the other great religions of the world to ‘a special meeting of prayer for peace in the city of Assisi…’”(44)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Address, Nov. 29, 2002: “… the great world religions, starting with Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism…”(45)

 

Antipope John Paul II has stated that non-Christian religions are great literally hundreds of times.  And every time he does so he is guilty of apostasy.  It is also worthy of note that Antipope John Paul II’s statements (such as the 1986 Angelus Address above) make it very clear that he considers all of the religions that he invited to Assisi as great, which includes satanic voodoo worship.  We could fill the next ten pages with quotes from Antipope John Paul II asserting that non-Christian religions are great, since he has stated it consistently for 25 years, but we must move on.

 

Assorted Acts of Apostasy

 

In Cotonou, Africa on Feb. 4, 1993, chanting girls treated Antipope John Paul II to a “trance inducing” voodoo dance.

 

On August 8, 1985, Antipope John Paul II prayed with African Animists (devil worshippers).  Antipope John Paul II recalls the meeting:

 

“Particularly noteworthy was the prayer meeting at the sanctuary of Our Lady of Mercy at Lake Togo where, for the first time, I also prayed with a group of Animists.”(46)  It has been stated that while in Togo he actually paid homage to the sacred snakes.

 

Antipope John Paul II has also taken part in many events, both in Rome and abroad, where a native pagan ritual is included.  These rituals spring from cultures which are entirely demonic and satanic in every aspect of their organized religious practices, yet are included in many of Antipope John Paul II’s liturgical events.

 

On May 14, 1999, Antipope John Paul II bowed to and kissed the Koran.  The Koran is the Muslims’ holy book which blasphemes the Most Holy Trinity and denies the Divinity of Jesus Christ.  To revere the holy book of a false religion has always been considered an act of apostasy – a complete rejection of the true religion.  Thus, this act alone makes Antipope John Paul II an apostate.

 

During his visit to Germany on Nov. 17, 1980, Antipope John Paul II encouraged the Muslims to quote: “Live your faith also in a foreign land...”(47)

 

On April 12, 2000, Antipope John Paul II met with the King of Morocco, a descendant of the false prophet of Islam, Muhammad.  Antipope John Paul II asked him, “You are a descendant of the Prophet, aren’t you?”(48)

 

Muslims and Catholics Have the Same God

 

Antipope John Paul II has also asserted countless times the heresy that Muslims worship the One True God together with Catholics.

 

Antipope John Paul II, Encyclical On Social Concerns # 47:

“… Muslims who, like us, believe in the just and merciful God.”(49)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Homily, Oct. 13, 1989:

“… the followers of Islam who believe in the same good and just God.”(50)

 

Antipope John Paul II, Homily, Jan. 28, 1990: