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The Great Apostasy and a counterfeit Church
predicted in Catholic prophecy
The New Testament and Catholic
prophecy paint a picture of the last days as a massive spiritual deception
aimed to deceive those who intend to practice the true faith (the Catholic
Faith), and which leaves the Earth with almost no one maintaining the true
faith.
Our Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846: “Rome will lose the Faith and become the
seat of the Anti-Christ… the Church will be in eclipse.”
Luke 18:8- “But yet the Son of man, when he cometh,
shall he find, think you, faith on Earth?”
The
Great Apostasy and a counterfeit Church predicted in the New Testament and in
Catholic Prophecy [PDF]
In the Gospel, Our Lord Jesus Christ not only informs
us that in the last days the true faith would hardly be found on the Earth, but
that “in the holy place” itself there will be “the abomination of desolation”
(Mt. 24:15), and a deception so profound that, if it were possible, even the
elect would be deceived (Mt. 24:24). St.
Paul says that the man of sin will sit “in the temple of God” (2 Thess.
2:4). The Apocalypse describes in detail
the Whore of Babylon, a false bride (i.e. a Counter Church) which arises in the
last days in the city of seven hills (Rome) and which spreads spiritual
fornication all over the Earth. The fact that the last days are
characterized by a spiritual deception intending to ensnare Catholics proves,
rather than disproves, the authenticity of the Catholic Church.
Is
the Vatican II sect the Whore of Babylon prophesied in the Apocalypse?
(This article gives the stunning evidence that
the Vatican II sect, a counterfeit Church which opposes the true Catholic
Church in the last days, is the Whore of Babylon prophesied in Apocalypse
chapters 17 and 18)
Matthew 24:15- “When
therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.”
Matthew 24:24-25- “For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as
to deceive (if possible) even the elect.
Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.”
On
this point, also see the section on Fatima
Benedict XVI (The Heresies of Benedict XVI
File) [link to section]
John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope
1978-2005) [link to section]
Vatican II - false council [link to section]
The Invalid New Mass vs. the true Latin Mass [link to section]
Why the New Rite of Ordination is
Invalid [PDF File]
(This article explains why the New Rite of Ordination – which was
instituted by Paul VI on June 18, 1968 after Vatican II – is not valid.)
The New Rite of Consecration of Bishops
The New Rite of Consecration of Bishops [PDF file]
(This article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rite of
consecrating bishops after Vatican II.)
The Changes
to the Other Sacraments
The Changes to the Other Sacraments [PDF file]
(This article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rites of
Baptism, Confirmation, Confession, Marriage and Extreme Unction after Vatican
II.)
John Paul I (manifest heretic who claimed to be Pope for 33 days in 1978)
The Scandals and Heresies of John Paul I [PDF file]
Paul VI (manifest heretic who claimed to be Pope
1963-1978) [link to section]
John XXIII (manifest heretic who claimed to be Pope 1958-1963)
The Scandals and Heresies of John XXIII [PDF File]
(This article also contains numerous photos)
*According to the Grand Master
of Italian Freemasonry, John XXIII was initiated into a Masonic Lodge in Turkey
before he became “pope.” John XXIII was
a radical heretic who was suspected of Modernism as far back as 1926. He was frequently seen fraternizing with
Communists and other radicals who hate the Catholic Church. He was the man who had the “inspiration” to
call Vatican II and get the major part of the Great Apostasy rolling. John XXIII has all the marks of a conspirator
on him, and much evidence indicates that he was not the first to be elected in
the 1958 conclave (see the Siri article). After his death, John XXIII was praised by
Freemasons and Communists as a great liberal and a revolutionary who supported
their ideals – the former even labeled his encyclical Pacem in Terris “a vigorous statement of
Masonic doctrine.” John XXIII was a
manifest heretic and a non-Catholic antipope.
Sedevacantism – the Chair of Peter is Empty
* There have been 260 valid
popes in Church history and more than 40 antipopes. There have been more than 200 papal vacancies
(periods without a pope). The facts
available on this website prove that the last five men who have claimed be
popes have been and are antipopes.*
Pope Paul
IV's Apostolic Constitution Cum ex Apostolatus
Officio (Pope Paul IV
solemnly declares that a heretic cannot be validly elected pope, even with the
unanimous consent of the cardinals)
The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be
a valid pope [PDF file]
Responses to
19 of the Most Common Objections Against Sedevacantism [PDF file]
St. Robert Bellarmine,
De Romano Pontifice, II,
30:
"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."
St. Francis De Sales (17th
century), Doctor of the Church, The
Catholic Controversy, pp. 305-306 : "Now
when he [the Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his
dignity and out of the Church..."
St. Antoninus (1459): "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.)
Outside the Catholic Church There is No
Salvation [link to section]
The Catholic Church’s enemies, Communists and
Freemasons, made an organized effort to infiltrate her
The Catholic Church's enemies, Communists and Freemasons,
made an organized effort to infiltrate her [PDF]
A complete list of Antipopes in History
A
complete list of the 42 antipopes in Church history [PDF]
(In Catholic history there have been 260 valid
popes, starting with St. Peter, and 42 antipopes – that is, men who claimed to
be true popes but were not)
The Catholic Teaching that a heretic cannot be
a valid pope [PDF file]
Traditional Catholic Calendar and Fast Days [link to section]
Fatima (the sign, the miracle, the Consecration of
Russia, the False Sr. Lucy) [link to section]
The Vatican II sect vs. the Catholic Church on partaking in non-Catholic
worship
The
Vatican II sect vs. the Catholic Church on partaking in non-Catholic worship
(This article shows that the Vatican II sect
now officially recommends what the true popes of the Catholic Church forbade
under pain of mortal sin)
The Massive Sex Scandal among the Vatican II/Novus Ordo “priests”
The Massive Sex Scandal among the Vatican
II/Novus Ordo "priests" [PDF File]
The Seminaries of the
Vatican II sect are unspeakable cesspools of homosexuality and heresy
The
Seminaries of the Vatican II sect are unspeakable cesspools of homosexuality
and heresy [PDF File]
The Vatican II sect’s various ways of
promoting idolatry and the worship of man
The Deplorable State of “Catholic” Colleges and Universities
The
Deplorable State of "Catholic" Colleges and Universities
[PDF File]
The Deplorable State of “Catholic” Parochial and High Schools
The Deplorable State of "Catholic"
Parochial and High Schools [PDF File]
One can be pro-abortion and
part of the Vatican II sect at the same time
One
can be pro-abortion and part of the Vatican II sect at the same time
[PDF File]
The Vatican II sect’s religious orders: Totally Apostate
The Religious Orders in the Vatican II sect:
Totally Apostate [PDF File]
(This article includes a section on the apostasy of Mother Teresa and her
religious order, The Missionaries of Charity)
The Apostasy of the
Hierarchy of the Vatican II sect: is this your hierarchy?
The Apostasy of the Hierarchy and prominent
members of the Vatican II sect - is this your hierarchy? [PDF File]
(This article covers the astounding heresies and apostasy of the
“bishops” and other prominent members of the Vatican II sect – the Counter
Church – as well as the Catholic teaching that heretics immediately lose
authority in the Catholic Church)
The Annulment Fiasco – The
Vatican II sect’s De Facto acceptance
of Divorce and Remarriage
The
Annulment Fiasco - The Vatican II sect's De
Facto acceptance of Divorce and Remarriage [PDF File]
The Idolatry of the Vatican II sect is
connected with its rampant homosexuality
The Idolatry of the Vatican II sect is connected with its
rampant homosexuality [PDF File]
The Statistics on the Post-Vatican II Decline
The
Statistics on the Post-Vatican II Decline [PDF File]
Is
the Vatican II sect the Whore of Babylon prophesied in the Apocalypse?
This
article gives the stunning evidence that the Vatican II sect, a counterfeit
Church which opposes the true Catholic Church in the last days, is the Whore of
Babylon prophesied in Apocalypse chapters 17 and 18
False Apparitions
(Divine Mercy, Bayside, Medjugorje) [link to section]
Natural Family Planning is Sinful Birth
Control
Why
Natural Family Planning is Sinful Birth Control [PDF File]
(This article proves that so-called Natural
Family Planning [NFP] is sinful birth control, and that it contradicts Catholic
teaching by subordinating the primary purpose of marriage and the marriage
act. This article doesn’t deal with
artificial contraception, which most know is condemned as mortally sinful in
Catholic teaching.)
The Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on Justification
Concerning those who reject
the Vatican II religion but accept the Vatican II antipopes
Concerning
those who reject the Vatican II religion but accept the Vatican II antipopes [PDF File]
EWTN and the
Charismatic Movement [link to section]
This section covers some of the main problems
and heresies with EWTN and its foundress, Mother
Angelica
Some Basic Truths and Facts
that Catholics must know
Since very few still have the faith and even fewer
preach it, there is a widespread ignorance of even the basic truths of the
Catholic Faith in our day.
Pope Benedict XIV, Cum Religiosi
(# 4), June 26, 1754:
“See to it that every minister performs carefully the
measures laid down by the holy Council of Trent… that confessors should perform
this part of their duty whenever anyone stands at their tribunal who does not
know what he must by necessity of means know to be saved…”
We will now review some of them:
The Trinity and the Incarnation
There is one God in Three Divine Persons (Father, Son
and Holy Ghost). The Father is God, the
Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; yet they are not three gods, but One
God. The Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity, the Son of God, assumed a human nature and became man from the flesh
of the Virgin Mary. Our Lord Jesus
Christ is one Divine Person with two natures: divine and human. He is God and man. The Trinity (One God: Father, Son and Holy
Ghost) and the Incarnation are the two most essential mysteries of the Catholic
Faith which no one above reason can be ignorant of and be saved.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica: “After
grace had been revealed, both the
learned and simple folk are bound to explicit faith in the mysteries of
Christ, chiefly as regards those which are observed throughout the
Church, and publicly proclaimed, such
as the articles which refer to the Incarnation, of which we have spoken above.”
Saint Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica: “And
consequently, when once grace had been revealed, all were bound to explicit faith in the mystery of the Trinity.”
All who die in mortal sin
will go to Hell
Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, “Letentur coeli,” Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra: “We define also that… the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone, go straightaway
to Hell, but to undergo punishments of different kinds.”
Catholics must also know that all who die in mortal sin
will go to Hell forever. Mortal sins
include: murder, fornication (i.e. sexual acts outside of marriage or acts
leading up to sex outside of marriage), lying, drunkenness, consenting to
impure thoughts, masturbation, looking at pornography, adultery, cheating,
taking God’s name in vain, birth control (NFP) or artificial contraception,
assisting the propagation of heresy, funding heretics, dishonoring the Sabbath,
breaking the commandments, etc. If
someone were to commit a mortal sin and then go to Confession, he must have the
firm resolution never to commit the sin again.
This is called the firm purpose of amendment. If a person commits a mortal sin and doesn’t
have the firm purpose of amendment when he goes to Confession, he commits a
sacrilege and the Confession is invalid.
Most souls go to Hell because of
sins of the flesh. Those who are
committing sins of the flesh need to stop immediately if they don’t want to
perish forever in the fires of Hell.
St. Alphonsus on the damnation of the impure:
"Continue, O fool, says St. Peter Damian (speaking to the unchaste),
continue to gratify the flesh; for the day will come in which thy impurities
will become as pitch in thy entrails, to increase and aggravate the torments of
the flame which will burn thee in Hell: 'The day will come, yea rather the
night, when thy lust shall be turned into pitch, to feed in thy bowels the
everlasting fire." (Preparation
for Death, abridged version, p. 117)
Many of those who claim to be Catholics also don’t
understand the Papacy. We’ve discovered
from experience that many of those who even claim to be “traditional” Catholics
don’t even know what the Papacy is. The
Office of the Papacy is the office that Christ instituted in St. Peter (see Mt.
16:18-20; John 21:15-17). St. Peter was
made the chief of the Apostles and visible head of the Church by Jesus
Christ. The Office of St. Peter (the
Papacy) is occupied by every true and lawful Bishop of Rome, who becomes a
successor to St. Peter in the primacy over the universal (Catholic) Church of
Jesus Christ. This means and guarantees
that every time there is a true and valid occupant of the Office he is endowed
by Christ with infallibility (in his authoritative and binding teaching
capacity, not in everything he says or teaches); he is endowed with supreme
jurisdiction over the universal Church; and he is the visible head of the
Church. That remains true for every true
and lawful occupant of the Papal Office.
Those teachings proclaimed by the popes in history with their binding
authority (such as the Council of Trent or the Council of Florence or a solemn
Papal Bull on faith, etc.) constitute the deposit of faith – the unchangeable
teachings to which Catholics must submit, and on which they base what they
believe as the faithful transmission of the teaching of Scripture and
Tradition. The Papacy doesn’t mean that
the Church will have a true pope at all times, as Church history and more than 200
papal vacancies prove, nor does it mean that antipopes reigning from Rome are
an impossibility (such as Antipope Anacletus II, who
reigned in Rome from 1130-1138) – as is the case today.
Very few are Saved and most
of the world, including most Catholics, are damned
Catholics must also understand
that few are saved. Our Lord Jesus Christ revealed that the road
to Heaven is straight and narrow and few find it, while the road to Hell is
wide and taken by most (Mt. 7:13).
Matthew 7:13- “Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there
are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way
that leadeth to life, and few there are that find
it!”
Luke 13:24- “Strive to enter by
the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be
able.”
Scripture also teaches that
almost the entire world lies in darkness, so much so that Satan is even called
the “prince” (John 12:31) and “god” (2 Cor. 4:3) of this world.
1 John 5:19- “We know that we are of God, and the whole world is seated in wickedness.”
It is the sad fact of history that most people in the world are of bad will and
don’t want the truth. That is why
almost the whole world lies in darkness and on the road to perdition. This has been the case since the
beginning. It was the case when only
eight souls (Noe and his family) escaped God’s wrath
in the deluge that covered the entire earth, and when the Israelites rejected
God’s law and fell into idolatry over and over again.
The truth is that for those who truly believe in God, accept His
full truth (the Catholic Faith), don’t compromise it and want to do the right
thing, it’s not hard to reach Heaven. As
Christ said, “My yoke is sweet and My burden light”
(Mt. 11:30). The reason that so few make
it is not because it’s that hard, but because they refuse to believe the simple
and easy things He has revealed, and do the simple and easy things He has commanded. Those who do what God wants and believe what
He says realize that they are much happier than they were before.
But the sad truth is that
almost all people are of bad will. This
is why the saints and Doctors of the Church have consistently taught only a
very small percentage of people are saved.
In fact, the saints and Doctors of the Church, even during the ages of
faith, taught that most adult Catholics are lost.
St. Leonard of Port Maurice [A.D. 1676-1751], on the fewness of the
saved: “After consulting all the theologians and making a diligent study of the
matter, he [Suarez] wrote, ‘The most common sentiment which is held is
that, among Christians [Catholics], there are more damned souls than
predestined souls.’ Add
the authority of the Greek and Latin Fathers to that of the theologians, and
you will find that almost all of them say the same thing. This is the sentiment
of Saint Theodore, Saint Basil, Saint Ephrem, Saint John Chrysostom. What is more, according to Baronius it was a common opinion among the Greek Fathers
that this truth was expressly revealed to Saint Simeon Stylites
and that after this revelation, it was to secure his salvation that he decided
to live standing on top of a pillar for forty years, exposed to the weather, a
model of penance and holiness for everyone.
Now let us consult the Latin Fathers. You will hear Saint Gregory saying
clearly, "Many attain to faith, but few to the heavenly kingdom."
Saint Anselm declares, "There are few who are saved." Saint
Augustine states even more clearly, "Therefore, few are saved in
comparison to those who are damned."
The most terrifying, however, is Saint Jerome. At the end of his life,
in the presence of his disciples, he spoke these dreadful words: "Out of
one hundred thousand people whose lives have always been bad, you will find
barely one who is worthy of indulgence."
When St. Leonard of Port
Maurice uses the term “Christian,” he means Catholics, not heretics. St. Leonard is repeating the consistent
teaching of the Fathers and Doctors: most adult Catholics (not even including
the non-Catholic world) are lost. If this was the sentiment about the
salvation of Catholics in the ages of faith, what would they say
today? If you have trouble accepting the
truths presented on this website because “it’s just too hard to believe that
this many people could be wrong or deceived,” consider the teaching of Our Lord
and the saints above. Consider how much
more true the teaching on the fewness of the saved is today:
“Lucia found Jacinta sitting alone, still and very pensive, gazing at
nothing. ‘What are you thinking of, Jacinta?’
‘Of the war that is going to come. So many people are going to die. And almost all of them are going to Hell.’”
(Our Lady of Fatima, p. 94; p. 92 in some versions)
Jacinta of Fatima, who had
visions of future events, said that of those who would die in World War II almost
all of them would go to Hell.
St. Anselm:
“If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be
one of the few, not of the many. And if
thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of
the few… Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who
enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to
prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or by night, that they may
attain everlasting blessedness.” (Fr. Martin Von Cochem, The Four Last
Things, p. 221.)
Act of Contrition
O my God, I
am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I
dread the loss of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they
offend Thee, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly
resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to
amend my life. Amen.
Modern-day priest speaks of how he was condemned to Hell by
Jesus Christ for all eternity
Canonizations Are Infallible (this article includes a
section on the apostasy of Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Responding
to the heretic Fr. Cekada on NFP
Post-Vatican II Church Miscellaneous Photo Gallery
(new pictures: Mother Teresa Worshipping Buddha; and apostate
nuns in Santa Fe pray the “Our Father/Our Mother”)
Newsletters
A
Short Refutation of the Theory of Baptism of Desire!
Beware: "Traditionalist" Groups
and Individuals who teach Heresy [link to section]
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) [link to section]
More Archived Questions
Questions, Answers and Comments
Main Question and
Answers Archive; Questions and Answers, Fall 2004; Questions and
Answers, Summer 2004; Questions and
Answers, Spring 2004
Book/Article Reviews
The Great Apostasy, not The Great Facade
A Critique of Is Feeneyism Catholic? by Fr.
Francois Laisney (SSPX)
The New Mass is the Abomination of Desolation
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Important Spiritual
Information: The Importance of Praying the Rosary and Devotion to Our Lady [link to section]
Where to go to a Catholic Mass or confession today? [link to section]
An Introduction to False Ecumenism and some comments on Heretical
Actions
*Ecumenism is a word that was
used before Vatican II to indicate the apostolic endeavor to convert all to
Catholicism. An “ecumenical” Council is
a universally binding general Council of the Catholic Church, such as the
Council of Trent. But after Vatican II
and as a result of it the term has taken on a new meaning: “ecumenism” now
describes the movement to unite with, accept, endorse and/or pray with
heretical sects and false religions.
Cardinal
Walter Kasper, Prefect of Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity: “… today we no longer understand ecumenism
in the sense of a return, by which the others would ‘be converted’ and return
to being Catholics. This was
expressly abandoned by Vatican II.” (Adista, Feb. 26, 2001)
Kasper was
appointed specifically to this post by John Paul II to express his views on
this very topic. This is because John
Paul II and Benedict XVI, who both worked closely with Kasper, held the exact
same thing.
Benedict XVI, Address to Protestants at World Youth Day,
August 19, 2005: “And we now ask: What does it mean to restore the unity of all
Christians?... This unity, we are convinced, indeed
subsists in the Catholic Church, without the possibility of ever being lost (Unitatis Redintegratio,
nn. 2, 4, etc.); the Church in fact has not totally
disappeared from the world. Other the
other hand, this unity does not mean
what could be called ecumenism of the return: that is, to deny and to
reject one’s own faith history. Absolutely not!” (L’Osservatore Romano, August 24, 2005, p. 8.)
Here we see Benedict XVI bluntly stating that he
absolutely rejects the “ecumenism of the return,” that is, that non-Catholics
must reject their own Protestant “faith” and convert to Catholicism for
unity! Benedict XVI boldly repeats the
heresy of Kasper, and bluntly rejects the dogmatic teaching contained in Mortalium Animos on the
necessity of the ecumenism of “the return” to the Catholic Church! “Absolutely
not!” says Benedict XVI to the idea of Protestants needing to convert! Benedict XVI couldn’t be more formally
heretical.
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (#10),
Jan. 6, 1928: “… the union of Christians can only be
promoted by promoting the return
to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it…”
This kind of false ecumenism is
the distinguishing feature of the Vatican II apostasy, and it is totally
condemned by Catholic teaching. It makes
a complete mockery out of the dogma Outside the Church There
is No Salvation (an article of Faith defined many times), the necessity of
accepting the dogmas of the Catholic Faith, the martyrs of the Catholic Faith,
and Jesus Christ.
Pope
Pius XI's Encyclical Mortalium Animos (This encyclical condemns false ecumenism as a total
abandonment of the Catholic Faith; see especially #2)
The Vatican
II sect and its Antipopes want you to be in communion with Devils
The Catholic Church teaches
that there is only one true religion and the rest are false. The Catholic Church teaches that pagan
religions (such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Voodooism,
etc.), which worship various “gods,” actually worship demons, since all the
gods of the heathen are the devils.
Psalms 95:5- “For all the gods
of the Gentiles are devils…”
1 Cor. 10:20- “But the things
which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made
partakers with devils.”
St. Paul says that when the pagans worship
their gods they are worshipping devils, and he doesn’t want you to be in
communion with devils. The Vatican II
sect, however, endorses these false religions which commit idolatry and worship
devils. This is unspeakably evil; it is
a total rejection of the teaching of the Gospel and the Catholic Church, and it
is condemned as apostasy by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos.
At the notorious interfaith
“ecumenical prayer gatherings” – the most well-known occurring at Assisi in
1986 and 2002 – religious leaders from all the major false religions were
invited to pray alongside John Paul II at a “Catholic” church.
Each religion was invited to
offer its own prayer for peace – blasphemous prayers, for instance, as the
Hindu prayer said: “Peace be on all gods.”
But their gods are devils, as we saw above, so peace was being prayed for all the devils (who created these
false religions) at the
Vatican-sponsored World Day of Prayer for Peace. The
Vatican II religion wants you to be in communion with devils.
Then we have the Vatican II
sect’s teaching on the false religion of Islam, which rejects the Holy Trinity
and the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Benedict XVI and John Paul have praised Islam, a false religion of the
devil. Here we see John Paul II in the
Temple of infidelity (the mosque), endorsing their false religion.
Pope Eugene
IV, Council of Basel, Session 19,
Sept. 7, 1434:
“Moreover,
we trust that with God’s help another benefit will accrue to the Christian
commonwealth; because from this union, once it is established, there is hope
that very many from the abominable
sect of Mahomet will be converted to the Catholic faith.”
The Catholic Church teaches that Islam is “an
abominable sect” of infidels (unbelievers).
An “abomination” is something that God abhors; it is something that He
has no esteem for and no respect for.
Pope Clement
V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312:
“It is an insult to the holy name and a disgrace to the Christian faith
that in certain parts of the world subject to Christian princes where Saracens
(i.e., The followers of Islam, also called Muslims) live, sometimes apart,
sometimes intermingled with Christians, the Saracen priests, commonly called Zabazala, in their temples or mosques, in which the
Saracens meet to adore the infidel Mahomet,
loudly invoke and extol his name each day at certain hours from a high place… This brings disrepute on our faith and
gives great scandal to the faithful.
These practices cannot be
tolerated without displeasing the divine majesty. We therefore, with the sacred council’s
approval, strictly forbid such practices henceforth in Christian lands. We enjoin on Catholic princes, one and all.. They are to forbid
expressly the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet… Those
who presume to act otherwise are to be so chastised by the princes for their
irreverence, that others may be deterred from such boldness.”
The Vatican II sect, however, teaches that Islam is a
good and noble religion of “believers.”
This has its foundation in the teaching of Vatican II on Muslims, the
real meaning of which is expressed by the heads of the Vatican II sect (John
Paul II and Benedict XVI below). These
apostates even encourage the spread of this abominable sect of infidels.
Antipope
John Paul II, Message to "Grand Sheikh Mohammed," Feb. 24, 2000:
"Islam is a religion. Christianity is a religion. Islam has become a
culture. Christianity has become also a culture... I thank your university, the
biggest center of Islamic culture. I thank
those who are developing Islamic culture..."
Antipope John Paul II, March 21, 2000:
“May
Saint John the Baptist protect Islam and all the people of Jordan...”
(L’ Osservatore Romano, March 29,
2000, p. 2.)
“Cardinal”
Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Salt of
the Earth, 1996, p. 244: “There
is a noble Islam, embodied, for example, by the King of Morocco...”
The Vatican II sect on the Jews
*The
Vatican II sect teaches that Jews don’t have to believe in Jesus Christ for
salvation. Vatican II’s Declaration Nostra Aetate
specifically declares that the Jews are not rejected by God, even though they
reject Our Lord Jesus Christ. See: The
Most Specific Heresy in Vatican II. The Vatican II sect also
teaches that the Old Covenant is still valid, which is a rejection of the
following dogma defined by the Council of Florence.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy
Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining
to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic Law, which are divided into
ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established
to signify something in the future, although they were suited to divine worship
at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and
the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the
passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them
as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned
mortally. Yet it does not deny that
after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could
have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for
salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot
be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time (the
promulgation of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other
requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in
the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they
recover from these errors.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex
cathedra: “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...the Son of God is God and man...–
This is the Catholic faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and
firmly, he cannot be saved.”
Here we see Cardinal Walter Kasper, who was
specifically appointed to his post by John Paul II to express his views on this
topic, asserting that the Vatican II sect has abandoned the above dogmas:
Cardinal Walter Kasper: “… the old theory of
substitution [that is, the theory of the New Covenant substituting for the Old]
is gone since the Second Vatican Council… Therefore, the Church believes
that Judaism, i.e., the faithful
response of the Jewish people to God’s irrevocable covenant, is salvific for
them, because God is faithful to his promises.” (Address at the 17th meeting of the International
Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, New York, May
1, 2001.)
Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI have been and are
in full agreement with Kasper’s heresy:
“Cardinal” Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), God and the World, 2000, pp. 150-151:
“This is another of the paradoxes that the New Testament sets before us. On the
one hand, their [the Jews] No to Christ brings the Israelites into conflict
with the subsequent acts of God, but at the same time we know that they are
assured of the faithfulness of God. They are not excluded from salvation,
but they serve in a particular way, and thereby they stand within the patience
of God, in which we, too, place our trust.”
In fact, Benedict XVI is even worse than Kasper (if
that’s possible) because Benedict XVI teaches that the Jews not only don’t need
to believe in Christ (total heresy), but that the Jewish reading of the
prophecies of the Old Testament about the Messiah – in other words, the Jewish
position that Our Lord is not the Messiah – may be the true reading!
“Cardinal” Joseph Ratzinger, God and the World, 2000, p. 209: “It is of course possible to read the Old Testament so that it is not
directed toward Christ; it does not point quite unequivocally to Christ. And if Jews cannot see the promises as being
fulfilled in him, this is not just ill will on their part, but genuinely
because of the obscurity of the texts and the tension in the relationship
between these texts and the figure of Jesus.
Jesus brings a new meaning to these texts – yet it is he who first gives
them their proper coherence and relevance and significance. There are perfectly good reasons, then,
for denying that the Old Testament refers to Christ and for saying, No, that is
not what he said. And there are also
good reasons for referring it to him – that is what the dispute between Jews
and Christians is about.”
This is such bold antichrist apostasy that there are
almost no words to describe it – but this is what the man who is currently
claiming to be the pope teaches. He is a
non-Catholic antipope. Anyone aware of
these facts and argues that Benedict XVI is not a manifest heretic is an
antichrist. In fact, Benedict XVI
teaches the same thing in his book Milestones
that we read above in God and the World. It is perfectly accurate to say that Benedict
XVI doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ.
That is why, as we see below, on Aug. 19, 2005, he traveled to the
synagogue and took active part in a Jewish worship service. To take part in non-Catholic worship has
always been condemned by the Church, and if one does so at a non-Catholic
Temple this is a manifestation of heresy or apostasy. The entire event was a validation of the
Jewish religion, and a manifestation of his apostasy and his position that Jews
are perfectly fine even though they don’t accept Jesus Christ.
Heresy and
Apostasy Manifested by Word and Deed
How many of those outside the
Catholic Church manifest that they are not Catholics by issuing written
statements or making speeches that they are not Catholic? The answer is very few. Most
heresy and apostasy is manifested by deed, not word. People manifest their heresy and apostasy by
attending the synagogue or by worshipping at the mosque or by joining the
Protestants in their worship at their churches.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II, Q. 103., A. 4: “All ceremonies are professions of faith, in
which the interior worship of God consists.
Now man can make profession of
his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in either
profession, if he make a false declaration, he sins
mortally.”
So, when John Paul II and now
Benedict XVI (with high-ranking members of the Vatican II sect) attend the
mosque, the Buddhist Temple, the Lutheran temple and the synagogue they are
manifesting their apostasy by their deed.
They are manifesting by their deed that they accept these false
religions, and that these people don’t need to become Catholic for
salvation. When Benedict XVI entered the
synagogue and took active part in a Jewish worship service on August 19, 2005,
he was manifesting his apostasy (his acceptance of the false Jewish religion)
by his deed. That is why St. Thomas
Aquinas taught that if anyone were to worship at the tomb of Mohammed he would
be an apostate. Such an action alone would show that he
does not have the Catholic Faith, and that he accepts the false Islamic
religion.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,
Pt. II, Q. 12, A. 1, Obj. 2: “… if anyone were to… worship at the tomb of
Mahomet, he would be deemed an apostate.”
John Paul II
kissing the Koran, May 14, 1999
John Paul II did the equivalent
of worshipping at the tomb of Mahomet when he kissed the blasphemous Koran,
when he praised Islam and its leaders countless times, and when he attended the
mosque. Just imagine what the Catholic
saints would say about the Vatican II sect and John Paul II? They would utterly denounce John Paul II and
the Vatican II sect as completely apostate just for their teaching and actions
with regard to the false religion of Islam:
St. Francis Xavier, May, 1546:
“The evil [of Islam] was introduced by
some Mahometan caicizes
(ministers of religion), who came from Mecca in Arabia, where the accursed body
of Mahomet is honored with great superstition.”
St. Francis
of Assisi (+ c. 1210): [To the Muslims] “We
have come to preach faith in Jesus Christ to you, that you will renounce Mohammad,
that wicked slave of the devil, and obtain everlasting life like us.”
The Vatican II Sect on Heretics
The Vatican II sect also mocks
the saints and martyrs and rejects the entire Catholic Faith with its teaching
and actions on heretical sects, such as the Protestant sects. Because
Margaret Clitherow refused to accept the Anglican
sect and its “Mass” – but rather invited Catholic priests into her home against
the penal laws – she was martyred by being crushed to death under a large door
loaded with heavy weights. This style of
execution is so painful that it is called “severe and harsh punishment.” She suffered it all because she wouldn’t
accept Anglicanism. The Vatican II
sect, however, teaches that Anglicans are fellow “Christians” who don’t need
conversion, and whose invalid “bishops” are actually true bishops of the Church
of Christ. The Vatican II sect teaches
that her martyrdom was completely pointless.
Here is John Paul II, in
mockery of all the Catholic saints and martyrs, such as Margaret Clitherow, endorsing the Anglican sect by kissing the ring
of its non-Catholic leader, Rowan Williams.
John Paul II also gave Williams a gift, a pectoral cross, and a telegram
of approval. The pectoral cross is a
sign of Episcopal authority – indicating that John Paul II considers that
Williams, a layman posing as a bishop, is a valid bishop with Episcopal
authority, even though Pope Leo XIII infallibly declared that the Anglican
ordinations are invalid in Apostolicae Curae. John Paul
II’s action with regard to Rowan Williams is a perfect example of an action
which manifests heresy: the action manifests that John Paul II accepts the
Anglican sect and its leaders as true Christians and valid bishops. Margaret Clitherow
and all the Catholic saints would denounce John Paul II and the Vatican II sect
as manifestly heretical, not even remotely Catholic and totally evil.
The Vatican II Sect on Schismatics
The “Orthodox” Schismatics
reject the Papacy, Papal Infallibility and approximately the last 13 dogmatic
councils of the Catholic Church. But the
Vatican II teaches that the Eastern "Orthodox" don’t need to believe
in the Papacy and accept the Catholic Faith for salvation. The Vatican II sect issued the official Balamand Statement with the Orthodox (see below), which
declared that they have no obligation to convert to the Catholic Faith for
salvation. John Paul II approved of this
agreement and taught the same many times.
Vatican II Sect’s Balamand Statement with the “Orthodox,” #’s 14-15, 1993: “According to the words of Pope John Paul II,
the ecumenical endeavor of the sister Churches of East and West, grounded in
dialogue and prayer, is the search for perfect and total communion which is neither absorption nor fusion
but a meeting in truth and love (cf. Slavorum Apostoli, 27).15. While the inviolable freedom of persons
and their obligation to follow the requirements of their conscience remain
secure, in the search for
re-establishing unity there is no question of conversion of people from one
Church to the other in order to ensure their salvation.”
This statement just boldly
declared that schismatics don’t need to accept the Catholic Faith! And below we see John Paul II sitting on
equal level chairs with the schismatic Patriarch Teoctist. This action is meant to indicate that the
schismatic position, according to which all bishops are equal in the Church and
the Bishop of Rome doesn’t possess universal jurisdiction, is accepted by John
Paul II. Below we also see John Paul II
signing the common declaration of faith with Teoctist,
in which they both denounced trying to convert each other. This couldn’t be more formally heretical or
schismatical. It is a total rejection of
the dogmatic teaching of Vatican I on the necessity to accept the Papacy for
salvation, and a bold rejection of the dogma Outside the Church There is No
Salvation. (Benedict XVI teaches the
same as the Balamand Statement and John Paul II, as
one can see in the Heresies of Benedict XVI file above.)
More information on all of these topics is available
in the articles on our website, in our books and DVDs, in our archived radio
programs, etc. But this small
introduction is meant to show people that the Vatican II counterfeit “Catholic”
sect is anti-Catholic, totally heretical and apostate. It is not the Catholic Church, but it is the counterfeit “Catholic” sect of the
last days. Those who defend Vatican II
and the post-conciliar “popes” actually think that they are defending the
Catholic Faith, but they are deceived.
They are defending a completely non-Catholic (and antichrist) sect and,
in the process, they are attacking the Catholic Faith and becoming its
enemies. They are attacking the Papacy
and all the dogmas by defending a sect which mocks the Papacy and all the
dogmas of Our Lord Jesus Christ. They
are being used by the Devil if they obstinately defend this sect in the face of
these facts, and will perish forever unless they wake up and convert. Those
who see these facts and who say that the Vatican II antipopes are wrong for
doing these things, but not manifest heretics (such as the false
traditionalists) don’t understand Catholic teaching on heresy and the
supernatural union which requires holding the true faith to be part of the
Church.
Life is short and Hell is forever
Life is short and Hell is
forever. So, make saving your soul and
embracing and practicing the true Catholic Faith your number one priority.
St.
Alphonsus: “Man’s life is short: he cometh forth as a flower, and is destroyed’
(Job 14: 1,2).
The Lord commanded Isaias to preach this very
truth: ‘Cry,’ He said to him, ‘all flesh is grass… indeed the people is
grass. The grass is withered, and the
flower is fallen’ (Is. 40:6-7). The life of man is like the life of a blade of
grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life
ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.”
“The torments of hell are all so horrible, so appalling, that they are
enough to make the bravest man tremble. But the thought of eternity is so awful
that the serious consideration of it is almost enough to deprive one of one’s
senses.” (Fr. Martin Von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 168)
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