“But no instructed Catholic can be in any doubt about this matter. He has the guidance of his Church clearly defining the unchristian and even antichristian nature of Freemasonry, unmistakably branding it as a secret society of a type utterly at variance with the requirements of both the natural...
![“But no instructed Catholic can be in any doubt about this matter. He has the guidance of his Church clearly defining the unchristian and even antichristian nature of Freemasonry, unmistakably branding it as a secret society of a type utterly at variance with the requirements of both the natural moral law and of God's commandments, and forbidding membership of it to Catholics under pain of excommunication. No reasonably well-informed Catholic could possibly be in good faith were he to seek membership in the Masonic Lodge.”
[Rev. Leslie Rumble, The Catholic Mind, p. 207, May-June 1957]
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![“It is proper, and in accordance with the Divine plan, St. Paul explains, that the Mystical Body, as a living thing, should grow and increase; and this in two ways, quantitatively and, if we may so speak, qualitatively. Quantitatively, it is to grow by ever adding to itself new members from among mankind [19], and the divinely-instituted instrument of this growth is the Sacrament of Baptism by which men are incorporated into the one Mystical Body and made members of Christ. [20] Qualitatively, the Mystical Body is to grow into an ever greater conformity of its individual members to the Head, Christ, "till we all attain... to the full measure of the stature of Christ... and grow in all things into him who is the head, Christ." [21]”
[Fr. Joseph Bluett, S.J., The Ecclesiastical Review, Volume 103, #4, p. 310, October 1940]
[19] Eph. 4: 11-13 "unto the building up of the body of Christ, till we all attain to the unity of the faith... to the perfect man, to the full measure of the stature of Christ. " Westm. vers.
[20] 1 Cor. 12:13 "For in one Spirit were we all baptized into body..." Cf. also Gal 3:27; Eph. 4:6
[21] Eph. 4:14-15, West. vers.
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![“And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: 'We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.' [3]...
We do not, however, wish to give the impression that this studied simplicity in imparting instruction does not require labor and meditation - on the contrary, it demands both more than any other kind of preaching. It is much easier to find a preacher capable of delivering an eloquent and elaborate discourse than a catechist who can impart a catechetical instruction which is praiseworthy in every detail. No matter what natural facility a person may have in ideas and language, let him always remember that he will never be able to teach Christian doctrine to children or to adults without first giving himself to very careful study and preparation. They are mistaken who think that because of inexperience and lack of training of the people the work of catechizing can be performed in a slipshod fashion. On the contrary, the less educated the hearers, the more zeal and diligence must be used to adapt the sublime truths to their untrained minds; these truths, indeed, far surpass the natural understanding of the people, yet must be known by all - the uneducated and the cultured - in order that they may arrive at eternal happiness.”
[Pope St. Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, #'s 2 & 26, April 15, 1905]
[3] Instit., 27:18.
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!["THE POSSIBILITY OF A POPE FAILING INTO THE SIN OF HERESY OR SCHISM.
Even though he is the Vicar of Christ, even though he is invested with His authority, the Pope is not a robot. God respects his liberty. He retains his personality and remains a man who is as such a sinner.[21] Despite the sublimity of his functions and the grandeur of his privileges, he is not permanently established in a state of grace. Like the rest of us, he must work out his salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. II, 12). Like you and I, he carries the treasure of his graces and his privileges in an earthen vessel (II Cor., IV, 7). All this is to say that even if he is Peter, and even if he is responsible in his function as pope, the man that he remains can, in private, fall into any sin whatsoever, not even excluding those sins which offend against the faith or against unity.
This belief in the capacity of the Pope to sin has always been admitted by the Church. Consider the Litany of the Saints. The fact that we beseech God to preserve the Apostolic Prelate in the holy faith is proof positive that, for the Church, the Pope is not preserved from defecting from the faith.
For the Pope, as for simple priests, even the gravest of sins do not force him out of the Church or in any way impede his ministry.[22] However, if he sins against the faith, he departs from the Church just like any other heretic.
If he is separated from the Mystical Body of Christ, if he is not any longer a member of this Body, it is impossible that he should be the head of this Body."
Fr. Barbara, Fortes in Fidei, Volum 3, #12
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![CONTENTS
"'89" IN THE CHURCH
MGR. LEFEBVRE AND WITNESSING TO THE FAITH
The hypothesis that he has been blinded
Has Archbishop Lefebvre been struck with blindness?
I - A strange manner of behaving
II - Puerile and unorthodox justifications
III - His hardness of heart
AN ADDRESS TO THE PRIESTS AND FRIENDS OF
THE FRATERNITY OF SAINT PIUS X
WARNING
*-----*-----*
"'89" IN THE CHURCH
It was Cardinal Joseph Suenens, Archbishop of Malines, who declared that "Vatican II was '89 [the French Revolution] in the Church." No one could have characterized the situation better. In order to understand the import of this expression, we must fully understand the nature of the Revolution of 1789. Often it happens that even those who hate this historical event understand it poorly. For them, as is the case with most people, it is seen primarily as a period of religious persecution; this is to confuse it with the Terror of 1793. The Revolution is thus seen in terms of the permanent establishment of the guillotine, the proscription of priests and nobles, the destruction of churches and the misappropriation of ecclesiastical goods.
But this is not the true nature of the Revolution, or more precisely, these are but the effects of the Revolution. The Revolution is above all and essentially a real upheaval, a total subversion. It is the destruction of the established order and its replacement by a new and different one.
Fr. Barbara, Fortes in Fidei, Volume 3, #6
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![“Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements which disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic Truth is camouflaged." [Pope Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, August 28, 1794]
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![“We are in a Church where everything is under attack; in a period when the principal members of the Church have realised all the desires of Freemasonry, and done it in the way the Freemasons wanted it done. In such a context, when "our faith is in danger from within the Church" (Bishop Adam, of Sion), only the Modernists and their accomplices could reproach us for bringing an accusation against the Pope.
In the absence of open declarations of heresy, how, in order to guard ourselves against him, are we to discover the wolf in sheep's clothing? By relying on the great principle given us by Jesus for the discovery of intentions: "For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." (Mt. VI, 21) Why is it that "our heart" (our affections, our intentions, our secret desires) is there "where our treasure is"? Because, as St. Augustine explains, "my love is the weight which draws me along, by that am I taken wherever I go".
Let us then inquire towards whom and towards what the heart of Paul VI draws him.
Certainly not towards Tradition, which he casts off so easily. Still less towards Catholics, priests and bishops who defend the faith. The whole world now knows that Paul VI has never received the international pilgrimage of faithful Catholics(26), who went to Rome for Pentecost some years in succession, and who passed a whole night in prayer beneath his windows. Everyone also knows now what difficulties he made about receiving Archbishop Lefebvre, and that he received him in the end only because of unfavourable world opinion.
On the other hand, the world unfortunately also knows how easily, how often and with what cordiality he receives schismatics, heretics, non-Christians and even the murderers of his sons, and the persecutors of our brethren...”
[Fr. Barbara, Fortes in Fidei, Volume 1, #6, ~1975]
https://crusader.surge.sh/sif-1-6.html
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![“Whoever is outside of the bosom of the Catholic Church, however praiseworthy may otherwise appear his conduct, will not enjoy eternal life and the wrath of God remains upon him because of the guilt of his crime, namely, by living separated from Jesus Christ.”
[St. Augustine, Council of Cirta, 412]
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![“On 25 October 1964, while the Second Vatican Council was still in session, I wrote a personal letter to Pope Paul VI. This letter had also been signed by more than 430 French priests. Its intention was to expose the doctrinal, liturgical and moral errors which were already starting to emerge throughout the Catholic world, under the guise of the Council's move towards "aggiornamento."
This letter, signed - let me make it absolutely clear - by over 430 priests of all ages, remained unanswered in spite of my having taken it to Rome myself, so that there could be no question of its not having been delivered to the Pope. And what is more, I know for a fact that he did receive it.
I wrote another letter on 10 November 1970. This time I took steps to make the authorities answer me by making the letter public, although it had originally been addressed to the Pope in person.
Yet again: total silence. The only answer I received was a letter from Cardinal Duval, Archbishop of Algiers and my former diocesan, begging me to put an end to what he termed "my abuse of the Holy Father."
To me, and to all my fellow Catholics who no longer understood the changes which had been imposed upon us with such callous brutality, and to which Paul VI seemed utterly indifferent, his attitude was bewildering. This is why my second letter ended with the twofold question, "Who are you? How do you plead?"
Because I am still waiting for an answer from the only person able to enlighten us, and whose duty it is to do so, I propose to try to deduce what this answer might be from the actions, words and the calculated silences of Pope Paul.”
[Fr. Barbara, Fortes in Fidei, Volume 1, #5, ~1975]
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![“The servant, according to the Apostle, “By his own lord stands or falls.” Because of that the same Apostle says, “Who are you who judges another man’s servant?” [73] Since the Roman Pontiff has no other lord than God, then who can throw him out or trample him underfoot, no matter how much he may lose his savor? When it can be said to him, “Enfold your justification into your own heart”? [74] Nevertheless he should not mistakenly flatter himself about his power, nor rashly glory in his eminence or honor, for the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. I say “less” because he can be judged by men, or rather shown to be judged, if he clearly loses his savor to heresy, [75] since he “who does not believe, is already judged.” [76] It is only in this case that it should be understood of him that, If the salt loses its savor, it is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and to be trodden on by men.”
[Pope Innocent III, Sermon #4, On the Consecration of Pontiffs, 13th century]
[73] Rom. 14:4.
[74] D. 21 c. 7 (Friedberg, 1:71) which this and the previous two sentences together paraphrase. Reportedly, Pope Marcellinus (296-304) had apostatized during the savage persecution under Diocletian, and the bishops who were called upon to try him would not. They cautioned that the case rested in the pontiff’s own heart. Repenting his lapse, Marcellinus died a martyr. The account of the alleged incident is one of the Symmachian falsifications which seek to demonstrate the adage, “the first chair is judged by no one”; see Synodi Sinuessanae de Marcellino papa, PL 6: 11-20 and the Encyclopedia of the Early Church, s.v. “Marcellinus” and “Symmachus.” Nevertheless, it exemplifies the principle of papal immunity from oversight also illustrated in D. 17 ante c. 7; D. 21 cc. 4, 7; C. 9 q. 3 cc.10-18; C. 17 q. 4 c. 30; see Brian Tierney, Foundations of Conciliar Theory: The Contribution ...
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![“In fact, unless I am grounded in faith, how can I make others firm in faith? It is certain that faith belongs especially to my office. The Lord publicly proclaimed it: “I,” he said, “have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith may not fail, and you, once being converted, must confirm your brothers.” [51] He asked, and he received, because “He was heard in all things by virtue of his reverence.” [52] For that reason the faith of the apostolic seat has never failed even during turbulent times, but has remained whole and unharmed, so that the privilege [53] of Peter continues to be unshaken. So necessary is faith for me as Pope, that, while I have God alone as the judge of my other sins, I can be judged by the church only for any sin committed against the Faith. For “he who does not believe, is already judged.” [54]”
[Pope Innocent III, Sermon #2, On the Consecration of the Supreme Pontiff, February 22, 1198]
[51] Lk. 22:32.
[52] Heb. 5:7, discussing Christ’s role as High Priest.
[53] Privilegium, “A legal enactment concerning a specific person or case and involving an exemption from common rules.” Berger, s.v. privilegium, in this case a law which applies only to Peter and his successors.
[54] Jn. 3:18. That the Pope can be judged by men as to the orthodoxy of his faith is a major topic of Sermon Four.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreihagibcpcpbzl6zoaqqgg55jflnyhbnhqkysairskcs76b2uhcxz4)
![“We read that the Roman Pontiff has always possessed authority to pass judgment on the heads of all the Churches (i.e., the patriarchs and bishops), but nowhere do we read that he has been the subject of judgment by others. It is true that Honorius was posthumously anathematised by the Eastern churches, but it must be borne in mind that he had been accused of heresy, the only offence which renders lawful the resistance of subordinates to their superiors, and their rejection of the latter's pernicious teachings.”
[Pope Hadrian II, 9th century]
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![“It is certain, in contradiction to the blasphemies of Luther and Calvin, that God does not impose a law that is impossible to be observed. On the other hand, it is certain, that without the assistance of grace the observance of the law is impossible; as Innocent I declared against the Pelagians when he said, “It is certain, that as we overcome by the aid of God, so without his aid we must be overcome.” [2] Pope Celestine declared the same thing. Therefore, if God gives to all men a possible law, it follows that he also gives to all men the grace necessary to observe it, whether immediately, or mediately, by means of prayer, as the Council of Trent has most clearly defined: “God does not command impossibilities; but by commanding he admonishes you both to do what you can, and to ask for that which is beyond your power, and by his help enables you to do it.’ [1] Otherwise, if God refused us both the proximate and remote grace to enable us to fulfil the law, either the law would have been given in vain, or sin would be necessary, and if necessary would be no longer sin, as we shall shortly prove at some length.”
[St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection, pp. 133-134, 1759]
[2] Necesse est ut, quo (Deo) auxiliante vincimus, eo non adjuvante vincamur.”—Rescr. ad Conc. Carthag.
[1] “Deus impossiblia non jubet, sed jubendo monet, et facere quod possis et petere quod non possis; et adjuvat ut possis.”— Sess. 6, cap. Il.
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![“It is unlawful for Catholics in any way to assist actively at or take part in the worship of non-Catholics (Canon 1258). Such assistance is intrinsically and gravely evil; for (a) if the worship is non-Catholic in its form (e.g., Mohammedan ablutions, the Jewish paschal meal, revivalistic ‘‘hitting the trail,’’ the right hand of fellowship, etc.), it expresses a belief in the false creed symbolized; (b) if the worship is Catholic in form, but is under the auspices of a non-Catholic body (e.g., Baptism as administered by a Protestant minister, or Mass as celebrated by a schismatical priest), it expresses either faith in a false religious body or rebellion against the true Church.”
[McHugh & Callan, Moral Theology - A Complete Course, Volume 1, #964, p. 376, 1929]
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![But if anyone has either been excommunicated or stripped of episcopal or clerical dignity by Bishop Nestorius or by those who follow him, after they began to preach such things [heresy], it is manifest that such a person has continued firmly and still continues firmly in Our communion, and We judge him not to have been removed: because the sentence of that man who had already shown that he himself should be removed was not able to remove anyone." [Pope St. Celestine I, To John Of Antioch, 430]
"Nevertheless, lest the sentence of him who had already called down a divine sentence upon himself should appear to have force even for a time, the authority of Our Apostolic See has openly ordained that no bishop, cleric, or Christian of any profession, who were deposed from their position or from communion by Nestorius and those of his ilk from the time they began to preach heresy, is to be seen as either deposed or excommunicated. But all these have been and until now remain in Our communion, because he who stumbled in preaching such things was not able to depose or remove anyone." [Pope St. Celestine I, To the Clergy And People Of Constantinople, 430]
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"... 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." [Pope St. Celestine I, Council of Ephesus, 431]
"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." [Pope St. Celestine I, 431]
https://crusader.surge.sh/heresy.html
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![Julius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for an everlasting record. From a consideration that the detestable crime of simony is forbidden by both divine and human law..[if] the election of the Roman pontiff is made or effected by the person who is elected, or by one or several members of the college of cardinals, giving their votes in a manner that in any way involves simony being committed..by the person elected or by one or several other persons..even if the election resulted in a majority of two-thirds or in the unanimous choice of all the cardinals, or even in a spontaneous agreement on the part of all, without a scrutiny being made, then not only is this election or choice itself null, and does not bestow on the person elected or chosen in this fashion any right of either spiritual or temporal administration, but also there can be alleged and presented, against the person elected or chosen in this manner, by any one of the cardinals who has taken part in the election, the charge of simony, as a true and unquestionable heresy, so that the one elected is not regarded by anyone as the Roman pontiff.
..the person elected in this manner is automatically deprived, without the need of any other declaration, of his cardinal’s rank and of all other honours whatsoever..the elected person is to be regarded as an apostate and, like Simon, a magician and a heresiarch..election of this kind is never at any time to be made valid by a subsequent enthronement or the passage of time, or even by the act of adoration or obedience of all the cardinals..It shall be lawful..withdraw without penalty and at any time from obedience and loyalty to the person so elected even if he has been enthroned.. avoid him as a magician, a heathen, a publican and a heresiarch...
Those who break off obedience to him are not to be subject to any penalties and censures for the said separation, as though they were tearing the Lord’s garment.. https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum18.htm](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreid3xc2op7bcgpav5dc7dn2cjk5ohbabn4xkxuezvg7hnwo66fzur4)
!["Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church...
Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre- eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere." [St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3:1:1 & 3:3:2, 180]
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm
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![“To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name. Men who really believe in the existence of God must, in order to be consistent with themselves and to avoid absurd conclusions, understand that differing modes of divine worship involving dissimilarity and conflict even on most important points cannot all be equally probable, equally good, and equally acceptable to God...
To exclude the Church, founded by God Himself, from life, from laws, from the education of youth, from domestic society is a grave and fatal error. A State from which religion is banished can never be well regulated; and already perhaps more than is desirable is known of the nature and tendency of the so-called civil philosophy of life and morals. The Church of Christ is the true and sole teacher of virtue and guardian of morals. She it is who preserves in their purity the principles from which duties flow, and, by setting forth most urgent reasons for virtuous life, bids us not only to turn away from wicked deeds, but even to curb all movements of the mind that are opposed to reason, even though they be not carried out in action.
To wish the Church to be subject to the civil power in the exercise of her duty is a great folly and a sheer injustice...”
[Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, #'s 31-33, November 1, 1885]
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13sta.htm
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![“It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members... by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.”
[Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum, #14, May 5, 1824]
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo12/l12ubipr.htm
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![“Freedom of will [arbitrium voluntatis] weakened in the first man cannot
be repaired except through the grace of baptism; ‘once it has been lost,
it cannot be restored except by him by whom it could be given. Thus
Truth itself says: “If the Son makes you free, you will be free
indeed. [John 8:36]”’ [St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, 14.11]... According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the salvation of their soul. We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.”
[Pope. St. Felix IV, Second Council of Orange, Canon 13, 529]
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[Peter M. Folan, Martin Luther and the Council of Trent, p. 185, 2022]
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Orange_(529)
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![“The immediate prelude to Golgotha is the Via Dolorosa. It is on this narrow way that we first behold the sorrow-filled but sinless Mother of God silently weeping for her tom and bleeding Child. He, who knew nothing of sin, is on the way to pay the price of sin as it could never be given to another to pay; and it is she - the Sea of Bitterness - who so compassionates Him in His suffering that it can be said that while He journeys up to Calvary, there to redeem us by the flow of His Precious Blood, she attends Him on the way, there to co-redeem us by the flow of her bitter tears.”
[Rev. William J. Manning, Thoughts From Saint Bonaventure About the Mother of God, p. 2-3, 1955]
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![“How then shall we say what her [the Blessed Virgin Mary] woes are like? Holy men have tried to do so, and they have done it by calling her the co-redemptress of the world, and speaking of her sorrows as they blended with the Precious Blood, and the two made but one sacrifice for the sins of the world. There is a deep truth, and a most substantial one, hidden under these great words, and yet they may easily be understood in a sense in which they would not be true. They are the expressions of an excellent devotion, striving to assist the feebleness of our understandings to a true conception of Mary's grandeurs. They are accuracies, not exaggerations. Yet they need cautious wording and careful explanation.”
[Rev. Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross, Chapter 1, Section 1, 1858]
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!["Divine scripture testifies that an equal punishment is due to those who commit an evil and to those who assent to it [Rom. 1:32]."
[Pope St. Gregory VII, To The Clergy and Laity of Germany, 1075]
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![“To the blessed Pope Leo [Pope St. Leo IX], Peter, the monks' least servant, sends the homage of his proper devotion. Since we know from the mouth of Truth itself that the Apostolic See is the mother of all churches, it is proper that if any doubt should arise in matters pertaining to the welfare of souls, one should have recourse to her as to the teacher and, as one might say, to the source of heavenly wisdom, so that from this unique principle of ecclesiastical discipline a light may go forth by which the entire body of the Church is bathed in the utter brilliance that Truth imparts, once the darkness of uncertainty has been dispelled.”
[St. Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah, p. 1, 1049]
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You can find the Book of Gomorrah in the book "The Fathers of the Church - Mediaeval Continuation - The Letters of Peter Damian - Letters 31-60", translated by Owen Blum, O.F.M., 1990, which you can download here:
https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-fathers-of-the-church-medieval-continuation/The%20Fathers%20of%20the%20Church%20Mediaeval%20Continuation%202%20The%20Letters%20of%20Peter%20Damian%20%2831-60%29%20%281990%29.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreih6ixlgrmssfgpup3siz3dmibah323xffmkdmcxho6rqozuvijb5i)
![“For one like you [St. Peter Damian] who has so raised the arm of the spirit against the obscenity of lust, has surely subdued the savagery of the flesh. This execrable vice sets one far apart from the Author of virtue who, since He is pure, admits of nothing that is impure. Nor can one who will subject himself to sordid pleasure share in His company. Clerics, indeed, whose most impure life you in your prudence have lamentably and also intelligently discussed, verily and most assuredly will have no share in His inheritance, from which by their voluptuous pleasures they have withdrawn. If they lived purely, they would be called, not only the holy temple of the Lord, but also His very sanctuary, in which with snow white splendor the illustrious Lamb of God is offered, by whom the foul corruption of all the world is washed away. Such clerics, indeed, profess, if not in words, at least by the evidence of their actions, that they are not what they are thought to be... he who does not attack vice, but deals lightly with it, is rightly judged to be guilty of his death, along with the one who dies in sin.”
[Pope St. Leo IX, Letter to St. Peter Damian, 1049]
From the book "The Fathers of the Church - Mediaeval Continuation - The Letters of Peter Damian - Letters 31-60", translated by Owen Blum, O.F.M., 1990, which you can download here:
https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-fathers-of-the-church-medieval-continuation/The%20Fathers%20of%20the%20Church%20Mediaeval%20Continuation%202%20The%20Letters%20of%20Peter%20Damian%20%2831-60%29%20%281990%29.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ub4s7pzk7jnihzbwvb6xbg2h/bafkreicw4n7v27ee36llod2zktzmnqmfpbziqc6znskiacslptrl5vaijq)
![“The Catholic Faith professes that the Sacrament of Order instituted by Christ, by which are conferred spiritual power and grace to perform properly ecclesiastical functions, is one and the same for the universal Church; for, just as Our Lord Jesus Christ gave to the Church but one and the same government under the Prince of the Apostles, one and the same faith, one and the same sacrifice, so too He gave her but one and the same treasury of efficacious signs of grace, that is, Sacraments. For these Sacraments instituted by Christ Our Lord, the Church in the course of the centuries never substituted other Sacraments, nor could she do so, since, as the Council of Trent teaches (Conc. Trid., Sess. VII, can. 1, De Sacram, in genere), the seven Sacraments of the New Law were all instituted by Jesus Christ Our Lord, and the Church has no power over “the substance of the Sacraments,” that is, over those things which, as is proved from the sources of divine revelation, Christ the Lord Himself established to be kept as sacramental signs...
As to the matter and form in the conferring of each Order, We of Our same supreme Apostolic Authority decree and provide as follows: In the Episcopal Ordination or Consecration... the form consists of the words of the ‘Preface,’ of which the following are essential and therefore required for validity: ‘Perfect in Thy priest the fullness of Thy ministry and, clothing him in all the ornaments of spiritual glorification, sanctify him with the Heavenly anointing.’”
[Pope Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, November 30, 1947]
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![“... a further distinction must be made which will constatly recur, between the sentenced and the unsentenced heretic. The latter is a heretic who is bound by the ipso facto excommunication attached to the delict of heresy, but who has not been personally dealt with by the judicial authorities of the Church; he has been excommunicated by the law itself, but has not been sentenced by ecclesiastical officials. The former is a heretic whose delict has come to the official notice of the Church, has been proved in judicial process, and has been made the basis of either a condemnatory or declaratory sentence.”
[Rev. Eric F. Mackenzie, The Delict of Heresy, pp. 41-42, 1932]
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![“III. Appointment to the office of the Primacy [i.e. papacy].
1- What is required by divine law for this appointment: (a) It is required that the appointment be of a man who possesses the use of reason — and this at least because of the ordination the Primate must receive to possess the power of Holy Orders. Indeed, this is required for the validity of the appointment.
Also required for validity is that the appointment be of a member of the Church. Heretics and apostates (at least public ones) are therefore excluded. ...
2- Loss of office of the Roman Pontiff. This can occur in various ways: ...
c) Notorious heresy. Certain authors deny the supposition that the Roman Pontiff can indeed become a heretic.
It cannot be proven however that the Roman Pontiff, as a private teacher, cannot become a heretic — if, for example, he would contumaciously deny a previously defined dogma. Such impeccability was never promised by God. Indeed, Pope Innocent III expressly admits such a case is possible.
If indeed such a situation would happen, he [the Roman Pontiff] would, by divine law, fall from office without any sentence, indeed, without even a declaratory one. He who openly professes heresy places himself outside the Church, and it is not likely that Christ would preserve the Primacy of His Church in one so unworthy. Wherefore, if the Roman Pontiff were to profess heresy, before any condemnatory sentence (which would be impossible anyway) he would lose his authority.”
[Fr. Matthaeus Conte a Coronata O.F.M., Institutiones Iuris Canonici (Rome: Marietti 1:312, 316), 1950]
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found here:
Traditionalists, Infallibility and the Pope (1995, 2006)
by Rev. Anthony Cekada
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