“Archbishop” Vigano
Archbishop Vigano has recently published an Open Letter to Confused Priests, but only compounds the confusion with more heresy.
Vigano writes, “we can nevertheless recognize a Pope as a heretic, and as such refuse, on a case-by-case basis, to show him the obedience to which he would otherwise be entitled. We do not judge him, because we do not have the authority to do so, but we recognize him for who he is, waiting for Providence to arouse those who can pronounce it definitively and authoritatively.”
Vigano flatly denies Vatican I’s definition of a pope and rejects the same council’s teaching on obedience to be given a pope.
Pope Leo XIII definitively and authoritatively pronounced in Satis cognitum that in the future that if anyone holds to a single heresy, he is not Catholic and is thus cut off from the Catholic Church. He declared, “heresies may spring up, to a single one of which, should any one give his assent, he is by the very fact cut off from Catholic unity. ‘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 one single one of these he is not a Catholic… In this wise, all cause for doubting being removed, can it be lawful for anyone to reject any one of those truths without by the very fact falling into heresy? without separating himself from the Church? – without repudiating in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? For such is the nature of faith that nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things and reject others…”
Vigano has a heretic for a pope because he has a perverted understanding of the papacy. The only way to defend the Vatican 2 popes is by denying the Catholic faith and the semi-trads are masters at the art.
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R&R positions are untenable. The Sedevacantist position is the most appropriate to explain the current situation of the Church.
Again, pretty well defines a heretic as being out of the church…Francis being a heretic and Vigano another. ..One form of heresy or another, at different levels and differing circumstances, one authority or another…all outside the church!
Would you also consider Francis to be an apostate, as well as a heretic?
Pope Leo XIII also declared in Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: “…But he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.”
To reject one point of divinly revealed doctrine is to literally become apostate.
Bergoglio is a modernist, which makes him a practical atheist.
Thanks for the clarification. I have Satis Cognitum downloaded and will read over the three-day weekend.
Great! It’s my favorite papal document every written outside of Peter’s Epistles.
“We can nevertheless recognize a Pope as a heretic.” Aren’t we Catholics making progress, though? When have we seen the novus ordo apologists so explicit, so “yes, yes, no, no?” Hasn’t the “H” word been verboten in their silly screeds? Haven’t they danced around it, ad nauseum? Even Bp. Williamson would rather say they have mushy minds incapable of truly heretical ideas, than admit the obvious. I wonder why Vigano the Wunderchild has opened this door. Are the times that desperate?
Don’t forget that Rev. Brian Harrison wrote 20 years ago that a pope can be a heretic. See https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/white-smoke-valid-pope
I didn’t know that. Don’t the SSPX and Siscoe/Salza avoid going there like the plague?
I don’t think so. They are about warnings and declarations. Siscoe has argued that Pope Celestine III issued a heretical canon law. So they believe the Church can be heretical by law and decree. They believe popes can be heretical.
Boy. Why be Catholic? Thanks for your answers. I really know nothing about all the arguments. I just know that the novus ordo isn’t the Church. Thank you also for doing all that research. It’s way more than I could ever do. God bless you.
Thank you! I made the point in an old article that Siscoe wants us to leave our “heretical” religion to join his heretical religion. It’s anything but sedevacantism.
Yes, Siscoe has gone over a cliff into madness. You don’t handle the things of God, i.e. the Church, cavalierly and sacrilegiously – and especially without God calling you to the work – and expect your intellect to continue working properly. Add in the arrogance quotient, and you have something akin to a Simon Magus. It won’t end well for him and his ilk. God is allowing the vatican 2 sect to show its true colors more and more, to confound and publicly shame, I believe, its proponents. I appreciate your responses, but I don’t want to take up your time.. No need for you to reply again. I like the fact that your writing is so concise. That’s wonderful. It’s not good for my soul to dig into the controversies – not called to that. But I appreciate the people who can argue cogently and succinctly. I look forward to your future posts.
Those in the Vatican II cult who may have misgivings about Bergoglio turn to the lesser of two evils in order to continuously keep their “Kaffeeklatsch ” Sunday go to meeting intact. Unity at the expense of one’s soul is a high price to pay. That unity is costly. Organizations like the Fatima center can’t give up on Bergoglio because no pope means no consecration of Russia, means no funding. God has made it crystal clear when we compare the sect to the true Church before the Vatican II heresy but we must have unity. Holy Scripture replies ” Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness’ 2 Corinthians 6:14. This quote can also apply to those who for the sake of unity conform to the new socialist regime that usurped the U.S. government with a stolen election. It is not by accident that many in the cult aligned themselves with that regime, Bergoglio is one of them. Hell, will have to expand its borders in the coming years for all the new arrivals.