B. The Heretic Excludes Himself From the Church
In subscribing to heresy, the heretic excludes himself from the Church. As Saint Paul states, he is “condemned by his own judgment” (Tit. 3:10–11).
Saint Jerome comments on this text from Saint Paul saying: “Therefore it is said that the heretic has condemned himself; for the fornicator, the adulterer, the murderer and the other sinners are expelled from the Church by the priests; but the heretics pronounce sentence against themselves, excluding themselves from the Church spontaneously; this exclusion is their condemnation by their own conscience.”16
Saint Augustine comments along the same line: “Separate yourselves from the members of the Church, separate yourself from her Body. But why am I going to tell them to separate from the Church when they have already done so? In effect, they are heretics; they are already outside the Church.”17
Finally, Pope Pius XII affirms that no sin “of its own nature . . . severs a man from the Body of the Church as does schism or heresy or apostasy.”18
The heretic excludes himself from the Church, and no intervention is necessary on the part of the Authority. The heretic dictates his own condemnatory sentence.
The abandonment of the Catholic faith entails a tacit resignation of any ecclesiastical office, since those who are no longer part of the Church cannot enjoy jurisdiction in it.
The importance of this theological-canonical doctrine is not strictly academic. It is crucial in the study of the theological hypothesis of a heretic pope, as will be seen in a later article.
1917 CIC 188.4: heretics, being outside the Church, ipso facto resign all offices, benifices, and authority they may have had. Regardless lessof office. Celestine I said Nestorius had no authority to do anything once he fell into manifest heresy, because he had lost his office immediately. That goes for everyone. Even bishops who spout the same heresy as the Argentinian Apostate. My diocese has been without a bishop since I can remember, as they all say the same indifferentism heresy.
Simple!
Many thanks.
Catholics are left in a predicament by the weakness and lethargy of our clergy. They ignore Bergoglio, and allow him to languish on the Chair of Peter, while Catholics and the world suffer. Their concern is for their own comfort and security. They don’t seem to care to defend Christ, the faith, the church, the flock. Sometimes one remains silent due to proper discretion, but to remain silent when you are charged with a position of authority is cowardice. The flock is attacked from within and without. Silence.
Bergoglio cannot be pope as this article says. He has made that impossible due to many words and actions. We do not need to be theologians or bishops to know this. God gave us the tools. Do you hear the voice of the true shepherd? Does Bergoglio and his men come preaching a different gospel than the one Christ preached. There’s your answer.
100% correct.
Galatians 1:6-12 contains the Church’s first written anathema in verses 8 and 9, repeated for emphasis, clarity and the avoidance of doubt.
Probably written in the mid 50’s AD, it pre-dated Titus by 10 years or more.
The scope of the conditional anathema is wide enough to include all Apostles, all successors of the Apostles and all angels and spirits. In other words, it includes all rational creatures.
6 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.
7 Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
9 As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
12 For neither did I receive it of man, nor did I learn it; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition [which preserved British English spelling]
2 Corinthians warns of angels, “superapostles”, and apostles who preach a different gospel. We are to “anathematize” them, and refuse obedience to them. They have no part in Christ. Taken together, Sacred Scripture clearly indicates that The Argentinian Apostate, being not Catholic and outside the Church, cannot be pope.
I really don’t get why Trad Inc. refuses to get this. Well, I do. Money talks.
For some reason they think since he doesn’t speak ex cathedra, he’s not a formal heretic. It’s exhausting talking to people who believe this.
It stems from a total distortion of what “infallibility” actually means. There are, according to Pre-Vatican II theologians, levels of infallibility. Start with the FACT that the Catholic Church is “perennially preserved from any error whatsoever” (Pope Pius IX, Quas Primas). Thus, anything that is taught, in an official capacity, by the Church or Her Supreme Pastor is, at the VERY LEAST, free from error and thus “infallible”. Universal acts of law a discipline are considered “secondary objects of infallibility”, in that while they can be altered, they reflect deeper truths that are “de Fidei”. It is the only logical explanation: if the Rock of Peter is just as volatile as the waves of heresy that rock the Church, what good is remaining in the Barque Of Peter?
Many of the professional class of Catholics are “Expurts.”
As we’ve come to learn all these years from Climate-Hustle to Corona-Scam, “Expurts,” never like to admit they are wrong, especially about very obvious and simple things, and ESPECIALLY when the little non-lettered lay people in the barns got things right from the first second it occured.
Just need to notice the patterns. 2 examples:
E Michael Jones, great body of work, but got the SSPX issue wrong, and believes Frankie is the Pope, and finds no problems with any of his encyclicals. He’s been very quiet lately about Frankie.
Ed Fesser, great body of work, does notice Frankie is a problem, but believes he is the Pope, nothing was wrong with his election, the conclave, or Benny’s resignation, and there is nothing we can do… Fesser also believes nothing went wrong with the last US election, Biden is legitimate, Trump and Jan 6 were attempting a soft coup, and that democracy will save the world in 2028, so don’t worry about giving the Democrats the win, because this will send the Republican party the message that being pro-abortion is bad! Yes, Fesser believes that! He believes the Republican Party will suddenly become pro-life if Trump loses! He has more faith in American politics than in Jesus Christ’s promises to His Church!
The nuttin-we-kin-do crowd also consists of those who do acknowledge that Frankie can’t be Pope, but are disheartened that the bishops – Burke, Strickland, Schneider, SSPX, the whole lot of them excepting Vigano – don’t want to do their job. Maybe they are grossly outnumbered, betraying the fact that the majority of the Church hierarchy are either lukewarm, or apostates themselves, and imagine they can keep scandal under the rug in the internet age. Anything but scandal!
But we can do something! Like the woman banging on the door of the judge until she receives justice, we need the same zeal of the leftists to make the lives of our comfortably fatted novus ordo priests and bishops miserable enough for them to pick a side. They are all about that ‘pastoralism’, and the smell of the sheep, so lets show them that the sheep won’t stop baa-ing in their yard, and that we can bite and crap on them until they have no choice but to send the crap upstairs. The same for the professional “Expurt” Catholic class. Keep the pressure on their necks and squeeze!
The Annihilation of Nations is coming! This is LITERALLY about your lives and the possibility of EVERLASTING HELL being our future for inaction!!! Don’t feel bad or sorry for them! I’d walk over their corpses if necessary to avoid that! DO SOMETHING! SOMETHING that isn’t just praying or personal penance, which should go without saying that we should all be doing anyway as naturally as breathing! Get Militant!
Excellent response, Johnno. Everybody, petition your bishop! And do it over and over again!
Be careful: you could end up like me and have all my letters filed away in the small round “filing cabinet” that gets emptied every night.
Fesser I understand is employed at a “respectable” institution, so I see his reluctance to connect too many dots, no matter how obvious. But Jones I don’t get. As far as I know, he is not in risk of losing polite company privileges, so why so shy?