By via Ecclesia Militans:
“St. Pius V teaches in the Roman Catechism: ‘Heretics and schismatics are excluded from the Church, because they have defected (desciverunt) from her and belong to her only as deserters belong to the army from which they have deserted’; whereas those who have not left the Church by defecting, but are excluded from the Church by excommunication, are ‘cut off by her sentence from the number of her children and belong not to her communion until they repent.’”
“As can be seen from the above quoted text of St. Pius V’s Catechism, heretics withdraw (descisco, desciscere, descivi, descitum – withdraw, leave, revolt from, desert defect), they leave the Church on their own, as opposed to the excommunicati, who are expelled by act of authority. By the act of heresy, i.e., by the sin of defecting from the Catholic faith by an external act of manifest formal heresy, the heretic, by that act of heresy suapte natura, i.e., by the effect that is intrinsic to the nature of the act of manifest formal heresy, leaves the Church and ceases to be a member of it. It is not by the force of law in virtue of a latæ sententiæ excommunication, or in any manner by means of, or after any ecclesiastical judgment, that the heretic ceases to be a member of the Church by having been expelled from the Church by the authority of ecclesiastical law (ob gravissima admissa a legitima auctoritate seiuncti sunt), nor is it necessary for a heretic to formally declare his separation from the Church, join another religious sect or denomination, or explicitly admit that he is in heresy, but the desertion itself that is intrinsic to the nature of the public act of formal heresy, suapte natura, separates the heretic from the body of the Church, so that any judgment or censure does not in any manner separate the heretic, or play any role in the heretic’s ipso jure separation from the Church, nor does it merely dispose the heretic to be actually separated from the Church, but only gives juridical recognition and adds force of law to the fact of separation accomplished suapte natura by heresy. The severing of the juridical bond is accomplished by the heretic per se by his own actions. Consequently, any censure merely gives juridical recognition to the fact of separation, and thus imposes the obligation of absolution from the censure as a condition for reconciliation with the Church.”
Kramer, Paul. To deceive the elect: The catholic doctrine on the question of a heretical Pope . Kindle Edition.
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Since we know a heretic can’t be pope, and yet Francis is “pope”, he’s obviously an antipope, and he’s obviously an antipope because of Benedict XVI. It is not surprising. Ratzinger was a cheerleader for Vatican 2, tried to pivot late in life, but in the end, chickened out of the papacy and gave one big Modernist Middle Finger to the laity by trying to “expand” the papacy. The last 11 years and change have been chaos. When you get angry at Francis, remember why he ascended. Benedict XVI.
But… but… what about our precious need to pretend that everything is alright???
That way we can continue on with our do-nothing attitudes and leave everything up to the Holy Spirit and Trump?
God made promises, you know? So if anything actually falls apart, it’ll be God’s fault, not ours! We’re just bishops, priests and laypeople…
So many of the poorly catechized faithful don’t understand the simple fact that a heretic is outside the Church! They are being led by ignorant or dishonest Catholic media to believe otherwise…so Francis definitely has to be Pope!
It’s really become grievous and infuriating.