WHAT ALL CATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE CHURCH
1.- A heretical proposition is one that is in conflict with a dogma, that is, a truth proposed by the Church to be believed by the faithful as divinely revealed. The Church can propose her dogmas either by her Ordinary or Extraordinary Magisterium (teaching authority); and in either case a proposition that is in conflict with dogma would be heretical.
2.- A heretic is one who pertinaciously doubts or denies a dogma Pertinacia means adhering to heresy, i.e., being aware of the relevant facts.
3.- Formal heresy is the doubt or denial of a dogma by one who is aware of the obligation to believe the dogmas of the Church. Purely material heresy is the conscious doubt or denial of a dogma by someone who is ignorant of the divine authority of the Church.
4.- Heretics incur automatic excommunication immediately after they manifest their heretical dispositions. Even those whose heresy is purely material, that is, those whose rejection of the teaching of the Church is made in good faith, must for all practical purposes be treated as having incurred this censure. In fact, anyone who for any reason ceases to profess the Catholic faith is not a member of the Church as a juridical society and cannot be treated as a Catholic until he abjures his errors and submits to the Church (Code of Canon Law, canon 731/2).
5.- An innocent error on the part of someone who through no fault of his own does not realize that his doctrine is opposed to Catholic dogma does not even constitute material heresy, since the recognition, at least in a confused manner, of conflict with the teaching of the Church is one of the essential notes of heresy. But this recognition can and should in many cases be legitimately presumed by reason of the obviousness of the error or the level and knowledge of the culprit, or other indications.
6.- To establish that a given individual is a heretic, no jurisdiction is necessary, no canonical warning is needed, nor is it necessary to be a cleric. Whenever it is evident that a given individual straightens his mind in opposition to the mind of the Church by refusing to admit her teaching, any Catholic who learns of these facts can and should recognize that individual as a non-Catholic and treat him as a stranger to the family of faith.
7.- It is certainly possible for any Catholic, even a poorly educated layman, to recognize when an individual is a heretic, indeed, it is obligatory for him to be on the alert about them, especially about clerics, and having identified them, he should withdraw from their communion. The recognition of heresy and of heretics and schismatics is not a matter of opinion or optional. When the facts are known and certain, it is obligatory to act in accordance with them, since silence or reticence in such cases is sinful whenever it implies consent or risk of scandal.
8.- Schism consists in refusing to submit to the sovereign pontiff or to be in communion with other members of the Catholic Church (canon 1325); therefore, whoever is neither united nor in communion with other members of the Church, nor shares the same sacraments and spiritual goods, nor is in subjection to legitimate pastors, is a schismatic. The situation does not change even if he is in good faith and believes that those to whom he is subject are legitimate pastors, as long as it is objectively certain that they are not. Schism can be committed directly or by implication in various religious actions and positions, insofar as the circumstances involve separation from communion with the Church or union with those who cannot be considered her children.
9.- Numerous quite clear heresies are found in the acts or documents of Vatican II and in the Novus Ordo liturgy, and also in the subsequent actions of the Vatican II sect, actions which include the personal ones of John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) as well as of other representatives of the sect of which he is the leader.
10.- Therefore it is obligatory to conclude that the Vatican II sect is not the Catholic Church and does not belong to it, but is a heretical "sect of perdition".
11.- It is true that Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his five predecessors are stubborn heretics since he publicly adopts, embraces and makes his own many doctrines that he frankly knows are in conflict with dogma. The same applies to the hierarchy of the conciliar sect and at least to many of its members, and in any case those who are not heretics are simply schismatics.
12.- The consequence of this is that it is absolutely certain that Jorge Mario Bergoglio does not retain the papal office. He is not Pope. He is not the head of the Catholic Church, of which he is not even a member.
13.- Here are the conclusive proofs of the affirmations made in number twelve above:
1.- If a heretic were elected pope, the election would be invalid.
2.- If, hypothetically, a pope were to fall into heresy, he would automatically resign his office without the need for any warning and without any declaration (canon 188/4).
3.- A posteriori (that is, reasoning from the effects to the cause), he cannot be pope either; for if he were, he would be protected by papal infallibility from teaching error and heresy, so that if he were pope, it would constitute an exercise of the Ordinary Magisterium and would oblige the consent of all Catholics. In the same way, if his immediate predecessors had been popes, and if the organization which they directed and he directs were the Catholic Church, they would never have incurred or brought into it liturgy, laws and customs and teachings which are directly opposed to the sanctity divinely guaranteed to the Church.
14.- The conclusion that Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his five predecessors are not Popes is so objectively true and binding on all Catholics that it in no way resembles the case of the great schism in the West, in which all those who claimed the papacy were Catholics and their disagreement centered on dubious historical questions of fact. In the present case, the fact of heresy is publicly certain with factual notoriety (canon 2197) and the conclusion is inescapable.
15.- Having established that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not Pope and that the sect he heads is not the Church of our divine Savior Jesus Christ, it is obviously necessary to establish where the Catholic Church is today and who are its members. And the most obvious fact about this matter is that none of those who recognize Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his five predecessors as Popes can be considered Catholic. Even if they thunderously condemn his heresies and admit the possibility that he is not Pope, they are still fully in schism, because they are not united to the Church under the rule of legitimate pastors, but are in communion with heretics and usurpers. Indeed St. Cyprian teaches that he who is in communion with an antipope does not hold the root of the Catholic Church, and cannot be nourished from her bosom, nor drink from her fountain. Therefore they are as Catholic as could be the Anglican bishop of England who proclaims to be Catholic while remaining in communion with Protestant prelates. It should be emphasized that if schismatics are in good faith, not realizing that the Church to which they belong is not the Catholic Church, this does not alter their situation or the duty of the faithful not to have communion with them.
16.- The Ordinary Magisterium of the Catholic Church exercised repeatedly and emphatically by popes, bishops and a General Council, and the normal practices in the Catholic Church cannot teach the faithful error which has been repeatedly and infallibly condemned by the Church in the past.
17.- It is not licit that the faithful habitually and for a prolonged period of time disobey and ignore the most final commands of the legitimate pastors of the Church regarding very serious matters.
18.- According to all theological and canonical teachings of the authorities, a heretical pope automatically loses his office not partially but completely, this aspect having been expressly declared by Pope Paul IV in his bull CUM EX APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO.
19.- Canon law confirms that an office illegitimately held is de iure vacant and can be held by any other (canon 151).
20.- No one can retain the papal office without possessing universal jurisdiction over the faithful.