Michael Fighting
"Michael…who standeth for…thy people," — Dan. 12:1-12
The Manifest Heresies of the V2 "Popes"
Meaning of manifest: "Obvious to the understanding; clearly evident; not obscure; so evident as to arrest attention, (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary). It cannot be claimed, however, as some allege, that the heresies of the V2 "popes" are not manifest because they do not arrest attention. When for decades so-called priests and bishops have done all in their power to dumb down the faithful and obscure the truth with ambiguous phrases; when the understanding has been all but obliterated by the open promotion of error, is it any wonder that heresy is not obvious to most? The Church teaches Her truths to be believed always in the same sense regardless of the era in which they are taught. If these heresies fail to "jump out" at some, it can only be chalked up to V2 desensitization and the failure of Catholics to learn their faith despite the assaults of the Enemy.
Pope Pius XII, last true Pope
Some Traditionalists hold that the history of "heretical" Popes can be traced back throughout the history of the Church. One Traditionalist lists seven heretical popes and several he judges substandard. This man also holds, with the Society of Pope St. Pius X theologians, that infallibility is a rare event. The intent of these people seems bent on demonstrating a weakness inherent in the papacy that would allow for two things: 1) Uncertainty concerning the binding nature of papal teaching and 2) A loophole that would allow a council or other entity to judge and depose the Pope if he ruled on certain matters unfavorable to the powers that be. Thus we find one "Traditional" newsletter seriously considering the possibility that Pope Pius IX was a Freemason. Others have identified Benedict XV as a possible Masonic plant, since his mentor was Mariano Cardinal Rampolla. Pope Pius XII has been targeted as either a Jew lover or a Nazi, depending on one's Traditionalist tastes. He has been accused of initiating the changes in the liturgy with his Holy Week and Holy Saturday decrees. Some have accused him of being soft on evolution.
While it is true that Pope Pius' treatment of the Jews was puzzling, it involved nothing heretical. Pope St. Pius X himself defended the Jews and denounced the pogroms in Russia against them during his papacy. If Pope Pius XII was a Nazi, why did he receive praise from the Jews themselves for rescuing so many of their people? And if he was a "Jew lover," why did he not condemn the Holocaust openly? Political affiliation is not a luxury any Pope can afford. The Jewish question is not one that involves faith or morals per se; some Popes have been more indulgent to the Jews, others have not. As for the Holy Week changes, the Pope simply returned to an earlier usage more meaningful and convenient for the people. Even this was not done hastily, but in stages. His teaching on evolution in Humani generis was never intended to be a definition or an open door for scientists. This encyclical instead basically put scientists on notice that the Church was not condemning either side of the issue as yet, and invited them to prove their findings and beliefs beyond a reasonable doubt.
As many since his death have observed, Pope Pius XII was an enigma. His actions often seemed contradictory and self-defeating. At times he seemed timid and too trusting, naïve and even hopelessly optimistic. Read between the lines in his encyclicals and other papal documents, and his unwavering doctrinal stance is clear. This all without exception granted him: in Pius teaching there were no slippery phrases, no hedging, and no quarter given. The last years of his life, Pope Pius undoubtedly lived in the enemy's cross hairs. Still he stood firm, granting concessions when he reasonably could to delay the inevitable. No one will say he was a saint; a beleaguered man, certainly, but not a St. Pius X. One thing is certain. He was never a manifest heretic. No evidence has ever been produced to this effect. Manifest means obvious, apparent. And nothing in Pope Pius' works corresponds to this description. What is clear and manifest will be seen below.
John 23
• Excommunicated for favoring Freemasonry as a cardinal — "(Bishop) Roncalli appointed Baron Yves Marsaudon, a close friend and 33rd degree Freemason, as head of the strictly Catholic organization [Knights of Malta]" in France, (La Popessa by Paul Murphy; several other works also confirm this). Pope Clement XII wrote: "We command the faithful to abstain from intercourse with those societies in order to avoid excommunication…which will be the penalty imposed upon all those contravening this, Our order. None, except at the point of death, could be absolved of this sin except by…the then existing Roman Pontiff," (In Eminenti, 1738; renewed by Pope Leo XIII in Humanum Genus, 1884). Commenting on Pope Clement's statement, the Freemasonry expert Msgr. Jouin wrote: "Not only is the condemnation by Pope Clement XII extended to Masonic sects, but it applies also to all…who, although they are not members of societies called Freemasonic, favor them in any manner," (Speech given Dec. 8, 1930).
• Religious liberty — Each individual has the right "to worship God in accordance with the right dictates of his own conscience and to profess his religion both in private and in public," (Pacem in Terris).
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• Religious liberty — Montini co-authored Pacem in Terris with Roncalli. "Many took it for granted that the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan had a hand in preparing [Ad Petri Cathedrum]…Montini's collaboration became even more obvious in…the encyclical Pacem in Terris, where many of the ideas expressed by Montini could be found in paraphrases. " (Pope Paul VI by Andre Fabert). "Pope John's arresting address which opened the Council sounded much like the Montini 'Discorsi'…Correspondents had commented, too, on the sound of Montini in Pacem in Terris," (William Barrett's Shepherd of Mankind).
• Modernism — "The Church…help[s] us share in…the elaboration of a social doctrine. Both human and receptive, this doctrine acknowledges that the changes which modern life brings about in social structures are both right and inevitable…For doctrine is founded on experience, in this case the Church's social doctrine…The Church does not maintain closed and impenetrable positions, nor does it threaten and issue anathemas," (The Church, a series of addresses written by Montini between 1957-1962). Montini's support of the heretic John 23 and his collaboration in these heresies automatically excommunicates him pre-election and strips him of his status as cardinal.
John Paul I
• In April of 1968, Albino Luciani wrote and submitted a report to Paul VI recommending that the Catholic Church should approve the use of the anovulant pill developed by Professor Pincus. Luciani recommended that this pill should become the Catholic birth-control pill.
"It is easier today, given the confusion caused by the press, to find married persons who do not believe that they are sinning. If this should happen it may be opportune, under the usual conditions, not to disturb them…
"Let us pray that the Lord may help the pope to resolve this question [whether Catholics should be able to use artificial birth control]. There has never perhaps been such a difficult question for the Church – both for the intrinsic difficulties and for the numerous implications affecting other problems, and for the acute way in which it is felt by the vast mass of the people,”
• When Albino Luciani became "Patriarch" of Venice his personal Secretary was Father Mario Senigaglia. Senigaglia discussed with Luciani (with whom he had developed an almost Father-Son relationship) different moral cases involving "He was a very understanding man. Very many times I would hear him say to couples, 'We have made of sex the only sin, when in fact it is linked to human weakness and frailty and is therefore perhaps the least of sins.'"
Senigaglia confirmed that Luciani’s personal view on divorce would have surprised his critics: "He could and did accept divorcees. He also easily accepted others who were living in what the Church calls 'sin.'" (In God's Name, by David Yallop)
• Accepted the heresies of his two predecessors.
John Paul 2
• Wojtyla's heresies are the most generally known and circulated. One is sufficient to disqualify from election.
• While yet a cardinal, Karol Wojtyla gave a series of Lenten sermons in Rome for Pope Paul in 1976. There he stated: "Will God really be all in all, given that the Last Judgment entrusted by the Father to the Son will award not only salvation, union with God, but also damnation? …Perhaps…some later phase of the history of salvation — not disclosed in Revelation and the Scriptures — might put an end to this separation between those who are saved and those who are damned," (Sign of Contradiction, by Karol Wojtyla).
• Accepted the heresies of his three predecessors.
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• A suspected Modernist as a priest. Many websites are dedicated to enumerating his heresies.
• Attended Vatican II in the shadow of the heretic Hans Kung
• Ratzinger, as a cardinal wrote Dominus Iesus for JP2 on the orthodox and Protestant churches. It was issued Aug. 6, 2000: "Therefore, the Church of Christ is present and operative also in these Churches, even though they lack full communion with the Catholic Church since they do not accept the Catholic doctrine of the Primacy, which, according to the will of God, the Bishop of Rome objectively has and exercises over the entire Church."
