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Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
« Reply #105 on: May 12, 2023, 05:39:22 PM »
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  • Just did.  Nowhere did Bellarmine state the he had to be delcared incorrigible / obstinate / pertinacious, but instead, as per above stated explicitly that he would SHOW HIMSELF to be manifestly obstinate BEFORE ANY JUDICIAL SENTENCE.

    Produce the original Latin of that passage from John of St. Thomas, just to make sure you're not slandering him to further your own agenda.

    No, you excised some quote from Bellarmine, without showing that this is the line JST was quoting.

    And per my previous comment, the post you DID quote shows exactly the opposite of what you are trying to make it mean (i.e., perfectly consistent with the position JST attributes to Bellarmine).
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #106 on: May 12, 2023, 05:40:26 PM »
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  • My bad.  Ipso facto deposition without prior declaration is what I meant. I should have been clearer.

    That has been this board's understanding of Bellarmine's position/opinion (except perhaps Chips and Salsa/the banned? "RomanTheo")
    ...and John of St. Thomas.
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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #107 on: May 12, 2023, 05:44:04 PM »
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  • http://www.trueorfalsepope.com/p/answering-fr-kramers-objection-to-true.html

    Objection 10: “Ballerini, who famously followed Bellarmine’s “Fifth Opinion”…
    Answer: Since Fr. Kramer admits that Ballerini held the 5th opinion, let’s read Ballerini's teaching on the loss of office for a heretical Pope, in context, including the part that Fr. Kramer conveniently omitted, to see when he believed a heretical Pope would be deprived of his jurisdiction.
    In the follow quotation, Ballerini explaining how he believes the Church can remedy the case of a heretical Pope, without having to wait for a general council to be convened.
    “In the case of the Pope’s falling into heresy, the remedy is more promptly and easily supplied.  Now, when we speak of heresy with reference to the Supreme Pontiffs, we do not mean the kind of heresy by which any of them, defining ex officio a dogma of faith, would define an error; for this cannot happen, as we have established in the book on their infallibility in defining controverted matters of faith.  Nor do we speak of a case in which the popes err in a matter of faith by their opinion on a subject that has not yet been defined [i.e., a new heresy]; for opinions that, before the Church has defined anything, men are free to embrace, cannot be stigmatized as heresy.  The present question, then, pertains only to the case in which the Pope, deceived in his private judgment, believes and pertinaciously asserts something contrary to an evident or defined article of faith, for this is what constitutes heresy. …
    "But why, we ask, in such a case, where the faith is imperiled by the most imminent and the gravest of all dangers … should we await a remedy from a general council, which is not at all easy to convene?  When the faith is so endangered, cannot inferiors of whatever rank admonish their superior with a fraternal correction, resist him to the face, confront him, and, if it is necessary, rebuke him and impel him to come to his senses?  The cardinals could do this, for they are the counselors of the Pope; so could the Roman clergy; or, if it is judged expedient, a Roman synod could be convened for that purpose.  For the words of Paul to Titus: ‘Avoid a heretic after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a one is perverse and sins, being condemned by his own judgment” (Tit. 13:10), are addressed to any man whatsoever, even a private individual.  For he who, after a first and second correction, does not return to his senses, but persists in an opinion  contrary to a manifest or defined dogma, cannot, by the very fact of this public pertinacity, be excused by any pretext from heresy in the strict sense, which requires pertinacity, but rather declares himself plainly to be a heretic; in other words, he declares that he has departed from the Catholic faith and from the Church of his own accord, in such wise that no declaration or sentence of any man is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church.  St. Jerome’s perspicacious commentary on the above-quoted words of St. Paul affords us insight into the matter: “It is for this reason that [the heretic] is said to be self-condemned: whereas the fornicator, the adulterer, the murderer, and those guilty of other sins are cast out of the Church by her ministers [sacerdotes], heretics, for their part, pronounce sentence against themselves, leaving the Church of their own accord; and their departure is considered as a condemnation issued by their own conscience.” Therefore, the Pope who, after a solemn and public warning given by the cardinals, the Roman clergy, or even a synod, would harden himself in his heresy, and thus would have departed plainly from the Church, would, according to the precept of St. Paul, have to be avoided; and, lest he bring destruction upon others, his heresy and contumacy would have to be brought forth into the public, so that all might similarly beware of him; and in this way the sentence that he passed against himself, being proposed to the whole Church, would declare that he has departed of his own accord, and has been cut off from the Body of the Church, and has in  certain manner abdicated the Papacy, which no one possesses, nor can possess, who is not in the Church.”
    Comment: The reason he said “no declaration or sentence of any man is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church,” is because cutting someone off from the Church requires the use of coercive power, which the Church cannot exercise against a Pope.  Therefore, he says the Pope cuts himself off from the Church, by remaining hardened in heresy in the face of public and solemn warnings.  Pay close attention to what he says next:
    “You see, then, that in the case of a heresy to which the Pope adheres in his personal judgment, there is a prompt and efficacious remedy apart from the convocation of a general council; and in this hypothetical case whatever would be done against him to bring him to his senses before the declaration of his heresy and contumacy would be the exercise of charity, not of jurisdiction; but afterwards, when his departure from the Church has been made manifest, whatever sentence would be passed against him by a council would be passed against one who is no longer Pope, nor superior to a council.”
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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #108 on: May 12, 2023, 05:55:05 PM »
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  • St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice, Book II, Chapter 3)
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    For men are not bound, or able to read hearts; but when they see someone that is a heretic by his external works, they judge him to be a heretic pure and simple, and condemn him as a heretic.



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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #109 on: May 12, 2023, 05:56:10 PM »
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  • http://www.trueorfalsepope.com/p/answering-fr-kramers-objection-to-true.html

    Salza and Siscoe also hold by their principles that you are outside the Church.  Well, in your case, they probably got it accidentally right.


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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #110 on: May 12, 2023, 06:04:10 PM »
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  • http://www.trueorfalsepope.com/p/answering-fr-kramers-objection-to-true.html

    Objection 10: “Ballerini, who famously followed Bellarmine’s “Fifth Opinion”…
    Answer: Since Fr. Kramer admits that Ballerini held the 5th opinion, let’s read Ballerini's teaching on the loss of office for a heretical Pope, in context, including the part that Fr. Kramer conveniently omitted, to see when he believed a heretical Pope would be deprived of his jurisdiction.
    In the follow quotation, Ballerini explaining how he believes the Church can remedy the case of a heretical Pope, without having to wait for a general council to be convened.
    “In the case of the Pope’s falling into heresy, the remedy is more promptly and easily supplied.  Now, when we speak of heresy with reference to the Supreme Pontiffs, we do not mean the kind of heresy by which any of them, defining ex officio a dogma of faith, would define an error; for this cannot happen, as we have established in the book on their infallibility in defining controverted matters of faith.  Nor do we speak of a case in which the popes err in a matter of faith by their opinion on a subject that has not yet been defined [i.e., a new heresy]; for opinions that, before the Church has defined anything, men are free to embrace, cannot be stigmatized as heresy.  The present question, then, pertains only to the case in which the Pope, deceived in his private judgment, believes and pertinaciously asserts something contrary to an evident or defined article of faith, for this is what constitutes heresy. …
    "But why, we ask, in such a case, where the faith is imperiled by the most imminent and the gravest of all dangers … should we await a remedy from a general council, which is not at all easy to convene?  When the faith is so endangered, cannot inferiors of whatever rank admonish their superior with a fraternal correction, resist him to the face, confront him, and, if it is necessary, rebuke him and impel him to come to his senses?  The cardinals could do this, for they are the counselors of the Pope; so could the Roman clergy; or, if it is judged expedient, a Roman synod could be convened for that purpose.  For the words of Paul to Titus: ‘Avoid a heretic after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a one is perverse and sins, being condemned by his own judgment” (Tit. 13:10), are addressed to any man whatsoever, even a private individual.  For he who, after a first and second correction, does not return to his senses, but persists in an opinion  contrary to a manifest or defined dogma, cannot, by the very fact of this public pertinacity, be excused by any pretext from heresy in the strict sense, which requires pertinacity, but rather declares himself plainly to be a heretic; in other words, he declares that he has departed from the Catholic faith and from the Church of his own accord, in such wise that no declaration or sentence of any man is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church.  St. Jerome’s perspicacious commentary on the above-quoted words of St. Paul affords us insight into the matter: “It is for this reason that [the heretic] is said to be self-condemned: whereas the fornicator, the adulterer, the murderer, and those guilty of other sins are cast out of the Church by her ministers [sacerdotes], heretics, for their part, pronounce sentence against themselves, leaving the Church of their own accord; and their departure is considered as a condemnation issued by their own conscience.” Therefore, the Pope who, after a solemn and public warning given by the cardinals, the Roman clergy, or even a synod, would harden himself in his heresy, and thus would have departed plainly from the Church, would, according to the precept of St. Paul, have to be avoided; and, lest he bring destruction upon others, his heresy and contumacy would have to be brought forth into the public, so that all might similarly beware of him; and in this way the sentence that he passed against himself, being proposed to the whole Church, would declare that he has departed of his own accord, and has been cut off from the Body of the Church, and has in  certain manner abdicated the Papacy, which no one possesses, nor can possess, who is not in the Church.”
    Comment: The reason he said “no declaration or sentence of any man is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church,” is because cutting someone off from the Church requires the use of coercive power, which the Church cannot exercise against a Pope.  Therefore, he says the Pope cuts himself off from the Church, by remaining hardened in heresy in the face of public and solemn warnings.  Pay close attention to what he says next:
    “You see, then, that in the case of a heresy to which the Pope adheres in his personal judgment, there is a prompt and efficacious remedy apart from the convocation of a general council; and in this hypothetical case whatever would be done against him to bring him to his senses before the declaration of his heresy and contumacy would be the exercise of charity, not of jurisdiction; but afterwards, when his departure from the Church has been made manifest, whatever sentence would be passed against him by a council would be passed against one who is no longer Pope, nor superior to a council.”

    I just finished reading this.  It has to be one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.  Ballerini clearly holds the opposite of the Siscoe and Salza position.  Father Kramer is correct.  These buffoons see the word Council and think it support their position, but Ballerini clearly states that --

    1) no Council is necessary to be rid of a heretical Pope, and the remedy is "easily suppled" (by warning him publicly and solemnly)

    "But why, we ask, in such a case, where the faith is imperiled by the most imminent and the gravest of all dangers … should we await a remedy from a general council, which is not at all easy to convene?  When the faith is so endangered, cannot inferiors of whatever rank admonish their superior with a fraternal correction, resist him to the face, confront him, and, if it is necessary, rebuke him and impel him to come to his senses?"

    2) and that a Council that judges him would be passing sentence "against one who is lo longer pope, nor superior to a council."

    3) and that it requires only the manifestation of pertinacity, which would consist only of a public and solemn admonition.

    "For he who, after a first and second correction, does not return to his senses, but persists in an opinion contrary to a manifest or defined dogma, cannot, by the very fact of this public pertinacity, be excused by any pretext from heresy in the strict sense, which requires pertinacity, but rather declares himself plainly to be a heretic..."

    Jorge just verbatim contradicted defined dogma by asserting that schismatic "martyrs" can be saints.  He's repeated this numerous times and now formalized it by putting their names in the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY.

    In point of fact, a group of Cardinals (though that's nowhere required, as Ballerini stated that "inferior of WHATEVER rank" could do this) publicly admonished him regarding the heresy in Amoris Laetitia.  Bergoglio not only ignored their admonition but doubled down and ordered his letter to the bishops in Argentina confirming the heresy to be published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis.

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #111 on: May 12, 2023, 06:13:11 PM »
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  • I just finished reading this.  It has to be one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.  Ballerini clearly holds the opposite of the Siscoe and Salza position.  Father Kramer is correct.  These buffoons see the word Council and think it support their position, but Ballerini clearly states that --

    1) no Council is necessary to be rid of a heretical Pope, and the remedy is "easily suppled" (by warning him publicly and solemnly)

    "But why, we ask, in such a case, where the faith is imperiled by the most imminent and the gravest of all dangers … should we await a remedy from a general council, which is not at all easy to convene?  When the faith is so endangered, cannot inferiors of whatever rank admonish their superior with a fraternal correction, resist him to the face, confront him, and, if it is necessary, rebuke him and impel him to come to his senses?"

    2) and that a Council that judges him would be passing sentence "against one who is lo longer pope, nor superior to a council."

    3) and that it requires only the manifestation of pertinacity, which would consist only of a public and solemn admonition.

    "For he who, after a first and second correction, does not return to his senses, but persists in an opinion contrary to a manifest or defined dogma, cannot, by the very fact of this public pertinacity, be excused by any pretext from heresy in the strict sense, which requires pertinacity, but rather declares himself plainly to be a heretic..."

    Jorge just verbatim contradicted defined dogma by asserting that schismatic "martyrs" can be saints.  He's repeated this numerous times and now formalized it by putting their names in the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY.

    In point of fact, a group of Cardinals (though that's nowhere required) publicly admonished him regarding the heresy in Amoris Laetitia.  Bergoglio not only ignored their admonition but doubled down and ordered his letter to the bishops in Argentina confirming the heresy to be published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis.

    Nobody could be this dumb:

    Ballerini holds with Bellarmine that It’s Christ, not a council, that does the deposing.  The council merely supplies the requisite declaration of fact.

    Thus has been explained at least 5x in the last couple pages.
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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #113 on: May 12, 2023, 06:15:34 PM »
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  • Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #114 on: May 12, 2023, 06:16:52 PM »
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  • Nobody could be this dumb:

    Ballerini holds with Bellarmine that It’s Christ, not a council, that does the deposing.  The council merely supplies the requisite declaration of fact.

    Thus has been explained at least 5x in the last couple pages.

    :facepalm:  Unbelievable.

    Of course it's Christ that does the deposing.

    Ballerini explicitly states that no Council is even necessary, just a public admonition and the heretic's persistence in the heresy despite admonitions.

    Ballerini explicitly states that if a Council were convened to judge him, as Bellarmine said, they would be judging someone who had ALREADY been removed from office (obviously by Christ).

    It's mind-boggling that you can read this as saying the opposite of what it actually says.

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #115 on: May 12, 2023, 07:38:06 PM »
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  • :facepalm:  Unbelievable.

    Of course it's Christ that does the deposing.

    Ballerini explicitly states that no Council is even necessary, just a public admonition and the heretic's persistence in the heresy despite admonitions.

    Ballerini explicitly states that if a Council were convened to judge him, as Bellarmine said, they would be judging someone who had ALREADY been removed from office (obviously by Christ).

    It's mind-boggling that you can read this as saying the opposite of what it actually says.

    Nope, as Bellarmine explicitly states, per  JST, he is only removed from office ipso facto once his heresy is declared.

    Whatever ambiguity you try to create, I’ll keep bringing it back to that until/unless you can prove JST has 

    1) misunderstood Bellarmine (not at all likely)

    or as you defamatorily stated earlier

    2) Can prove he deliberately falsified Bellarmine’s position (even less likely).
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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #116 on: May 12, 2023, 07:57:11 PM »
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  • As I’ve said before, it’s both: the heretic is ipso facto removed from the office and can be “not listened to” - one of the sources quoted said this - but for the sake of the Church he needs to be removed materially, and hence some declaration by a united opposition to his heresy by the bishops and other hierarchs is necessary . . . 

    Or else, he keeps messing with the liturgy or sacraments, the teachings, the catechism, making other heretics cardinals, deceiving the millions into perdition - the opposite of what the Church had done under its commission through the Church age of the spread of the Gospel.

    Sounds like the prophesied anti-Gospel, the anti-Christ , the Great Apostasy of 2 Thessalonians 2.

    Just as God and his prophets and apostles revealed through the Scriptures.

    Behold, He told us before.
    Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins" 

    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #117 on: May 12, 2023, 08:54:12 PM »
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  • Titus 3:10-11

    10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: 11 Knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.






    Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram R. P. Cornelii a Lapide, In epistolas divi Pauli

    Commentarius In Epistolam Ad Titum

    Page 339



    https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=h4cQvn00NBEC&pg=GBS.PA338



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    Loquitur enim Apostolus de hæretico non pertinaci et formato , sed eo , qui ex ignorantia aut mala instructione errat , et sectam errantium sequitur ; vel de quo dubium est , sitne pertinax , necne . Hic enim corripi et instrui debet , primo lenius , secundo durius et fortius ; quod si sic monitus contemnit , ostenditque se pertinacem , vitandus est , et non corripiendus : correptionis enim nullus erit fructus.



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    "the apostle speaks of a heretic, not of a stubborn and formed one, but of one who goes astray from ignorance or bad instruction, and follows the sect of the erring; or about which there is a doubt, whether he is persistent or not. For here he must be rebuked and instructed, first gently, secondly harder and stronger; that if he thus despises admonition, and shows himself obstinate, he is to be avoided, and not to be reproved: for there will be no fruit of reproof."




    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #118 on: May 12, 2023, 10:25:12 PM »
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  • What's funny is Burke and his confreres attempted some correcting but here we are years later and His Holiness still hasn't responded (I guess he doesn't like being corrected.).  It's almost like a small group of generals have gathered that say, 'Joe Stalin, you need to come around to your senses.'  Then Joe Stalin asks, "is there anything more you'd like to add before you're all lined up and shot?"  Kind of tough to actually 'correct' a mobster.  Just my opinion...

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    Re: Francis Includes Schismatic Heretics in Martyrology
    « Reply #119 on: May 12, 2023, 11:08:27 PM »
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  • Produce the original Latin of that passage from John of St. Thomas, just to make sure you're not slandering him to further your own agenda.


    It is at the end of the first paragraph on page 138


    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Cw2SL_pmXDoC/page/137/mode/2up



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    Et ideo Bellarminus, et Suarez censent Papam hoc ipso quod est haereicus manifestus,& pro incorrigibili declaratus, a Christo Domino immediate deponi, non ab aliqua authoritate Ecclesiae.
    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.