Catholics have recognized and resisted for centuries because few authorities were saints. 

True, but we are not talking about mere sinners.

We are talking about men who worship strange gods.


Fear not! 

Letter of St. Athanasius

St. Athanasius lived in the 4th century and was the bishop of Alexandria in Egypt for 46 years. Banned from his diocese at least five times, he spent a total of 17 years in exile. The famous convert to the Church, Cardinal John Henry Newman, described him as a "principal instrument after the Apostles by which the sacred truths of Christianity have been conveyed and secured to the world."

Often referred to as the Champion of Orthodoxy, St. Athanasius was undoubtedly one of the most courageous defenders of the Faith in the entire history of the Church. If anyone can be singled out as a saint for our times, surely it is St. Athanasius. The following letter of his could, almost word for word, have been written yesterday.

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Letter of St. Athanasius to his flock

May God console you! ...What saddens you ...is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises─but you have the apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle-the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?

True, the premises are good when the apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ...You are the ones who are happy: you who remain within the church by your faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis.

No one, ever, will prevail against your faith, beloved brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.

Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray.

Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.

True, but we are not talking about mere sinners.

We are talking about men who worship strange gods.

I don't think he wants to address this distinction.

Then count yourself blessed and among the few, as I'm sure you do already.  The statistics of 'the fruit' of the Vatican II religion simply shows the almost complete demolition of the Catholic religion - in belief (Real Presence, Contraception, etc.) and attendance (no vocations, pitiful mass numbers across the board). 

The Catholic religion was substituted, per Pope Saint Paul VI, by the Religion of Man and it was organized and carried out by the apostates, heretics, masons, communists, well, you know... they simply aren't the same religion, nor are they meant to be.

You explained that very well. One of the many nails in the coffin for me regarding the novus ordo sect was when Ratzinger stated that Jєωs don't need Christ to be saved. You realize that all this expertise in theology is pretty much worthless because he can't grasp...or basically just dismisses the entire message of the Gospel, which he is supposed to be the supreme authority on earth. And then there is the staggering amount of corruption he either facilitated or just turned a blind eye to, like his predecessor, when it came to the abuse of children.  

We are required to ascent our will to the Magisterium. Even if we don't understand or question it, we are not allowed to show dissent to the Magesterium. We are not allowed to gang up on the pope, when he is using his Teaching Authority (Infallible nor Non-Infallible). When Pope uses his Magisterium (Teaching Authority), it requires our ascent of will.

http://strobertbellarmine.net/believe.html

So, are things like Vatican2, Traditionis Custodes, etc. part of the Magisterium much like official Acts of Holy See prior to Vatican2? 

You explained that very well. One of the many nails in the coffin for me regarding the novus ordo sect was when Ratzinger stated that Jєωs don't need Christ to be saved. You realize that all this expertise in theology is pretty much worthless because he can't grasp...or basically just dismisses the entire message of the Gospel, which he is supposed to be the supreme authority on earth. And then there is the staggering amount of corruption he either facilitated or just turned a blind eye to, like his predecessor, when it came to the abuse of children. 

The Modernist rot entered the womb of the Catholic Church in 1820.That was the year Pope Pius VII rejected the definition and declaration that the Bible reveals an orbiting sun around the Earth, a reading held by all the Fathers. The Council of Trent had decreed if all the Fathers agree on an understanding of Scripture that cannot be challenged or changed. History records that from that time the Bible underwent many changes as a result of modern science, that is heliocentrism, a natural Big Bang beginning, and a natural evolution of everything. Thus a secular story of origins took over from the supernatural. 200 years later naturalism dominates and those who believe in the supernaturalism of the Catholic faith is growing at a pace. A recent poll in Great Britain showed Christianity is now a minority there.

When you know that even the likes of Cardinal Henry Newman and Bishop Fulton Sheen had no problem with the Biblical heresy of heliocentrism and natural evolution, two of many heresies practiced inside Catholicism today, heresies condemned by the early Church Fathers, you can see where that 1820 U-turn led the Church. Pope Leo XIII in his Providentissimus deus said that modern science can correct misunderstood old meanings of the Bible.
Not even St Pope Pius X could see where the Modernism he condemned came from. Pope St Pius X - on the advice of science teacher Cardinal Pietro Maffi - designated Fr G. Hagen S.J. (1847-1930) as director of the Specola Vaticana.  Such was Fr Hagan’s reputation on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1927 that he was visited at the observatory by Pope Pius XI (1922-39) who presented him with a special gold medal. So, what service to astronomy was such that Fr Hagan deserved to be made director of the observatory and get a gold medal from reigning popes?

Such was Fr Hagan’s reputation on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1927 that he was visited at the observatory by Pope Pius XI (1922-39) who presented him with a special gold medal. So, what service to astronomy was such that Fr Hagan deserved to be made director of the observatory and get a gold medal from reigning popes?....“It looks like an amende honorable to the Galileo imbroglio,” says Fr. Rigge in the Creighton Chronicle “that the Pope’s own astronomer should come openly before the world with such a learned work and should even produce two new experiments to prove the fact of the Earth’s rotation. Not that we imply that Galileo was condemned for the sole reason that he upheld this doctrine of the Earth’s motion — for which however he had absolutely no proof whatever — but that we have now one argument more, and one that fully offsets any fault that may have been committed before.”’--- Fr W. F. Rigg, S.J. (Amende Honorable: English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way of disgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offence, or for the purpose of making reparation for any injury done to another, as the walking into church in a white sheet, with a rope about the neck, and begging the pardon of God, or the king, or any private individual, for some delinquency. Imbroglio: An acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding.

‘It looks like an amende honourable  to the Galileo imbroglio,’  adds Fr. Rigge S.J., describing the humiliation with which churchmen of his time viewed the Catholic Church supposedly getting its Biblical and philosophical meaning wrong in 1616 and in Galileo’s trial in 1633. Above we see the Jesuits of the Vatican Observatory, in Pope St Pius X’s and Pope Pius XI’s time, were now, in the name of the Church, hell-bent trying to convince all how Galileo’s science and Biblical hermeneutics were correct.

Then we had Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius XII, within a few months of his election to the papacy, made his first speech to the Academy in which he again praised Galileo. No one in this scientific academy it seems, could put two and two together and see that their astronomers and physicists had long shown Galileo’s heliocentrism was never proven a scientific fact, nor that the evidence since actually favoured the geocentrism upheld by the Bible, the Fathers and popes in 1616 and 1633. Pius XII’s address was named ‘Man Ascends to God by Climbing the Ladder of the Universe,’ which was practically a copy of the name Bellarmine gave his book of 1614, The Mind’s Ascent to God (by the Ladder of Created Things), a book that differed in that whereas Bellarmine’s ladder to God was Biblical, this Pope’s ‘ladder’ adhered to scientism’s Big Bang billions of years of evolving heliocentric steps. Pope Pius XII then gave his talk: 

‘With the joy of knowledge, you, elected geniuses, add the art of the search of truth, and then return to your studies and laboratories, rich in the thought which is the result of having conquered an enigma, so as to add to the admirable treasure-store of science. This is the way of human progress, a difficult avenue to take, marked by the footprints of the most audacious heroes of research from Thales, Aristotle, Archimedes, Ptolemy, from Galileo to Bacon, to Leonardo da Vinci, to Copernicus, to Kepler, Newton, Voltaire, Pasteur, Curie, Hertz, Edison, Marconi and one hundred more names that one could add; and to you who, having received the flame of investigation and knowledge, will pass it on with greater brilliance to even younger heroes, who are not afraid of the stumbling blocks and the risks of the way nor are they fearful of the funereal monuments erected to the glorious souls who have died along its path.’ ---Pope Pius XII ‘ladder’ address to the PAS, 3/12/1939.

Now go count the heretics like Voltaire (friend of Pope Benedict XV by the way), in that talk above? Then, in Pius XII's 1950 Humani Generis he says: '‘36. For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter. In other words the body of Adam could have evolved from a monkey. Note he says nothing of Eve's body that came from Adam according to the Bible. I recall only one evolution theory by an Opus Dei guy who suggested Adam 's embryo in the chosen monkey split producing Eve. Yes, that would work for them.

The courtship between Catholic faith and scientism reached a further low point on November 22, 1951 when Pope Pius XII once again addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The title of the Pope’s address was ‘The Proofs for the Existence of God in the Light of Modern Natural Science.’ With few believing in the immediate creation of all by God anymore, and St Thomas’s teaching that the creative act of God cannot be known or demonstrated by unaided reason now redundant, Pius XII tried to make the Big Bang the new dogma.

‘44. It is undeniable that when a mind enlightened and enriched with modern scientific knowledge weighs this problem calmly, it feels drawn to break through the circle of completely independent or autochthonous matter, whether uncreated or self-created, and to ascend to a creating Spirit. With the same clear and critical look with which it examines and passes judgment on facts, it perceives and recognizes the work of creative omnipotence, whose power, set in motion by the mighty “Fiat” pronounced billions of years ago by the Creating Spirit, spread out over the universe, calling into existence with a gesture of generous love matter bursting with energy. In fact, it would seem that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial “Fiat lux” uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies.’ ---Pope Pius XII.

Now Vatican II carries on from where the popes since 1820 put Sacred Scripture.  On the 7th December 1965 in the Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Here is what the text said:
‘… The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are. We cannot but deplore certain attitudes (not unknown among Christians) deriving from a short-sighted view of the rightful autonomy of science; they have occasioned conflict and controversy and have misled many into opposing faith and science.’ --- Gaudium et spes, # 36.

Here then, in Gaudium et spes, is an accusation, that the Council of Trent, Pope Paul V, Pope Alexander VII and Pope Urban VIII, when defining and declaring the Bible reveals God created a geocentric world, made a grievous error on a matter involving the interpretation of Divine Revelation, and thus were responsible for the ridicule against the Church that ensued thereafter.

Continued next post.

Benedict is the last pope that you could reasonably argue was mistaken in his theological opinions out of good faith and confusion.  And he is still living.  A much stronger case can be made that his resignation was invalid, than can be made that Jorge Bergoglio is not aware of his heresy or that he is confused about what he is saying.

Why have any of these past several "popes" found it necessary to have an opinion on any theological issue, except for maybe UFOS?
Hasn't the church already weighed in authoritatively on every moral question over the last 2000 years a Catholic is likely to encounter?
After the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was settled they should have stuck with just finding virtuous men for the priesthood, education, and works of charity.

The purpose of commentary by the Pope should be in response to new heresies that pop up, as they always will.  They should respond like St. Pius X did, with Pascendi and the Oath against modernism.  Clearly modern popes have not done so, but one could still make a reasonable argument that these popes were in error no by will but by stupidity.  Not the case with Bergoglio.  He’s gone out of his way to make it clear that he knows what he is doing.  If we give tacit approval to a man who is clearly an imposter, that’s on us.  For my part, I will not call that man a pope.