JPII taugh the heresy of Jovinian, who said married life and virginity were equal states: first the heretic:
Jovinian was a heretical priest and monk of the fourth century. St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and, above all, St. Jerome, fought his heresies:
"From Jovinian, a certain monk, comes this heresy which has arisen in our age, while we were still young men. "
Among others, he maintained these heresies:
1. Virginity and matrimony are of equal value and are equally meritorious in the sight of God:
"Virgins, widows and married people, once they have been regenerated in Christ, if they do not differ in their other works, have equal merit".
St. Augustine reports that Jovinian
"attributed to conjugal chastity the same rank as that of virgins consecrated to the Lord".
Jovinian he says urged nuns to enter matrimony with this argument:
"Are you, virgin, greater than Sara and than Susanna and than Anna?"
And if the Christians exalted virginity above matrimony, Jovinian used to accuse them of Manichaeism:
"Jovinian, who has endeavoured for several years to establish a new heresy, affirmed that the Catholics were supporting the Manichees because, against his opinion, like them, they put holy virginity before matrimony."3
Note that to accuse Catholic morality of Manichaeism is nothing new: it is a myth invented by Jovinian in the fourth century.' Cf. in this regard footnote 32 and the corresponding text.
I. Jovinian, "the first Protestant" (Harnack):-
i. equated matrimony with virginity: "That is the heresy of Jovinian." (St. Thomas)
ii. 'maintained that Catholics favoured the Manichees, because (...) they preferred holy virginity to matrimony." (St. Augustine)
iii. his doctrine was qualified as "a horrifying docuмent" and condemned as "a new and blasphemous heresy" in 390 by Pope St. Siricius.
II. Virginity - Superior to Matrimony...
i. "Matrimony and virginity are undoubtedly two good things, of which the second is greater." (St. Augustine)
ii. Without any doubt virginity must be preferred to conjugal continence." (St. Thomas)
iii. Virginity (...) is, as it were, an angelic state of life. It is a state which, by its excellence, is superior to matrimony." (Pope Pius XII)
iv. "Matrimony is good, but virginity is better; the state of matrimony is honourable, but more exalted is - as the Gospel itself bears witness - the state of virginity." (Pope Pius XII)
III. It is a Dogma of Divine Faith.
"This doctrine, which affirms the advantages and excellencies of virginity and of celibacy over matrimony":-
i. is "a traditional doctrine of the Church".
ii. it was revealed by Our Divine Redeemer and by the Apostle of the Gentiles ("the Church has received the principal points of her doctrine concerning virginity from the very lips of her divine spouse "
iii. it was always declared, with unanimous agreement, by the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
iv. "in the holy Council of Trent it was solemnly defined as a dogma of divine faith." (Pope Pius XII)
"If anyone should say that the married state should be preferred to the state of virginity or of celibacy and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity or celibate than to be united in matrimony, let him be anathema." (Council of Trent; Denzinger 980.)
Now JPII:
Catechesis in the General Audience of Wednesday 14th April 1982.
"Let us now continue our reflections of recent weeks on the words about continence 'for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven' which, according to the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 19:10-12), Christ addressed to his disciples.
"Let us say once more that these words, concise though they be, are admirably rich and precise; rich with a number of implications both of a doctrinal and a pastoral nature. At the same time they establish a proper limit on the subject. Therefore, any kind of Manichaean interpretation32 decidedly goes beyond that limit, just as the lustful desire 'in the heart' referred to by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5:27-28) also goes beyond it.
"IN CHRIST'S WORDS ON CONTINENCE 'FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN' THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO THE 'INFERIORITY' OF MARRIAGE with regard to the 'body', or in other words, with regard to the essence of marriage, consisting in the fact that man and woman join together in marriage, thus becoming 'one flesh' (Genesis 2:24: 'The two will become one flesh'). CHRIST'S WORDS RECORDED IN MATTHEW 19: 11-12 (AS ALSO THE WORDS OF PAUL IN HIS FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 7) GIVE NO REASON TO ASSERT THE 'INFERIORITY' OF MARRIAGE, NOR THE 'SUPERIORITY' OF VIRGINITY OR CELIBACY inasmuch as by their nature virginity and celibacy consist in abstinence from the conjugal 'union in the body'. Christ's words on this point are quite clear. He proposes to his disciples the ideal of continence and the call to it, not by reason of inferiority nor with prejudice against conjugal 'union of the body' but only 'for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven;".
JPII Is guilty of at LEAST the manifest and notorious Heresy of Jovinianism: Holding Virginity and Marriage as equally pleasing to God. Here is the blatant denial of dogma. His use of the SAME TERMINOLOGY as the heretic Jovinian shows his familiarity with the claims of Jovinian. Therefore, he must have had knowledge of the heretical nature of Jovinian's teaching: Yet he taught it anyway.
Therefore, by publicly teaching heretical matter which he KNEW to be heretical, he publicly defected from the faith. According to the 1917 code of canon law then in place (1982) in Canon 188, Section 4, JPII Tacitly resigned his pontificate and all the rights associated with it (assuming he was even a valid pope to begin with).
Do we need more examples?