As far as Padre Pio is concerned, he only "knew" things to the extent that God gave him to know them. Had God revealed to Padre Pio the illegitimacy of Paul VI, Padre Pio's coming out with it could have averted the crisis in the Church. And God has allowed the crisis in the Church to happen for a reason. He did not want Padre Pio to avert it.
Even supposing that such a great authority like Padre Pio would have called him an anti-Pope because an Angel revealed it to him. It can never be based on private revelation, but on the public deposit of faith. I have always said this to those close to me that none of these things I say (Sv'ism or even back in the day during my sedeplenist days) are NOT based on supernatural revelations from Our Lord/Angels/Our Lady, but mainly Catholic magisterial teaching, the way which God wanted us to learn. Obedience to the teaching authority of the Church is obedience to God, the only difference is we must make the distinction that which is authentically from our lawful pastors and the wolves who seek to destroy us.
This is what St. Vincent had repeated several times, especially when he publicly deposed Pedro de Luna, anti-Pope Benedict XIII for being a schismatic, because of his refusal to step down for the good of the Church. This is the important distinction that St. Vincent had made that we cannot ever come to these conclusions through private revelation. Anyone that is familiar with how often even the Saints were deceived through supernatural revelations and visions, read St. John of the Cross (The Mystic Doctor). Even if you are certain that the private revelation is truly from heaven, there is no absolute way of knowing how to interpret it. Think of St. Francis when he heard from Our Lord, "Rebuild my Church" and he went to his local Church with a hammer :roll-laugh2: to start repairing the Church because it was worn down. That is the problem with the premise of Nishant and I hope that he can be able to see just how flawed his thinking is. "If Padre Pio does not know, then no one else can know much less any of you."
Ladislaus made a good point, and it is clear that God reveals to his Saints only certain facts for the good of other souls, never for their own benefit. Anything that had to deal with their own lives with extreme rare exceptions the Lord would never illuminate their minds on these matters. Some Saints prophesied the day and the hour they would die for example, St. Therese of Lisieux prayed to God to reveal the state of her Father's soul etc... With very rare exceptions because the Lord knows of the purity of their intention and it would not impede the road to their salvation. Reminds me of the story of St. Pius X and the maid who stole his socks to put them on someone she knew was sick, having great faith that the Lord would heal that person if she did that. Sure enough, she took the socks put them on to the person she had in mind and she was cured! St. Pius X responded that his feet hurt despite him wearing those socks every day
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The difference is in his vocation he was a contemplative religious (Padre Pio) that desired to be a missionary, but God had other wonders for him. Now look at St. Vincent Ferrer who was among many other great theologians the ones that helped shorten the crisis of the Great Western Schism. Now what is interesting St. Vincent could have simply asked heaven for the answer to the GWS and he did pray very much for illumination, but he nevertheless never ceased studying and looking back to the Magisterium as the SOLE source of his guidance. Not any pseudo or true prophets or revelations or whatever else you have in mind. None of these things stand alone on their own without the teaching authority of the Church, such is the way that God has set up his Church to have men rule over it and there is no other way around it.
The Padre Pio argument falls short and is a very weak argument because it leads to greater dangers which is very prevalent in the conservative crowd that jump up and down at every single "modern prophet of our days." The stuff I have heard from some older friends and the ideas they hold... I will later post some of these different revelations. Even the elect will be deceived rings in my ears... Some of the most holy and best Catholics I know have fallen into many of these traps. So don't ever underestimate the astuteness of the enemy and how deeply he has sowed cockle in our fields.
+Caritas et veritate+