Sedevacantists just wish to take the easy way out. Rather than deal with the turmoil of the Post V-II era, they just ignore the authority of the Church
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Thank you Geremia for your most excellent response:
According to them, those who appear to many to have authority actually do not because they have lost the faith, so sedevacantists aren't ignoring "the authority of the Church"; quite to the contrary, they uphold this authority as it has historically and properly been exercised.
And the "easy way out"? I wish it were that "easy". Stupid comments like this just get me angry.
I don't think anyone would deny that Francis 1 is a heretic... but whether or not he is the pope depends on whether or not he is formal in his heresy.
Formal means declared heresy. He is currently a material heretic because the matter of heresy is present, and has been present in all conciliar "popes". But he is not a formal heretic unless, as Fr Hesse says, he says something like "the catholic church teaches X, but I say ..."
Fr Hesse then adds to this the notion that no one can judge the pope, except God. Yet elsewhere it is thought that if anyone in the church is a heretic, they fall out of the church, and maybe even are excommunicated. So God who is the only superior of the pope, has judged this man, and has by his divine law caused him to be outside the church for his apostasy. Fr Hesse's arguments seem to be based on attributing more weight to some teachings and deeming others to be irrelevant. It is thought that a heretic cannot be pope, because they are not part of the church. This is how the church defends itself from heretical claimants to the papacy. I don't see why this teaching suddenly ceases to apply today when it applied in the past.
Bergoglio has expressed his heresies with words, therefore he declares his heresy, he declared something different than Catholic doctrine to be the case, and he does this with virtually everything he says.
If he was a material heretic only, like Benedict going into ѕуηαgσgυєs and Jp2 in the mosque kissing the Koran, then he would need to defend his actions with words before he becomes a formal heretic.
He has formally said that he believes in a God other than the one known by the Catholic church, "I believe in God, but not a Catholic God".
This is one example of formal heresy, and is apostasy.
He is definitely, absolutely, incontrovertibly, with a doubt, NOT the pope, because he is a heretic and an apostate.
Also, he has not been challenged by the cardinals because many of them are freemasons, and this is a fact that they freely admit and don't bother to hide.
Anyone who would rely on the upper hierarchy of the Vatican church to depose Francis 1 is not looking at the facts. These people admit to be freemasons and go to their lodges and are listed as members of lodges on freemason websites. They are in those positions exclusively to erase what is left of Catholic doctrine because as the famous freemasonic lodge the Alta Vendita stated: Our mission is not just the destruction of the church, but the eradication of the Christian ideal.
Francis is an enemy to every Catholic, and his claims of humility and his utter stupidity don't excuse him. Just because he was elected by freemasons and wears white does not mean he is the pope. The church is not tied to any particular place.
The true faithful must break away and when our numbers are large enough, elect our own pope.