Fr. Paul Kramer, Irish priest
“The Catholic may not just sit tight and wait for a future pope to rule on a matter which requires immediate action now. We must distinguish between the false pastors of the false church, and the true pastors of the Catholic Church. Now that the Enemy has taken control of the apparatus of the Holy See, we must denounce and condemn the wolves in sheep’s clothing; from whom the pastor has fled. We must separate ourselves from them; and have no bond of communion with them. Now that the “mystery of iniquity” [2 Thessalonians 2:7] with its “operation of error” [2 Thessalonians 2:10] has taken hold of the reins of power in the Vatican, we must sever all bonds with it, reject its heresies and remain in full communion with the Catholic Church by adhering to her faith, sacraments and discipline.
The command of God is unequivocal: when the abomination of hereay [sic] is set up where the See of Peter had been set up as the light of the world, we must flee from the deadly plague: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you not be partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.” (Apoc. 18:4)
Pope Leo XIII’s prophetic prayer:
‘Behold the Church, the Spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, filled with bitterness and inebriated with gall by the most crafty enemies; who have laid impious hands on all that is most sacred. Where the See of the most blessed Peter and the Chair of the truth, was constituted as the light of the nations, there they have set up the throne of their abominable impiety, so that the shepherd being struck, the sheep may be dispersed.’” (link)
“Although not ex cathedra, Pope Paul IV clearly teaches in Cum ex apostolatus officio, that a heretic simply is not a valid pope; and this teaching is in full conformity with the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, as St. Robert Bellarmine proves (De Romano Pontifice II xxx), that heretics automatically lose office and all ecclesiastical dignity, not by any human law, but ex natura hæresis. Even if it were to appear that a pope has been universally and peacefully accepted as pope; the Catholic faith teaches that if the man is manifestly a formal heretic, he is neither a pope nor a member of the Church.” (link)
“WHY BENEDICT XVI’S RENUNCIATION WAS INVALID
Benedict XVI explains:
1) The munus of the petrine office is twofold — active and passive: ‘Bene conscius sum hoc munus secundum suam essentiam spiritualem non solum agendo et loquendo exsequi debere, sed non minus patiendo et orando.’
1) Active ministry ‘agendo et loquendo’, 2) Passive ministry ‘patiendo et orando’
Both pertain essentially to the papal munus: ‘Bene conscius sum hoc munus secundum suam essentiam spiritualem non solum agendo et loquendo exsequi debere, sed non minus patiendo et orando.’
He expressly retains the passive exercise of the munus, i.e. the passive service of the petrine office: ‘Non porto più la potestà dell’officio per il governo della Chiesa, ma nel servizio della preghiera resto, per così dire, nel recinto di san Pietro.’
On 19 April 2005, Benedict assumed the munus, i.e. the service of the petrine office that is ‘for always’: ‘La gravità della decisione è stata proprio anche nel fatto che da quel momento in poi ero impegnato sempre e per sempre’; and his decision to renounce the active exercise of the ministry does not revoke that: ‘La mia decisione di rinunciare all’esercizio attivo del ministero, non revoca questo.’
It is impossible for the pope to relinquish only the active exercise of the petrine ministry and hand it over to a successor, since that would amount to an attempt to divide an office that is indivisible. Hence, Pope Benedict’s attempt to divide the papacy, according to the formula of the Karl Rahner proposal to reform the papacy by dividing it between two or more individuals; necessarily results in a juridically invalid act, since, the office of the supreme pontiff cannot be divided in the mamner [sic] that the episcopal office is sometimes divided in other diocese between the ordinary of the diocese and a coadjutor with power of governance.
The reason why it is impossible is because the pope, who in virtue of the plenitudo potestatis of his office can deprive an ordinary of his jurisdiction, and hand it over to a coadjotor [sic]; whereas the papal office is indivisible — and therefore the office and its power of governance can only reside fully in one subject who is the Roman Pontiff.
The question of the indivisibility of the papal office is a settled point of Catholic doctrine since Domenico Gravina OP spoke the last word on the question in 1610, which has been unanimous and undisputed since then.
‘To the Pontiff, as one (person) and alone, it was given to be the head;‘ […] – Donenico Gravina OP, in De supremo Judice controv. Fidei et de Papae Infallib. in Decret. Fidei, Morum, etc, quaest. 1, apud Rocaberti, Bibliotheca Maxima Pontificia, 1695-99, tom viii, 392.” (link)
Stefano Violi, Italian canon lawyer
“On February 11, 2013, in full harmony with the tradition of the Church, Benedict XVI declared his renunciation of the Petrine ministry. Concerning the dictate of the canon, however, he declared his renunciation not of the office but of its administration. A renunciation limited to the active exercise of the munus constitutes the absolute novelty of the resignation of Benedict XVI. At the juridical base of his decision is not, then, canon 233 §2 which governs a renunciation of office different from that pronounced by Benedict XVI. The theologico-juridical foundation is the plenitudo potestas sanctioned by can. 331. Precisely in the bundle of these inherent powers is included as well the exclusive power or rather the faculty of freely and irrevocably renouncing all of the powers themselves without renouncing the munus.
Taking cognizance that his strengths were no longer fitted to the administration of the munus entrusted to him, with a free act Benedict XVI has exercised the fullness of power by depriving himself of all of the power inherent to his office, for the good of the Church, without however abandoning his service to the Church; this continues through the exercise of the most eminently spiritual dimension inherent to the munus entrusted to him, which he did not intend to renounce.” (PDF link)
James Altman, American priest
“Neither the Dalai Lama, nor Martin Luther, nor an imam, nor a rabbi can be a pope, because none of them are Catholic. Neither can Bergoglio, because Bergoglio is not Catholic. But don’t take my word for it: again and again. You never have to take my word for it. Saint Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church, drawing upon 1500 years of the deposit of faith of saints and martyrs, such as Saint Tarcisius, who defend the Holy Eucharist unto his martryrdom; such as Saint Charles Lwanga and his companions, who stood up against the king’s homosexual advances and were tortured and martyred as a consequence. Saint Robert Bellarmine, Cardinal and Doctor of the Church wrote, and I quote: ‘a pope manifestly a heretic ceases in himself to be Pope and head in the same way he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church and for this reason can be judged and punished by the Church.’ But don’t hold your breath waiting for any of the 99 vipers Bergoglio has named as a cardinal, like the newest: ‘Heal Me with Your Mouth’ Fernández. Don’t expect any of his cronies to throw him out, any more than the Sanhedrin threw out Caiaphas, who championed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Instead, dear family let us use the brains God gave us and realize, admit, confess: Jorge Bergoglio is not the pope, because Jorge Bergoglio is not Catholic. He is a fraud, he is an impostor, he is a Viper from hell.” (video, 24:35-26:25)
Nick Donnelly, British deacon
“At the present moment, under the usurper Jorge Bergoglio, the papacy has become a mortal threat to the Church if we continue to hold that he is pope
Instead of safeguarding and expounding the [sic] Fidei Depositum Bergoglio destroys the Faith and expounds his own personal heresies
Instead of confirming the brethren in the Faith, Bergoglio attacks, ridicules and cancels the faithful
Instead of calling sinners to repentance and amendment of life, Bergoglio encourages sinners to remain in their mortal sin
Instead of warning of the dangers of paganism and false religions, Bergoglio forbids their evangelisation and conversion
By continuing to call the usurper Jorge Bergoglio pope we are complicit in misleading souls and placing them in danger of the devil and Hell
To insist on calling Jorge Bergoglio pope is an insult to faith and reason” (Donnelly on X, December 27, 2023, here)
Mark Docherty, American blogger
“‘Hence it is (sic) can no longer simply be said that all those in any ‘irregular’ situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace.’ Got that? ‘Can no longer be said.’ [Amoris laetitia 301] What was true in the past is no longer true.” (link)
“Do you pledge loyalty and submission to a man who proclaims objective mortal sin to be a moral good, willed by God? Do you submit? Are you in union with him? How is it that the Standard of Unity can also be the Vector of Schism?”
“Do you see where a false base premise leads? You start out with this (false) thing that you think is true, you are sure of it. So sure of it, that you re willing to take any number of other known truths, even from scripture, and doubt their validity because their validity would violate the base falsity.
If Bergoglio is true pope, you are bound to submit to heresy, in order to be in union with him, in order to be saved. How can that be true?” (link)
“‘I’ve seen a lot of fidelity in these cohabitations, and I am sure that this is a real marriage, they have the grace of a real marriage because of their fidelity’
So according to Francis, public fornication is full of grace and is a real marriage, but chances are your sacramental marriage is not real. This is straight from the pit of Hell. Again, not a lot of nuance here. Not ‘maybe’, not ‘possibly.’ No. ‘I am sure that this is a real marriage’ and ‘They have the grace of a real marriage’. It is flat out heresy, to the point where you have to wonder if the man is so astonished at what he’s already gotten away with, he just can’t resist throwing out bigger and bigger heresies to see if anyone challenges him.
Well, red hats, when will you rise up?” (link)
“This is a battle for the very survival of the Church. Priests will be faced with forced sacrilege in the name of false mercy.” (link)