Pope Innocent III taught "in Sermo IV... that the Matrimony can only exist between Legitimate persons... therefore, by the Sin of Infidelity, the Spiritual Matrimonial Union between the Roman Pontiff and the Church would cease to exist; and thus the heretic... would cease to be Pope"
Theologian and Fatima expert Fr. Paul Kramer showed that Pope Innocent III taught "in Sermo IV... that the matrimony can only exist between legitimate persons... therefore, by the sin of infidelity, the spiritual matrimonial union between the Roman Pontiff and the Church would cease to exist; and thus the heretic... would cease to be pope":
Innocent explains at some length in Sermo IV. «IN CONSECRATIONE PONTIFICIS», that the matrimony can only exist between legitimate persons (solus consensus inter legitimas personas efficit matrimonium), and therefore, by the sin of infidelity, the spiritual matrimonial union between the Roman Pontiff and the Church would cease to exist; and thus the heretic, no longer a legitimate spouse, would cease to be pope, and could therefore be judged by men. Thus he explains:
For reason of fornication the Roman Church could dismiss the Roman Pontiff. I do not mean carnal fornication but spiritual; and since it is not carnal but a spiritual union, that is because of the error of infidelity; because « he who does not believe has already been judged (John iii) : » and in this article is understood what is read in the Gospel, which you have heard: «You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt should lose its savour wherewith shall it be salted? (Matth. V.) »[92]
The reason for this, he explains in Sermo II, “Faith is so necessary for me, that while I have God alone for a judge; but for committing the sin against faith, I can be judged by the Church, because he who does not believe has already been judged (John3: 18)”[93]
Then in Sermo IV he qualifies more precisely in what manner the Roman Pontiff can be judged by the Church:
“The servant, according to the Apostle, «stands or falls by his master (Rom. xiv). » For which reason the same Apostle says; «Who art thou who judgeth the servant of another?» (lbid.) Whence the Roman Pontiff has no master but God. Who, therefore, should a pope ‘lose his savour’, could cast him out or trample him under foot — since of the pope it is said ‘gather thy case (causa) into thy fold’ [fold of the toga over the breast]? Truly, he should not flatter himself about his power, nor should he rashly glory in his honour and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. I say less, because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged. In such a case it should be said of him: If salt should lose its savour, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under-foot by men.”[94]
By “cast out”, Innocent means “deposed”, and by “trampled underfoot by men, “despised by the people”: (mittatur foras, id est ab officio deponatur: et conculcetur ab hominibus, id est a populo contemnatur).[95] This doctrine is the basis for what St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice lib. ii cap. xxx. [https://akacatholic.com/heresy-of-conciliarlism-kramer/]
Pray an Our Father now in reparation for the sins of Francis's Amoris Laetitia.
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Francis Notes:
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
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