Open Letter from Professor Seifert: "[A]ccording to the infallible papal teaching of Paul IV and St. Pius V, in my opinion, Francis's appointment of 80% of the cardinals-elect..who might continue to teach Francis's heresies..horrible threat to the next conclave..election of a new pope"
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Urgent intervention concerning the invalidity of the Conclave by Prof. Josef Seifert
"St. Pius V and Pope Paul IV have decreed that all cardinal appointments made by a heretical pope are null and void."
Examine the accusation of heresy brought by Archbishop Viganò, writes Prof. Seifert
Open Letter from
Professor Dr. phil. habil. Josef Maria Seifert
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To His Eminence Cardinal Dean Gian Battista Re
Gaming, April 24, 2025
On the need to examine before the next Conclave the formal accusation of heresy launched by Archbishop Viganò (and supported by many eminent theologians, jurists, and philosophers from around the world) against Pope Francis
Your Eminence, dear Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re,
Very cordial greetings in Christ. I address you, dear and most venerated Cardinal Dean Re, because you alone now hold the authority for an investigation into the accusation of heresy against Pope Francis to take place before the next Conclave.
You hold until the election of the next Pope the highest authority of the Catholic Church, will invite, in union with Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell, the qualified cardinals from all over the world under the age of 80 to elect the new Pope and will be able to determine the date of the next Conclave
I am writing to you with an open letter because of the short time we have left to resolve matters of extreme importance and urgency.
I have discovered through the text J'accuse of Archbishop Viganò two pontifical documents - by the solemn invocation of the See of Peter and their declaration of validity for all time - probably dogmatic and certainly the most authoritative on the question of "heretical bishops, cardinals and popes" by Pope Paul IV and Saint Pius V.[1] These texts seem to me to be of the utmost importance for the Church at the present time.
They solemnly request that the Church carry out an examination of the accusations of papal heresy.
The mere fact of excommunicating an archbishop because he acted exactly as an eminent and holy pope solemnly requested to act in the face of a pope who adhered to heresies before, during, and after his election to the papacy is, I think, gravely wrong and unjust. These accusations should have been examined first, and if they are true, there is absolutely no punishment to be inflicted for making them.
I believe the Church owes it to an excommunicated archbishop and at least four others excommunicated for the same reason, to two popes, and to the faithful to respond to Pope Paul IV's firm insistence that a pope who professes heresy is no longer pope and cannot demand any obedience, as Archbishop Viganò has said, with the important advice that the impropriety of any authority judging a pope does not apply to a heretical pope who merely usurps the See of Peter but, by virtue of his heresy, is not truly pope and has less authority in the Church than any orthodox cardinal or bishop.
The crucial importance of ordering and completing this investigation before the next Conclave is convened lies in the following:
The outcome of the next papal election depends largely on the result of this investigation, for St. Pius V and Pope Paul IV have decreed that all cardinal appointments made by a heretical pope are null and void.
Thus, if the accusation of heresy before, during, and after the election of Pope Francis proves to be true, two-thirds of the current College of Cardinals would be excluded from the Conclave. Therefore, the conclusion of this matter must occur before the next Conclave, otherwise the next papal election will be a priori invalid unless it is first determined whether the greater part of the members of the College of Cardinals are legitimate electors or not, and whether the future Pope-elect belongs to the College of Cardinals or not.
Furthermore, two other strictly related questions must be clarified before the next conclave:
1. whether the changes made by Pope Francis to the rules governing papal elections issued by Saint Pope John Paul II are valid or not (if he were not a valid pope), and
2. whether certain documents of Pope Francis should remain in the Acta Apostolica or be removed from it (as Popes St. Pius V and Paul IV decreed for documents issued by a heretical pope).
Popes St. Pius V and Paul IV decreed and fixed for perpetual times: that all decisions, appointments, and elevations of bishops and cardinals and all writings of a heretical pope be declared null and void.
According to these papal documents and according to natural law, the cardinals chosen by Pope Francis cannot remain electors if the accusation of heresy or apostasy proves to be well-founded.
I address you, dear and most venerated Cardinal Re, because you alone, in union with Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell, now hold the necessary authority for this investigation to take place before the next Conclave.
Since you, dear Cardinal, now have supreme authority in the Church until the election of a new Pope, you could act immediately, determining the members of the jury from among the cardinals appointed by the Popes prior to Pope Francis who would render judgment on the question of the heresy and validity of Pope Francis.
Therefore, I humbly urge you, dear Cardinal Dean, to exercise your authority at this dramatic moment in the history of the Church, and to act on the authority of two Popes who demand such action.
I think that at present you alone could be comparable to Saint Athanasius, who, still a deacon, during the Arian crisis and with a hesitant Pope, was able (despite his two excommunications in the process) to prepare the way for certain councils that condemned the Arian heresy, which, if accepted, would have been fatal to the Christian faith. But the heresy that God wills the plurality of religions, including non-Christian religions, and other heresies attributed to Pope Francis are even more contrary to the true Christian faith than Arianism was.
Therefore, I humbly suggest and implore you to order, before the imminent Conclave, a fair and just examination of the numerous accusations of heresy and (in view of Abu Dhabi's declaration that God willed the plurality of religions since Creation, and the cult of Pasha Mama in the Vatican) also of possible apostasy of Pope Francis.
I believe that by doing so, you could save the Church from a unique confusion, from a historical point of view, of catastrophic proportions.
You would rely on the documents of Paul IV and St. Pius V, both of whom solemnly taught that even if all the cardinals had freely elected the pope, his election would be nullified by the heresies he defended before and after his election.
This has nothing to do with an action against the Church or against the Pope: on the contrary, it is an act of supreme love for the Church and Francis: because IF the accusation of heresy, launched officially and unofficially by high doctrinal and theological authorities against Francis, turns out to be true at the end of a proper ecclesiastical process, the Church will confront the faithful with the truth (and Socrates already said this in the Gorgiasthat no more precious gift can be bestowed upon a person than to free him from error.) The opportunity to free Francis during his lifetime from errors has now been missed, given his death. But if Pope Francis has, as we must hope, revoked all errors in his heart before his death and certainly recognizes them now, condemning them and freeing the doctrine of the Church from them would still be an act of love for Pope Francis and especially for the bride of Jesus, the Church, by freeing her from the immense evil of heresies.
I believe that, if the accusation of heresy is true, a valid official verdict that Francis is a heretic and was therefore not a valid pope, as has been done with regard to several popes before, also posthumously, would be of the greatest benefit to the future of the Church.
Indeed, even if Pope Francis had resigned from his post, as Pope Benedict XVI did, this would not have been enough to heal the terrible wound of a heretical pope, because the destructive elements and poisonous fruits of his pontificate would have remained:
1. The Acta Apostolica will continue to contain uncondemned heresies.
2. Heretical moral teachings such as those expressed in the AL would ostensibly remain official teachings of the Church and would seduce the faithful into committing grave sins.
3. Many other heretical remarks by the Pope that directly contradict the solemn words of Christ and the dogmas of the Church would not be expunged from the corpus of Church teaching, such as:
a. Francis's (private but repeated) "teaching" on the emptiness of hell and the non-existence of eternal punishment,
b. the affirmation of annihilation instead of eternal punishment for incurable sinners, a typical teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses, incompatible with several dogmas.
c. The sentence in the Abu Dhabi Declaration on God's Will Since Creation concerning the plurality of religions (including those that deny the divinity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, redemption by Christ alone, etc.) which is more apostatic than heretical, would not be removed from the Acta Apostolica but would remain prescribed for all bishops and rectors of seminaries throughout the world to teach in seminaries in the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia as part of the preparation of seminarians for holy orders. This apostatic sentence would remain in the eyes of the faithful a "teaching of the Church", but it is in reality not only un-Catholic, even anti-Catholic, but also anti-Christian,which would cause immense harm to faith and morals if it were left in the Acta Apostolica.
3. Furthermore, only if Francis, after the Church has examined and condemned his heresies which are far worse than those of any previous Pope like John XXII, were posthumously declared not to have been the true Pope, could many of the actions taken by the Pope (papal praise and celebration of Reformation Day, statue, stamp and praise of Luther) be considered measures that must be repressed; cult of Pasha Mamma in St. Peter's; blessings of homosexual and adulterous couples, false claim that adulterous and remarried couples can know by their conscience that God wants them to remain in the sin of adultery, rather than follow the perpetual teaching of the Church on marriage expressed in Familiaris Consortio 83 , etc., etc.), could no longer be considered legitimate Catholic actions and teachings, and his documents would no longer be accepted as part of true Catholic teaching.
Consequently, according to the infallible papal teaching of Paul IV and St. Pius V, in my opinion, Francis's appointment of 80% of the cardinals-elect (who, humanly speaking, will be likely to elect a pope who might continue to teach Francis's heresies) will be retracted and will cease to be a horrible threat to the next conclave and the election of a new pope.
For all these reasons, dear Cardinal Gianbattista Re, I implore you in the name of Jesus Christ, his and our beloved mother who kills all heresies, and in the name of St. Joseph, the terror daemonum, to consider whether you might not be called to help free the Church from the evils mentioned.
I ask you on my knees to consider whether God is not calling you, in his name and that of Jesus Christ, to become a human instrument to save the Church from the abyss toward which she seems to be hurtling.
This step seems to me the only right one, and the negative results it could provoke, the actual occurrence of a division in the Church between the Church of Bergoglio and the true Church, would be a much lesser evil than a Church tranquil in disorder plunged into error; in fact, it would be a true blessing because it would lead to a renewal of the true ECCLESIA UNA, SANCTA, CATOLICA ET APOSTOLICA founded on the TRUTH. I am also certain that countless Catholics would welcome this step.
Therefore, dear Cardinal Gian Batista Re, you can imitate, in a weaker and more human way, the glorious Saint Michael and accomplish a human shadow of his fight against the devil in heaven, smaller but, in some respects, of no less value than his angelic action.
I pray that you, dear Cardinal, at this extremely important moment in the history of the Church, may receive the greatest grace of the Holy Spirit and have the full strength of soul that will enable you to undertake the dangerous mission that HE wants to entrust to you, whether it is what I think or something different that you will learn from the Holy Spirit directly in prayer and meditation.
Finally, without a holy dignitary of the Church who preserves the doctrine of the Church from being sullied by papal heresies, I fear that only a direct intervention of Jesus or his blessed mother can save the ship of Holy Church from sinking into an infernal abyss of errors, confusion and destruction, which God has sworn never to allow.
But I think that, as St. Ignatius said, God wants us to believe that everything depends on God, but to act as if everything depends on us . Helped by his grace, let us take the armor of the Holy Spirit and fight the powers of darkness, with Saint Michael and his heavenly army of holy angels, Mary, Queen of all saints, under the protection of Saint Joseph, terror daemonum .
In the love of Jesus who gave his life for the Church and shed his holy blood for all of us, and whom I want to serve with all my heart and as a humble servant in your far more perfect service to Him and the Holy Church,
In Christo Mariaque
Josef Seifert
[1] Curiously, none of the multiple calls for Francis's resignation by different groups of theologians and philosophers, with the exception of J'accuse, cites these two papal documents which are authoritative on the issue of "heretical bishops, cardinals, and popes."
Although I thought "a priori" that such documents must exist and I have been researching them for some years, I owe my knowledge of these two Church documents, probably dogmatic and in any case of crucial importance, solely to Archbishop Viganò.
As far as I know, there is a total (and tragic in the current situation) lack in CANON LAW of concrete application of the teaching of these two popes. But now, after the death of Pope Francis, there is no longer a problem at all, but a clear duty of the Church to investigate whether these accusations of heresy and (in the affirmation that God has willed since creation the multiplicity of religions, including those that deny the most central truths of Christ's Revelation) of apostasy are justified or not.
I will send you my article on this question later .
Josef
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