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Bishop Athanasius Schneider's claim that popes cannot be deposed for heresy which "puzzled" renowned historian and scholar Roberto de Mattei: Rorate Caeli published a follow-up interview with Professor Roberto de Mattei, president of the Lepanto Foundation , in which the esteemed Church historian offers his assessment (full text below). While Professor de Mattei identifies much that is good in Bishop Schneider’s text, he also candidly states, “I’m somewhat puzzled by his statement: ‘ A pope cannot be deposed in whatsoever form and for whatever reason, not even for the reason of heresy .’ Monsignor Schneider denies the possibility of the loss of the papacy, while admitting this thesis has been voiced by great canonists and theologians, like Cardinal Cajetan and St. Robert Bellarmine, in favour of it.” I shared the same sense of bewilderment after reading Bishop Schneider’s assertion that it is (or should be) impossible for a reigning Pope to lose his office, even for her...

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The vacation trip was abruptly ended due a vehicle breakdown in the Tehachapi Mountains so posting will restart as usual.   Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia. Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet. Francis Notes: – Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what mus...

A vacation trip makes it probable that there might be few and possibly no post for a week. All The Catholic Monitor readers will be in my prayers. Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia. Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet. Francis Notes: – Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope...

December 29, 2020 Did Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) say that Francis is a heretic ?   On June 3, 2003 the then  Cardinal Ratzinge r  (and future Pope Benedict) , head of the Congregation for the Faith,  said that the endorsement of  " homosex civil unions"  was against Catholic teaching, that is  heterodoxy : "Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimatization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil...  The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions ." (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Considerations Regarding Proposals to give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons," June 3, 2003) Gloria.tv reported: " Francis made on October 21  his lat...