Catholic Church and Pope Francis or sedisvacantism

Sermon for April, 28th, 2024 - translated from German into English with DeepL.com (free version)

The video, recorded on April, 27th, 2024, has the original German text.

Here the completely automatic translation into English, only made by DeepL.com (free version):

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"Pope Francis has described sedevacantists as "mushrooms" in the Church. This group and other critics from the traditionalist environment would deliberately misinterpret his statements, said the head of the Church in an interview with the management of the Spanish news portal "Religión Digital". Its editor-in-chief José Manuel Vidal told katholisch_de on request on Thursday that Francis had described these critics as "sad people" at the meeting the previous day in the Vatican. "They carry sadness in their hearts, I have compassion for them," were the Pope's words. ... In the half-hour conversation with the Spanish journalists, the Pope called on them to continue to pursue the ecclesiastical reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). "Keep fighting, don't lose heart," said Francis. "Vatican II was a direct hit for the Church and has done us a lot of good. It was necessary and not all of its decisions have yet been implemented."

The official German portal of the group of the so-called "Second Vatican Council" reported this on March 14, 2024. And on April 25, 2024, the same portal followed up with the article "The "doctrine" of the empty papal chair: The world of sedisvacantism". It states: "How seriously should sedevacantist movements be taken? Even if they are very small in number and their positions only elicit a tired smile at best from many Catholics, their theses can at least be appealing to some believers in times of rampant conspiracy theories in society - especially in a phase in which the Church is struggling fiercely to chart its course into the future."Sedisvacantists are therefore "mushrooms", "sad people" who "at best evoke a tired smile".Well, Christians are already explicitly called upon in the New Testament to apologize, to defend the faith.Defending the faith, apologetics, fundamental theology is part of the church's constant task, and Catholics have also publicly and extensively carried out this defense in recent decades with regard to the group of "Vatican 2".Today's Catholic Church is only a microscopically tiny splinter group in the gigantic mass of sedisvacantists.Sedisvacantism is merely the statement that there is currently no pope.Catholicism, on the other hand, encompasses all the beliefs of the Catholic Church.The Catholic Church is the community of those who are united in the true faith.

The Catholic Church is the community of those who are united in the true faith, in the true sacraments and under the rightful pastor. There is no one who seriously considers the V2 group to be the Catholic Church. However, almost nobody is seriously concerned with the teachings of the Catholic Church, and that is the necessary condition for the existence of the V2 group.The anti-sedevacantist text also states: "Although sedevacantists claim to be true Catholics, from the Church's point of view they are in schism because they refuse to obey the Pope.Their theological and canonical argumentation also raises a whole series of questions.For example:How can the popes have become heretical after the Second Vatican Council, even though they did not deny any church dogma and did not claim to elevate anything to dogma in the first place?As bizarre as the views and groupings may seem - sometimes sedevacantist theses seem to catch on even with believers who want nothing to do with such currents."Anyone could and should be able to immediately see through and untangle this tangle of sheer lies that are misleadingly linked to true statements.But practically everyone is too lazy, too cowardly or too evil to do so. Once again the core sentence of this V2 text:

"How can the popes after the Second Vatican Council have become heretical, even though they did not deny any church dogma and did not claim to elevate anything to dogma?" So: Catholic sedevacantism does not claim that "popes became heretical after the Second Vatican Council". Instead, Catholic sedevacantism proves that the so-called "Vatican II" contains heresies. The dogma of the Church's necessity for salvation is explicitly and unequivocally denied there:According to V2, non-Catholic communities are "means of salvation" (Unitatis Redintegratio 3).This core heresy is omnipresent in the life of the V2 group: so-called ecumenical services, interreligious prayer meetings, etc.The Rotarian Jorge Bergoglio, pseudonym Pope Francis, mocks divine revelation in the 90-second video "Interreligious Dialogue".The heretical V2 statements are the statutes of the V2 group.Anyone who professes "Vatican 2", even if only through mere V2 membership, is therefore automatically a heretic and as such excluded from the Church.

The V2 group is a heretical sect, i.e. it does not possess the characteristics that are essential for the Church according to dogma: united, holy, catholic and apostolic. So it is simply an absolute lie that the visible leaders of the V2 group have not denied any dogma. Once again: anyone who professes V2 is a heretic, because he denies the dogma of the Church's necessity for salvation, he denies the dogma of the holiness of the Church, he denies the holiness of God. To save the V2 group's honor, however, it must be admitted that it is permanently radically mendacious and that it is permanently guilty of the most serious contradictions.For example, the German V2 group declared an orthodox priest to be a heretic in a criminal trial.The priest can be sentenced to four years in prison for each individual case in which he confesses the Catholic faith.It is also true here:Heretics are not Catholics.And what heresy exactly does the V2 group accuse the priest of in order to justify a de facto life imprisonment?It accuses the priest of not believing the V2 teachings. That is also correct, that the priest does not believe the V2 teachings. But just that: The V2 group has again explicitly stated in its new anti-sedevacantism text that the visible V2 leaders "did not even claim to elevate anything to dogma".

And yes: The priest condemned as a heretic by the V2 group has both explicitly pointed out that not a single concrete dogma is mentioned which he is supposed to have denied, and also explicitly pointed out that there are numerous explicit V2 declarations according to which not a single new dogma was proclaimed by "Vatican 2". So according to V2 logic, it is on the one hand completely impossible to condemn the non-belief of V2 teachings as heretical, and on the other hand, according to V2 logic, it is completely incontestable to condemn the non-belief of V2 teachings as heretical. This is a direct contradiction, a contradictio in adiecto. That is utter madness. That is absolute contempt for humanity.That is Vatican 2.

Admittedly, the priest has often addressed this V2 madness in many publications, in his books and videos. The secular court, which has incontestably confirmed the priest's conviction as a heretic with reference to the V2 judgment, has banned the priest from correcting the V2 lies for safety's sake. This is also intended to prevent the credibility of the judiciary from being questioned. But the priest has massively disregarded the judicial prohibitions for years and has massively broken the punishable regulations. You have to decide:Do you profess the Catholic faith or Vatican 2?If you are handed over to the courts, do you want to confess or deny Christ? Do you choose eternal salvation or eternal damnation? As an aid, as a sign of good will, I would like to conclude by repeating the invitation that Jorge Bergoglio gave when he spoke about the Sedisvacantists: "Keep fighting, don't lose heart!" Amen.

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