Today, on 7 July 2016, the Eastern Church celebrates the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. He said to religious leaders: “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? And even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees.” (Mt 3:7) The first call of Jesus was: “Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” (Mk 1:15) And Jesus adds: “Unless you repent, you will all perish!” (Lk 13:3) Every Christian without exception must repent. And not only once in a lifetime but all through life. Whenever one has gone astray from the right way, which is Christ, and committed personal sin, one must make a step of repentance at once, return into the light of Christ’s doctrine and separate from sin.

Divine Providence permitted me, Jorge Bergoglio, to be appointed to the highest office in the Church. Today I repent before God and before the whole Church. First, I confess that my election as Pope was and is invalid under divine and canon law. The Epistle to the Galatians says: “If anyone preaches any other gospel, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1:8-9) The dogmatic Bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio states that if anyone preached heresies and was elected bishop or pope, his election is invalid and, moreover, all his actions during his office are null and void. This fully applies to me. In addition, the cardinals who elected me in 2013 were under an anathema too (https://youtu.be/tNyQWW-gY0c). Therefore, they could not elect a rightful Pope!

In 2010, when I was a cardinal in Buenos Aires, I received an appeal from the Bishops’ Synod of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC). That urgent appeal was sent not only to me but to all cardinals, and in 2010 to almost all bishops of the Catholic Church. The appeal was concrete and public. It concerned clear confession of the faith and renunciation of heresies. The appeal set the condition that in case the person concerned remained silent, it meant that he remained in unity with heresies and refused to repent. I was aware of it but I remained silent. Already at that time, 15 September 2009, it was made public that I was under God’s anathema both before God and the Church (https://youtu.be/fz512AgYEPY). None of the hierarchs concerned dared to disparage these brave orthodox bishops whom God used as a prophetic voice. They informed Benedict XVI about extraordinary circumstances in relation to their Episcopal consecrations in Ukraine and the establishment of a parallel revivalist Catholic branch. The Pope accepted the announcement. He did not even object to the announcement about the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate established by the Synod of the orthodox bishops in Ukraine. He thus de facto approved this prophetic ministry in the Church. Concerning the Chinese bishops, however, who had been consecrated without his consent and appointed by the state, he decreed excommunication upon them.

Later on, he was inspired by the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate which advised him to resign from office. The reason was that he had betrayed the Church by beatifying John Paul II who, among other things, is to blame for an apostatic gesture in Assisi (1986).

As a first step toward repentance, I announce that in the near future I will resign from papacy, too, so that just as Benedict XVI I too may realize my faults, mistakes and sins in seclusion and prepare for the moment when I appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Therefore, I repent before God and before the Church and confess these my errors and sins:

1) It concerns sins I committed when I was a religious superior, then a bishop and cardinal. I abused my office many times. I failed to take a radical stand for restoration of the Church, and I did the exact opposite.

2) Manifest sins and scandals during my papacy concerned, among other things, a triple abuse and profanation of the foot-washing ceremony. I kissed the feet of a transsexual, a Muslim female prisoner, and women involved in the process of Islamization of Christian nations. By this gesture I de facto approved not only homosexualism but also transsexualism, and I was in opposition to the Gospel and the Holy Tradition. I consciously became a tool of the powerful of this world who have given a special worldwide boost to my betrayal, doing harm to the Church and causing the little ones to stumble.

3) I must honestly confess that from the very beginning of my career as a bishop, cardinal and pope I was aware of who promoted me and who abused my character. NWO ideologues knew that I was able to break the barriers which still remained in the Church and which protected Christian doctrine and Christian practice at least to some extent.

For instance, my throwing of a rosary, or wearing it on my ear, or releasing a rock album was intended to throw Catholics off balance little by little, so that they may accept fundamental changes more easily. Shortly after my election I approved homosexualism when, speaking from the position of the Pope, I said about homosexuals: “Who am I to judge them?” This year I added purposefully: “The Catholic Church must apologise to gay people.” Saying this, I diametrically changed the attitude towards the sin of homosexuality and once again I was radically opposed to the Gospel and the whole Christian Tradition. I have thus put Catholics in a situation when they must literally idolize perversion and must not defend God’s laws. I changed the foundations of the Catholic faith and taught antirepentance. If I had introduced this heretical programme before the Council, I would have been publicly deprived of all offices and excommunicated from the Church. The new doctrine I preached destroys the Gospel of Christ, the Apostolic Tradition and the whole Church at the root! I know well the mentality of Catholics, who every time they hear a justifiable accusation of my person repeat the following phrase like a mantra: “Do not offend our Holy Father”, and that was why I dared to write the exhortation Amoris Laetitia. This exhortation totally denies the objective reality of sin as well as objective moral values, and introduces a new, subjective approach as a norm. In fact, I have thus destroyed the foundations and people can no longer objectively distinguish between good and evil, truth and lies. Furthermore, I have thus created the conditions for current autogenocidal gender ideology, which is based on ignoring the reality, to become rampant. So the responsibility for programmed self-destruction of the planet also falls on me and my predecessors who were silent on or even gave silent support to this decadent, heretical and suicidal stream. A hotbed for it was heresies against the fundamental truths of the faith and syncretism with paganism which progressed since Vatican II.

I know the method how to promote all perversion and depravity. The Catholic world and de facto former Christian nations have to take me seriously and have a special liking for positive terms and phrases. I only needed to rhapsodize about love and mercy, compassion for homosexuals and so-called refugees, and I thus paralyzed any opposition of sound-minded people to decadent streams! A 2 million-strong demonstration has been held in Rome recently against adoption of children by homosexuals. I was obliged to stand in defence of innocent children; however, by my stance I supported homosexuality and child abuse. I was well acquainted with the crimes of the juvenile justice system as well as with the aim of this system. I neglected to defend a single victim from among these defenceless children. On the other hand, I gave individual attention to gay people, I telephoned to them, so as to set a precedent for personal contact needed in this respect. I know that it usually results in the spread of this amoral infection and spiritual bondage, and that was also why I was doing it. I held Catholic families up to ridicule and influenced them into being de facto childless when I said that they should not breed like rabbits.

To promote Islamization of Europe is high treason. Nevertheless, I issued a declaration calling every parish, every religious community and every sanctuary to take in a group of Muslims. I thus de facto presented a plan of nationwide Islamization of Europe. I was well aware of the opposition of the vast majority of European population; none the less, on every occasion again and again, even when the bombings continued, I kept promoting this spiritual and physical suicide of Europe and Christianity. The Popes in the past did the exact opposite – they called for a fight to save Europe from Islam.

I revealed in one interview that there was a homosexual lobby in the Vatican. Let me also tell you a secret about them helping me with my career. That’s why I was grateful to them and supported their activities.

My antimissionary motto was: “Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it doesn’t make sense.” “I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God.” Such was my heretical demagogy.

I denied the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of hell: “All the others will participate in the bliss of living in the presence of the Father. The annihilated souls will not be part of that banquet; with the death of the body their journey is ended. There is no punishment, but the annihilation of that soul.” Now I admit that this is heresy.

Jesus said: “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Mt 25:46) but I denied these words in the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia when I said confidently: “No one can be condemned for ever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel!” I told a lie. I relied on Catholics to take me, the Holy Father, more seriously than Jesus Christ, the Scripture or the Tradition. Do you know why I denied hell? The intention was to make people not fear hell, to cause immorality to spread, and to make people not care about their salvation so that as many of them as possible go to hell.

In February 2016, I commended the leading promoter of abortion in Italy who fought for the legalization of abortion, euthanasia, same-sex “marriage” and drugs. Thus I publicly mocked God’s laws and compromised the Church.

But on the other hand I refused to comment on the adoption of the Italian law on registered partnership “because the Pope is for everybody and he can’t insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country”. This was hypocrisy and betrayal. I was obliged to defend the law of God.

As for the canonization of John Paul II as well as his beatification by Benedict XVI, both are invalid! John Paul II was silent on heresies which spread widely in the Church during his pontificate. The responsibility falls on him. By his gesture in Assisi (1986) he introduced the practice of syncretism with paganism in the Church and thus supported the promotion of the antichristian New Age religion. For this reason he is under God’s anathema. This anathema was made public posthumously by the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate on the day of his pseudo beatification, 1 May 2011.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate also declared posthumous anathema on John XXIII for the heresy of so-called aggiornamento which opened the door to the spirit of the world and to many other heresies in the Church. The beatification and canonization of John XXIII is invalid. John XXIII is under God’s anathema – i.e. excommunicated from the Church – acc. Gal 1:8-9.

Next, I must admit that the recent declaration of the invalidity of the Second Vatican Council by the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate is legitimate, too, and at the same time it compensates for all the evil and chaos caused in the Church by the Council, but above all for heresies contained in the Nostra Aetate declaration. I admit that the Second Vatican Council is invalid! Without this declaration of its invalidity true repentance would no longer be possible in the Church!

Pope Paul VI confirmed the heretical declaration Nostra Aetate. He was placed under God’s anathema therefor. This anathema likewise was made public by the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate.

Beatifying John Paul II on 1 May 2011, Benedict XVI de facto canonized heresies tolerated or promoted by John Paul II. He was placed under God’s anathema therefor. He is still alive; he should repent in public as I do.

I hereby appeal to all Catholic bishops and cardinals to repent! It is necessary to publicly renounce contemporary heresies and to confess orthodoxy – the true faith:

1) Do you renounce historical-critical neo-Modernism and the spirit of atheism behind it?

Answer: (I do.)

2) Do you renounce the spirit of Nostra Aetate and the so-called spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist?

Answer: (I do.)

3) Do you renounce the spirit of gender ideology promoting all forms of LGBTQ sexual deviations?

Answer: (I do.)

4) Do you renounce the spirit of Satanism which is behind mental, sexual and physical abuse of children by the juvenile justice mechanisms?

Answer: (I do.)

5) Do you renounce Satan and demons, especially those which nowadays work through different covert forms of magic, divination and spiritualism (homoeopathy, acupuncture, hypnosis, divination by pendulum…) and the spirit of the New Age?

Answer: (I do.)

6) Do you renounce the spirit of Freemasonry and the NWO which programmes moral, spiritual and physical autogenocide of mankind?

Answer: (I do.)

7) Do you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for you and your sins and rose again on the third day historically and really?

Answer: (Yes, I do.)

8) Do you receive the Lord Jesus as your Saviour and do you commit your life to Him?

Answer: (Yes, I do.)

9) Do you receive the testament from the cross expressed in the words of Christ to the disciple: “Behold, your Mother!”?

Answer: (Yes, I do.)

10) Do you receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit to become a martyr of Christ like the Apostles?

Answer: (Yes, I do.)

Signature _________________________ Date ______________2016 A.D.

Anyone who will reject this particular penance must leave the Church office, which he already holds illegitimately. Bishops should call on all priests and lecturers at theological schools to repent too. The priests and professors who will refuse to repent and – despite the public appeal – continue to promote heresies, persist in obstinacy and impenitence and destroy the young generation of priests. Let them be removed from office and excommunicated.

At the same time, I appeal to Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, who asked me to pray for the eighth Pan-Orthodox Council, to repent in public as well. Let him publicly condemn heresies contained in the document adopted on the first day of the Council in Crete. Furthermore, I appeal to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to do the same and to halt the attempts to perpetrate suicide of the Orthodox Church. He himself knows, as well as I do, that the planned theological dialogues with the Catholic heretical theologians promote heresies and internally destroy the Orthodox Church.

I hereby appeal to superiors of all religious orders of the Catholic Church to become a model of zeal in true repentance which alone can lead to spiritual revival. The majority of superiors have so far promoted homosexualism and heresies. Both lead to the suicide of the Church. The superiors who will not repent are excommunicated from the Church, and they should be replaced by orthodox Catholic and moral religious.

I hereby appeal to all Catholic priests who up to this day mention my name in the Liturgy and are in unity with me, to be united with me in repentance now. I also call on them to stop mentioning my name in the Divine Liturgy, since my papal election was invalid! I appeal to them to repent first of all by renouncing contemporary heresies, syncretism with paganism and false sympathy for homosexualism.

I also appeal to priests to set aside one and a half days a week and to spend this time in a small community of priests, devoting themselves to prayer, the Word of God and fellowship (cf. Acts 2:42). In this way they will create the conditions for receiving the Spirit of God and allow Him to become rooted in their hearts. They will thus become true witnesses of Christ in the present-day secularized society where they are to be the salt and the light of the world.

I appeal to all Catholics who embraced my anti-Christian and misguided attitudes to join me in repentance, to dissociate themselves from them and to seek to follow Christ with a sincere heart. In the first place, I ask them to begin to celebrate Sunday not only in the church but also at home in prayers and also to participate in fellowship with other devout Christians on this day. Let them also pray the holy hour from 8 to 9 p.m. every day, if possible, at least for one year for the intention of a spiritual awakening in their families and parishes.

In conclusion, I confess in penitence again that I committed the heaviest crime, namely, abuse of the highest ecclesiastical authority. Now by this letter, I repent in public and I fully condemn all these sins and spiritual crimes, both named and unnamed herein.

Please pray one “Our Father” and one “Hail Mary” every day for this intention of mine that I may persevere in the spirit of repentance even after leaving the office and that the Catholic Church may see an awakening – spiritual resurrection!

In Christ,

Francis (Jorge Bergoglio)

(Note: Drafted with the help of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate)

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