Purification rather than destruction of the papacy
19 January 2020
In our letter on the primacy of the Pope, we wrote about a reality that dogma did not foresee – what happens when a manifest heretic and apostate becomes Pope. The dogma then either does not apply, or it applies supposing that the heretical Pope is ipso facto excluded from the Church, that is, he is no longer a Christian, and not at all the Pope. Thus it follows from the Dogmatic Bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio (1559).
The situation in the Church these days is that the Papal Office is illegitimately occupied by Bergoglio, a manifest heretic and apostate! The episcopate, clergy and people are like hypnotized under the influence of the papal dogma of infallibility, and therefore they are unable to expel the invalid Pope or to separate themselves from his public apostasy. Auxiliary Bishop Schneider presents erroneous theories that even if the Pope was the greatest pervert or heretic, he must by no means be deprived of his papacy. This view leads to the spiritual suicide of the Catholic Church.
The dogma of papal primacy and infallibility also includes the requirement that we should “have unity of action with the Pope”. History has proved that it is not possible! Quotes from the book “The Popes” by ThDr. Josef Gelmi (Brixen, 1988):
Sergius III (904-911)
Pope Sergius made short work of his predecessors Leo V and Christopher. He ordered the murder of both of them. Sergius’ ties with the senator Theophylact, his wife Theodora and their daughters Marozia and Theodora the Younger aroused public outrage.
John X (914-928)
Marozia had Pope John imprisoned and apparently strangled. Gregorovius wrote: “Theodora gave him the papal crown and Marozia took from him both the crown and his life.” The papacy was left entirely at the mercy of the Roman patrician Marozia. Many historians speak about pornocracy, or the rule of prostitutes.
Leo VI (928)
He apparently owed his election and installation to Marozia who also had his whole pontificate under strict control.
Stephen VII (928-931)
After the short pontificate of Leo VI, Marozia appointed Stephen VII as his successor. This Pope likewise depended entirely on her.
John XI (931-935)
Power-hungry Marozia did not hesitate to make her own son Pope under the name John XI. Her second son, Alberic, could not look at their mother’s behaviour, stirred up a rebellion and had his mother and the Pope put in prison, where John XI died.
Alberic elected Pope Stephen VIII (939-942) and then Pope Marinus II (942-946). Marinus was completely dependent on him.
John XII (955-964)
Shortly before his death, Alberic forced the Roman elite to swear a solemn oath at the tomb of St Peter that they would declare his eighteen-year-old debauched son Octavian Pope. In 963, however, Emperor Otto convened a synod and had John deposed for murder, perjury, sacrilege, simony and immorality. Leo VIII became the new Pope.
When the Emperor left Rome in 964, the escaped Pope John XII returned and deposed Leo VIII. He took cruel vengeance on all his opponents. Cardinal John had his nose, tongue and fingers cut off. Bishop Otger of Speyer was scourged. According to Liudprand of Cremona, John XII died of heart failure whilst enjoying an adulterous sexual encounter.
John XIII (965-972)
He was probably the son of Theodora the Younger, Marozia’s sister.
Benedict VI (973-974)
After the death of John XIII, the Romans elected Pope Benedict VI with the Emperor’s consent. But as soon as Emperor Otto died in 973, Crescentius the son of Theodora the Younger stirred up an insurrection in Rome. Benedict was deposed, thrown into the Castel Sant’Angelo and strangled to death on the orders of Boniface VII, who became Pope in the meantime.
Benedict VII (974-983)
After Boniface VII murdered Benedict VI and fled to Constantinople, the Romans elected Pope Benedict VII under the influence of the Emperor.
John XIV (983-984)
After the death of Benedict VII, Emperor Otto II elevated his archchancellor and bishop Peter of Pavia to the papal chair. He took the name John XIV. Callous Boniface VII took advantage of the death of Otto II in 983, returned from Constantinople, arrested the legitimate Pope and had him die either from starvation or poison in the Castel Sant’Angelo.
Boniface VII (984-985)
The papal throne was usurped by a pure criminal. Crescentius had him elected as early as June 974. Immediately afterwards, he had Benedict VI strangled to death in the Castel Sant’Angelo. After the Emperor’s death in 983, he returned from Constantinople and deposed John XIV who then died from starvation or poison. Similarly to Sergius III (904-911), he is responsible for the deaths of his two predecessors. After one year, he was deposed and murdered. His dead body was dragged through the streets of Rome and his contemporaries referred to him as a monster.
John XVII (1003)
John XVII was nominated to the papacy by Crescentius III, a Roman noble. The Pope died the same year.
John XVIII (1003-1009)
John XVIII was also subordinate to Crescentius.
Sergius IV (1009-1012)
Again it was Crescentius to whom Sergius IV owed the papal crown.
Benedict VIII (1012-1024)
After the death of Crescentius, the counts of Tusculum, descended from Theophylact, managed to seize power in Rome. They elected Pope Benedict VIII.
John XIX (1024-1032)
John XIX, the brother of Benedict VIII, became Pope owing to the house of Tusculum. He was a layman and was ordained in all the orders in one day. He was worldly-minded.
Benedict IX (1032-1045)
After the death of John XIX, Alberic III obtained the papal chair, almost belonging to the house of Tusculum, for his own son Theophylactus who took the name Benedict IX. Some historians say that he was only twelve years old and lived an immoral life after he became Pope.
In 1044, a revolt broke out in Rome; Benedict was forced out of the city and replaced by Bishop John under the name Sylvester III. Soon afterwards, Tusculan forces expelled Sylvester and Benedict could return. In early May 1045, he gave up the papacy into the hands of his godfather if he would reimburse him for his election expenses.
Sylvester III (1045)
During the rebellion of 1044, Benedict IX was expelled from Rome and in January 1045, Sylvester III was elected Pope. However, Benedict returned to Rome after two months and expelled Sylvester.
Gregory VI (1045-1046)
He bought the papacy from Benedict IX by offering financial compensation. He himself was in favour of reforms and highly respected the strict reformer Peter Damian. However, Henry III deposed this Pope.
Leo IX (1049-1054)
He started church reforms at last. He was a supporter of the order of Cluny striving for a moral revival of the whole society, and especially of the clergy.
Leo was convinced that the Roman church administration urgently needed a new blood; therefore he summoned some of the most capable men to Rome, among whom was the monk Hildebrand who promoted a reform. With a few morally strong and energetic men, who were not content with half-measures, he started a brave work unprecedented in the whole history of the papacy.
Nicholas II (1059-1061)
Revival circles elected Nicholas II. Contrary to all the customs, the election was held outside Rome and carried out by five cardinal bishops and several reformers. Nevertheless, the election laid the foundations for a rapid rise of the papacy which over the next two centuries had a major influence on European history.
St Gregory VII (the monk Hildebrand) (1073-1085)
At the funeral of Pope Alexander II (1061-1073), the people of Rome exclaimed in the Basilica of St John Lateran: “Let Hildebrand be our Pope!” His election was contrary to the canon law. Gregory VII was a fervent advocate of the Church’s reform.
Although dogma commands “to have unity of action with the Pope” under threat of losing eternal life, it is absolutely clear that we must not follow criminals or perverts occupying the papal throne!
The 10th century, however, was not the only period of decline of the papacy. The decay continued in the Middle Ages with simony and nepotism. Influential families, like the Colonna family and the Medici family, fought among themselves to push through their Popes. Also the period of the Avignon Popes, the dual papacy, and even the period of three Popes, escalated the Church’s decadence.
In the 14th century in Prague, where the Emperor resided at the time, a revival movement started associated with preachers of repentance, such as Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Konrád Waldhauser and later on Master Jan Hus. Master Jan Hus was wrongly condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance (1415) and burned at the stake for heresies he had never proclaimed. The real reason for the death penalty was that he sought a true reform of the clergy. If the calls for reform had been taken seriously, it would have prevented further division of the Church under Luther a hundred years later. But instead of repentance, avarice and extortion was rampant in the Church associated with so-called indulgences and simony. God therefore permitted a schism in the same way as in 1054, when the Eastern Church separated from Rome. In both cases, it was through the great fault of papal abuses and moral decay. God gave the Church an opportunity to be restored through true repentance, which was initiated by saints and personalities related to them. After the Great Schism in 1054, restoration started through the monks of Cluny. Later it continued through St Bernard, St Francis of Assisi and St Dominic. After Luther’s Reformation it was St Ignatius of Loyola, St Alphonsus of Liguori and St Charles of Borromeo who strived to return to the healthy roots. Through lively sermons and spiritual exercises, they led people to repentance and conversion. Many holy monks thus represented the prophetic office. The Church has been built not only on the apostles but also on the prophets (Eph 2:20). They sought to return to the saving faith and to the keeping of God’s commandments. Unfortunately, in the 20th century the post-conciliar spirit of Vatican II also affected religious and caused spiritual and moral decay and apostasy. If today there is hope for even the slightest revival in any religious order, the initiators are silently destroyed.
In 2019, the news came out that pseudo Pope Francis had dissolved a convent of contemplative sisters in France. Because they defended themselves, the case was publicized in the media; otherwise they would have been destroyed secretly and gradually, like many others. Religious who do not want to have problems are now in line with the spirit of apostasy. Monasteries which practise Buddhist meditations or introduce modern psychological methods instead of repentance are set forth as models. Such religious are actually false prophets. Today the so-called spiritual sons of St Ignatius of Loyola make a mockery of him. Among them is the apostate Bergoglio occupying the papal chair. They promote heresies and apostasy with extraordinary activity. They have nothing to do with the Church of Christ anymore. True saints, like true prophets, led the Church to true repentance and spiritual restoration even at the cost of persecution. False religious and heretical theologians are a catalyst for the internal suicide of the Church.
Today, it cannot be expected that restoration will only start after a heretic dies and the people elect a new Hildebrand. Most cardinals today are not influenced by powerful Marozia or the Theophylact or Crescentii families, but they are under the control of another elite which today de facto chooses the Pope and determines the papal and Church policies leading to the self-destruction of the Church. This hidden elite existed in the Church for decades before the Second Vatican Council, but it did not yet have such a strong position as it has now.
John XXIII and Vatican II convened by him indeed caused a radical spiritual change. But it was a change towards self-destruction rather than restoration. This spirit of Vatican II expelled the spirit of repentance and orthodoxy from within the Church and embraced the spirit of heresy and apostasy. In this situation of mass contamination within the Church, a solution is humanly impossible. God’s promise “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it” is true but it only applies to the Mystical Body of Christ, to a little flock of Christians faithful to Christ, and not to the official structure which has betrayed.
The life of some Popes was far below the moral level of a common Christian. Yet in the past, even a debauched Pope did not dare to change the doctrine of faith and morals. This change was only made possible by the Second Vatican Council. By its silence on heresies and by the use of ambiguous terms, it encoded heretical principles of Neomodernism and syncretism in the conciliar documents. In the post-conciliar period, these documents have borne the fruit of mass contamination, which has been reflected in morality too.
For half a century, this heretical spirit through all theological schools has deformed generations of priests, from among whom future bishops have been chosen, primarily those who have fully followed the line of the so-called reform in the spirit of Vatican II. The public apostate Francis therefore only brings to completion this poisoned teaching and poisoned spirit. Unless we truthfully label Vatican II as heretical and the Popes who advocated its ideas as heretics, no restoration of the Church can commence. The official Church structure has already embodied a false gospel, for which reason the Catholic Church is under an anathema according to Gal 1:8-9. Furthermore, this structure has driven out the Holy Spirit and received the spirit of neo-paganism. This suicidal process takes place in the authority of Peter’s keys, so the whole Church is powerless.
The reform presupposes a fundamental thing, namely profound and true conversion and repentance, not only of the episcopate and clergy but also of the faithful. Jesus says clearly, “Unless you repent, you will all perish.” To refuse to accept the truth and reality by chanting pious mantras like “do not insult our Holy Father” or “the Holy See is never wrong” is hypocritical evasion the result of which is the impossibility of rescue.
The solution is not to abolish the office of Peter, as is pursued especially by German pseudo-reformers, but to purify and strengthen it so that it may serve the preservation of faith and morals, thus ensuring a safe way of salvation! This is the most important thing rather than some “ecological conversions” to demons!
Through false obedience and false respect, the papacy is now abused to deceive and manipulate common believers. However, when the Church grave diggers, by exploiting the supreme authority, achieve their goal, they plan to destroy even the papacy as such through so-called decentralization or other suicidal technologies. Their goal is a neo-pagan anti-Church of the New Age. This is already evidenced by the official worship of a pagan demon named Pachamama. Bergoglio himself had this satanic initiation performed directly in the Vatican Gardens, and even in St Peter’s Basilica.
What is the solution today? What does God want from us?
In the first place, true repentance. In the field of intellect, call a sin a sin and a lie a lie, and “believe in the Gospel” (Mk 1:15), and not in heresies! Repentance in the field of morals: “If you live according to the flesh, you will die; if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the body, you will live!” (cf. Rom 8:12-13)
Therefore, it is necessary in your personal life to find time for God and for your soul. To be concrete: make a promise to God to devote one hour daily to interior prayer for at least one year. Motivation: for the sake of conversion and sanctification of your soul and restoration of the Church. Try to stand before God in prayer. Be aware that the reform must start with you! If you have no other possibility to participate in the Divine Liturgy and you hear the priest say “together with Francis our Pope”, then say quietly “anathema” and in this way you will separate yourself from the heretic and his apostasy.
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