PopeWatch: Deviations From The Magisterium
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The PDF is available in English at a sublink located here:
https://en-denzingerbergoglio.com/
I don’t need a 1095 page analysis to tell me that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an heretical Marxist Peronist Caudillo who must be deposed and anathematized into solitary confinement within a cell at a monastery on Mount Athos in Greece to contemplate for the rest of his useless, worthless life the great harm he has done both the Church and the world.
Where is St. Paul, who would confront Peter “to his face”?
Pope Francis.: Fix it
The relevant sections of the 1983 Code of Canon Law:
Can. 331 The bishop of the Roman Church, in whom continues the office given by the Lord uniquely to Peter, the first of the Apostles, and to be transmitted to his successors, is the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ, and the pastor of the universal Church on earth. By virtue of his office he possesses supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power in the Church, which he is always able to exercise freely.
Can. 332 §1. The Roman Pontiff obtains full and supreme power in the Church by his acceptance of legitimate election together with episcopal consecration. Therefore, a person elected to the supreme pontificate who is marked with episcopal character obtains this power from the moment of acceptance. If the person elected lacks episcopal character, however, he is to be ordained a bishop immediately.
§2. If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone.
Can. 333 §1. By virtue of his office, the Roman Pontiff not only possesses power over the universal Church but also obtains the primacy of ordinary power over all particular churches and groups of them. Moreover, this primacy strengthens and protects the proper, ordinary, and immediate power which bishops possess in the particular churches entrusted to their care.
§2. In fulfilling the office of supreme pastor of the Church, the Roman Pontiff is always joined in communion with the other bishops and with the universal Church. He nevertheless has the right, according to the needs of the Church, to determine the manner, whether personal or collegial, of exercising this office.
§3. No appeal or recourse is permitted against a sentence or decree of the Roman Pontiff.
There are substantial limits on Papal Power.
Cardinal Newsman’s comments on the limitations of papal infallibility remain prescient:
http://catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/vatican2/newman.html
Four cardinals did confront Francis to his face, but he turned away. And a hundred blogs do it every day. Peter learned; Francis is happy in his errors.
Don:
All of those limitations, as with those stated by Benedict, would be great if they were stated somewhere in the magisterium of the Church. They aren’t. Sure, they are attested to by fine, sometimes even saintly, theologians. But the magisterium is barren of such. So off the pontiff runs.
The unaccountable nature of the papal office is something Rome is going to have confront sooner rather than later.
Agreed Dale, but many of the limitations are limitations just by the nature of things. A monarch may be absolute in theory but rarely is so in practice.
John chapter 10 cannot be overturned. By the heresies from his own mouth – 1095 pages worth of heresies – Bergoglio is NOT the good shepherd. NOT!
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