At the Recent Fatima Conference the Novus Ordo Clergy called the dogmatic definition of the Council of Florence “horrible”!

Heresy of the Week, Week of 12/19/03
By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond
For more see: Heresies of the Week Relating to the Salvation Dogma

Catholic Family News, Dec. 2003, pp. 20-21: “… I have covered a number of these post-conciliar conferences including New Evangelization Seminars, Rock’n’-Roll World Youth Days, screaming charismatic meetings, and evenings of Jewish-Catholic dialogue.  Yet the most explicit heresy I have ever heard at any of these events came from the mouth of the Belgian Jesuit Father Jacques Dupuis, only a few hundred yards from where Our Lady of Fatima appeared…On the point of ‘outside the Church there is no salvation,’ Fr. Dupuis said in disgust, ‘There is no need to invoke here that horrible text from the Council of Florence in 1442.’”

Comment: A few weeks back we documented how the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima was going to be turned into an interfaith Shrine open to all religions.  At the Fatima conference where that diabolical endeavor was put forward, Fr. Jacques Dupuis called the following dogmatic definition of the Council of Florence on outside the Church there is no salvation “horrible.”

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441-1442, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”

The editor of Catholic Family News, who was present at the conference, reports that Msgr. Guerra (the Fatima Shrine Rector), Antipope John Paul II’s own Apostolic Delegate to Portugal and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima were also present and applauded Fr. Dupuis’ heresy.  Ladies and gentlemen, this means that the man put in charge of Our Lady’s shrine by the Vatican II sect, as well as the Bishop over the territory, applauded the aforementioned speech!  This is the Church of John Paul II!  Does one need to say any more?  The crowd in attendance also applauded the speech, which speech, besides calling the above truth of divine revelation “horrible” (and therefore calling God a liar for revealing this truth), was filled with apostasy and heresy throughout. 

But what is particularly horrible (no pun intended) is that the editor of Catholic Family News, John Vennari, who did some good reporting on this incredible heresy, still isn’t convinced that the aforementioned apostates (Fr. Jacques Dupuis; Msgr. Guerra; Antipope John Paul II’s Apostolic Delegate to Portugal; and the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima) are even heretics who are outside the Catholic Church!

John Vennari, Catholic Family News, Dec. 2003, p. 25: “… We can conclude that Father Jacques Dupuis, Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo of Lisbon, Bishop Serafim.. and Fatima Shrine Rector Monsignor Guerra have promoted Modernism and are therefore sinners against the Catholic Faith and also common perjurers.  It is a crime against God and justice that these men should hold authority in the land of Portugal where Our Blessed Mother appeared.’”

Mr. Vennari says that these men have promoted Modernism and are “sinners against the Catholic Faith,” but avoids saying that they are heretics who are outside the Church.  He explicitly says that they “hold authority in the land of Portugal where Our Blessed Mother appeared.”  What will convince him that these people are not Catholics?  To maintain the Faith, it is not enough to oppose these incredible abominations, heresies and outright idolatries, if one still affirms communion and faith with these men.  To affirm communion and faith with such men is to deny the Faith by mixing Fatima with apostasy, by saying that one can be an apostate and hold the authority of the Church of Christ in Fatima.

One cannot oppose this apostasy and stand for Catholicism if one shares communion with non-Catholics and a non-Catholic sect.  This is why one must recognize that the whole hierarchy of the Vatican II sect – from Antipope John Paul II to his apostate bishop in Fatima, to his apostate bishops in America – does not constitute the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, but constitutes the hierarchy of the non-Catholic/Vatican II sect, the counterfeit church of the last days (a.k.a. the great harlot).

Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 129: “Wherefore, since outside the Catholic Church there is nothing perfect, nothing undefiled… we are in no way likened with those who are divided from the unity of the Body of Christ; we are joined in no communion.”

Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, Dec. 18, 1208: “By the heart we believe and by the mouth we confess the one Church, not of heretics, but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside of which we believe that no one is saved.”

For more see: Heresies of the Week Relating to the Salvation Dogma