Antipope John Paul II teaches that all the deceased victims of the Tsunami are saved

Heresy of the Week, Week of 1/14/05
By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond
For more see: Heresies of the Week Relating to the Salvation Dogma

Antipope John Paul II, General Audience, Dec. 29, 2004: “The news that continues to arrive from Asia demonstrates the magnitude of the huge catastrophe that has hit India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand in particular…I entrust to the divine mercy the countless persons who have lost their lives.  Let us pray for them all, singing the Our Father together.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 5, 2005, p. 11.)

Comment:  Antipope John Paul II prays for all who died in the Tsunami.  This clearly indicates that he considers that all of them are among the saved.  Most of those who were killed in the Asian Tsunami were Muslims, and many were Hindus.  Catholics cannot pray for those who die as non-Catholics, since those who do die as non-Catholics are lost eternally without any doubt (de fide).  If there is no evidence that a person converted before his death to the Catholic Faith, then he is considered to have died as he lived and cannot have Masses or prayers offered for him. 

Canon 2200.2, 1917 Code: “Positing an external violation of the law, malice in the external forum is presumed until the contrary is proven.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Suppl. Q. 71, A. 5: “Gregory says (Moral xxxiv. 19): There is the same reason for not praying then (namely after the judgment day) for men condemned to everlasting fire, as there is now for not praying for the devil and has angels who are sentenced to eternal punishment, and for this reason the saints do not pray for dead unbelieving and wicked men, because, forsooth, knowing them to be already condemned to eternal punishment, they shrink from pleading for them by the merit of their prayers before they are summoned to the presence of the Judge.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Suppl. Q. 71, A. 5: “Further, the text (iv. Sent. D. 45) quotes the words of Augustine (De Verb. Apost. Serm. Xxxii): ‘If a man depart this life without the faith that worketh by charity and its sacraments, in vain do his friends have recourse to such acts of kindness[prayers and suffrages for him].’  Now all the damned come under that head.  Therefore suffrages profit them not.”

But Antipope John Paul II’s teaching that all who died in the Tsunami are saved (by praying for all of them) is perfectly in line with the fact that Antipope John Paul II holds and teaches that in the Incarnation the Son of God united himself with every man in an unbreakable union, which makes it impossible, according to him, for anyone to go to Hell.  Antipope John Paul II explicitly teaches that this union between Christ and each man lasts forever.

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (# 13), March 4, 1979: “We are dealing with each man, for each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and with each one Christ has united Himself forever through this mystery.”

Antipope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio (# 4), Dec. 7, 1990: “The Redemption event brings salvation to all, ‘for each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and with each one Christ has united himself forever through this mystery.’”

Antipope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (# 53): “We are not dealing here with man in the ‘abstract,’ but with the real, ‘concrete,’ ‘historical’ man.  We are dealing with each individual, since each one is included in the mystery of the Redemption and through this mystery Christ has united himself with each one forever.”

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