
“Not long ago I was in a synagogue taking part in a ceremony. Under Bergoglio’s direction, memorial services honoring deceased Jews have been celebrated in so-called Catholic churches in Argentina every year since 1998. The final candle commemorating deceased Jews was jointly lit by a rabbi and Bergoglio. This Jewish religious ceremony was again dedicated to honor deceased Jews. On NovemBergoglio was the keynote speaker and took active part in a Jewish religious ceremony in the cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alphonsus Liguori, Church Doctor: Verita bella Fede. Alphonsus Liguori, and many other tehologians all teach that a heretic cannot be a pope: “If however, God were to permit a pope to become a notoriously and contumacious heretic he would by such fact cease to be pope, and the apostolic chair would be vacant.” - St. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code of Canon Law) teachers that : if a cleric (pope, bishop, etc.) becomes a heretic, he loses his office without any declaration by operation of law. The Papal Bull Cum ex apostolatus officio of Pope Paul IV teaches that: if anyone was a heretic before the Papal election, he could not be a valid pope, even if he is elected unanimously by the Cardinals. 1325)Ĭan a heretic be a valid Pope of the Roman Catholic Church? “Any baptized person who … obstinately denies or doubts any of the truths proposed for belief by divine and Catholic faith, is a heretic.”(C. Who does not believe all those things taught by the Magisterium of the Church? “By the divine and Catholic Faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written Word of God and in tradition, and those which are proposed by the Church, either in a solemn pronouncement or in her ordinary and universal magisterium, to be believed as divinely revealed.” (Vatican Council I, Denzinger 1792) “Heresy consists in a stubborn denial of truths which have been defined and proposed by the Church as divinely revealed doctrines.” (Canon 1324-1325 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law). Pope Leo XIII (from Encyclical Satis Cognitum:28)

“If anyone holds to one single one of these (heresies) he is not a Catholic.”
