Solutions to the crisis of the Church.

 

“The Catholic Church resembles a spring: the more one compresses it,

the more it springs back with vigour” (Church Fathers P.L.)

 

 

The Catholic Church, founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ as a visible and perfect society, necessarily subsists until the end of time, indefectible in its hierarchical constitution and in the conservation of the true faith. The promise of the Saviour — “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew XVI, 18), and again: “Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world” (Matthew XXVIII, 20) — absolutely excludes any defection of the universal Church.

 

However, if the Church is indefectible, nothing prevents a particular Roman Pontiff from losing his charge. The constant doctrine, confirmed by the Code of Canon Law of 1917 (can. 188 §4), teaches that the Pontiff can cease to be pope by death, by voluntary abdication, by madness, but also by public heresy, apostasy or schism. For, according to the axiom of Saint Robert Bellarmine, “a manifest heretic is in no way a member of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30); he cannot therefore be its head.

 

Now, it has been demonstrated that the Second Vatican Council taught doctrines already solemnly condemned as heretical, such as the civil right to religious liberty, the recognition of false religions as “means of salvation”, and common prayer with heretics considered as praiseworthy. These propositions are contrary to the previous infallible magisterium, notably to Quanta Cura of Pius IX and to Satis Cognitum of Leo XIII.

 

By promulgating these doctrines and by imposing them on the whole Church, Paul VI and his successors rendered themselves guilty of public and manifest heresy. Now, according to the bull Cum ex apostolatus officio of Paul IV (1559), “if it should ever happen that a Roman Pontiff should deviate from the faith or fall into heresy, his promotion would be null and of no effect”; and according to canon law, the heretic loses ipso facto every charge and every jurisdiction. The conclusion is therefore necessary: Paul VI and his successors have not been true popes, but usurpers.

 

Some have objected the “Peaceful and Universal Acceptance” (A.P.U.) as a sign of an infallible legitimacy. The rejection by the sedevacantists, true Catholics, and thus the absence of a true Catholic A.P.U. for the conciliar popes, is an additional confirmation of the vacancy of the See.

 

Must one conclude from this that the Church would have failed? No, for indefectibility excludes every defection. Christ, the invisible Head, directly supplies jurisdiction in a period of vacancy, according to the principle of supplied jurisdiction recognised by moral theology (Saint Alphonsus de Liguori) and by canon law (can. 209 CIC 1917). Thus the bishops and priests who have remained faithful to the Catholic faith exercise a supplied jurisdiction in order to teach, to sanctify and to govern the faithful, ensuring the visible continuation of the Church and the survival of the means of salvation.

 

In conclusion, we can conclude with certainty that:

 

The Second Vatican Council taught heresies.

 

Paul VI and his successors, by promulgating them, lost ipso facto every pontifical authority.

 

The Apostolic See is vacant since the public heresies of the “popes”.

 

The Church remains indefectible, governed invisibly by Christ and visibly by His faithful ministers, while awaiting that He grant to His Church the grace of a legitimate Pontiff.

 

This prolonged vacancy, far from signifying the ruin of the Church, manifests on the contrary the fidelity of Christ to His promise. For, even deprived of a current pope, the Church remains a living, visible and hierarchical society, continuing to transmit the true faith and the sacraments, until the day when, according to the ways of Providence, a true Pontiff will be elected to restore the plenitude of visible authority in the Church militant.

 

Let us pray for the total and maximal flourishing of the Church.

 

Holy Virgin Mary, guardian of the Faith, pray for us.

 

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Church, give us good Pastors.

 

Saint Michael the Archangel, deliver us from the snares of the demon and of his satellites.

 

All the Saints and Holy Angels of God, pray for us.

 

I submit all my writings totally to the definitive judgment of the Church.

 

Roma locuta, causa finita.

 

(When Rome has spoken out, the case is closed.)

 

AMDG

 

Your humble servant

 

Abbé Eric Jacqmin+