Proofs that Paul VI, and his Successors
(John-Paul I, John-Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis I,
Leo XIV…) are Heretics
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Definition of Heresy and its Consequences
- Section 2: Vatican II Contains Flagrant Heresies
- Section 3: Paul VI and his Successors have Promulgated and Maintained these Heresies
- Section 4: Refutation of Counter-Arguments
- Conclusion of the Chapter
Introduction
We have seen that according to the immutable doctrine of the Catholic Church, founded on the Scriptures, the Fathers, the Doctors and the ecumenical councils before 1963, heresy is a grave error against the faith which, being public, entails the automatic loss of all ecclesiastical office and, being pertinacious (stubborn, obstinate), membership of the Church.
We shall demonstrate here, by the establishment of the facts and of a logical reasoning, that Paul VI and his successors have manifested public heresies, placing them outside the Church.
The proofs rely on defined dogmas and authentic texts, without personal opinions. The counter-arguments shall be refuted.
Section 1: Definition of Heresy and its Consequences (short reprise, see the chapter on this subject)
1.1. Major: Heresy is the obstinate rejection, after baptism, of a truth of divine and catholic faith proposed as such by the Church.
1.2. Minor: A pope who promulgates documents containing heresies or adheres publicly to them manifests a pertinacity, and he loses his office.
Manifest heretics lose ipso facto all jurisdiction, as Saint Robert Bellarmine explains: “The manifest heretic is in no way a member of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, book II, chapter 30, at the end).
The bull “Cum ex apostolatus officio” of Paul IV (15 February 1559) declares “that if ever it should happen that a bishop, even acting as archbishop, patriarch, primate or cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, or legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, before his promotion or his elevation to the cardinalate or to the pontificate, has deviated from the catholic faith or fallen into heresy, his promotion or elevation, even if it has been made with the unanimous and peaceful agreement of all the cardinals, is null, invalid and without effect.” This applies without formal declaration.
– Canon 188, paragraph 4, of the 1917 Code stipulates that public heretics are deprived ipso facto of their office.
– Canon No. 2314 of the Code of Canon Law (1917):
Ҥ1. All apostates from the Christian faith, all heretics or schismatics and each of them:
1° Incur by the fact itself an excommunication;
2° If after monition, they do not come to resipiscence, let them be deprived of every benefice, dignity, pension, office or other charge, if they had any in the Church, and let them be declared infamous; after two monitions, those who are clerics must be deposed.”
1.3. Conclusion: Any pope manifesting a public heresy ceases to be pope, for he is no longer a member of the Church.
Section 2: Vatican II Contains Flagrant Heresies (short reprise, see the chapter on this subject)
2.1. Major: A teaching which contradicts a dogma defined by an ecumenical council or the infallible magisterium is heretical.
The Vatican I Council (Dei Filius, chapter 3) teaches that dogmas are irreformable: “Si quis dixerit, fieri posse, ut dogmatibus ab Ecclesia propositis aliquando secundum progressum scientiae sensus tribuendus sit alius ab eo, quem intellexit et intelligit Ecclesia: anathema sit.”
(Translation: “If anyone says that it can happen that, to the dogmas proposed by the Church, a different sense must sometimes be attributed from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.”)
(Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, number 3043.)
2.2. Minor: The texts of Vatican II contain direct contradictions with the Deposit of the Faith. For example:
– “Gaudium et Spes”, number 12:
“Believers and unbelievers are generally in agreement on this point: everything on earth must be ordered to man as to his centre and his summit.”
This contradicts the “Syllabus Errorum of Pius IX” (1864, proposition 3): “Humana ratio, nullo prorsus Dei habito respectu, unicus est veri et falsi, boni et mali arbiter; sibi ipsi est lex et naturalibus suis viribus ad hominum ac populorum bonum curandum sufficit.”
(Translation: “Human reason, without any regard whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural forces, to secure the good of men and of peoples.”)
(Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, number 2903.) This promotes a heretical anthropocentrism.
– “Dignitatis Humanae”, number 2:
“This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men must be immune from coercion on the part of individuals, of social groups or of any human power, so that no one is forced to act against his own convictions, whether in private or in public, alone or in association with others, within due limits.”
This contradicts “Quanta Cura” of Pius IX (1864):
“And from this wholly false idea of social organisation they do not hesitate to foster that erroneous opinion, most pernicious to the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our predecessor, Gregory XVI, an insanity, namely that the liberty of conscience and worship is the proper right of every man, and ought to be proclaimed by law in every rightly constituted society… All and each of the individual doctrines mentioned in this letter, by Our apostolic authority, We reject, proscribe and condemn; and We will and order that they be held as absolutely rejected by all the children of the Church.”
(Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, number 2915.)
– “Nostra Aetate”, number 2:
“The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere respect those ways of acting and living, those rules and doctrines which, though differing in many respects from what she herself holds and proposes, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men.”
This contradicts the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, defined at the Council of Florence (1442): “Firmiter credit, profitetur et praedicat, nullos extra catholicam Ecclesiam existentes… aeternae vitae fieri possint participes.”
(Translation: “It firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the catholic Church… can become partakers of eternal life.”)
(Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, number 1351.)
2.3. Conclusion: Vatican II is heretical, for it overturns defined dogmas.
Section 3: Paul VI and his Successors have Promulgated and Maintained these Heresies
3.1. Major: He who promulgates a heretical council or adheres to it is heretical, manifesting a public pertinacity (Code of Canon Law of 1917, canon 1325, paragraph 2).
3.2. Minor:
– the popes from 1964 onwards have all publicly and indubitably accepted the heretical council of Vatican II, they have applied, executed and promulgated it.
– Paul VI after his first heresy “Gaudium et Spes” (21 November 1964) promulgated all the texts of Vatican II on 8 December 1965, declaring them obligatory.
He affirmed of “Gaudium et Spes”:
“It has been considered more and more after the Council as the true testament of the latter”
(Cardinal Ratzinger, Les principes de la théologie catholique, page 423).
– John-Paul I, in choosing his name in homage to John XXIII and Paul VI, the popes of Vatican II, manifested his complete adhesion to this heretical conciliabule, thus confirming his public pertinacity in error.
– John-Paul II applied the apostate text of “Nostra Aetate” at Assisi (1986), declaring:
“This great concentration of believers… is in itself an invitation to the world to become aware that the spirit of Assisi is truly the application of the teaching of Vatican II”
(speech of 27 October 1986).
– Benedict XVI participated in Assisi in 1986 and commemorated it in 2007, fully accepting Vatican II as “a revision of the ‘Syllabus Errorum’ of Pius IX”, as he declared in “Les principes de la théologie catholique (pages 423-427)”, a work re-edited after his election to the “papacy”.
– Francis I has pursued these ecumenical acts, contradicting “Mortalium Animos” of Pius XI (1928): “They are gravely mistaken who […] maintain that men can attain eternal salvation by practising any religion whatsoever.”
(Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum, number 3683.)
– Leo XIV, promoted in 2025, adheres to the modernist heresies stemming from Vatican II, notably doctrinal relativism, the heretical ecumenism denying “extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (Unam Sanctam, 1302), and the modernist feminism favouring the ordination of women, against the immutable teaching (Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, 1943). In his address to the Eastern Catholics on 14 May 2025, Leo XIV called for a “unity” with the schismatics whilst insisting on the preservation of the “traditions” of the East without requiring their submission to the full and entire Roman primacy, as defined at the Council of Florence (1439).
3.3. Conclusion: Paul VI and his successors are heretics, losing ipso facto their office (Code of Canon Law of 1917, canon 188, paragraph 4).
Section 4: Refutation of Counter-Arguments
4.1. “Vatican II is pastoral, not dogmatic”
Refutation: The magisterium teaches that any teaching, even pastoral, cannot contradict the dogmas (Vatican I, Dei Filius, canon 4). This chapter indeed teaches with certainty that the Magisterium, assisted by the Holy Spirit, is the depository of the faith and must preserve it faithfully without any possible contradiction with the dogmas, for God cannot contradict Himself, and the divine truth is one and immutable. Any pretended “deeper understanding” which departed from this established sense would be a heresy, as the Council condemned against nascent modernism. The pretended “progresses” posterior which would dare to contradict this are only schismatic innovations, to be rejected as such, in conformity with the inviolable catholic faith.
Pius XII affirms: “That which does not correspond to the truth and to the moral law has objectively no right to existence, nor to propaganda, nor to action.” (Allocution to Italian jurists “Ci Riesce”, 6 December 1953.)
4.2. “The successors have interpreted Vatican II orthodoxly”
Refutation: Their acts, such as the meeting at Assisi in 1986, confirm the heresy, violating “Mortalium Animos §2” of Pius XI:
“This false opinion which considers all religions more or less good and praiseworthy… Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of the true religion, they reject it.”
Conclusion of the Chapter
Paul VI and his successors, John-Paul I, John-Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis and Leo XIV in promulgating and applying the heretical conciliabule Vatican II, are heretics and antipopes. Catholics must reject them in order to preserve the immutable faith and to save their soul.