General Conclusion
“The Catholic Church resembles a spring:
the more one pushes it down,
the more it springs back with vigour” (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 an individual Roman Pontiff from losing his office. 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, voluntary abdication, insanity, but also by public heresy, apostasy or schism. For, according to the axiom of Saint Robert Bellarmine, “the manifest heretic is in no way a member of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30); therefore, he cannot be its head.
Now, it has been demonstrated that the council Vatican II 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.
In promulgating these doctrines and 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 ever it should happen that a Roman Pontiff deviates from the faith or falls into heresy, his promotion would be null and without effect”; and according to canon law, the heretic loses ipso facto all office and all jurisdiction. The conclusion is therefore necessary: Paul VI and his successors have not been true popes, but usurpers.
Certain ones have objected the “Peaceful and Universal Acceptance” (P.U.A.) as a sign of infallible legitimacy. The rejection by the sedevacantists, true Catholics and therefore the absence of true Catholic P.U.A. for the conciliar popes is a supplementary confirmation of the vacancy of the See.
Must one conclude that the Church would have defected? No, for indefectibility excludes all defection. Christ, the invisible Head, supplies jurisdiction directly in a period of vacancy, according to the principle of supplied jurisdiction recognised by moral theology (Saint Alphonsus 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 to teach, sanctify and govern the faithful, assuring the visible continuation of the Church and the survival of the means of salvation.
In definitive, we can conclude with certainty that:
The council Vatican II taught heresies.
Paul VI and his successors, in promulgating them, lost ipso facto all 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 its 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, on the contrary manifests 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 devil and of his minions.
All the Saints and Holy Angels of God, pray for us.
I submit all my writings totally to the definitive judgement of the Church.
Roma locuta, causa finita.
AMDG
Your humble servant
Fr Eric Jacqmin+