Dear Brethren
Today we discuss a common error taught and defended by heretics. This error teaches that the Encyclical Letters of the Roman Pontiff are not infallible.
As Our Predecessor Pius XII teaches in Humani Generis, Encyclicals are infallible by virtue of the ordinary teaching power.
Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent, since in writing such Letters the Popes do not exercise the supreme power of their Teaching Authority. For these matters are taught with the ordinary teaching authority, of which it is true to say: “He who heareth you, heareth me”;[3] and generally what is expounded and inculcated in Encyclical Letters already for other reasons appertains to Catholic doctrine. But if the Supreme Pontiffs in their official documents purposely pass judgment on a matter up to that time under dispute, it is obvious that that matter, according to the mind and will of the Pontiffs, cannot be any longer considered a question open to discussion among theologians. (Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, 1950).
We can prove this stated proposition in Humani Generis from other principles outside of Humani Generis.
First, anyone who refuses to submit to the Roman Pontiff is a schismatic. This is true according to canon law. This is accepted even by the heretics of Vatican II. When the Roman Pontiff proposes in His encyclical letters matters appertaining to proper Christian doctrine, and thus divinely revealed matters, any bishop that refuses to submit to such an Encyclical, and conform his mind to that of the Pontiff has become a schismatic. As Our Predecessor Leo XIII declared in his Encyclical Letter Satis Cognitum, all are alien to the Church who attempt to recede from any pointe of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium, because they are either schismatics and/or heretics. For heresy always follows schism insofar as at least they deny the Supreme Authority of the Roman Pontiff, and schism is automatic in heresy. Whether heresy or schism, all are outside the Church, and all on the way to damnation. Schism has always been recognized as refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff, as is clear from all of the Church’s laws and ancient doctrines.
Secondly, since all such bishops that refuse submission to Encyclical Letters and seek to teach things contrary to them have been cast outside the Church and are alien to her, by virtue of schism (refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff), it is then plain that all bishops that remain in the Church adhere to the Encyclical Letters promulgated by Our Predecessors. Thus, Encyclical letters are by this very fact infallible, as they are the exercise of the ordinary and universal magisterium which is to be believed with divine and Catholic faith, as taught at Vatican I in 1870.
It was infallibly defined at Vatican I that the ordinary and universal teaching authority of the Church is infallible.
Wherefore, by divine and catholic faith all those things are to be believed
which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium. (Pope Pius IX, Vatican I Council, 1870, infallible).
We know that the definition of Vatican I is infallible, as this definition sets the very criterion of faith, and what must be adhered to with Divine and Catholic Faith from that point onward. It is a dogmatic definition that declares faithless any who disagree with what it proposes for belief. This dogma at Vatican I is of the authority of the Supreme Magisterium, as it speaks to the entire Church, and declares faithless those who disagree with adhering to what it decrees. It is of the Supreme Magisterium according to another section in Vatican I, namely Session 4 Chapter 4, which promulgated accordingly to the highest authority, sets an independent set of criterion for papal infallibility. Even if it were the ordinary magisterium, it still sets the standard for what must be believed, namely, whatever is of the Church’s “ordinary and universal magisterium”.
Anyone then, who contraverts the encyclicals of Our Predecessors, and seeks to teach something other than what they have set down, or have another vision than what Our Predecessors sought to inculcate by their Encyclical teachings, has condemned himself as both a schismatic and a heretic. He is cast outside the Church. He is fit only for the dogs. He is fit for eternal damnation, and he will certainly go to eternal damnation, unless he repent and adhere to every doctrine proposed by the Church.
Vatican II is a festival of damnation and hellfire. It contradicts the teaching of the Church on salvation outside of Her holy gate of baptism (the true Church teaches there is no salvation outside of the gateway of baptism- whether water, desire, or blood), religious liberty (the true Church teaches unfettered religious liberty is condemned while the Vatican II sect says nothing against it, and approves it in the Vatican II Conciliar documents), the infallible laws pertaining to the Crusades, Inquisitions, and Torture (the true Church teaches that the Crusades are approved, Inquisition is approved, and Torture is allowable depending on circumstances), the praiseworthiness of false religions (the true Church teaches false religions are not good and praiseworthy but are rather the blasphemous gates of hell), sexual education (the true Church teaches that sexual education as it is commonly understood is condemned) and so on and so forth…. It is a blasphemy filled with theological and liturgical clowns. Even now God prepares the world to succumb to His Mighty wrath. Everywhere people mock asking “Where is the promise of His coming?”. Only those who are strong, of good courage, and possess supernatural Faith can answer this question with a surety. God and the Lord Christ are coming. The Three Days of Darkness are definitely coming! The Great Monarch is surely coming! Three quarters of the world will surely die! God will not long stand the rebellion of the Masonic Secular Republics!
We now leave the Faithful, with the following excerpt from the Venerable Holzhauser regarding the times to come. The following was written by him in 1658:
THE FIFTH AGE
“The fifth period of the Church, which began circa 1520, will end with the arrival of the holy Pope and of the powerful Monarch who is called “Help From God” because he will restore everything.
The fifth period is one of affliction, desolation, humiliation, and poverty for the Church. Jesus Christ will purify His people through cruel wars, famines, plagues, epidemics, and other horrible calamities. He will also afflict and weaken the Latin Church with many heresies. It is a period of defections, calamities and exterminations. Those Christians who survive the sword, plague and famines, will be few on earth. Nations will fight against nations and will be desolated by internecine dissensions. Are we not to fear during this period that the Mohamedans will come again working out their sinister schemes against the Latin church
“During this period, many men will abuse of the freedom of conscience conceded to them. It is of such men that Jude the Apostle spoke when he said, “These men blaspheme whatever they do not understand; and they corrupt whatever they know naturally as irrational animals do. They feast together without restraint, feeding themselves, grumbling murmurers, walking according to their lusts; their mouth speaketh proud things, they admire people for the sake of gain; they bring about division, sensual men, having not the spirit.’” They will ridicule Christian simplicity; they will call it folly and nonsense, but they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge, and for the skill by which the axioms of law, the precepts of morality, the Holy Canons and religious dogmas are clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments. “These are the evil times, a century full of dangers and calamities. Heresy is everywhere, and the followers of heresy are in power almost everywhere. but God will permit a great evil against His Church: Heretics and tyrants will come suddenly and unexpectedly; they will break into the Church. They will enter Italy and lay Rome waste; they will burn down churches and destroy everything.”… “Antichrist and his army will conquer Rome, kill the Pope and take the throne.”
“During this period the Wisdom of God guides the Church in. several ways: 1) by chastising the Church so that riches may not corrupt. her completely; 2) by interposing the Council of Trent like a light in the. darkness, so that the Christians who see the light may know what to. believe, 3) by setting St. Ignatius and his Society in opposition to Luther. and other heretics; 4) by carrying to remote lands the Faith which has. been banned in most of Europe.
“During this unhappy period, there will be laxity in divine and. human precepts. Discipline will suffer. The Holy Canons will be. completely disregarded, and the Clergy will not respect the laws of the. Church. Everyone will be carried away and led to believe and to do what. he fancies, according to the manner of the flesh.
“They will ridicule Christian simplicity; they will call it folly and. nonsense, but they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge,. and for the skill by which the axioms of the law, the precepts of. morality, the Holy Canons and religious dogmas are clouded by. senseless questions and elaborate arguments. As a result, no principle at. all, however holy, authentic, ancient, and certain it may be, will remain. free of censure, criticism, false interpretation, modification, and. delimitation by man.
“These are evil times, a century full of dangers and calamities.. Heresy is everywhere, and the followers of heresy are in power almost. everywhere. Bishops, prelates, and priests say that they are doing their. duty, that they are vigilant, and that they live as befits their state in life.. In like manner, therefore, they all seek excuses. But God will permit a. great evil against His Church: Heretics and tyrants will come suddenly. and unexpectedly; they will break into the Church while bishops,. prelates and priests are asleep. They will enter Italy and lay Rome waste;. they will burn down the churches and destroy everything.”
“[After a world war] will come a new period, in which two mighty ones will face each other. The wrangle between these two will begin in the second half of the twentieth century. It will overthrow mountains and silt up rivers. A great change will come to pass, such as no mortal man will have expected; Heaven and Hell will confront each other in this struggle, old states will perish and light and darkness will be pitted against each other with swords, but it will be swords of a different fashion. With these swords it will be possible to cut up the skies and split the earth. A great lament will come over all mankind and only a small batch will survive the storm, the pestilence and the horror. And neither of the two adversaries will conquer nor be vanquished. Both mighty ones will lie on the ground, and a new mankind will come into existence. God possesses the key to everything. Blessed is he who will then be able to praise him, having obeyed all his commandments. And the great monarch of the world will create new laws for the new mankind and will cause a new age to begin, in which there will be only one flock and one shepherd, and peace will be of long, long duration, for the glory of God in heaven and on earth…
“When everything has been ruined by war; when Catholics are hard pressed by traitorous co-religionists and heretics; when the Church and her servants are denied their rights, the monarchies have been abolished and their rulers murdered… Then the Hand of Almighty God will work a marvelous change, something apparently impossible according to human understanding. There will rise a valiant monarch anointed by God. He will be a Catholic, a descendant of Louis IX, yet a descendant of an ancient imperial German family, born in exile. He will rule supreme in temporal matters. The Pope will rule supreme in spiritual matters at the same time. Persecution will cease and justice shall rule. Religion seems to be suppressed, but by the changes of entire kingdoms it will be made more firm. “He will root out false doctrines and destroy the rule of Moslemism. His dominion will extend from the East to the West. All nations will adore God their Lord according to the Catholic teaching. There will be many wise and just men. The people will love justice, and peace will reign over the whole earth, for divine power will bind Satan for many years until the coming of the Son of Perdition.
“The reign of the Great Ruler may be compared with that of Caesar Augustus who became Emperor after his victory over his enemies, thereby giving peace to the world, also with the reign of Constantine the Great, who was sent by God, after severe persecution, to deliver both the Church and State.
“On account of a terrible war Germany will wail, France will be the cause of all the woe, Germany will be terribly wounded, all will be impoverished. England shall suffer much. The King shall be killed.
“After desolation has reached its peak in England, peace will be restored and England will return to the Catholic faith with greater fervour than before.
“The Great Monarch will have the special help of God and be unconquerable.
“The Fifth Epoch of time dates from the reign of Charles V until the reign of the Great Monarch.
The Great Monarch will come when the Latin Church is desolated, humiliated, and afflicted with many heresies … The Mohammedans will come again.” (Note: “The Latin Church,” which presumably, excludes the Eastern-Rite Churches). He will pull down what has been held as good, and raise up what has been held in contempt, acting in opposition to present standards.)”He will restore everything.” “And peace shall reign over the whole earth.”
THE SIXTH AGE
“The Sixth Age of the Spirit commences with the powerful Monarch and the Holy Pontiff as previously mentioned and will last until the appearance of the Antichrist. This will be an age of consolation in which God will console His Spirit of the affliction and the great tribulation of the preceding age. All the nations will be united in the Catholic faith. The sacerdocy will flower more than ever, and men will seek the kingdom of God in all solicitude. Vocations will be abundant as never before and all men will seek only the kingdom of God and His justice . Men will live peace and this will be granted because people will make their peace with God. They will live under the protection of the Great Monarch and his successors.
During the fifth period we saw only calamities and devastation, oppression of catholics by tyrants and heretics, executions of kings and conspiracies to set up republics but by the hand of God almighty there occurs so wonderful a change during the sixth period that no one can humanly visualize it.
The powerful Monarch, who is sent from God, will uproot every Republic.” He will submit everything to this authority and he will show great zeal for the true church of Christ. The empire of the Mohamedans will be broken up and the monarch will reign in the east as well as in the west. All nations will come to worship God in the true and catholic Roman faith. There will be many saints and doctors of the church on earth. Peace will reign over the whole earth because God will bind Satan for a number of years before the days of the Son of Perdition. No one will be abelt ot pevert the word of God since during the sixth period there will be an ecumenical council which will be the greatest of all councils. By the grace of God, by the power of the great Monarch, by the authority of the holy pontiff and by union of all the most devout princes atheism and every heresy will be banished from the earth. The council will define the true sense of Holy Scripture and this will be beloved and accepted by everyone.
“The Lord will give good pastors to the Church. Men will live in peace, each in his own field. They will be reconciled with the one God. They will live in the shadow of the powerful Monarch and of his successors.
“Many saints and doctors will flourish in the earth. Men will love reason and justice. Peace will reign in all the universe, because the divine power will bind Satan for many years, until the son of perdition will rave anew.
“The Sixth Epoch of the World, which commences with the emancipation of the people of Israel and the restoration of the Temple and of the city of Jerusalem, will endure until the advent of Jesus Christ.
“For likewise, in this epoch, the people of Israel will be consoled to a very high degree by the Lord, our God, who will deliver them from the captivity of Babylon. The kingdoms, the nations, and the people will submit to the Roman Empire, furiously vanquished by the very powerful and very illustrious monarch who will govern during fifty-six years, rendering the peace of the universe and reigning alone until the advent of Jesus Christand even after him. Thus, in the Sixth Age, God will delight his Church with the greatest prosperity.
“For, although, in the Fifth Age, we saw everywhere the most deplorable calamities: whereas all is devastated by war; that the Church and its members are rendered tributaries; that the subjects are tormented and that all men conspire to erect republics: man himself will be so astonishingly changed by the hand of God, such that no one can imagine humanity. For the powerful monarch, who will come like an envoy of God, will destroy the republics thoroughly in climax; he will subdue all to his will and will employ his zeal in favor of the true Church of Christ. All the heresies will be relegated to hell. The empire of the Turks will be broken and this monarch will reign in the orient and in the occident. All the nations will come and adore the Lord their God in the true Catholic and Roman faith.
“Now the Great Monarch also will dominate over all the beasts of the earth, that is to say over the barbarian nations, over the rebellious peoples, over the heretic republics and over all men dominated by their evil passions.
“It is in that age that the relation of the sixth Spirit of the Lord will be known, that is to say the Spirit of Wisdom that God diffuses over all the surfaces of the globes in those times. For men will fear the Lord their God, they will observe the law and serve it with all their heart. The sciences will be multiplied and complete on the earth. The Holy Scriptures will be unanimously understood, without controversy and without the errors of heresies. Men will be enlightened, so much as in the natural sciences and in the celestial sciences.
“Finally, the Sixth Church, the Church of Philadelphia, is the type of this sixth age, for Philadelphia signifies friendship of brothers, and again guarding the heritage in union with the Lord. Now all these characters convene perfectly in the sixth age, in which they will have love, concord and perfect peace and in which the powerful Monarch will have to consider almost the entire world as his heritage. He will deliver up the earth, with the aid of the Lord his God from all his enemies, of ruin and of all evil.”
ANTICHRIST
Antichrist will come as the Messiah from a land between two seas in the East. He will be born in the desert; his mother being a prostitute to the Jews and Hindus; he will be a lying and false prophet and will try to ride to heaven like Elias. He will begin work in the East, as a soldier and preacher of religion when thirty years old. Antichrist and his army will conquer Rome, kill the Pope and take the throne. He will restore the Turkish regime destroyed by the Great Monarch. The Jews, knowing from the Bible that Jerusalem will be the seat of the Messiah, will come from everywhere and accept Antichrist as the Messiah. He will be able to fly. His flight will take place from Mt. Calvary. He will tell the crowd he is going after Henoch and Elias (who has arisen from the dead) in order to kill them again.
SERMON Delivered this 13th day of December, 2009
Augustine, Servant of the Servants of God