The Tradition and Laws of the Church Teach the Ignorant Infidels and Heretics are all Guilty
Edition February 21, 2024
The discipline, laws, customs, authentic infallible Magisterium, and tradition of the Catholic Church all teach that the ignorant pagans and heretics are guilty. There is no need to fully prove the gospel using the principles of reason to them, as though one needed to satisfy a law court. Once the infidels and heretics are aware of the gospel, they are guilty if they do not immediately submit to the light of God. A heretic is alien to the Church the moment he maintains a false view, even if he believes his false view is the right way. It is the "foolishness of preaching", not necessarily with the proofs of reason, that compel and move the conscience to finally respond to God's grace and submit. Heretics and infidels that remained convinced in their conscience that they were correct in their false position were nevertheless fully subject to all of the wrath and punishments of the Catholic Church and Almighty God since the beginning, whether through decrees of excommunication or handing over to death, including by multiple legal decrees.
In June and July 1415, as one example, Jan Hus was tried and condemend by the authorites at the Council of Constance, which eventually received the full approval of Pope Martin V. Despite being offered multiple times to recant, Hus stated that he was unable in conscience to change his wicked diabolical position. He remained convinced of his wicked heresy and blasphemy up until the execution, similar to the claims of the heretics of Luther and Calvin today that they are following their conscience. He was so convinced of it, he was willing to die for it. Nonetheless, the Church considered his punishment appropriate, despite Hus being convinced of his wicked view, because the tradition of the Church is that the blindness of the heretics and resistant pagans is a punishment from God due to a wicked heart. Heretics and pagans have no excuse to remain in their false religions. In 1420, Martin V, after approving the council that executed Hus, called for further extermination of Hus's followers, without respect to whether they knew they were wrong on the matter. Omnium Plasmotoris Domini was promulgated commanding a crusade against the followers of Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, and the other heretics. They were to be put to death or captured in the crusade. No trial was needed to determine whether they knew the Catholic Church was from God, as the false Vatican II sect teaches, or was necessary. In fact, in our day, even less excuse is allowed heretics, since modern electronic communication has put virtually every truth at the instantaneous disposal of many! If the Church had infallibly decreed, even in the canons of Universal Councils, there was no excuse then, how much less today?
Numerous other Bulls and proclaimations were issued against the wicked heathen or heretics, no doubt many of whom were fully convinced of their position and inhabited climbs where they had barely heard the gospel, or heard it only a little. Yet, the infallible laws of the Church demanded punishments for all who resisted the grace of God and had not submitted to the gospel. Examples in Church tradition and infallible laws are numerous- Inter Caetera, Dum Diversas, Non Parum Animus Noster and even Pontifex Romanus of Nicholas V calling for the enslavement of the infidel Saracens and subjugation of the territories. We know that these laws and discipline of the Church are perfect, and denying it is at least erroneous against the natural law if not even heretical as decreed by Pius VI.
"LXXVIII. The prescription of the Synod regarding the order of discussing matters in conferences, according to which, after stating that one must distinguish 'in each article what pertains to the Faith and the essence of Religion from what is a matter of discipline', it adds 'that in this same (discipline) will be distinguished what is necessary or useful to keep the faithful in the spirit from what is useless and tends to burden the faithful themselves with a weight that is not suitable for the freedom of the children of the new covenant; and much more from what is dangerous or harmful, because it leads to superstition and materialism'; Inasmuch as by the generality of the words it includes and subjects to the prescribed examination even the discipline established and approved by the Church, as if the Church, which is guided by the Spirit of God, could establish a discipline not only useless and more burdensome than what Christian freedom entails, but even dangerous, harmful, leading into superstition and materialism; FALSE, RASH, SCANDALOUS, PERNICIOUS, OFFENSIVE TO PIOUS EARS, INSULTING TO THE CHURCH AND TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHICH THE CHURCH ITSELF IS REGULATED; AT LEAST ERRONEOUS." -Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, 1794.
This decree regarding the discipline of the Church is infallible pursuant to Satis Cognitum which taught that all who recede in the least degree from any teaching of the Church's authentic magisterium has devolved into heresy.
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authentic Magisterium... Wherefore, as appears from what has been said, Christ instituted in the Church a living, authoritative and permanent Magisterium, which by His own power He strengthened, by the Spirit of truth He taught, and by miracles confirmed. He willed and ordered, under the gravest penalties, that its teachings should be received as if they were His own." -Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum 1896.
Further, these bulls are binding solely on the force and command of the Holy Scripture regarding the authority of the Roman Pontiff "whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven", and were also binding pursuant to the decree of Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctamthat the spiritual sword was higher than the temporal sword and the temporal was to be subject to it by order of Jesus Christ.
"Certainly the one who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter has not listened well to the word of the Lord commanding: 'Put up thy sword into thy scabbard' [Mt 26:52]. Therefore, both are in the power of the Church, namely, the spiritual sword and the material. But indeed, the latter is to be exercised on behalf of the Church; and truly, the former is to be exercised by the Church. The former is of the priest; the latter is by the hand of kings and soldiers, but at the will and sufferance of the priest. However, one sword ought to be subordinated to the other and temporal authority, subjected to spiritual power. For since the Apostle said: 'There is no power except from God and the things that are, are ordained of God' [Rom 13:1-2], but they would not be ordained if one sword were not subordinated to the other and if the inferior one, as it were, were not led upwards by the other." -Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam 1302.
Wherefore, let there be no doubt regarding the authority of these bulls, as has been the constant tradition of the Church and as confirmed by her highest magisterium, including solemnly proclaimed bulls like Unam Sanctam. Any who rebel against any bull of the Church is a rebel and an outcast, someone who is fit to be with the dogs, or wallowing in the mud. Indeed, the earliest fathers confirm that ignorance is no excuse for the heretic. The Second Vatican sect of the Great Apostasy and its Antipopes falsely teach that men are considered good in God's eyes, and not worthy of death, when they follow their false religions in their midst and they heard the true dogmas and the way of the Catholic Church- that these wicked men are not condemned or accursed. It teaches that they obtain refuge in God and the Supreme Illumination by following their false paths. The wicked Second Vatican sect of 1965 proclaimed:
"Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust. Again, Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination..." Antipope Paul VI, Nostra Aetate, 1965.
As a result of this wicked heresy, even apostasy, the Antipopes of the false Second Vatican taught that the men who followed their false sects after they heard the gospel and Catholic Faith were approved by God and even could be saved (despite the fact as already shown that the original faith was that they were to be excommunicated, or if reconciled penances given to them, or even punished with imprisonment, or in especially egregious circumstances burned at the stake even when they were convinced in their conscience they were correct). Naturally, from this heresy, they then decreed another heresy taught in Dignitatis Humanae, that these same men were free to practice and spread their false pernicious blasphemies and sacrileges. Antipope John Paul II taught:
"Normally, 'it will be in the sincere practice of what is good in their own religious traditions and by following the dictates of their own conscience that the members of other religions respond positively to God’s invitation and receive salvation in Jesus Christ, even while they do not recognize or acknowledge him as their Saviour' (cf. Ad gentes, nn. 3, 9, 11) (Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue – Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Instruction Dialogue and Proclamation, 19 May 1991, n. 29; L’Osservatore Romano English edition, 1 July 1991, p. III)." -Antipope/Antichrist John Paul II, General Audience, 9 September 1998.
As has been shown elsewhere, by other writings of this Magisterium, this wicked Second Vatican sect also endlessly praises false religions and encourages their members to continue in their false religious paths, as if these paths were right before God or could save them, including even encouraging them to perform blasphemous heretical or even pagan rites in the presence of what they falsely call their own Catholic hierarchy. The very same kind of pagan or heretic as exists today, insistent that he is following his conscience, the kind that was captured, enslaved, subject to salutary tortures, and burned at the stake by Holy Mother Church were now to be encouraged in the false paths according to the Second Vatican heretics!
But the fathers of the Church have no tolerance for ignorant heretics, and did not proclaim them to be in the way of salvation, but instead blaspheming. As Ireneaus declared even in they very earliest days:
"By means of specious and plausible words, they [heretics] cunningly allure the simple-minded to inquire into their system; but they nevertheless clumsily destroy them, while they initiate them into their blasphemous and impious opinions respecting the Demiurge; and these simple ones are unable, even in such a matter, to distinguish falsehood from truth." -Ireneaus, Against Heresies, Book 1 Preface.
Despite the simple minded being in ignorance unable to distinguish falsehood from truth, they are still known as the destroyed, as the holy early bishop taught his flock. And indeed this concept can be found many other places in the fathers, and especially in the revered doctor Augustine. So then, all who continue to persist in the false sect of the Second Vatican, and who continue to follow its Antipopes, know that they are condemned by all the laws and traditions of the Holy Catholic Church, for they praise and accomodate ignorant nations and religions, and even declare their members on the way of salvation, that were wholly condemned and execrated by Our Predecessors the true Pontiffs of old as on the way of damnation. Some unstable ones have falsely quoted Our Predecessor Pius IX as teaching that ignorance can save some men without faith. However, he taught no such thing. Instead, in Singulari Quidem he said that if a man is ignorant of the gospel he can "hope" for salvation, but it does not mean or follow he will attain it without eventual conversion. Further, in Singulari Quadem he said ignorant men are not always guilty for the sin of ignorance, which is true, but they are still guilty of all their other sins, which are only forgiven when they convert. Finally, in Quanto Conficiamur Moerore he said those who persist in doing what is good will eventually obtain "Divine light and grace". Some wicked perverse ones thought this meant they could be saved without converting to the true faith. Rather, Divine light and grace is nothing other than the extension of the gospel and the supernatural light which is the Catholic Faith to them. As Our Predecessor declared concerning the great light that shines in the darkness...
"In reviewing attentively the history of the Church, one cannot fail to notice how, from the first ages of Christianity, the especial care and solicitude of the Roman Pontiffs have been directed to the end that they, undeterred by difficulties and obstacles, might spread the light of the Gospel and the benefits of Christian culture and civilization to the peoples who “sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.” -Pius XI, Rerum Ecclesiae 1926.
Indeed, Our same recent Predecessor Pius XI declared again in Mortalium Animos that all who honestly call on God will certainly enter the Catholic Church, and will not persist in their false sects
"You, Venerable Brethren, understand how much this question is in Our mind, and We desire that Our children should also know, not only those who belong to the Catholic community, but also those who are separated from Us: if these latter humbly beg light from heaven, there is no doubt but that they will recognize the one true Church of Jesus Christ and will, at last, enter it, being united with us in perfect charity. While awaiting this event, and as a pledge of Our paternal good will, We impart most lovingly to you, Venerable Brethren, and to your clergy and people, the apostolic benediction." -Pius XI, Mortalium Animos 1928.
Given this 21st day of February, 2024.