Editor’s Note: Many Catholics when reading the above prophecy of the Archbishop worry about who this person will be. But what most Catholics fail to realize, is that unless you look with FAITH, you will never recognize him even if he be standing in front of you. This looking with Faith requires that you distinguish between what is truly of God and what is not of God. What comes from God and what does not. What a man does in his own name and what he does, when he holds an office in the Church, in the Name of God. For this reason, writers such as St. Robert Bellarmine held that it is quite possible for the Antichrist to be a pope, and thus, by logical equivalence, that a Pope be someone even less, such as a False Prophet.
We are all false prophets when we teach error and try to pass it off as the Gospel. Schismatics, Heretics and Sedevacantists are habitually guilty of doing this, which is why they have a passion to lead men astray.
But every Pope who uses his office for his own pleasure or whims, is also guilty of this. And this is so easy to do that St. Alphonsus dei Liguori said — in an age in which Popes were not canonized simply for being popes (as now since Pius XII), simply to push an ungodly agenda — that all popes who were not canonized, St. Alphonsus PRESUMES ARE DAMNED.
But no one is more a False Prophet than a man who is not pope, but who pretends to be one. Thus, during his antipapacy, Bergoglio was undoubtedly a false prophet for all the above reasons. Since his juridically valid election, there is a noticeable return of action to a catholic norm, but not entirely, as his recent appointments show. This is meriting him a shorting of his days, but it is also a trial of faith for us Catholics to speak up.
Those who followed him into error for neigh 10 years have no intention of admitting their fault and are now busily imitating him by leading souls into apostasy and schism, as all sedevacantists do. And just as when he sins, he acts as a false prophet, so when they accept his errors or act on error, do they make themselves members of his false church and become members of his flock of goats.
For us who do the contrary, however, it remains licit to beg the Eternal Father to lessen the days of the Church’s tribulation and give us sooner than later a holy man to succeed Pope Francis, not as Bergoglio the man, but as Christ’s Vicar. I would that there be clergy in the Church to do more than that, but that is our duty in the present hour: to offer such a prayer.
Is it important for bishops to publicly renounce what they did for 10 years, or is it possible to do only a private renunciation of their actions since and do penance?
If those who followed him during his schism did not repent, their anti-church, the dicasteries made during those 10 years, will be visible to all.
Bergoglio is the one who is calling the loudest for an unifcation of Abrahamic religions.
There won’t be a cross in it, that’s for sure.
Otherwise the other two won’t cooperate.
The Abomination!
That religion will be the One World Religion warned by many prophets. It will be empty of divine content.
Interesting note about S. Alphonse: I personally beleve instead, that all canonically elected pope is saved. I find illogical for the Holy Spirit to rest on a person in that position, who would die in disgrace of God. I.e. popes have their salvation ensured. Let’s not forget that our faith rests on the pope’s faith.
What is the general opinion of the Church on this, Br. Bugnolo?
St. Alphosus’s opinions are approved of by the Holy Office. And I gather from other writers that he is correct. The duties of that office are so high, its power to save or damn souls so delicate, that you need the humility and faith of an Apostle to keep it well.