Translation and Rebuttal by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

More than 13 months ago, I warned the Faithful of the entire Catholic Church, that we could not silently sit by an allow the pertinacious, manifest and formal heretic, who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to continue to be recognized as the Pope by the Catholic Church without destroying forever the Church which Christ alone founded. I appealed to the Catholic world to join what I call “The Sutri Initiative”, which consists in petitioning the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Rome, in accord with canon 212, to recognize that by the perfidious heretical and schismatic words and deeds of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Catholic World could no longer regard his claim to the papacy as self-evident, but rather that they in good conscience must regard the Apostolic See impeded by his personal deviations from the Rule of Faith, and convene a provincial council to remonstrate with him and ask him to prove by documents and words that he has a valid claim to the papacy.

Many laity and clergy who read FromRome.Info responded, and with Pope Francis’ signature on ‘Fiducia supplicans’ even more saw the sanity of such an initiative. However, many Catholic influencers had not the courage or fidelity to Christ or love of His people sufficient to move them to join in this initiative, in the last 13 months.

Now with this new ‘doctrinal note’ by Pope Francis, by which he attempts to subsume the final document of the recent Synod on Synodality into the “Ordinary Magisterium of the Church”, the time has come to chose between Christ and Pope Francis. Since that Synod by the judgement of numerous Cardinals and Bishops seeks to overthrow the divinely constituted constitution of the Church, it cannot be that a Pope declare its final document part of the Ordinary Magisterium, because no pope can overthrow the constitution of the Church.

Indeed, since Pope Francis’s Synods (both those during his antipapacy and those since his legitimate election) all invited heretics to tell the Church how to depart from fidelity to Christ and the Apostles; it is clear that commanding that this process become part of the very constitution of the Church is tantamount to asking the Bride of Christ to fornicate with the enemies of Her Divine Spouse as a way of being faithful to that Divine Spouse.

Moreover, though Pope Francis does not promulgate this note with a Bull, nor use the pontifical “We” — a clear sign that the Lord Jesus is preventing this — nevertheless it is still a heretical schismatic act of apocalyptic proportions, as it attempts to erect an Anti-Church and replace the true Church of Christ.

Resistance, vocal or silent, is not enough any more. It’s a war over the very identity and existence of the Church. And if you cannot see that, you have not the Catholic Faith! It’s that simple.

The petitions to the Bishops of the Roman Province have already borne fruit in this, that none of them has publicly, on their websites, affirmed their adhesion to ‘Fiducia supplicans’. Therefore, I believe that they are giving the Catholic world a sign that if they start receiving thousands and hundreds of thousands of such petitions, they will act. — The ball is now in the court of all those Catholic YouTubers, Website owners, and Bloggers, to do their part in soliciting Catholics to join in this effort. Let it not be said that you hated me, Br. Bugnolo, more than you loved Christ and His Church. Let it not be said, that in spite or jealously, you remained silent in this the darkest moment of the Church, during the most diabolic attack on Christ’s Immaculate Bride, simply because I was first to call for a provincial council and demonstrate how it could be canonically and juridically enacted against a heretical pope. Don’t sit around waiting for the Cardinals to act, since they are the ones who gave this man power.

Here follows my English translation of the ‘Doctrinal note’, the original Italian of which can be found here:

Accompanying Note on the Final Document of the Pope Francis’ 16th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Nov. 25, 2024

In the diverse moments of the path of the Synod convened by me in October, 2021, we sat down to listen to what in this time the Holy Spirit is saying to the Churches.

The final Document of the 16th General Ordinay Assembly of the Synod of Bishops gathers together the fruits of the People of God’s path paced-out in listening and of the discernment of their Pastors. Letting herself be illuminated by the Holy Spirit, the entire Church has been called to read their own experience and to identity the steps to be taken to live the communion, to realize the participating and to promote the mission which Jesus Christ entrusted to her.  The synodal route, undertaken in the local Churches, has passed through the national and continental phases, to arrive at the celebration of the Assembly of Bishops in its two sessions of October, 2023, and October, 2024. Now the path proceeds in the local Churches and in their meetings, by taking treasure from the Final Document which on October 26, last, was voted on and approved by the Assembly in each of its parts.  I, too, approved it, and, by signing it, I arranged its publication, uniting myself to the “we” of the Assembly, which, by means of the Final Document, addresses itself to the holy, faithful People of God.