Posted on 09/25/2016 4:01:27 PM PDT by ebb tide
This proves it. Pope Francis needs to step down. He probably doesn’t believe John 3:16 or John 14:6 and that Jesus is the only path to salvation either. Next he’ll start saying aliens are coming to save us and are another path to salvation...
I really think the popester has dementia. All the signs point to it.
If catholics can accept being told wearing a piece of cloth by some apparition will keep them out of the hell fire, they’re likely to believe most anything.
I've seen some catholics question John 3:16.
Some won't even affirm if they believe the promises Jesus made in John 5:24 when asked.
Many catholics reject John 14:6 because they believe this lie:
Many have proved invincibly, from the sentiments of the Fathers-----among others: St. Augustine, St. Ephrem, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St. John Damascene, St. Anselm, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Thomas, and St. Bonaventure-----
that devotion to Our Most Blessed Virgin is necessary for salvation
, and that it is an infallible mark of reprobation to have no esteem or love for the Holy Virgin while, on the other hand, it is an infallible mark of predestination to be entirely and truly devoted to her. The figures and words of the Old and New Testaments prove this. The sentiments and examples of the Saints confirm it. Reason and experience teach and demonstrate it. Even the Devil and his crew, constrained by the force of truth, have often been obliged to avow it in spite of themselves. St. Louis Marie de Montfort
Alas, O Lord! I am so wretched that without this dear Mother I would certainly be lost. Yes, Mary is necessary for me . . .
that she may save me from the eternal punishment of Thy justice
. . . Would that everyone might know that I should be already damned were it not for Mary!
St. Louis Marie de Montfort>http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/mary18a.htm
Exactly. Obedience to this man's teachings brings one into a position of ruining oneself spiritually, but according to the Catholic teaching on infallible security this is an impossibility with a true pope:
God has given the Holy Father a kind of infallibility distinct from the charism of doctrinal infallibility in the strict sense. He has so constructed and ordered the Church that those who follow the directives given to the entire kingdom of God on earth will never be brought into the position of ruining themselves spiritually through this obedience....The infallible security Christ wills that His disciples should enjoy within His Church is utterly incompatible with such a possibility. - Monsignor Fenton, pre-Vatican II Catholic theologian, 1949.
I would add that this quote refers to official teachings, but we’ve seen enough of Francis’ “magisterium” to apply it to him.
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