Roberto de Mattei: The Church cannot be without the Pope. Those who do not admit the power of Francis err

The enemies of the Church have always tried to hit Papacy. Today, a large threat to St Peter's office is the fluid synodism, which is to replace the hard construction of the Church with unclear decision-making processes. However, Papacy is besides challenged by those who reject the power of Francis. The Italian historian Prof. Roberto de Mattei writes about this.

During the Mass of the synod on Sunday 27 October, the scaffolding will be removed, which covered the canopy in St. Peter's Basilica for 9 months. Bernini's masterpiece will exalt Papacy in the eyes of the faithful.

St. Peter's Basilica is simply a figure of the Church built on Peter's grave. This church, the Mystical Body of Christ, is simply a monarchic community, continuously governed by the legitimate successors of the Prince of Apostles. The pope's full and direct sovereignty is the rule of unity of faith, which exists only in the Catholic Church. The foundation of papal sovereignty is not the charism of infallibility, which was given exclusively by Christ to Peter as head of the Church, regardless of the apostolic college united with Peter. This foundation is the primacy of jurisdiction which the pope has over the universal Church. This primacy, together with the authority of the Magisterium, includes the full power of shepherding the Church in its entirety, directing and governing it, as defined by the Vatican Council I (Denz-H, No. 3065 et seq.).

Throughout history, the Catholic Church has experienced many schism and heresy, but its enemies were driven by a peculiar hatred of Papacy. This was due to the fact that Papacy represented the visible summit of the Church, its center of gravity. It is. catechone designed to face the gates of hell and to mention triumph over them. In fresh decades, however, what Paul VI called in his celebrated speech “The smoke of Satan” (Homily of June 29, 1972), mysteriously penetrated the Temple of God, causing deep chaos. The Synod on Synodality in 2024 is 1 of the latest manifestations of this dark fog, which gives emergence to anxiety among the authority-given members of the church hierarchy. Cardinal Anthony Colin Fisher, Archbishop of Sydney, stated, for example, that the Synod “He cannot come up with a fresh Catholic religion or a Catholic Church” due to the fact that they are “a large treasure that we have received from erstwhile generations, beginning with our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles. We are here to faithfully pass it on to the next generation.“(https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/10/16/Australian-archbishop-synod-on-synodity-cannot-reinvent-the-catholic-fair/?fbclid=IwY2xjawF9u8ZleHRuA2F).

"Rethinking" of religion or the Catholic Church is not limited to demanding the ordination of the deaconate for women or marriages of priests, which are declared objectives of Catholic progressiveism. The eventual goal, hidden in actions alternatively than expressed in words, is the deconstruction of Papacy. It is about replacing the hierarchical constitution of the Church with a “synodical dimension” which democratizes and distorts it. This is the consequence of a long-standing revolutionary process. This process, as predicted by prof. Plinio Corraa de Oliveira in 1977, aims to transform into an insignificant ectoplasm "the noble and firm rigidity of the ecclesiastical structure, as our Lord Jesus Christ established it, and how wonderfully it was designed by 20 centuries of spiritual lifeIt’s okay. ”

Unfortunately, any of the defenders of the Tradition of the Church against the errors and doctrinal distortions of our times, are active in the process of liquidating papal power. These are those who, assigning work for the present crisis in the Church only to Pope Francis or mainly him, declare the illegality of his pontificate, calling him anti-Pope and usurper, who illegally occupies the Cathedral of Peter. For them, as rightly noted, the figure of the Pope becomes de facto unnecessary for the life and existence of the Church. The rejection of Pope Francis in fact turns into a negation of the authority of the Bishop of Rome (Parole chiare sulla Chiesa, edited by Don Daniele Di Sorco, Edizioni Radio Spada, 2023, pp. 87-90).

The false of specified a position is manifested in the form of sharp disputes among those who accuse Francis of usurpation.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the most celebrated typical of these "anarchoconservatives" (cf. https://www.corrispondenzaromana.it/larcivescovo-vigano-verso-lanarco-vacantismo-2-parte/), argues for the annulment of Jorge Maria Bergoglio's election on the basis of open heresy and "mistakes of consent". writer Andrea Cionci and priest (honested) Alessandro Minutella rejects the doctrinal criticism of the council popes made by Archbishop Viganò and announce that Pope Francis is an anti-Pope due to the fact that Benedict XVI's abdication was canonically invalid. Carmelite priest Giorgio Maria Farè late accepted the same line. But erstwhile Farè's father, supported by Cionci, announced that he would file a canonical appeal against the excommunication that would likely contact him, he was accused by Minutella of contradiction. Addressing the Vatican Court, he would recognise the jurisdiction of Bergogglia's "neocciola". According to Minutelli, Viganò, summoned by the Dicastery of the Doctrine of Faith, he consistently refused to appear in front of the “sect of Bergoglian”. However, in the face of verbal aggression, the fresh statements of a erstwhile nuncio in the United States, even priests and laymen who had supported him so far, began to distance themselves from him. The confusion is complete and no 1 is able to offer an alternate to the pope Francis, who would sit usurpably on the Holy See.

The past of the Church counts many "anti-Pope", from Saint Hippolyt (217-235) to Felix V (1439-1449), not counting respective insignificant contemporary contenders. past Dictionary of Papacy under Philippe Levillain, he mentions about forty anti-cigarettes (Bompani, 1996, pp. 73-76). A fresh essay by Maria Prignano (Antipapi. Una storia della Chiesa, Laterza, 2024), contains their presentation, though it does not give a precise number; however, it emphasizes this kind of conflict to realize the past of the Church.

In fact, the very existence of all these anti-cigarettes proves that the Church cannot be without the pope. The alleged "sede vacante" is simply a transitional phase foreseen in canon law between the death of the Bishop of Rome and the election of his successor. In this short period, the structure of the Church remains unchanged. Theoretically, it is possible for the Pope to lose his pontificate due to heresy, though it has never happened in history. However, it is certain that the Church cannot live without the Pope.

Those who preach present the existence of a sede vacante due to Pope Francis' heresy, the illegality of his choice or the annulment of Benedict XVI's abdication cannot ignore 1 undeniable fact: acceptance of the universal Church as a theological criterion ensuring the legitimacy of the Pope. Otherwise, it deprives the Church of its character as a visible society, besides taking distant its ability to intervene in the future in a final way to solve the current crisis. Only the highest and solemn voice can put an end to the ongoing process of self-destruction: the voice of the Pope. It is crucial to remember that Christ is walking on the changing waves of past with Peter and his successors, to whom he constantly directs the words engraved on the interior side of the dome over the canopy of St. Peter: “Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam, et portae inferi non praevalebund adversum eam“You are Peter, and on this stone I will build my Church, and the gates Hell they will not prevail."

Roberto de Mattei

Source: corrispondenzaromana.it

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