"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend Truth is to suppress it." Pope St. Felix III

Greetings in Jesus and Mary.....

When the Pope and bishops preach the truth of the Catholic Faith to us, as they have received it from authentic magisterial sources, God expects us to believe them. And when they tell us to do something within the realm of their jurisdiction, He expects us to obey.

BUT --- the temptation of the day is to be in a mindless obedience comfort zone, and insist that as long as we are "with the Pope" we can't be wrong. If only more people realized that the Message of Fatima was a warning from Heaven not to make that deadly mistake, we would have magnanimous saints defending TRUTH ....is that why the Third Secret has been silenced and still is to this day????

St. Robert Bellarmine demonstrates that the Pope's authority is by no means unlimited or arbitrary.....

"Just as it is licit to resist the Pontiff that aggresses the body, it is also licit to resist the one who aggresses souls or who disturbs civil order, or above all, who attempt to destroy the Church. I say that it is licit to resist him by not doing what he orders and by preventing his will from being executed; it is NOT licit, however, to judge, punish or depose him, since these acts are proper to a superior." De Romano Pontiface, Book II, Ch. 29

16th Century theologian, Francisco Suarez wrote...."If a Pope gives an order contrary to right customs, he should not be obeyed; if he attempts to do something manifestly opposed to justice and the common good, it will be lawful to resist him..." De Fide Disp X Sec VI, N. 16

Cardinal Juan de Torquemada (theologian who formulated the definitions issued at the Coucil of Florence wrote....."Were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scriptures, or the articles of faith, or the truth of the sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law, he ought not to be obeyed, but in such commands he is to be disregarded." Summa de ecclesia, Venice M Tranmezium, 1561, Book 2,  Ch.49

St Thomas Aquinas answers to the question of whether a man is bound to correct his prelate....."It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter's subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith..." Summa Theoligica II Q3 33, A 4 ad 2  St. Thomas notes that resistance to teaching or practices against the Faith by anyone...even the Pope....is neither unlawful nor presumptuous, but is both a duty and an act of charity.

The primary purpose of an Ecumenical Council is to clarify the Catholic Faith, distinguishing the Church's teaching from the errors of the day. Thus the documents of a Church Council must be written in such a way that everyone understands them in the same sense. If the documents are unclear, they will only be a source of greater confusion........

Pope Paul VI himself lamented these bitter fruits of the Counil which had become immediately apparent, and plagued the entirety of his pontificate....

1968: "The Church finds Herself in an hour of anxiety, a disturbed period of self-criticism or what would even better be called self-destruction. It is an interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which nobody expected after the Council. It is almost as if the Church were attacking itself. We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of conceptions which matured in the great sessions of the council. But one must notice above all the sorrowful aspect. It is as if the Church were destroying Herself." Taken from an address to the Lombardy Seminary in Rome, Dec. 7, 1968

1972: " We have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: it is doubt, uncertainty, questioning, dissatisfaction, confrontation...We thought that after the Council, a day of sunshine would have dawned for the history of the Church. What dawned, instead, was a day of clouds and storms, of darkness of searching and uncertainties." Taken from a sermon during the Mass for Sts. Peter and Paul in St Peter Basilica on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of his coronation June 29, 1972.

In one of Sr. Lucia's letters, she wrote...."Our poor Lord....has saved us with so much love and He is so....little loved! So badly served! It is painful to see such a great disorientation and in so many persons who occupy places of responsibility in the Church....They are blind leaders of the blind....as Our Lord tells us in His Gospels, and souls go on allowing themselves to be deceived. Gladly I sacrifice myself and offer my life to God for peace in His Church, for priests and for all consecrated souls, especially for those who are so deceived and mislead."

​This great apostasy that we are living in may have been the Third Secret kept from us at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council. The truth cannot contradict itself, nor can the Church contradict Herself, nor can the Magisterium contradict itself throughout the centuries. If we lose the Faith that the Church has always taught, we lose our souls!

Pray the Rosary and seek the mercy of God through the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Seek Truth in the Gospels, The Catechism written pre-Vatican II, the writings of the saints..not edited by modernists.
​Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

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