Cardinal Raymond Burke pronounced in a December 14 homily the truism that the Church is in "the most troubled time."
He acknowledged that "the confusion, error, and division that multiply daily in the Church" can evoke feelings of fear, betrayal, anger, and even thoughts of abandoning the Church.
However, Cardinal Burke emphasized that "schism is never justified".
And, "No matter what we are asked to suffer we must remain with Christ even if those in the highest positions of authority in the Church should abandon him and commit the grave crime of apostasy from the Catholic faith."
Cardinal Burke urged the faithful to hold fast to the Gospel, the Sacred Tradition handed down from the Apostles, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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But a heretic and apostate who was invalidly elected Pope is an illegitimate authority. I don't know why Cardinal Burke refuses to look at Bergoglio's apostate past. Is a civil institution more important than a divine institution? When someone applies for any job, the candidate is investigated for criminal records. If, for example, deception is discovered and it comes to light that the head of a bank lied and committed fraud to obtain the job because he was a thief and remains a thief, the most logical thing is that when it is discovered he should be dismissed and subjected to criminal proceedings. But I am surprised that those occupying the positions of cardinals continue to cover up for Bergoglio, since the Magisterium of the Church has established that no heretic, woman or child can become Pope.
Bergoglio is an apostate and a schismatic who, since Argentina, had already betrayed Christ and the Church, and no priest or faithful Catholic can continue to be united with this apostate, otherwise they passively join Bergoglio's rebellion against God. Bergoglio must be expelled from the Church as he deserves. Since Bergoglio's apostasy and heresy are public, he must be treated as what he is: a traitor who is defying God and the Church; therefore, he must be judged and publicly anathematized, and no one can continue in communion with Bergoglio, because anyone who continues to treat him as pope will become his accomplice.
The schismatic Jorge Bergoglio himself says he’s not afraid of a schism in the Catholic Church.
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St. Vincent Ferrer warned that paying papal honors to a false pope is a very serious sin of idolatry against the First Commandment. St. Vincent Ferrer: “Schismatics are those who obey the false (pope) as if he were legitimate.”
And Cardinal Burke should make it clear that the schism was committed by Bergoglio, not by those who separate themselves from this apostate who openly rebels against the laws of God and against the teachings of the Church. The schismatic Jorge Bergoglio himself says he's not afraid of a schism in the Catholic Church.
"Finally they cannot be numbered among the schismatics, who refuse to obey the Roman Pontiff because they consider his person to be suspect or doubtfully elected on account of rumors in circulation..." Wernz-Vidal: Ius Canonicum, Vol vii, n. 398.
"Neither is someone a schismatic for denying his subjection to the Pontiff on the grounds that he has solidly founded [probabiliter] doubts concerning the legitimacy of his election or his power [refs to Sanchez and Palao]." de Lugo: Disp., De Virt. Fid. Div., disp xxv, sect iii, nn. 35-8
"Nor is there any schism if one suspects the person of the pope or the validity of his election, or if one resists him as the civil head of a state." Szal, Rev Ignatius: Communication of Catholics with Schismatics, CUA, 1948, p.2
