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To: Repent and Believe; metmom; boatbums; mrobisr; Elsie; MHGinTN; Mark17; BlueDragon
When does Bellarmine say the pope loses office: This is the opinion of all the ancient Fathers, who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction… NOT AFTER WARNINGS OR DECLARATION BECAUSE heretics already before being excommunicated are outside the Church and deprived of all jurisdiction.

But it is fundamentally against Roman Catholicism for the likes of you to be the judge as to whether the pope is guilty of formal heresy based upon your understanding of what he taught, and whether Bellarmine was right versus Suarez, and whether that settles the matter.

I hardly think Bellarmine did not mean for for the likes of you to be the judge of who an invalid pope, which leads to every man a pope invalidator, nor it is your place to even authoritatively judge if Bellarmine was right.

In making private persons as yourself the judge of this based upon your understanding of your supreme authority, in essence you are as a Protestant, who judges the validity of claims based upon what his understanding of his supreme authority, and along with such you hold that Catholicism is largely in apostasy, with the bishops themselves over all not agreeing with your judgment.

That you are not fit to be judge of popes is clearly disallowed by historical RC teaching, as already showed you , with no response,

that .'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent."

As regards the sixteenth-seventeenth century Jesuits Francisco Suarez and St. Robert Bellarmine, the former held (http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/can-pope-heretic) that,

Catholics are supposed to believe that God deposes popes, then Scripture, the Tradition of the Church, and the pronouncements of the Magisterium ought to have said something about it—but they haven’t. Besides, if God deposes popes, you could never be sure if the pope was really the pope—what if he was a secret heretic and God had secretly deposed him? How would you ever know? (Suarez, De fide, 10.6.2-4)

But, if a pope commits the sin of heresy, all the other bishops of the world have the right to try him for the crime of heresy, even against his will (De fide 10.6.7). If they were to convict him, he could be considered deposed from the papacy by Christ, and the Church could elect another pope.

Yet which conflicts with such statenent as that in Dictatus papae [1075], attributed to of Pope Gregory VII, "That he himself may be judged by no one."

Meanwhile, Bellarmine held

that the pope loses his office immediately by committing the sin of formal heresy, because people who commit that sin cease to be members of the Church, and God deposes a pope who is no longer a member of the Church.

But Catholics are not to take it upon themselves to make that judgment, but the bishops would need to declare that God has removed the pope, but your sect no only has an invalid pope, but effectively renders the modern magisterium overall to be invalid.

Of course, the Catholic church distinctives are not only absent in the writings of the NT church ( Acts onward, which are interpretive of the gospels), but contrary to it.

663 posted on 01/14/2017 7:21:10 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212; metmom; boatbums; mrobisr; Elsie; MHGinTN; Mark17; BlueDragon

daniel1212,

You have studied alot about your enemy.

Just like a good general.

Watch everyone, daniel1212 will probably convert sooner or later from all this exposure to catholic literature. He might become (or return to?) the Catholic faith, engaging all these debates making him do all this research!

Hopefully sooner to avoid losing his soul.

Or maybe he’s getting worried that one of you other reader/commenters are getting curious about all this truth being spoken by this Roman Catholic who is worried about your souls.

You are each in my prayers and I or another faithful will be most delighted to assist in any way as you come to Jesus in these last days, departing from your errors.


679 posted on 01/14/2017 9:32:05 PM PST by Repent and Believe (The Son of Man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth? Jesus Christ (Luke 18:8))
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