Posted on 01/31/2025 9:45:45 AM PST by marshmallow
An Italian priest has been excommunicated after he said publicly that he believed Pope Francis is an “antipope”.
Fr Natale Santonocito, 61, parish priest of San Cesarea Church, south east of Rome, was investigated after posting several online videos in which he says that Francis has never been pope.
“The Pope is not the Pope,” he says in one of them. “He never was.”
The priest, who was ordained in 2023, has been removed from active ministry in the Diocese of Tivoli and Palestrina and automatically excommunicated.
He took to YouTube on Wednesday to issue a valedictory statement.
“I have to shout out this truth that many may find shocking,” he said, wearing white priestly vestments.
“For 11 years we have had an antipope,” he added.
In earlier posts he had said: “The so-called Francis is not the Pope, he never was because Benedict XVI, on February 11, 2013, never renounced the papacy.”
He said Benedict “did not abdicate by renouncing the munus petrino, ie, the investiture as pope that derives directly from God, as is expressly required by canon 332.2.
“Rather, Pope Benedict made a declaration in which he renounced the ministerium, the practical exercise of power, and not the papacy.”
Bishop Mauro Parmeggiani of Tivoli and Palestrina launched an urgent investigation of Fr Santonocito’s statements following the first of his posts in early December.
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These priests need to start their own Truth community!
I'd wear it like a badge of honor.
How serious is it to be excommunicated from the Catholic denomination if one believes he is right in his position?
How serious is it, what does it mean in his relation to God?
Excommunication is supposed to be for apostasy, which is the total rejection of the Christian faith. But they’re using it now to silence any opposition to church authority. This is not what God intended.
But they don’t use it on Biden, Pelosi and others that work feverishly to kill babies.
I’d like to ask Fr Santonocito, what exactly does he want? Another conclave?
Does he believe the previous conclave was illegally convened?
“he never was because Benedict XVI, on February 11, 2013, never renounced the papacy”
Benedict was sure he had renounced the papacy.
He’s 100% correct!
Not just the anti-pope but the Marxist anti-pope.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/benedict-rejects-rumors-why-he-resigned-simply-absurd
“There isn’t the slightest doubt about the validity of my resignation from the Petrine ministry,” Benedict wrote to Andrea Tornielli, a veteran Vatican reporter with La Stampa newspaper.
“The only condition for the validity is the complete freedom of my decision. Speculations about the invalidity of my resignation are simply absurd.”
No, the ones who are trying to throw God out of every institution of America are invited to the Vatican with open arms. The ones who are for everything that the Bible is against, and against everything that the Bible is for, are treated better than those who have been devout Catholics their whole life.
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Leading the tolerant RM to warn:
If it is the general consensus here at the FR Religion Forum that the Pope is NOT a Catholic, then yes posts about him will not qualify for the Catholic caucus label.
And yet the unscriptural RCC is asserted to remains spotless, undefiled.
...they should ALL say Frankie is NOT pope and get sacked.
Then call their nearest Orthodox Bishop and join right up.
Rome has fallen, get over it and move East!
Frankie’s is going to be the last pope.
Agreed. But take it further like Jesus said to do in Matthew 23:9 and call no man "father". IMHO, the context of that isn't Jesus saying to have no type of mentoring or leadership, but to not give someone the kind of ultimate spiritual authority over you (or you have that kind of authority on others) that the RCC does the pope.
Matthew 23:8-12 (AMP): 8 But do not be called Rabbi (Teacher); for One is your Teacher, and you are all [equally] brothers. 9 Do not call anyone on earth [who guides you spiritually] your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 Do not let yourselves be called leaders or teachers; for One is your Leader (Teacher), the Christ. 11 But the greatest among you will be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be raised to honor.
Fellow Protestants, we should also check ourselves too. Perhaps we should keep some distance between us and someone who claims to be Archbishop Prophet Leader John Smith or whatever. See tagline. The context of that is if someone claims to have the gift of prophecy.
francis is a commie gay ... popedude.
NOT the Pope. That pos evil has no more legitimate authority than biden, he was placed there by the Vatican’s version of the deep state.
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