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Recently, Pope Francis has made a series of moves that strongly suggest he is in a heretical, homosexual bed with the Anti-Christ’s global elites. Since someone is sure to wonder about that whole papal infallibility thing, let me clarify that right away.

PAPAL INFALLIBILITY: Vatican I explained that the pontiff is only speaking with supreme apostolic authority when he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the universal Church.

He must “directly and conclusively pronounce … in such a way that each one of the faithful … knows for certain that such and such a doctrine is held to be heretical, proximate to heresy, certain or erroneous.”

If the faithful cannot know from what the pope says that a particular proposition is to be regarded in a particular way, then the pope has not defined the matter for the universal Church and thus has not spoken infallibly.

CLIMATE: This week, he issued an Apostolic Exhortation in which he called for aggressive, globally enforced climate legislation. “It is no longer possible to doubt the human – ‘anthropic’ – origin of climate change. I feel obliged to make these clarifications, which may appear obvious, because of certain dismissive and scarcely reasonable opinions that I encounter, even within the Catholic Church.”

The pontiff can say whatever he likes, but he can only pronounce on doctrine with regard to faith or morals. Whether or not human activity is causing catastrophic climate change is a matter for scientists, not theologians or popes. As for the so-called green agenda he says we must aggressively support, I am on board with Dr. Patrick Moore who says our use of fossil fuels has saved the planet from carbon starvation, that climate activists are deeply anti-human, and that environmental decisions need to be made carefully with respect to all competing concerns.

DUBIA: Pope Francis has responded to the questions of five cardinals in ways that contradict the traditional teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically, he said priests can decide for themselves whether or not to bless same sex unions and that Catholics who have divorced and remarried without obtaining an annulment can decide for themselves if they are eligible to receive Holy Eucharist. He also overturned previous papal pronouncements concerning the finality of the RCC’s position on women’s ordination; he thinks we should talk about it again.

BLESS THEM: “Let us love our shepherds, pray for the conversion of Pope Francis and the German bishops, and resist the temptation to hate them for their errors, so that we may one day, by God’s grace, all worship our Lord together in the beatific vision.” – Andreas Wailzer

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