©Lúcio Mascarenhas, Dec 10, 2007
The Feeneyite heretic Vin Lewis challenges: "If the pope loses the papacy because of heresy, does he resume the papacy if he makes a good confession? Does he suddenly ascend to the papacy upon making a good confession?"
"If a pope loses the papacy because of heresy, or if a pope-elect is prevented from assuming the papacy because of heresy, is he acclaimed pope after making a good confession if the College of Cardinals, the College of Bishops and the vast majority of the faithful continue to recognize him as pope?" (Sedevacantism Rising?)
This is echoed by Michael Solimanto: "Pope Saint Marcellinus never had to be re-elected to the papacy. We aren't talking about the sins of heresy or apostasy, but whether one loses office from heresy while not having a formal declaration as such."
The level of ignorance is appalling. Popes have been given us in order to guide us, and they have taken the trouble to provide clear written instructions for our benefit, not to clutter some library, but that we may thereby save our souls. It is obvious that neither of these persons have read and studied Pope Paul IV's law, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio.
It is for this reason that I am providing the links to this valuable document here: Pope
Paul IV, 1559: Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio | Cum
Ex Retained | Cum Ex
Today Read and study it!!!
There is no Catholic Doctrine formally stating that a Pope can lose the faith; however, many do believe that this is so, as I do. There is Catholic Doctrine that teaches that a public and manifest heretic cannot become Pope.
I believe that a man elected Pope retains fully his free will, and it is the nature of free will that a soul may err so much that he becomes an apostate. I consider opinions that deny that a Pope can err into apostasy as being a denial of the Pope continuing to possess free will, which is impossible and a heresy — every living human being on earth possesses free will.
The Law of the Church, as codified by Pope Paul IV, which is also included into the Code of
Canon Law, 1917, as Canon 188, is Divine Law: A non-Catholic, an apostate, cannot ascend to any position of authority over the Church. The 1917 Code stresses that a person has tacitly
defected due to apostasy, which is a subtle difference from what is taught by Pope Paul IV's Cum ex Apostolatus Officio.
Catholic Doctrine does not admit that merely making a "good confession" reconciles an apostate to the Church. Moreover, Canon Law excludes an automatic restoration to any office in the Church.
The Modernist Apostates can be reconciled only by a true Pope, not by Cardinals and the College of Bishops. And reconciliation depends on a true and sincere contrition, which is evident by its absence.
If I were bishop of someplace, and I publicly apostatized to Mahomettanism, it is not merely a "good confession" that would either reconcile me to the Church or that would restore me to my
office as bishop of the diocese I formerly led.
There is also the question of "Restoration". Restoration requires that I should have held a particular position to which I am now being restored. But according to the law of Pope Paul IV,
apostates and heretics never truly attained to Catholic offices, so where does the question of a "restoration" arise?
As far as St. Marcellinus is concerned, he never apostatized. Tales of his apostasy were invented out of broad cloth by heretics, and unfortunately some Catholics did give them credence. Nevertheless, it remains that he never did apostatize. But even if he had committed the sin attributed to him, it cannot be claimed that he truly apostatized. Apostasy requires
pertinacy: Stubborn adherence to error. When one, in weakness, surrenders momentarily to evil, one becomes a sinner, and, at most, a putative Lapsee, not definitely an apostate; a person claimed to have become a lapsee does not automatically cease to be member of the Church, and so does not automatically lose office, and so does not have to undergo any formal rite to be "restored".
Regards,
Lúcio Mascarenhas, Bombay, India
Secretary for Correspondence to His Holiness Michael I, by the Grace of God, Pope.
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In Refutation of Vin Lewis, Feeneyite Heretic, ©Lúcio Mascarenhas, Dec 10, 2007