Think about the horrific implications of heretics voting for the next pope!
What are some of those implications?
How about the fact that a heretic "cardinal" is no longer in the Catholic Church (no longer holds the Catholic faith), votes in a conclave that would not be valid, and the "election" would not be valid, therefore, that person "elected" -- the pope -- would not be valid!
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this...
(Note: If ex-communicated "cardinals" do vote in the next conclave, The Sedevacantists Will Have A Field Day, Proving They Are "Right"! -- There would be no valid pope!)
No, I'm not a sedevacantist, but reality must be faced, regardless of the consequences! Truth cannot be compromised or ignored for the sake of "unity," or to put on a proper face for the world to see...
And that's part of the problem with those heterodox, heretical "cardinals," they have embraced the zeitgeist -- the spirit of the world -- to form a new, novus ordo, synodal "church". (A new synodal church are the words they have used!)
The following articles and videos shed some much-needed light on this horrendous situation now facing what the world sees as the Catholic Church.
Frist, we have an article from lifesitenews.com and written by Emily
Mangiaracina, Ralph Martin emphasizes danger of heretical cardinals taking part in the next papal conclave - LifeSite."(LifeSiteNews) — Author and seminary professor Dr. Ralph Martin highlighted in a recent video the danger of the participation of heretical cardinals — like Robert McElroy — in the next papal conclave.
Last week, Dr. Martin pointed to an article by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, in which the orthodox bishop called out the heresy of certain prelates and warned that such heresy incurs automatic excommunication.
As an example, Paprocki quoted from an article by McElroy in which the cardinal argued that the Catholic Church must permit unrepentant adulterers and active homosexuals to Holy Communion. Paprocki referred to McElroy’s condemnation of “a theology of eucharistic coherence that multiplies barriers to the grace and gift of the eucharist.”
McElroy wrote “as if no such barriers existed,” Paprocki noted. He continued:
They do exist, and they are a matter of divine revelation. The truth about eucharistic coherence that must be believed by divine and Catholic faith was articulated by St. Paul in his First Letter to the Corinthians: “Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord … For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself” (1 Cor. 11:27-29). This has been the constant teaching of the Church for the past 2,000 years.
“To invite people to receive without repentance without faith, it’s really a sacrilege, it’s really blasphemous in many different ways,” Dr. Martin remarked.
He pointed out that Paprocki also took aim at Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich’s claim that “homosexual acts are not sinful” and that same-sex unions should be blessed by the Church.
“Unfortunately, it is not uncommon today to hear Catholic leaders affirm unorthodox views that, not too long ago, would have been espoused only by heretics,” Paprocki remarked. “‘Heretic’ and ‘heresy’ are strong words, which contemporary ecclesiastical politeness has softened to gentler expressions such as ‘our separated brethren … ‘”
Paprocki stressed that such terms, however, are used for those who “reject essential truths of the faith … Thus, it is deeply troubling to consider the possibility that prelates holding the office of diocesan bishop in the Catholic Church may be separated or not in full communion because of heresy.”
The bishop maintained that both the statements cited above from Cardinals McElroy and Hollerich “would in fact involve heresy” because they constitute “the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt … of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith,” the canonical definition of heresy.
He further pointed out that canon 1364 states that “an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication,” meaning such persons are automatically excommunicated “without any canonical process.”
Dr. Martin alluded to Paprocki’s warning that if the pope does not remove heretical cardinals from office or laicize them, “the unseemly prospect arises of a cardinal, excommunicated latae sententiae due to heresy, voting in a papal conclave.”
Not only has Pope Francis not dismissed these prelates from their office or from the clerical state, Dr. Martin noted, he has actively promoted them. McElroy was recently appointed archbishop of Washington, D.C., and both were personally chosen by Francis as voting members of the Synod on Synodality.
Speculation about the likely theological leanings of the next pope has been growing as Francis’ health worsens. LifeSiteNews’ Raymond Wolfe has pointed to Francis’ radical, heterodox American appointments to the College of Cardinals as indicative of his aspirations to usher in “a different Church” that “would all but destroy the Catholic Church as we know it.” According to Wolfe:
Their vision, much of it rooted in Francis’ controversial apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, includes dismantling the Church’s understanding of sin and conscience, overhauling Catholic teaching on homosexuality and the family, entrenching LGBT activism within the Church, and shielding homosexual abusers while crushing the faithful Catholic priests and laity who stand in their way.
McElroy alone has suggested that the Synod on Synodality will be a key part of reshaping even the “deposit of faith,” writing that the synodal process seeks “nothing less than a recasting of the culture of the church that will endure for generations,” and that “The deposit of faith is not an inert and abstract body of teaching.”
Considering that someone as practically heterodox as Francis has already been elected, and that since then he has only further stacked the College of Cardinals with like-minded men, many commentators anticipate that the next pope will be just as heterodox or worse.