ANTI-POPE FRANCIS?

Prophets have issued warning that so-called Pope Francis is an anti-pope. From persistent miracles of the sun to levitation and various visions, Catholic prophets have named "Pope" Francis an anti-pope. Speaking with Vatican insiders, including Pope Benedict XVI, "Pope" Francis has been identified as having taught various heresies, including:

1. Communion to divorce and remarried (a violation of Church Teaching about the immorality of sex outside of marriage & a sacrilige against the Eucharist) This is back by Cardinal Gerhard Müller's article in the L'Osservatore Romano.
2. Pacifism (Teaching against Just War Doctrine a doctrine endorsed by Jesus himself (Luke 22:38)
3. Universalism (in regard to Pentecostals: “You know you don’t need, you don’t need to be in the church, you are part of the church, you don’t physically need to be in it, inside it you know to be part of God’s family like”)

Some have stated that the tally for the election of Francis was not close enough to the majority to even elect him. One tally was:

33 Bertone

32 Arinze

26 Bergolio (Francis)

This tally should mean that Bertone should have been elected. However, there is one more wrinkle in this plan: Pope Benedict XVI is still the patriarch of Rome. No pope has ever been partriach of Rome without being pope. 

Another factor is that Pope Benedict is still the bishop of Rome. The pope is, de facto, the bishop of Rome. So much so that anyone elected and installed as bishop of Rome is treated and named pope.

This leaves me to wonder, with the attack on the Sacrament of Marriage during the so-called synod on the Family, whether Francis is pope or not. In fact, all the cardinals and bishops in attendance rebelled against  Francis and the Synod agenda of allowing Communion for the divorced and remarried (without annulments). 

One wonders when the so-called papal administration will admit his lack of election or not.

FACTS

There have been several anti-popes in the past, including three anti-popes opposing one pope at one period in history.

Gregory XII's Antipope Opponents:

1. Pedro de Luna ("Benedict XIII") (1394-1417), antipope
2. Baldassare Cossa ("John XXIII") (1400-1415), antipope
3. Pietro Philarghi ("Alexander V")(1409-1410), antipope

As a final note, no pope has ever been found guilt of heresy except several antipopes, including Pedro de Luna.

The Case of Schismatic Apologists

In case you did not know, several apologists seem to have stepped on the line of schism over the years. Some seemed to have stepped over. Gerry Matatics (see below) comes to mind, a fervent Catholic apologist who defended the faith, yet fell into schismatic traditionalism.

Schismatic Apologists Online
There are several schismatics (calling themselves Catholics) who perform apologetics online. This blog is not intended to be a laundry list of them, but to generally examine a couple of their positions.

Dimond Brothers
Michael and Peter Dimond have taken to debating with the Vatican, taking to attacking Vatican II, Current and past Post-Vatican II popes and other unpopular positions (to Sedes) such as the Novus Ordo (Post-Vatican II Mass).

Robert Sungenis
Currently Robert disagrees with the beatification of Pope John Paul II. He points to errors of judgement in his pontificate, saying they had to separate his pontificate from his cause for the first time in history.

Gerry Matatics
Gerry Matatics states that he believes in no salvation outside the Church. A strict position of "No Salvation Outside the Church" has been condemned by the Holy Office in condeming Fr. Feeney, who said Catholics cannot be saved:

“These things are clearly taught [in the Encyclical on the Mystical Body], in it the Supreme Pontiff clearly distinguishes between those who actually are incorporated into the Church as members, and those who adhere to the Church only by way of votum (will)...” (The Holy Office).

Sede Vacantism
I have address the Issue of Sede Vacantism in another blog. I will not get into it here.

I know Better
Sola Scriptura (using Scripture alone to interpret) and Sola Traditio (interpreting Tradition by personal judgement) cause these errors. In reading pontifical and papal-approved conciliar documents, we are not privately interpret them. We are rather to refer to other papal documents in interpreting such documents. This is because we individually have not been given infallibility, but it has been given to the pope, the bishops in union with the pope, or the Catholic Faithful as a whole.

No one knows better. Even the pope in his personal judgement does not know better. Rather, in view of his office as the successor of Peter, do we have a reliable interpretation.