Vatican II: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

 

The teachings of Vatican II were Modernist to the core. However, they also agree with the Masonic slogan of the damnable French Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." One of the greatest (and, in my opinion, most underrated) popes of the Roman Catholic Church was His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (reigned 1878-1903). On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo penned Humanum Genus, and declared the Masonic sect founded in 1717 the "kingdom of Satan:"

The race of man, after its miserable fall from God, the Creator and the Giver of heavenly gifts, "through the envy of the devil," separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to virtue and to truth. The one is the kingdom of God on earth, namely, the true Church of Jesus Christ; and those who desire from their heart to be united with it, so as to gain salvation, must of necessity serve God and His only-begotten Son with their whole mind and with an entire will. The other is the kingdom of Satan, in whose possession and control are all whosoever follow the fatal example of their leader and of our first parents, those who refuse to obey the divine and eternal law, and who have many aims of their own in contempt of God, and many aims also against God. (para. #1; Emphasis mine).

Never one to mince his words against the sworn enemies of the Church, the brave Vicar of Christ exposed their nefarious slogan/ideology for what it was in the following words:

Wherefore, not without cause do We use this occasion to state again what We have stated elsewhere, namely, that the Third Order of St. Francis, whose discipline We a little while ago prudently mitigated, should be studiously promoted and sustained; for the whole object of this Order, as constituted by its founder, is to invite men to an imitation of Jesus Christ, to a love of the Church, and to the observance of all Christian virtues; and therefore it ought to be of great influence in suppressing the contagion of wicked societies. Let, therefore, this holy sodality be strengthened by a daily increase. Amongst the many benefits to be expected from it will be the great benefit of drawing the minds of men to liberty, fraternity, and equality of right; not such as the Freemasons absurdly imagine, but such as Jesus Christ obtained for the human race and St. Francis aspired to: the liberty, We mean, of sons of God, through which we may be free from slavery to Satan or to our passions, both of them most wicked masters; the fraternity whose origin is in God, the common Creator and Father of all; the equality which, founded on justice and charity, does not take away all distinctions among men, but, out of the varieties of life, of duties, and of pursuits, forms that union and that harmony which naturally tend to the benefit and dignity of society. (para. #34; Emphasis mine). 

Pope Leo XIII clearly taught that "liberty, equality, and fraternity" have two distinct and opposite meanings: the true meaning as understood by the Church, and the Satanic, twisted, Masonic meaning imposed on those words by the Lodge. 

At the Robber Council, the Modernists gave the Masonic-compatible meanings of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in the damnable documents from Hell. In this post, I will demonstrate how that was accomplished, and compare it to the true teaching of the Church.

The False Idea of  Liberty:" Religious Liberty

In the declaration Dignitatis Humanae, Vatican II replaced religious tolerance with religious liberty. 

The teaching of Dignitatis Humanae summarized:

• All individuals and groups must be allowed to practice any religion publicly, and openly proselytize. It is a right that cannot be infringed upon.

• The State must respect all religions and only impose limits on their activities where public order demands such. 

• The State must not discriminate on the basis of religion.

Vatican II Sect on Religious Liberty:

This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.

The council further declares that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself. This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognized in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right. (Dignitatis Humanae, para. #2; Emphasis mine). 

The declaration of this Vatican Council on the right of man to religious freedom has its foundation in the dignity of the person, whose exigencies have come to be are fully known to human reason through centuries of experience. What is more, this doctrine of freedom has roots in divine revelation, and for this reason Christians are bound to respect it all the more conscientiously.  (para. #9; Emphasis mine).

In all his activity a man is bound to follow his conscience in order that he may come to God, the end and purpose of life. It follows that he is not to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his conscience. Nor, on the other hand, is he to be restrained from acting in accordance with his conscience, especially in matters religious. (para. #3; Emphasis mine). 

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church summarized:

• Religious liberty for false religions is never a right. It should never be enshrined in law. False religions may be tolerated to keep the peace if necessary.

• The One True Church must be the State religion, and all false religions suppressed insofar as possible without causing civil unrest endangering Catholics.

The Roman Catholic Church on Religious Liberty:

The Syllabus of Errors (1864) CONDEMNED PROPOSITION #15:

Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

Pope Pius IX, Qui Pluribus para. #15:

Also perverse is the shocking theory that it makes no difference to which religion one belongs, a theory which is greatly at variance even with reason.

Pope Pius IX, Quanta Cura, para. #3:

From which totally false idea of social government they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an “insanity,” viz., that “liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right, which ought to be legally proclaimed and asserted in every rightly constituted society; and that a right resides in the citizens to an absolute liberty, which should be restrained by no authority whether ecclesiastical or civil, whereby they may be able openly and publicly to manifest and declare any of their ideas whatever, either by word of mouth, by the press, or in any other way.” But, while they rashly affirm this, they do not think and consider that they are preaching “liberty of perdition;” (Emphasis mine). 

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, para. #14:

This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it. (Emphasis mine). 

Is anyone surprised that Bergoglio stated: If in the past, our differences set us at odds, nowadays we see in them [false religions] the richness of different ways of coming to God and of educating young people for peaceful coexistence in mutual respect. For this reason, education commits us never to use God’s name to justify violence and hatred towards other religious traditions, to condemn all forms of fanaticism and fundamentalism, and to defend the right of each individual to choose and act in accordance with his or her conscience. 

(See vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2021/october/documents/20211005-pattoeducativo-globale.html; Emphasis mine). Even now, Vatican II sect apologist try to walk back Bergoglio's statement “All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.”  Yet, we can see that Bergoglio is a true product of Vatican II. He believes the first clause with all his might; All religions are paths to God.

The False Idea of Equality: "Collegiality"

 Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, gave the heretical ecclesiology that the Church of Christ subsists in (not is) the Roman Catholic Church. It also gave the world the heretical teaching of collegiality. This is the idea that the bishops, taken as a whole, also are the supreme head of the Catholic Church.  As my spiritual father, Fr. DePauw, once told me, "Before Vatican II, there were 2,500 bishops and one pope. Now, we have 2,501 little popes."

 The Roman Catholic Church on Church Governance:

From the Vatican Council of 1870, Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus:

We therefore teach and declare that, according to the testimony of the Gospel, the primacy of jurisdiction over the universal Church of God was immediately and directly promised and given to Blessed Peter the Apostle by Christ the Lord.

For it was to Simon alone, to whom he had already said, "You shall be called Cephas" (John 1:42), that the Lord, after the confession made by him, saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God", addressed these solemn words: "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven. And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall release on earth shall be released, even in heaven." (Mt 16:16-19).

And it was upon Simon alone that Jesus, after His Resurrection, bestowed the jurisdiction of Chief Pastor and Ruler over all His fold, by the words: "Feed my lambs. Feed my sheep." (St. John 21:15-17).

At open variance with this clear doctrine of Holy Scripture, as it has ever been understood by the Catholic Church, are the perverse opinions of those who, while they distort the form of government established by Christ the Lord in His Church, deny that Peter, in his single person, preferably to all the other Apostles, whether taken separately or together, was endowed by Christ with a true and proper primacy of jurisdiction; or of those who assert that the same primacy was not bestowed immediately and directly upon Blessed Peter himself, but upon the Church, and through the Church on Peter as her Minister.

If anyone, therefore, shall say that Blessed Peter the Apostle was not appointed the Prince of all the Apostles and the visible Head of the whole Church Militant; or that the same, directly and immediately, received from the same, Our Lord Jesus Christ, a primacy of honor only, and not of true and proper jurisdiction; let him be anathema.

Christ established the papacy Himself. The pope alone holds the Supreme Power. The Vatican Council continues:

Hence we teach and declare that by the appointment of our Lord the Roman Church possesses a sovereignty of ordinary power over all other Churches, and that this power of jurisdiction of the Roman pontiff, which is truly Episcopal, is immediate; to which all, of whatsoever rite and dignity, are bound, by their duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, to submit, not only in matters which belong to faith and morals, but also in those that appertain to the discipline and government of the Church throughout the world; so that the Church of Christ may be one flock under one supreme pastor, through the preservation of unity, both of communion and of profession of the same faith, with the Roman pontiff. This is the teaching of Catholic truth, from which no one can deviate without loss of faith and salvation. (Emphasis mine). 

The pope has immediate jurisdiction over the entire Church of whatever dignity. You must submit to the Roman Pontiff in all matters, not only in faith and morals, but in discipline and government. This obedience is due to the pope and no one can refuse it without loss of faith and salvation (are you listening "recognize and resistors"?).  Finally, the Vatican Council of 1870 teaches:

Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, for the glory of God Our Savior, the exaltation of the Catholic Religion, and the salvation of Christian people, the Sacred Council approving, We teach and define that it is a divinely-revealed dogma: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex Cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of Pastor and Teacher of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the Universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals: and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church.(Emphasis mine). 

The pope alone is infallible, and his infallibility is not contingent on consent from anyone. The bishops in an Ecumenical Council share in this infallibility if and only if the Council's decisions are approved and promulgated by the pope. Without papal approval, conciliar decrees have no binding force and cannot be infallible.

The Vatican II Sect on Church Governance:

Lumen Gentium para. #22:

 The order of bishops, which succeeds to the college of apostles and gives this apostolic body continued existence, is also the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church, provided we understand this body together with its head the Roman Pontiff and never without this head. This power can be exercised only with the consent of the Roman Pontiff. (Emphasis mine).

It seems orthodox except that it now declares that there are two sources of supreme power. How can the supreme power be vested in the pope and with the bishops together with the pope? It is not only illogical and heretical, it was placed there by the Modernists so there could be a "synodal Church (sic)"

Here is the result of that teaching:

Encouraging greater "synodal" practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the power of the pope and the power of local bishops in their dioceses, said theologians participating in the Synod of Bishops...

An adjustment in the balance would recognize that the bishops are successors of the apostles and vicars of Christ, not vicars of the pope, said Father José San Jose Prisco, dean of the faculty of canon law at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, and a theological expert at the synod...

Catherine Clifford, a theologian and member of the synod from Canada, told the forum that "recent developments in the practice of synodality in the global Catholic Church reflect a shift in Catholic ecclesiology and practice away from an almost exclusive emphasis on the personal or primatial dimension of the bishop of Rome's office and toward a restoration of greater balance with the collegial and communal dimensions in the exercise of that office." (From Catholic News Service and reported in thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID=198404; Emphasis mine).

The False Idea of Fraternity: "Ecumenism"

Ecumenism, the attempt to make a One World Religion, comes as a result of the heretical ecclesiology of Vatican II that teaches there is a Church of Christ distinct from the Roman Catholic Church. The Church of Christ is present in its "fullness" in the Roman Catholic Church, but it is present in various degrees in false sects according to how many "elements of truth" they possess. To have all the elements is best, but just having some is good too, and leads to salvation; this was discussed above. All of the other heresies of Vatican II can be traced to the false ecclesiology as their root cause. 

Many will be surprised that there is a truly Catholic ecumenism! Here then is:

The Roman Catholic Church on Ecumenism:

1. Unity. The Church was not only numerically one from the Will and intention of Christ, but She also has ever been one and shall be one until the end of time, as it is one of the Four Marks of the Church. Pope Pius XI taught:

This Church, after being so wonderfully instituted, could not, on the removal by death of its Founder and of the Apostles who were the pioneers in propagating it, be entirely extinguished and cease to be, for to it was given the commandment to lead all men, without distinction of time or place, to eternal salvation: "Going therefore, teach ye all nations." In the continual carrying out of this task, will any element of strength and efficiency be wanting to the Church, when Christ Himself is perpetually present to it, according to His solemn promise: "Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world?" It follows then that the Church of Christ not only exists to-day and always, but is also exactly the same as it was in the time of the Apostles, unless we were to say, which God forbid, either that Christ our Lord could not effect His purpose, or that He erred when He asserted that the gates of hell should never prevail against it. (See Mortalium Animos, para. #6). 

The Church is incapable of being divided. Those who leave are not "other churches" because Christ founded only one Church. Nor are those sects "part" of the Church. They are groups of heretics and/or schismatics that have no right to exist and are a means of damnation. The True Church is not "divided" or "less unified" because some leave and call themselves "churches." As Pope Leo XIII taught: 

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ, the Lord - leaving the path of salvation they enter on that of perdition. "Whosoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress. He has cut himself off from the promises of the Church, and he who leaves the Church of Christ cannot arrive at the rewards of Christ....He who observes not this unity observes not the law of God, holds not the faith of the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation" [S. Cyprianus, De Cath. Eccl. Unitate, n. 6]. (See Satis Cognitum, para. #5). 

2. The proper approach of ecumenism. Catholic ecumenism looks from a position of unity in possession, whereas false ecumenism looks for unity as not yet possessed. The false view looks for theories and means of obtaining unity, while true ecumenism aims to share a divinely-given unity which already exists. The primary question should not, therefore, be "How can unity be achieved?"--but rather "How did Christ will His Church to be one?" The answer is to be found in the words of Pope Leo XIII:

Wherefore Jesus Christ bade all men, present and future, follow Him as their leader and Saviour; and this, not merely as individuals, but as forming a society, organized and united in mind. In this way a duly constituted society should exist, formed out of the divided multitude of peoples, one in faith, one in end, one in the participation of the means adapted to the attainment of the end, and one as subject to one and the same authority. To this end He established in the Church all principles which necessarily tend to make organized human societies, and through which they attain the perfection proper to each. That is, in it (the Church), all who wished to be the sons of God by adoption might attain to the perfection demanded by their high calling, and might obtain salvation. The Church, therefore, as we have said, is man's guide to whatever pertains to Heaven. (See Satis Cognitum, para. #10). Therefore, unity is to be had by converting to the One True Church. This conversion must be individual, as corporate reunion is impossible on several grounds.

3. What is "corporate reunion"? Formal corporate reunion may be defined as that act whereby a society of baptized persons, professing the Integral Catholic Faith, enter the Church through a judicially authorized action of legitimate representatives (e.g. Eastern Schismatics who are allowed to retain the Byzantine Rite of Mass, and certain ecclesiastical customs). Material corporate reunion is the return to the Church by a group of people who receive no status like the Easterns. It's just like-minded people professing the Integral Catholic Faith. It is not "a Church joining the Catholic Church" in either case.

The Vatican II Sect on Ecumenism:

1. The Church of Christ is made up of a bunch of sects. The Church of Christ subsists fully in the Roman Catholic Church which has all the "elements" of the Church of Christ, and it subsists partially in false religions according to how many elements they have.  The elements "impel towards unity" because the Church is not unified. Catholic unity is not perfect but "wounded."

Lumen Gentium, para. #8: This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity. (Emphasis mine). 

Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), section 817: In fact, "in this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church — for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame." The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ's Body — here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy, and schism — do not occur without human sin:...(Emphasis mine). 

2. As a result of the "partial communion" of having "some elements" of the Church of Christ, false religions are used by Christ as a "means of salvation."

Unitatis Redintegratio, para. #3: It follows that the separated Churches and Communities as such, though we believe them to be deficient in some respects, have been by no means deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation. For the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Church. (Emphasis mine). 

Catechesi Tradendae ("Encyclical" of Wojtyla), para. #32: The great movement, one certainly inspired by the Spirit of Jesus, that has for some years been causing the Catholic Church to seek with other Christian Churches or confessions the restoration of the perfect unity willed by the Lord, brings me to the question of the ecumenical character of catechesis. This movement reached its full prominence in the Second Vatican Council and since then has taken on a new extension within the Church, as is shown concretely by the impressive series of events and initiatives with which everyone is now familiar...In this context, it is extremely important to give a correct and fair presentation of the other Churches and ecclesial communities that the Spirit of Christ does not refrain from using as means of salvation... (Emphasis mine). 

3. As false religions are a means of salvation, there is salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church. There is no reason you can't pray in common with members of false religions.

Ut Unum Sint ("Encyclical" of Wojtyla), para. #22: Along the ecumenical path to unity, pride of place certainly belongs to common prayer, the prayerful union of those who gather together around Christ himself. If Christians, despite their divisions, can grow ever more united in common prayer around Christ, they will grow in the awareness of how little divides them in comparison to what unites them. 

(Emphasis mine). 

Unitatis Redintegratio, para. #8: In certain special circumstances, such as the prescribed prayers "for unity," and during ecumenical gatherings, it is allowable, indeed desirable that Catholics should join in prayer with their separated brethren. (Emphasis mine). 

4. Indeed, reunion with the Roman Catholic Church is not necessary to be saved, and we must esteem and venerated false religions. Hence:

(a) The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. (Nostra Aetate, para. #3; Emphasis mine). 

(b) The Jews are not guilty of Deicide and accursed: Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. (Ibid, para. #4; Emphasis mine). 

(c) Pagan Hindus and Buddhists, and all other religions are found admirable because of the "elements of truth" they possess, regardless of their demonic teachings, and the Catholic Church rejects none of the "truth in them."

Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust. Again, Buddhism, in its various forms, realizes the radical insufficiency of this changeable world; it teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination. Likewise, other religions found everywhere try to counter the restlessness of the human heart, each in its own manner, by proposing "ways," comprising teachings, rules of life, and sacred rites. The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men. (Ibid, para. #2; Emphasis mine). 

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense.

(Jorge Bergoglio, brainyquote.com/quotes/pope_francis_571227; Emphasis mine).

Conclusion

The Robber Council of Vatican II was the "French Revolution" within the Catholic Church, producing a man-made sect of Counterfeit Catholicism. The Modernists, echoing the Masons, chanted for "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Their "Religious Liberty" destroyed Catholic Europe. Their equality of collegiality led to a "Synodal Church," no longer constituted as the Divine Founder intended. Their fraternity led to universalism, and now leads to a One World Church. 

Query for the R&R and Vatican II sect apologists: "Can you explain, one more time, how Bergoglio is pope and the Catholic Church is ever the same in doctrine and government?"