Francis Directly Contradicts Catholic Teaching, Accuses The Church Of Mistakes
Source: vaticancatholic.com
In a letter dated Nov. 21, 2024, Antipope Francis directly contradicted Catholic teaching about the Church’s preservation from mistakes and “wrinkles”.
Antipope Francis, Letter on the Renewal of the Study of Church History, Nov. 21, 2024: “According to an oral tradition whose written source I cannot confirm, a great French theologian used to tell his students that the study of history protects us from ‘ecclesiological monophysitism’, that is, from an overly angelic conception of the Church, presenting a Church that is unreal because she lacks spots and wrinkles. Indeed the Church, like our own mothers, must be loved as she is; otherwise we do not love her at all, or what we love is only a figment of our imagination. Church history helps us to see the real Church and to love the Church as she truly exists, and love what she has learnt and continues to learn from her mistakes and failures. A Church that even in her darkest moments is conscious of her deepest identity can be capable of understanding the imperfect and wounded world in which she lives. In her efforts to bring healing and renewal to the world, she will use the same means by which she strives to heal and renew herself, even if she at times does not succeed.”
Notice that the valid popes taught exactly the opposite.
Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri (#18), Dec. 31, 1929: “… God Himself made the Church a sharer in the divine magisterium and by His divine benefit unable to be mistaken.”
Pope Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicaea, 787: “… Christ our God, when He took for His Bride His Holy Catholic Church, having no blemish or wrinkle, promised he would guard her and assured his holy disciples saying, I am with you every day until the consummation of the world.”