Over the centuries, hundreds of popes have succeeded in the Roman Catholic Church. Popes define themselves as infallible when they pronounce themselves "in matters of faith and custom".
Unfortunately, in the name of their presumed infallibility, the popes induce huge crowds of people to follow teachings and ceremonies that do not come from the Word of God.
There is no trace of the dogma of papal infallibility in the Bible, just as it is not written that Christ he constituted Peter "first pope" (see, in this regard, this page ). Indeed, the title of pope was rejected by many bishops at the dawn of Christianity. Papal infallibility was instead officially introduced by Pope Pius IX (1870).
Note that prior to Vatican Council I, many Catholics denied papal infallibility. For example, in the United States the book "Controversial Catechism" was published which carried Archbishop Hughes' Imprimatur, in which there was the following question with the relative answer: "Question: Catholics must not believe that the pope is Infallible? Answer: it is an invention of the Protestants, and not a dogma of the Catholic faith; none of its decisions can be binding under penalty of heresy, unless it is accepted and applied by the doctrinal body, that is, by the bishops of the Church ". Instead this question was suppressed in the next edition of the Catechism. The reason is obvious: after the council, papal infallibility turned out to be not an invention of the Protestants,
In the following study taken from the internet, the author cites examples that show how many popes over the centuries have subscribed to heresies and contradicted each other. So we want to remind you once again to stick to the Lord alone as our guide.
* Liberius (352-366) formally adhered to the Arian heresy (which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ), subscribing to the heretical profession of faith of the council of Sermius and even going so far as to excommunicate Athanasius who defended the divinity of Christ. Both his predecessors and himself had already condemned the Arius heresy; later, his successors condemned the Arian heresy.
* Innocent I (401-417) wrote to the council of Milevis that infants were obliged to receive communion and that if they died baptized but not communicated, they would go to hell. Later, this doctrine was annulled by the Council of Trent in 1562 (Sess. XXI, chap. IV), and the Council of Trent has always anathematized those who will support it (Sess. XXI, can. 4).
* Ormisda (514-523) in 514 declared certain monks of Scythia heretics, because they claimed that one of the Trinity had suffered the death of the cross; but John II in 532 declared that those monks were Orthodox (that is, they held a right doctrine).
* Vigilius (537-555) in 553 with an official declaration defined as conforming to Catholic doctrine some writings called 'Three chapters' (which he himself had condemned in 548). But the fifth ecumenical council (Constantinopolitan II) held in Constantinople in May-June 553 solemnly declared that those same writings were to be considered heretics. But Vigilius resolved to accept the council and its conclusions only on 8 December. He retracted his recent positions contrary to the condemnation of the 'Three Chapters', in fact he wrote to the patriarch of Constantinople acknowledging his error and concluded by saying to him:' Therefore what I have done in defense of the 'Three chapters' is canceled with the definition of our present written '(Epistle to Eutychius,
* Gregory I called the Great (590-604) said that unbaptized children go straight to hell and there they suffer for eternity. Now, this doctrine is condemned by the Roman church because it says that if children die unbaptized they go to a place called limbo (of which the Bible does not speak at all) and no longer to hell as instead stated Gregory I. Gregory also stated that whoever took the title of universal bishop was a precursor of the antichrist; while Gregory VII (1073-1085) affirmed that the bishop of Rome is and must be called universal bishop; here are his words: 'Only the Roman pontiff has the right to be called universal' (Dictatus papae, point 2).
* Honorius I (625-638) approved and taught the heresy of the Monothelites. For this stance he was condemned as a heretic by the sixth ecumenical council in 681. The subsequent popes confirmed the condemnation: among them Leo II who in 682 wrote to the emperor Constantine saying 'to excommunicate all heretics, including Honorius who did not made apostolic doctrine shine in this church in Rome. '
* Hadrian II (867-872) declared the civil marriage valid, while Pius VII (1800-1823) condemned it.
* Pasquale II (1099-1118) and Eugenio III (1145-1153) authorized the duel, while Julius II (1503-1513) and Pius IV (1559-1565) forbade it.
* John XXII (1316-1334) in 1331 taught that the souls of the saints did not have the sight of God before the resurrection of the body. This heresy was condemned by his successor Benedict XII (1334-1342). And always John XXII in the Bull Cum inter nonnullos of 1323 affirmed: 'To say that Christ and the apostles did not possess anything means to misrepresent the Scriptures'; according to him, therefore, Christ and the apostles did not live poor. This first of all contrasts the Word of God, and secondly it is in complete contradiction with what his predecessors Honorius III, Innocent IV, Alexander IV, Boniface VIII had affirmed.
* Sixtus V (1585-1590) in 1590 had an edition of the Vulgate published (which he personally had rewritten to correct the errors that existed in the editions published up to that time) and with a bull declared: 'In the fullness of apostolic power, we decree and we declare that this edition ... approved by the authority granted to Us by the Lord, must be accepted and considered as true, legitimate, authentic and unchallenged in all public and private discussions, in readings, sermons and explanations. ' Shortly after the publication of 'his' Vulgate, Sixtus V died. But the Vulgate he published was found full of errors. Cardinal Bellarmine then to save the honor of Sixtus V suggested to his successor Gregory XIV (1590-1591) to correct it and to present it to the public under the name of Sixtus, giving an apology. Here is what Bellarmine had to declare in his autobiography: 'Some people, whose opinion had great weight, believed that it should be publicly prohibited; I was not of the same opinion and I demonstrated to the Holy Father that, instead of prohibiting the version of the Bible in question, it would be better to correct it in such a way that it could be published without damage to the honor of Pope Sixtus. This could be done by eliminating as soon as possible the inadvisable changes and then publishing the volume with the name of Sixtus and a preface in which it was explained that in the first edition some errors had occurred due to the haste of the printers and other people ' (in essence the cardinal suggested that he lie). The Vulgate of Sixtus after being corrected was published in 1592 by Clement VIII (1592-1605) who was forced to withdraw the copies of the previous Vulgate that had been put on the market.
* Paul V (1605-1621) in 1616 warned Galileo Galilei who claimed that the earth in addition to moving on itself revolves around the sun. In a document of the Holy Office dated 25 February 1616 we read: 'The Illustrious S (ignor) Cardinal Millino notified the Assessor and Commissioner of the Holy Office, who reported the censorship of the Theological Fathers on the proposition of the mathematician Galileo, that the both the center of the world and immobile of local motion, and that the earth also moves with diurnal motion, the Most Holy (Paul V) ordered the Ill.mo S (ignorant) Cardinal Bellarmine, to call before him the aforementioned Galilei , and to admonish him to abandon that opinion; and if he refuses to obey, the P (adre) Commissioner, in front of a notary and witnesses, orders him to completely refrain from teaching, defend or otherwise deal with that doctrine or opinion; if he does not agree, he will be imprisoned. And so did Bellarmino, and Galileo gave the required guarantees. But in 1632 (under Urban VIII) Galileo had the book Dialogue of Galileo Galilei of the two Greatest Systems of the World, Ptolemaic and Copernican, in which under the form of a dialogue he supported those beliefs that he should not have spread. And so the Inquisition called him to Rome and tried him condemning him of heresy. The verdict issued against him in 1633 reads: '... Let's say, pronounce, hear and declare that you, Galileo above, for the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, you have made this S Off.o vehemente suspicion of heresy, that is, of having held and believed doctrine false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures, that the sun is the center of the earth and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that it can be held and defend an opinion for probable after having been declared and de fi ned as contrary to Sacred Scripture ... '. And Galileo was forced to renounce his convictions and in fact affirmed swearing on the Gospel: '... I abjure, curse and hate the aforementioned errors and heresie, and generally any and all other errors, heresia and sect contrary to the Holy Church .. . '. In 1822 Pius VII ratified a decree of the Inquisition authorizing all Copernican treaties on astronomy, while in 1835 the works of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo were removed from the Index of prohibited books. This amounted to saying that Paul V and Urban VIII, in teaching that the earth was immobile and that the sun revolved around it and in condemning as a heretic Galileo's thesis that the earth revolves around itself and around the sun, erred (see alsothis page ).
* Pius IX (1846-1878) in 1854 decreed the immaculate conception of Mary, a doctrine that goes openly against Scripture which teaches that only Jesus was conceived without sin. But what we want to point out is that it was condemned by various predecessors of Pius IX (such as Gelasius I, Gregory called the Great, Innocent III and Leo the Great) and is contrary to the unanimous consent of the so-called fathers.
These are but some of the examples of heresies and contradictions that nullify the Pope's doctrine of infallibility. As Giuseppe Perardi can therefore state in his Manual of the Catechist that 'there was never a Pope who taught a doctrine which deserved censorship; the Pope always taught the truth, he reproached the error in others by recalling them to the truth '(Giuseppe Perardi, op. cit., p. 209) and that he cannot err when defining doctrines about the faith?
How was this Catholic theologian able to make such affirmations when Pope Adrian VI in 1523 said: 'If by the Roman Church we mean its head or pontiff, it is indisputable that he can also err on matters concerning faith. He does this when he preaches heresy in his own judgments or decretals. Indeed, many Roman popes were heretics, and the last of them was Pope John XXII (1316-1334) '(quoted by Peter de Rosa in op. Cit., P. 217)?
And how could Pius IX, in front of so many examples of popes who taught false things, declare the following statement wrong: 'The Roman Pontiffs (...) erred in defining things of faith and customs' (Syllabus of Errors, XXIII )?
Catholic theologians even say that the decisions of the popes are part of the tradition that must be venerated like Scripture. How do they say this, and how can they trust this tradition of theirs which contradicts itself and contradicts the Word of God?
(from a writing by G. Butindaro)
"In vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines which are the precepts of men. Having neglected the commandment of God you are keeping to the tradition of men ...
How well you know how to cancel the commandment of God in order to observe your tradition!" (Mark 7: 7,8)
"There will also be among you false teachers who will occultly introduce heresies of perdition, and, denying the Lord who redeemed them, will bring immediate ruin upon you. Many will follow them in their debauchery; and due to them the way of truth will be vilified. " (2 Peter 2: 1-2)
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