At
ABE Ministry, we are tired of all the ceaseless pieces about Our Pope
and Our Cross which, invariably, are based upon Polling data or whether or not
the author personally likes the Pope and nearly all of those
likes/dislikes pieces are cast in political categories- he is
liberal, he is conservative - but never based upon what his duties are and so we thought it'd be helpful to
just do a copy and paste of who the Pope is and what his duties are
selected from a general survey of a Pope's description and
duties developed by The Catholic Encyclopedia, a source easily
accessed by Catholics and Non-Catholics alike.
(If one doesn't know what it is a Pope ought to be doing, how'n'hell can one be expected to know if he is doing his duty or not but if one does know what it is a Pope ought be doing, one can then read a piece about a Pope and understand why the author likes (or dislikes) this Pope for many in the world love this Pope because he is not discharging his duties and, let's just face the plain and simple truth about a Pope and his duties - IF A POPE IS DISCHARGING HIS DUTIES FAITHFULLY, HE WILL BE HATED BY THE WORLD FOR THE WORLD IS THE ANCIENT AND PERMANENT ENEMY OF THE ONE TRUE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.)
(If one doesn't know what it is a Pope ought to be doing, how'n'hell can one be expected to know if he is doing his duty or not but if one does know what it is a Pope ought be doing, one can then read a piece about a Pope and understand why the author likes (or dislikes) this Pope for many in the world love this Pope because he is not discharging his duties and, let's just face the plain and simple truth about a Pope and his duties - IF A POPE IS DISCHARGING HIS DUTIES FAITHFULLY, HE WILL BE HATED BY THE WORLD FOR THE WORLD IS THE ANCIENT AND PERMANENT ENEMY OF THE ONE TRUE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.)
So,
let's dive in; and, after you read this copy and paste, we think
it will be painfully obvious that Our Pope and Our Cross is not
doing his duty.
The
Founder and Chairman of ABE Ministry, Amateur Brain Surgeon will
drop comments into the text using (this
parenthetical method of bolded green type).
The
Pope
(Ecclesiastical
Latin papa from
Greek papas, a variant of pappas father,
in classical
Latin pappas —
Juvenal, "Satires" 6:633).
|
The
title pope, ... is at present employed solely to denote
the Bishop of Rome,
who, in virtue of his position as successor of St.
Peter,
is the chief pastor of
the whole Church,
the Vicar
of Christ upon
earth.
The
present article is divided as follows:
Institution
of a supreme head by Christ
The proof that Christ constituted St.
Peter head
of His Church is
found in the two famous Petrine texts, Matthew
16:17-19,
and John
21:15-17.
Matthew
16:17-19
In Matthew
16:17-19,
the office is solemnly promised to
the Apostle.
In response to his profession of faith in
the Divine Nature of
his Master, Christ thus
addresses him:
Blessed art
thou, Simon
Bar-Jona:
because flesh and blood hath not revealed it
to thee, but my Father who
is in heaven.
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter;
and upon this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of
the kingdom
of heaven.
And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth it shall be bound also
in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also
in heaven.
"Blessed
art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed
it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven." The
prerogatives here promised are
manifestly personal to Peter...
"And
I say to thee: That thou art Peter. . ." He
further proceeds to recompense this confession of His Divinity by
bestowing upon him a reward proper to himself:
Thou
art Peter [Cepha, transliterated also Kipha] and upon this rock
[Cepha] I will build my Church.
The
word for Peter and for rock in the original
Aramaic is one and the same; this renders it evident that the various
attempts to explain the term "rock" as having reference not
to Peter himself
but to something else are misinterpretations. It is Peter who
is the rock of the Church.
The term ecclesia (ekklesia) here employed is the Greek
rendering of the Hebrew qahal,
the name which denoted the Hebrew
nation viewed
as God's
Church (see THE
CHURCH,
I).
"And
upon this rock I will build my Church. . ." Here
then Christ teaches
plainly that in the future the Church will
be the society of
those who acknowledge Him, and that this Church will
be built on Peter...
He
is to be the principle of unity,
of stability, and of increase. He is the principle of unity,
since what is not joined to that foundation is no part of the Church;
of stability, since it is the firmness of this foundation in
virtue of which the Church remains
unshaken by the storms which buffet her; of increase, since, if
she grows, it is because new stones are laid on this foundation.
"And
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." It
is through her union with Peter, Christ continues,
that the Church will
prove the victor in her long contest with the Evil
One:
The
gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.
There
can be but one explanation of this striking metaphor. The only manner
in which a man can stand in such a relation to any corporate body is
by possessing authority over it.
The
supreme head of
a body, in dependence on whom all subordinate authorities hold their
power, and he alone, can
be said to be the principle of stability, unity,
and increase.
...
(He
is infamous for his constant fomenting of change and for
speaking about surprises. Similarly, he is well known for
claiming that proselytising is solemn nonsense and for calling
non-catholics, "Bishops").
"And
I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
In
all countries the key is the symbol of authority.
Thus, Christ's words
are a promise that
He will confer on Peter supreme
power to govern the Church. Peter is
to be His vicegerent, to rule in His place.
"And
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth it shall be bound also in heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in
heaven." Further
the character and extent of the power thus bestowed are indicated. It
is a power to "bind" and to "loose" — words
which, as is shown below, denote the grant of legislative
and judicial authority. .
John
21:15-17
The promise made
by Christ in Matthew
16:16-19,
received its fulfilment after the Resurrection in
the scene described in John
21.
Here the Lord,
when about to leave the earth, places the whole flock — the sheep
and the lambs alike — in the charge of the Apostle.
The term employed in 21:16,
"Be the shepherd [poimaine] of my sheep" indicates that his
task is not merely to feed but to rule. It is the same word as is
used in Psalm
2:9(Septuagint):
"Thou
shalt rule [poimaneis] them with a rod of iron".
(He
is very willful and will take actions against those whose
spirituality he thinks are too traditional - Franciscans Friars and
sisters of the Immaculate - but he will not rule with a rod of
iron infamous German Bishops who manifestly are material
heretics but, rather, he lets them publicly promote heterodoxy)
Conclusion
The
position of St.
Peter after
the Ascension,
as shown in the Acts
of the Apostles,
realizes to the full the great commission bestowed upon him. He is
from the first the chief of the Apostolic band
— not primus
inter pares,
but the undisputed head of the Church (see THE
CHURCH,
III)...
Those
who succeed Peter in Rome succeed him also in the supreme headship
...
The primacy of St.
Peter and
the perpetuity of that primacy in
the Roman
See are dogmatically defined in
the canons attached
to the first two chapters of the Constitution "Pastor
Aeternus":
"If
anyone shall say that Blessed
Peter the Apostle was
not constituted by Christ
our Lord as
chief of all the Apostles and
the visible head of the whole Church militant:
or that he did not receive directly and immediately from the
same Lord
Jesus Christ a primacy of true and
proper jurisdiction,
but one of honouronly:
let him be anathema."
"If
any one shall say that it is not by the institution of Christ
our Lord Himself
or by divinely established right that Blessed
Peter has
perpetual successors in
his primacy over
the universal Church,
or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of Blessed
Peter in
this same primacy.
— let him be anathema"
(Denzinger-Bannwart,
"Enchiridion", nn. 1823, 1825).
...
Nature
and extent of the papal power
This
section is divided as follows:
the pope's
universal coercive jurisdiction
the pope's
immediate and ordinary jurisdiction in
regard of all the faithful,
whether singly or collectively
the right of
entertaining appeals in
all ecclesiastical causes.
...
The
pope's universal coercive jurisdiction
...
In other words, Peter and
his successors have
power to impose laws both
preceptive and prohibitive, power likewise to grant dispensation from
these laws,
and, when needful, to annul them. It is theirs to judge offences
against the laws,
to impose and to remit penalties. This judicial authority will even
include the power to pardon sin.
...
Further,
since the Church is
the kingdom of
the truth,
so that an essential note
in all her members is the act of
submission by which they accept the doctrine of Christ in
its entirety, supreme power in this kingdom carries
with it a supreme magisterium —
authority to declare that doctrine and
to prescribe a rule
of faith obligatory on
all. Here, too, Peter is
subordinated to none save his Master alone;
he is the supreme teacher as he is the supreme ruler. However, the
tremendous powers thus conferred are limited in their scope by their
reference to the ends of the kingdom and
to them only. The authority of Peter and
his successors does
not extend beyond this sphere. With matters that are altogether
extrinsic to the Church they
are not concerned....
It
appears from what has been said that, when the popes legislate
for the faithful,
when they try offenders by juridical process, and enforce
their sentences by censures and excommunications,
they are employing powers conceded to them by Christ.
...
Nor
may it be held that the pope's laws must
exclusively concern spiritual objects,
and their penalties be exclusively of
a spiritual character.
The Church is
a perfect society (see THE
CHURCH,
XIII). She is not dependent on the permission of the State for
her existence, but holds her charter from God.
As a perfect society she
has a right to
all those means which are necessary for
the attaining of her end. ...
The
question has been raised whether it be lawful for the Church,
not merely to sentence a
delinquent to physical penalties, but itself to inflict these
penalties. As to this, it is sufficient to note that the right of
the Church to
invoke the aid of the civil
power to
execute her sentences is
expressly asserted by Boniface
VIII in
the Bull "Unam
Sanctam"...
The
pope's immediate and ordinary jurisdiction
In
the Constitution "Pastor
Aeternus", cap. 3, the pope is declared to
possess ordinary,
immediate, and episcopal jurisdiction over
all the faithful:
We
teach, moreover, and declare that, by the disposition of God,
the Roman
Church possesses
supreme ordinary authority
over all Churches,
and that the jurisdiction of
the Roman Pontiff, which is true episcopal jurisdiction is
immediate in its character (Enchir.,
n. 1827).
It
is further added that this authority extends to all alike,
both pastors and faithful,
whether singly or collectively. An ordinary jurisdiction is
one which is exercised by the holder, not by reason of
any delegation,
but in virtue of the office which he himself holds. All who
acknowledge in the pope any primacy of jurisdiction acknowledge
that jurisdiction to
be ordinary.
This point, therefore, does not call for discussion. That the papal
authority is likewise immediate has, however, been called in
question. Jurisdiction is
immediate when its possessor stands in direct relation to those with
whose oversight he is charged. If, on the other hand, the supreme
authority can only deal directly with the proximate superiors, and
not with the subjects save through their intervention, his power is
not immediate but mediate. That the pope's jurisdiction is
not thus restricted appears from the analysis already
given of Christ's words
to St.
Peter.
It has been shown that He conferred on him a primacy over
the Church,
which is universal in its scope, extending to all the Church's
members,
and which needs the support of no other power. A primacy such
as this manifestly gives to him and to his successors a
direct authority over all the faithful.
This is also implied in the words of the pastoral commission, "Feed
my sheep". The shepherd exercises immediate authority over all
the sheep of his flock. Every member of the Church has
been thus committed to Peter and
those who follow him...
The Vatican
Council says
most justly (cap. iii):
This
power of the supreme pontiff in no way derogates from
the ordinary immediate
power of episcopal jurisdiction,
in virtue of which the bishops,
who, appointed by the Holy
Spirit [Acts
20:28],
have succeeded to the place of the Apostles as true pastors,
feed and rule their several flocks, each the one which has been
assigned to him: that power is rather maintained, confirmed and
defended by the supreme pastor (Enchir.,
n. 1828).
...
The
right of entertaining appeals in all ecclesiastical causes
The Council goes
on to affirm that the pope
is the supreme judge of the faithful,
and
that to him appeal may
be made in all ecclesiastical causes.
The right of appeal follows
as a necessary corollary
from the doctrine of
the primacy.
If the pope really possesses a supreme jurisdiction over
the Church,
every other authority, whether episcopal or synodal,
being subject to him, there must of necessity be
an appeal to
him from all inferior tribunals. ...
("Who
am I to judge ?" has done incalculable damage to
the faith and it is simply impossible to think he does not
know that tsunami of a question generated a tidal wave of consequential waves that have swamped the public face of our Church and, yet, he has not readdressed that remark and set it in
a traditional context that recognizes that such a judgement
is a duty of his and one he must render in service to the One True
Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church).
Jurisdictional
rights and prerogatives of the pope
In
virtue of his office as supreme teacher and ruler of the faithful,
the chief control of every department of the Church's life
belongs to the pope. In this section the rights and duties which
thus fall to his lot will be briefly enumerated. It will appear that,
in regard to a considerable number of points, not merely the supreme
control, but the whole exercise of power is reserved to the Holy
See,
and is only granted to others by express delegation.
This system of reservation is possible, since the pope is the
universal source of all ecclesiastical
jurisdiction.
Hence it rests with him to determine in what measure he will
confer jurisdiction on bishops and
other prelates.
(1)
As the supreme teacher of the Church,
whose it is to prescribe what is to be believed by
all the faithful,
and to take measures for the preservation and the propagation of
the faith,
the following are the rights which
pertain to the pope:
(Far
from preserving and propagating the Faith, he routinely calls it into
question and claims we must make changes in its categories and praxis
or else we are but Pharisees)
it
is his to set forth creeds,
and to determine when and by whom an explicit profession
of faith shall
be made (cf. Council
of Trent,
Sess. 24, cc. 1 and 12);
it
is his to prescribe and to command books for
the religious instruction of the faithful;
thus, for example, Clement
XIII has
recommended the Roman
Catechism to
all the bishops.
The pope
alone can establish a university,
possessing the status and privileges of
a canonically erected Catholic university;
to
him also belongs the direction of Catholic missions
throughout the world; this charge is fulfilled through
the Congregation
of the Propaganda.
(Proselytising
is solemn nonsense, he says)
It
is his to prohibit the reading of such books as are injurious
to faith or morals,
and to determine the conditions on
which certain classes of books may be issued by Catholics;
his
is the condemnation of given propositions as being
either heretical or
deserving of some minor degree
of censure,
and lastly
(He
praises and promotes the material heresies of those over whom he has
charge and a duty to correct and/or censure)
he
has the right to
interpret authentically the natural
law.
Thus, it is his to say what is lawful or unlawful in regard
to social and family life,
in regard to the practice of usury,
etc.
(His annulment
reforms are highly controversial and in the opposite direction of a
reform to strengthen the process initiated by his predecessor)
(2)
With the pope's office of supreme teacher are closely connected
his rights in
regard to the worship of God:
for it is the law of prayer that
fixes the law of belief.
In this sphere very much has been reserved to the sole regulation of
the Holy
See.
Thus
the pope
alone can prescribe the liturgical services
employed in the Church.
If a doubt should
occur in regard to the ceremonial of
the liturgy,
a bishop may
not settle the point on his own authority, but must have recourse
to Rome.
The Holy
See likewise
prescribes rules in regard to the devotions used
by the faithful,
and in this way checks the growth of what is novel and unauthorized.
(He
has continued his progressive praxis, begun when he was an Abp. of
Argentina, of severing ecclesiastical tradition in the
washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday - even going so far as to wash
the feet of Mahometan females).
At
the present day the institution and abrogation of festivals which
was till a comparatively recent time free
to all bishops as
regards their own dioceses,
is reserved to Rome.
The solemn canonization of
a saint is proper to the pope. Indeed it is commonly
held that this is an exercise of the papal
infallibility. Beatification and
every permission for the public veneration of
any of the servants of God is
likewise reserved to his decision.
He
dispenses the treasury of the Church,
and the grant of plenary indulgences is
reserved to him. While he has no authority in regard to
the substantial rites of
the sacraments,
and is bound to preserve them as they were given to
the Church by Christ and
His Apostles,
certain powers in their regard belong to him;
he
can give to simple priests the
power to confirm, and to bless the oil
of the sick and the oil of catechumens, and
he
can establish diriment and impedient impediments to matrimony.
(3)
The legislative power of the pope carries with it the
following rights:
he
can legislate for the whole Church,
with or without the assistance of a general
council;
if
he legislates with the aid of a council it
is his to convoke it, to preside, to direct its
deliberations, to confirm its acts.
He
has full authority to interpret, alter, and abrogate both his
own laws and
those established by his predecessors. He has the same plenitude of
power as they enjoyed, and stands in the same relation to
their laws as
to those which he himself has decreed;
he
can dispense individuals from
the obligation of
all purely ecclesiastical laws, and can
grant privileges and exemptions in
their regard.
In
this connection may be mentioned his power
to dispense from vows where
the greater glory of God renders
it desirable. Considerable powers of dispensation are
granted to bishops,
and, in a restricted measure, also to priests;
but there are some vows reserved
altogether to the Holy
See.
(4)
In virtue of his supreme judicial authority
causae
majores are reserved to him. By this term are signified cases
dealing with matters of great moment, or those in which personages of
eminent dignity are concerned.
His appellate jurisdiction has
been discussed in the previous section. It should, however, be noted
that
the pope has full right,
should he see fit, to deal even with causae minores in
the first instance, and not merely by reason of an appeal (Trent,
Sess. XXIV; cap. 20). In what concerns punishment,
he
can inflict censures either
by judicial sentence or
by general laws which
operate without need of such sentence.
He
further reserves certain cases to his own tribunal. All
cases of heresy come
before the Congregation of
the Inquisition.
A similar reservation covers the cases in which a bishop or
a reigning prince is the accused party.
(5)
As the supreme governor of the Church the pope
has authority over all appointments to its public offices. Thus
it
is his to nominate to bishoprics,
or, where the nomination has
been conceded to others, to give confirmation. Further, he alone can
translate bishops from
one see to another, can accept their resignation, and can, where
grave cause exists, sentence to deprivation.
He
can establish dioceses,
and can annul a previously existing arrangement in favour of a new
one. Similarly, he alone can
erect cathedral and collegiate chapters.
He
can approve new religious orders,
and can, if he sees fit, exempt them from the authority of
local ordinaries.
Since
his office of supreme ruler imposes on him the duty of
enforcing the canons,
it is requisite that he should be kept informed as to the state of
the various dioceses.
He may obtain this information by legates or
by summoning the bishops to Rome.
At the present day this jus relationum is exercised through
the triennial visit ad limina required of all bishops.
This system was introduced by Sixtus
V in 1585 (Constitution, "Rom. Pontifex"), and
confirmed by Benedict
XIV in 1740 (Constitution, "Quod Sancta") .
(Neither
he or his immediate predecessors have actualised these
duties)
It
is to be further observed that the pope's office of chief ruler
of the Church carries
with it jure divino the right to
free intercourse with the pastors and
the faithful.
The placitum regium, by which this intercourse was limited
and impeded, was therefore an infringement of a sacred right,
and as such was solemnly condemned
by the Vatican
Council (Constitution,
"Pastor Aeternus", cap. iii). To the pope likewise
belongs the supreme administration of the goods
of the Church.
He
alone can, where there is just cause, alienate any
considerable quantity of
such property.
Thus, e.g., Julius
III,
at the time of the restoration of religion in England under Queen
Mary validated
the title of those laymen who
had acquired Church
lands during
the spoliations of the previous reigns.
The pope
has further the right to
impose taxes on the clergy and
the faithful for ecclesiastical purposes
(cf. Trent, Sess. XXI, cap. iv de Ref.).
Though
the power of the pope, as we have described it, is very great,
it does not follow that it is arbitrary and unrestricted.
"The pope",
as Cardinal
Hergenröther well
says,
is
circumscribed by the consciousness of
the necessity of
making a righteous and beneficent use of the duties attached
to his privileges....He
is also circumscribed by the spirit and practice of the Church,
by the respect due to General
Councils and
to ancient statutes and customs,
by the rights of bishops,
by his relation with civil
powers,
by the traditional mild tone of government indicated by the aim of
the institution of the papacy — to "feed" — and
finally by the respect indispensable in a spiritual power
towards the spirit and mind of
nations ("Cath.
Church and Christian State", tr., I, 197).
(
He is not actualising a righteous and beneficent use of his
duties. He is constantly speaking about the requirement of the
church to change and to be open to surprises and which worldly
weltanschauung is contrary to the entirety of tradition).
Amateur Brain
Surgeon has felt it necessary to state his assessment of
his Pope and his Cross publicly.
Despite
his very negative assessment of his Pope and His Cross in
regards to his discharge of duties, ABS remains in full communion
with his Bishop and Pope and that will never change for
the plain and simple truth is that Jesus is, always
has been, and will always be, until the end of time, the head of
His One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church and,
thus there is nowhere else to go.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12260a.htm
For other important background sources applicable to this assessment, one would be hard pressed to improve upon the collection of the Pope's progressive praxis than the one developed by the redoubtable, Mundabor;
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/the-francis-papers/
That the bones you have crushed may thrill, an excellent and admirable blog, has compiled a list of insults this Pope has directed at the very faithful he is supposed to represent...
http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-pope-francis-little-book-of-insults.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12260a.htm
For other important background sources applicable to this assessment, one would be hard pressed to improve upon the collection of the Pope's progressive praxis than the one developed by the redoubtable, Mundabor;
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/the-francis-papers/
That the bones you have crushed may thrill, an excellent and admirable blog, has compiled a list of insults this Pope has directed at the very faithful he is supposed to represent...
http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-pope-francis-little-book-of-insults.html