News of the Patriarchate's video: Response to a hypocritical Open letter by Bishop Schneider

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Heb 4:12) Your Excellency, You openly identify Bergoglio’s doctrinal and moral heresies, and even the sins against the First Commandment associated with idolatrous apostasy. In addition, You truly admit that these gravest crimes have already changed the Catholic faith. So logically, You should draw a clear conclusion: The multiple heretic and apostate occupying the papal office is an invalid Pope, and therefore he must resign! Instead, You impose a totally absurd conclusion: A heretical and apostate Pope must continue in office even if he has committed the gravest crimes and the supreme apostasy from God and the Church. Catholics should offer prayers of repentance for him and remain faithfully devoted to him. This is gross manipulation and deception against the teaching of the Church and against the Word of God and the Tradition. You deliberately ignore the fact that Bergoglio has excluded himself from the Church by reason of his apostasy and is not even a Christian anymore. You refuse to admit that the Catholic faithful must not submit to this apostate. You thus mislead them onto the path of eternal destruction. Your attitude is a more serious crime than the crimes committed by Bergoglio. St Basil says: “The defender of sin deserves a more severe punishment than the sinner himself.” Therefore, these words are addressed to You: Being a defender of a heretic, You deserve a more severe punishment than the archheretic Bergoglio. Bergoglio has provoked a situation in the Church which has caused a shock leading to salvation and hence created an opportunity for a spiritual awakening. But You quickly destroy this chance. You use Your pompous orthodoxy to win favour from true Catholics with the aim of maintaining the apostate system and spirit promoted by Bergoglio. Under the guise of penitential prayer, You avoid the most essential step of repentance and conversion, namely resignation of the apostate from the office of the Pope. What You commit is an extremely serious sin and crime against the Church, against the truth, and a sin against the Holy Spirit. In Your Open letter, You say that being a successor of the Apostles You cannot remain silent on the idolatry of Francis. Therefore, we have some essential questions to ask You: 1) Did Francis, the major initiator of public idolatry connected with the occult in the Vatican, participate in it as a private theologian or as the Roman Pontiff, i.e. as the Vicar of Christ on earth? 2) If a Christian has taken part in public idolatry and leads other Christians to idolatry, is he an apostate or not? 3) We ask: Can an apostate (lapsus) hold office in the Church if, being a manifest heretic, he is not even a Christian anymore? 4) Is the Dogmatic Bull of Paul IV Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio still in force which says that even if a heretic becomes Pope, he is excommunicated from the Church? 5) Is God’s Word in Galatians 1:8-9 still true? “Even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed! As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel (doctrine) to you than what you have received, let him be accursed!” Is idolatry mixed up with the teaching of Christ another gospel or is it the true Gospel? Does Bergoglio preach the true Gospel or another – false – gospel? Is he under an anathema according to the Word of God or not? Is he excommunicated by God or not? Everyone knows that he is! You say that he is not! Being a successor of the Apostles, do You accept God’s Word with all the consequences or do You boycott it? In this situation when Bergoglio is under an anathema, You still publicly acknowledge him as the rightful Pope before the Catholic world. You say that this apostate, who has defied God and His law as well as the Church of Christ, is our father who can never be replaced. Do You deceive Catholics purposefully or are You not aware of deceiving them? In Your open letter, You dazzle the faithful with quotations of Scripture, of the Church Fathers and of the Church Councils, but You deliberately evade the core of the problem, namely that a heretic and idolater is no longer a Christian and hence cannot be Pope. What is Your aim? You say in the Holy Mass: “Together with Francis our Pope”. It means that You share the unity of faith and spirit with an apostate. Are You aware that You thus bring God’s anathema on Yourself? Unlike other bishops and priests, You publicly call Bergoglio’s heresies heresies, but then You exchange embraces with him and speak about a fraternal atmosphere during the audience. You thus confirm that You are in spiritual unity with him. St John the Apostle warns us not even to greet heretics so as not to share in their heresies (2Jn).