Note 1: Anti-Pope "john-23" is trying to obscure the issue of salvation by talking about "severity" and "mercy". He is also trying to paint the Catholic Church as being "severe" in past times by telling the truth about Heaven and Hell ... which the Catholic Church still does but in greatly reduced numbers since losing our property to the Vatican-2 heretic cult in 1965.

Note 2: Anti-Pope "john-23" is engaging in severity (and being viciously unmerciful) by lying to the heretics and working for their eternal damnation by making them think they may be part of Christianity, when they're not. Why didn't liar "john-23" follow his own advice -- to be merciful and tell the truth?

Note 3: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics ("lutherans", "baptists", "vatican-2-ists", "methodists" are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 2:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, 1442 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"It (the Catholic Church) firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Catholic Church before the end of their lives."

Note 1: Again non-Catholic apostate "john-23" is being severe (and not merciful) because he is trying to send the heretics into Hell by telling them they are part of Christianty when they are not. Why didn't liar "john-23" follow his own advice -- to be merciful?

Note 2: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, Decree 30, 1311-1312 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Since however there is for both regulars and seculars, for superiors and subjects, for exempt and non-exempt, one universal Church, outside of which there is no salvation, for all of whom there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism ..."

Note 1: By "john-23" making the heretics think they are part of Christianity (when they're not) he is being most severe (not merciful) ... as he works for the damnation of the heretics. Why didn't liar "john-23" follow his own advice -- to be merciful and tell the truth?

Note 2: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 4:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 8, 22 Nov 1439 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Whoever wills to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he holds the Catholic faith. Unless a person keeps this faith whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish eternally."

Note 1: "john-23" by lying against this Source of Dogma is being most severe as he works for the damnation of the heretics. Why didn't liar "john-23" follow his own advice -- to be merciful and tell the truth?

Note 2: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 5:
Pope Leo X, Fifth Lateran Council, Session 11, 19 Dec 1516 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"For, regulars and seculars, prelates and subjects, exempt and non-exempt, belong to the one universal Church, outside of which no one at all is saved, and they all have one Lord and one faith."

Note 1: Why didn't liar "john-23" follow his own advice ... to be merciful and tell the truth ... by telling the heretics they are headed to Hell?

Note 2: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 6:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 4, 29 June 1896 >
"The Church in respect of its unity belongs to the category of things indivisible by nature, though heretics try to divide it into many parts."

Note: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Catholic Correction 7:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 5, 29 June 1896 >
"There is one God, and one Christ; and His Church is one and the faith is one; and one people, joined together in the solid unity of the body in the bond of concord. This unity cannot be broken, nor the one body divided by the separation of its constituent parts."

Note: The Christian family already has unity, it is called the Catholic Church. Heretics are not Christians.

Note: You cannot formulate opinions from your own conscience which conflict with the Catholic revealed truths ... otherwise you lose your soul.

Catholic Correction 2:
Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On faith, Article 1 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Since human beings are totally dependent on God as their Creator and Lord, and created reason is completely subject to Uncreated Truth, we are obliged to yield to God the Revealer full submission of intellect and will by Faith."

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Pius IX, "Quanta Cura", Paragraph 3, 8 December 1864 >
"Most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an insanity, ... that liberty of conscience and worship is each man's personal right, which ought to be legally proclaimed and asserted ... they do not think and consider that they are preaching ‘liberty of perdition’."   (Perdition: state of eternal punishment and damnation)

Note: The Catholic Church cannot be damaged or destroyed, it can only increase or decrease in numbers depending on how many people are baptized in water and believe the Catholic Dogma and Sources of Dogma.

Catholic Correction 4:
Pope Saint Leo the Great, Doctor of the Church, 440-461 A.D. >
"The faith shall never vary in any age, for one is the faith which justifies the Just of all ages. It is unlawful to differ even by a single word from apostolic doctrine."

Catholic Correction 5:
Lateran Council, Pope Saint Martin I, Canon 18, 649 A.D. >
"If anyone according to the holy Fathers, harmoniously with us and likewise with the Faith, does not with mind and lips reject and anathematize all the most abominable heretics together with their impious writings even to one least portion, whom the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of God ... rejects and anathematizes ... let such a person be condemned."

Catholic Correction 6:
Dogmatic Athanasius Creed >
"Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly."

Catholic Correction 7:
Pope Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, 15 April 1905, Paragraphs 2, 26 >
"And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: 'We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.' (...) These truths, indeed, far surpass the natural understanding of the people, yet must be known by all - the uneducated and the cultured - in order that they may arrive at eternal happiness."

Catholic Correction 8:
Catholic writing of Titus 3:10-11 >
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: Knowing that he ... is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.

Catholic Correction 2:
Council of Florence, Session 6, July 1439 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"But the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in Original Sin alone, go down straightaway to Hell to be punished, but with unequal pains."

Note: Men have different supernatural destinies.

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Saint Leo the Great, Council of Chalcedon, Letter to Flavian section, 451 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"For there are three who give testimony – Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. In other words, the Spirit of Sanctification and the Blood of Redemption and the water of baptism. These three are one and remain indivisible. None of them is separable from its link with the others."

Note: The Redemption does not apply to un-baptized pagans ... so all men are not joined together by it.

Catholic Correction 4:
Council of Trent > Fifth Session, First Decree, Decree Concerning Original Sin, Paragraph 3 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, ... is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath reconciled us to God in His own Blood, made unto us justice, sanctification, and redemption; or if he denies that the said merit of Jesus Christ is applied, both to adults and to infants, by the sacrament of baptism rightly administered in the form of the Church; let him be anathema."

Note: The Redemption does not apply to un-baptized pagans ... so all men are not joined together by it.

Catholic Correction 5:
Fifth Lateran Council > Session 11, 19 December 1516 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Therefore those who are now carrying this burden ought to remember and frequently reflect that they in turn, with respect to this office of preaching, are entering into and maintaining that succession of the author and founder of this office, Jesus Christ our most Holy Redeemer, of Peter and Paul, and of the other apostles and disciples of the Lord."

Note: The heretics are not part of the succession of Peter so that the Redemption does not apply to them ... so all men are not joined together by it.

Catholic Correction 6:
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, 1442 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"It (the Catholic Church) firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Catholic Church before the end of their lives."

Note: Heretics and un-baptized pagans have a different supernatural destiny than Catholics ... so all men are not joined together by supernatural destiny.

Catholic Correction 7:
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Paragraphs 8-9 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Wherefore, by Divine and Catholic Faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as Divinely revealed (...) Since, then, without Faith it is impossible to please God and reach the fellowship of His sons and daughters, it follows that no one can ever achieve justification without it, neither can anyone attain eternal life unless he or she perseveres in it to the end."

Note: Heretics and un-baptized pagans have a different supernatural destiny than Catholics ... so all men are not joined together by supernatural destiny.

"john-23", Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), Paragraph 152, 11 Apr 1963 >
"Who consider themselves Christians; and without doubt, in part at least, they were and are."

Catholic Correction 2:
Second Council of Constantinople, Sentence against the Three Chapters section, 553 A.D. -- Ex-Cathdra Dogma >
"The heretic, even though he has not been condemned formally by any individual, in reality brings anathema on himself, having cut himself off from the way of truth by his heresy."

Catholic Correction 3:
Council of Florence, Session 11, 4 February 1442 -- Ex-Cathdra Dogma >
"The Holy Roman Church ... condemns, reproves, anathematizes and declares to be outside the body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds opposing or contrary views."

Catholic Correction 4:
Pope Leo X, Fifth Lateran Council, Session 8, 1513 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"And since truth cannot contradict truth, we define that every statement contrary to the enlightened truth of the faith is totally false and we strictly forbid teaching otherwise to be permitted. We decree that all those who cling to erroneous statements of this kind, thus sowing heresies which are wholly condemned, should be avoided in every way and punished as detestable and odious heretics and infidels who are undermining the Catholic faith."

Catholic Correction 5:
Saint Cyprian, died 258 A.D. >
"The Church is One, and it is not possible to be both inside and outside what is One."

Catholic Correction 6:
Catholic writing of 1 Saint John 2:19 >
"They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us."

Catholic Correction 7:
Pope Pius IX, Ubi primum, Paragraph 10, 17 Jun 1847 >
"For there is one universal Church outside of which no one at all is saved; it contains regular and secular prelates along with those under their jurisdiction, who all profess one Lord, one faith and one baptism."

Catholic Correction 8: Catholic writing of Titus 3:10-11 >
"A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: Knowing that he ... is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment."

Catholic Correction 9: Catholic writing of Saint James 2:10 >
"And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all."

"john-23", Ad Petri Cathedram On Truth (Unity and Peace in a Spirit of Charity), Paragraph 64, June 29, 1959 >
"We have taken note that almost all those who are adorned with the name of Christian even though separated from us and from one another have sought to forge bonds of unity by means of many congresses and by establishing councils."

Catholic Correction 2:
Pope Leo X, Fifth Lateran Council, Session 8, 1513 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"And since truth cannot contradict truth, we define that every statement contrary to the enlightened truth of the faith is totally false and we strictly forbid teaching otherwise to be permitted. We decree that all those who cling to erroneous statements of this kind, thus sowing heresies which are wholly condemned, should be avoided in every way and punished as detestable and odious heretics and infidels who are undermining the Catholic faith."

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Paragraphs 8-9 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Wherefore, by Divine and Catholic Faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as Divinely revealed (...) Since, then, without Faith it is impossible to please God and reach the fellowship of His sons and daughters, it follows that no one can ever achieve justification without it, neither can anyone attain eternal life unless he or she perseveres in it to the end."

Catholic Correction 4:
Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Article 1 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Since human beings are totally dependent on God as their Creator and Lord, and created reason is completely subject to Uncreated Truth, we are obliged to yield to God the Revealer full submission of intellect and will by Faith."

Catholic Correction 5:
Pope Saint Leo the Great, Doctor of the Church, 440-461 A.D. >
"The faith shall never vary in any age, for one is the faith which justifies the Just of all ages. It is unlawful to differ even by a single word from apostolic doctrine."

"john-23", Ad Petri Cathedram On Truth (Unity and Peace in a Spirit of Charity), Paragraph 17, June 29, 1959 >
Moreover, to contend that there is nothing to choose between contradictories and among contraries can lead only to this fatal conclusion: a reluctance to accept any religion either in theory or practice.

Catholic Correction 2:
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved."

Catholic Correction 3:
Council of Florence, Pope Eugene IV, Session 8, Exultate Deo, 22 Nov 1439 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Holy baptism holds the first place among all the sacraments, for it is the gate of the spiritual life; through it we become members of Christ and of the body of the Church. Since death came into the world through one person, unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot, as Truth says, enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water."

Note: The only gate to the spiritual life is water baptism into the Catholic Church ... so that there is no such thing as accepting "any religion" ... there is nothing "optional".

Catholic Correction 4:
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, Decree 30, 1311-1312 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Since however there is for both regulars and seculars, for superiors and subjects, for exempt and non-exempt, one universal Church, outside of which there is no salvation, for all of whom there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism ..."

Catholic Correction 5:
Pope Pius X, 1903-1914 A.D., Oath Against Modernism >
"So I retain most firmly the Faith of the Fathers, and shall retain it until the final breath of life, regarding the certain gift of truth, which is, was, and will always be in the succession of the episcopacy from the Apostles, not so that what may seem better and more fitting according to each one's period of culture may be held, but so that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the Apostles from the beginning may never be believed otherwise, may never be understood otherwise."

Note: Regarding the text "gift of truth", the actual graces of the truth are given to all men so that they can pursue the sanctifying grace of water baptism for the remission of Original Sin. See Sections 5 and 5.1 of this site.

"john-23", Ad Petri Cathedram On Truth (Unity and Peace in a Spirit of Charity), Paragraph 29, June 29, 1959 >
All men, then, should turn their attention away from those things that divide and separate us, and should consider how they may be joined in mutual and just regard for one another's opinions.

Catholic Correction 2:
Pope Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, 15 April 1905, Paragraphs 2, 26 >
"And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: 'We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.' (...) These truths, indeed, far surpass the natural understanding of the people, yet must be known by all - the uneducated and the cultured - in order that they may arrive at eternal happiness."

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Paragraphs 8-9 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Wherefore, by Divine and Catholic Faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as Divinely revealed (...) Since, then, without Faith it is impossible to please God and reach the fellowship of his sons and daughters, it follows that no one can ever achieve justification without it, neither can anyone attain eternal life unless he or she perseveres in it to the end."

Catholic Correction 4:
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D. >
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."

Catholic Correction 5:
Saint Augustine, Epistle to Sixtus, JUR vol.III: 1454 >
"Those who keep their eyes shut cannot see. God made you without your knowledge, but He does not justify you without your willing it. Refusal to hear the truth leads to sin, and that sin itself is punishment for the preceding sin. Every sinner is inexcusable whether he knows it or not. For ignorance itself, in those who do not want to know, is without doubt a sin; and, in those unable to know, is the penalty of sin. In neither case, then, is there a just excuse, but in both cases there is a just condemnation."

"john-23", Ad Petri Cathedram On Truth (Unity and Peace in a Spirit of Charity), Paragraph 71, June 29, 1959 >
"The Catholic Church, of course, leaves many questions open to the discussion of theologians. She does this to the extent that matters are not absolutely certain."

Catholic Correction 2:
Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Article 1 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma >
"Since human beings are totally dependent on God as their Creator and Lord, and created reason is completely subject to Uncreated Truth, we are obliged to yield to God the Revealer full submission of intellect and will by Faith."

Catholic Correction 3:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 9, 29 June 1896 >
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."

Catholic Correction 4:
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitoria, died c. 445 A.D. >
"Every possible care must be taken to hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by everyone. (...) It is therefore an indispensable obligation for all Catholics to adhere to the faith of the Fathers, to preserve it, to die for it and, on the other hand, to detest the profane novelties of profane men, to dread them, to harass them, and to attack them."

Catholic Correction 5:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 9, 29 June 1896 >
"But he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith."

Catholic Correction 6:
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing in Ecclesiasticus 24:44 >
"For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off."

Catholic Correction 7:
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Psalm 18:8 >
"The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls."

Catholic Correction 2:
Saint Athanasius, Doctor of the Church, died 373 >
"Those who go off to heretics, and all who leave the Church for heresy, abandon the name of Christ. Those who call these men "Christians" are in grievous error, since they neither understand Scripture at all nor the faith which it contains."

Catholic Correction 3:
Saint Cyprian, died 258 A.D. >
"The Church is One, and it is not possible to be both inside and outside what is One."

Catholic Correction 4:
Pope Innocent IV, 1243-1254 A.D. >
"Heretics are to be classed with thieves and murderers."

Note: Heretics murder immortal souls.

Catholic Correction 5:
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 9, 29 June 1896 >
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."

Catholic Correction 6:
Venerable Robert Bellarmine, died 1621 >
"A manifest heretic is not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian, St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and others."

Catholic Correction 7:
Saint Cyprian, died 258 A.D. >
"How can 'two or three gather in Christ's name' if they have obviously cut themselves off from Christ and His Gospel? Do they think Christ is with them in their gatherings when those gatherings are outside the Church of Christ?"

Catholic Correction 8:
Pope Gregory XVI, died 1846 A.D. >
"We see the destruction of public order, the fall of principalities, and the overturning of all legitimate power approaching. Indeed this great mass of calamities had its inception in the heretical societies and sects in which all that is sacrilegious, infamous, and blasphemous has gathered as bilge water in a ship's hold, a congealed mass of all filth."

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