Pope Liberius. Heretic or Saint?
1 Peter 5 says Liberius was a heretic who excommunicated Athanasius
https://onepeterfive.com/sedevacantism-luciferianism/
Are these easily checked claims correct?
Nope.
What does Denzinger's publish concerning Pope Liberius?
Denzinger's lists Liberius as a Saint. Hmmm how many other heretics are called a Saint?
Pope Saint Liberius
https://www.papastronsay.com/resources/PopeLiberius/Rohrbacher.htm
Pope Saint Liberius
http://theradtrad.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-heretical-pope-tradistan.html
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"Yeah, well, Lefebvre is just like St Athanasius..."
"Yeah, well, Lefebvre is just like St Athanasius..."
Um, no. He was not. Mons Lefebvre was not unjustly excommunicated by a Pope who was being held captive and tortured by an Emperor and whose excommunication of Saint Athanasius was, by Saint Athanasius his own self, credited to the Arians, and not to Pope Liberius.
Saint Athanasius considered Pope Liberius a man of Faith whereas Mons. Lefebvre thought Pope John Paul II was not.
And in no way can Pope Blessed John Paul II be thought of as a heretic - although Mons Lefebvre called him an AntiChrist *- and in no way can Mons Lefebvre be thought of as a champion of orthodoxy because he rejected an ecumenical council, the normative mass, and refused communion with his local Bishop and the Pope and he started his own petit ecclesia.
It is owing to the historical ignorance of those who succor it that the SSPX can get away with their malign and disingenuous propaganda in defense of their indefensible schism.
On the other hand, as the SSPX is an ideological movement, and as it is the case that an ideology is, like a delusion, not correctable by facts and reason, maybe the SSPX do think the modern Popes are the captives of Masons and are being tortured by them.
Who knows what their real motives really are?
Who cares?
What is crucial is that their historical claims are without value and their doctrinal beliefs are heretical - as we shall see in upcoming posts.
In any event, attend to the words of the great Saint Athanasius and turn a deaf ear to the lying claims of those who succor the schism who try and sell you the fools gold that Mons Lefebvre is a latter-day Saint Athanasius.
Well, what did Saint Athanasius have to say about how he was treated by Pope Saint Liberius?
41. Lapse of Liberius
Who that shall hear what they did in the course of these proceedings will not think them to be anything rather than Christians? When Liberius sent Eutropius, a Presbyter, and Hilarius, a Deacon, with letters to the Emperor, at the time that Lucifer and his fellows made their confession, they banished the Presbyter on the spot, and after stripping Hilarius the Deacon and scourging him on the back, they banished him too, clamouring at him, 'Why did you not resist Liberius instead of being the bearer of letters from him.' Ursacius and Valens, with the eunuchs who sided with them, were the authors of this outrage. The Deacon, while he was being scourged, praised the Lord, remembering His words, 'I gave My back to the smiters Isaiah 50:6;' but they while they scourged him laughed and mocked him, feeling no shame that they were insulting a Levite. Indeed they acted but consistently in laughing while he continued to praise God; for it is the part of Christians to endure stripes, but to scourge Christians is the outrage of a Pilate or a Caiaphas. Thus they endeavoured at the first to corrupt the Church of the Romans, wishing to introduce impiety into it as well as others. But Liberius after he had been in banishment two years gave way, and from fear of threatened death subscribed. Yet even this only shows their violent conduct, and the hatred of Liberius against the heresy, and his support of Athanasius, so long as he was suffered to exercise a free choice. For that which men are forced by torture to do contrary to their first judgment, ought not to be considered the willing deed of those who are in fear, but rather of their tormentors. They however attempted everything in support of their heresy, while the people in every Church, preserving the faith which they had learned, waited for the return of their teachers, and condemned the Antichristian heresy, and all avoid it, as they would a serpent.
Any similarities between Pope Saint John Paul II's excommunication of Mons Lefebvre and what happened with Saint Athanasius?
Nope...
http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/component/content/article/79-history/559-obedience-of-athanasius.html
In posting these crummy claims about a Pope Saint, in calling a Saint a heretic, 1 Peter 5 reveals itself as an untrustworthy source.
Who wants to wager that Mr. Skojec will not correct the errors and apologise for posting them?
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