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We cannot differentiate the “True Church” built on Christ and a “true Pope” who must govern the church according to Christ’s foundation. They are 2 parts of one whole. They cannot be separated. If one of them differs from the other, then one of them is false.

Recently Fr James Altman’s heart-rending speech on “Bergoglio is not the Pope” touched many people and started quite an uproar in some circles. What he said was evident in the FP’s words and actions, and everyone knew it. This evidence proves he is an anti-pope. Antipopes can, and have been elected before. Anti-popes act as if they are popes, but they betray Christ and His Church.  He said what many of us feel in our hearts. In God’s eyes he would not be a pope faithful to Christ’s Church. Legalisms aside, God has allowed it.Jesus tells us that Pope Benedict returned the Keys of Peter to our Heavenly Father.

So Fr. Altman is correct in his claims. Jesus also tells us “This pope may be elected by members within the Catholic Church, but he will be the false prophet.” (see: 12 April 2012 @ 11:27am; Message 0394 – https://missionofsalvation.com/message-0394/

The Mother of Salvation refers to Bergoglio as “the man who sits in the Chair of Peter”.Fr Altman tells us that  (in heaven’s eyes), Bergoglio is not the Pope.

Pope Ven. Pius XII  tells us in his prophetic speech of Sunday, February 20, 1949 , what a true Pope is, and how the True Church sees and acts. We can easily identify much of what he said in the Church today.

Excerpts from Pope Pies XII’s address to thew faithful in Rome on Sunday, February 20, 1949 

 Read the full article at: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/05/prophetic-speech-of-pope-ven-pius-xii.html

…” A well-known characteristic common to persecutors of all times is that, not content with physically crushing their victims, they want also to make them appear despicable and hateful to their country and to society. 

Who does not remember the Roman martyrs, …immolated under Nero and made to appear as arsonists, abominable criminals, enemies of mankind? 

Modern persecutors show themselves to be the docile disciples of that inglorious school. They copy, so to speak, their masters and models, if, indeed, they do not surpass them in cruelty, clever as they are in the art of employing the most recent progress in the technical sciences for the purpose of a domination and enslavement of the people which in the past would not have been conceivable.   …

… the totalitarian and anti-religious State … would desire:  

a Church which remains silent, when she should speak out; 

a Church which weakens the law of God, adapting it to the taste of human desires, when she should loudly proclaim and defend it;  

a Church which detaches herself from the unwavering foundation upon which Christ built her, in order to repose comfortably on the shifting sands of the opinions of the day or to give herself up to the passing current;

a Church which does not withstand the oppression of conscience and does not protect the legitimate rights and the just liberties of the people; 

a Church which, with indecorous servility, remains enclosed within the four walls of the temple, which forgets the divine mandate received from Christ: Go forth to the street corners (Matt 22:9), teach all peoples (Matt 28:19).

Beloved sons and daughters! Spiritual heirs of an innumerable legion of confessors and martyrs!  

Is this the Church whom you venerate and love? Would you recognize in such a Church the features of your Mother’s face? Can you imagine a Successor of the first Peter, who would bow to similar demands?  

The Pope has the divine promises; even in his human weaknesses, he is invincible and unshakable; he is the messenger of truth and justice, the principle of the unity of the Church; his voice denounces errors, idolatries, superstitions; he condemns iniquities; he makes charity and virtue loved.  

Can he [the Pope] then remain silent when in a nation the churches which are united to the center of Christendom, to Rome, are snatched away through violence or cunning; when all the Greek-Catholic bishops are imprisoned because they refuse to apostatize from their faith; when priests and the faithful are persecuted and arrested because they refuse to leave their true Mother Church?  

Can the Pope remain silent, when the right to educate their own children is taken away from parents by a minority regime which wants to alienate them from Christ? 

Can the Pope remain silent when a State, surpassing the limits of its authority, arrogates to itself the power to abolish dioceses, to depose Bishops, to overturn the ecclesiastical organization, and to reduce it below the minimum requirements for the effectual care of souls? 

Can the Pope remain silent when the point is reached of punishing a priest with imprisonment, guilty of refusing to violate the most sacred and inviolable of secrets, the secret of sacramental confession? 

Is all this perhaps illegitimate interference in the political powers of the State? …

May the Lord God reward your fidelity, beloved sons and daughters.

May He give you strength in the present and future struggles.

 May He make you vigilant against the attacks of His and your enemies.

May He illumine with His light the minds of those whose eyes are still closed to the truth.

May he grant to those hearts, which today are far from him, the grace to sincerely return to that faith and to those fraternal sentiments whose denial threatens the peace of humanity.

And now may Our lavish, paternal, and affectionate Apostolic Blessing descend upon you, the City and the World.