1. To merit eternal life we must love God and neighbour.
Love of God and neighbour is called Charity. And to correct your neighbour is an act of Charity. Since Charity is a command of Christ then fraternal correction is, also a command of Christ.
St. James wrote that disobedience to one command of Christ is disobedience to all the commands of Christ. All the more, disobedience to the very foundation of all the commands, Charity, is disobedience to all the commands of God. The man who fails to correct a neighbour’s fault, under the given conditions, have no love for God and neighbour; he is not a Catholic.
St. Thomas wrote; ‘the correction of the wrongdoer is a remedy which should be employed against a man’s sin. A correction of a wrongdoer is directed to the amendment of the sinner. Now, to do away with anyone’s evil is the same as to procure his good; and that is Charity.
2. Again, Charity is the foundation of all commandments. Since ‘fraternal correction’ is an act of Charity which is the foundation of all commands, failure to correct when it must be done is to commit all sin, as St. James notes; ‘he who disobeys one command disobeys all commands. Thus St. Augustine added; ‘ You become worse than the sinner if you fail to correct him.’
While the negative commands of the law, like for example ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery,’ forbids sinful acts, the positive commands, like for example ‘correct your brother,’ inculcates a virtue. Virtues must be done with great finesse; thus Scriptures have very strict procedures on how to correct.
3. ‘Fraternal correction’ cannot be done well without Divine Assistance. But man must do everything in his power to do it well. Since man cannot know who are predestined and who are not, man must do the kindness of correcting his brethren with the hope of God’s help, St. Thomas writes.
4. First, the obligation to correct arises when a person knows his dogma and morals; because upon these will the correction be based.
Secondly, the sin of the brethren must clearly be a disobedience of
Christ’s command and not merely a difference of opinion. Thirdly, that the disobedience is public knowledge and not sought by stealth or by spying. Fourthly, that the one correcting had come to know personally the publicly known disobedience and not through rumours (consistent publication in the news is sufficient.)
5. The need to explain ‘fraternal correction’ of the Pope.
Under the mentioned conditions, Charity demands that a Christian must render ‘fraternal correction’ under pain of being guilty of a sin worse than the sinner. Remaining silent at the face of a needed ‘fraternal correction’ is considered as agreeing to a sin of scandal.
A ‘fraternal correction’ in which circumstances force us to correct is based on the fact that the words and actions of Pope Francis is putting him within the realm of being an anti-Pope, a sin that brings certain condemnation.
The facts. First and foremost, he is proposing morals that are against the teachings of Scriptures, the Fathers and of past Popes; he had stated that dogmas are not needed to be saved, that Faith is not needed for salvation, that mere regret can substitute for repentance, that marriage can be dissolved, that there is no Catholic God, that all religions can save, that all religions can unite , that there is no need to enter the Catholic church to be waved, etc….That alone makes him go against past Popes thus making him an anti-Pope.
His more evident fault is that, instead of giving ‘fraternal correction,’ by telling adulterers to stop their adultery, he is encouraging them to continue in their adultery and even go deeper into a life of sin by sacrilegiously receiving Holy Communion.
His neglect in giving ‘fraternal correction,’ shows he has no Charity. Without Charity he cannot be a Catholic.
However, no one can declare him to be so except by a group of cardinal, in session, declaring him to be so. A sufficient group of cardinal had already expressed the damage Pope Francis is doing and they had expressed these in writing which is available to all. They just have to take the next step.
6. It is evident that his soul is in grave danger of eternal damnation due to the obvious disobedience to the commands of God. There is the prophecy that God will personally throw to hell an expected anti-pope who will be trying to destroy the Catholic Church in cooperation with an anti-Christ during these times. Both the Book of Revelation and writings of the Saints, like St. Hildegard, mentions this.
Love of God and neighbour obliges any Catholic, in the above position, to render ‘fraternal correction.’ The first obligation is upon his Jesuit companions. The second obligation falls upon his co-bishops, according to St. Thomas. The third falls upon any faithful in the know.
‘Fraternal correction,’ therefore must done, first, for the salvation of the one correcting. And, secondly only, for the salvation of the one being corrected. For the one giving ‘fraternal correction’ it is a sure sign of his love for God and his love for neighbour.
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