8.1. Why do you accuse Vatican II popes of heresy? Isn’t that judging them?

We don’t make private judgments about their souls—we examine their public teachings and actions, as the Church permits all the faithful to do (cf. St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II.30). When someone publicly teaches heresy, they are no longer Catholic and cannot hold ecclesiastical office.

Popes are meant to defend the faith. When someone like John Paul II prays in a mosque or Francis teaches that God wills the diversity of religions, these are objectively heretical acts. They contradict what the Church has always taught. It is not “judging” the man’s soul; it is recognizing a manifest contradiction with divine and Catholic faith.

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8.0. If the Vatican II Church isn’t Catholic, was my childhood faith fake? Was there no Holy Ghost in it? What did I experience—was it all just emotion or made up? This is all very confusing.

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8.2. Aren’t you just bitter or divisive by rejecting the Pope and Vatican II?