Papal Infallibility: The Ultimate Triumph of Humanism - St. Justin Popovic

"[Papal infallibility] is the ultimate triumph of humanism..." -St. Justin Popovic (see full quote below)St. Justin expresses the ultimate implications of the dogma of papal infallibility. Regardless of how frequent or infrequent papal infallibility is exercised, the embrace of such an ability for a man, even if supposedly given by God, is why St. Justin is righteously provoked. He perceives the ultimate implications of such a dogmatic pronouncement and shutters, calling to repentance all those hooked by such lies. As St. Justin says, “In writing this, we are not writing either the history of Europe, of its virtues and faults, or the history of the European pseudo-Churches. We are simply setting forth the entirety of their ontology, penetrating to the heart of European conceit, its demonic underground, where its dark sources lie and with whose waters it threatens to poison the world. This is no passing of judgment on Europe, but a wholehearted and prayerful call to the only way to salvation: through repentance.” 0:00 Beginning0:13 Introductory comments1:24 Quote from Catherine of Sienna (RC saint): “Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not raise up our heads against him…”2:24 Quote from Pope John Paul II (RC saint): “the name for that deep amazement at man’s worth and dignity is the gospel…”From St. Justin:2:52 Papal infallibility dogmatized at Vatican I and upheld at Vatican II5:25 “The dogma of the infallibility of the Pope is a Nietzschaen affirmation of the entire creation of European humanistic man.”7:53 The Pope has “proclaimed himself a Church with the papist Church and has become all powerful in it.”8:30 Three principles falls in human history: Adam, Judas, and the Pope8:40 What is the core of the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope, a man?10:55 The dogma of the infallibility of the Pope is the “final triumph of humanism” and the “heresy above all heresies”12:36 Repentance is the only way outSt. Justin's teachings in this video are excerpted from "Papism as the Oldest Protestantism - St. Justin Popović":https://youtu.be/6xXm1PfcQUwThese excerpts are from the chapter “Man or the God-Man" from "The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”NOTE: The meaning of Theanthropic: divine (in Greek theos = God) and human (in Greek anthropos = man); the Theanthropos = the God-Man, i.e. Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.-BUY “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism” by St. Justin: https://lazarica.co.uk/bookshop/-LISTEN to more recordings by Orthodox Wisdom of St. Justin's teachings:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzFKi22k2KYgxvJMJchHwGAWGZebY0s2s-FIND an Orthodox parish and monastery near you: https://orthodoxyinamerica.org/_______St. Justin teaches:This is the ultimately fateful dilemma: the God-Man or man. Humanistic man appears and acts autarchically in all respects, as the supreme value and the supreme standard. There is no place for the God-Man here. For this reason, in the humanistic kingdom, the place of Christ the God-man is taken by Vicarius Christi (Christ’s Deputy), and the God-Man is banished to heaven. This is, surely, a kind of de-incarnation of Christ the God-Man.There are three principal falls in human history: those of Adam, of Judas, and of the Pope.Infallibility is a natural theanthropic characteristic and a natural theanthropic function of the church which is the theanthropic Body of Christ, and whose eternal leader is the Truth, the All-Encompassing Truth, the Second Hypostasis of the All-Holy Trinity, our Lord Jesus Christ the God-man. With respect to the dogma concerning papal infallibility, as a practical matter the pope has been proclaimed to be the Church, and the pope—a man—has usurped the place of the God-man. That is the ultimate triumph of humanism and simulta­neously “the second death” (Rev. 20:14, 21:8) of the papacy, and through it and after it the death of every humanism. However, the dogma of papal infallibility is not only a heresy but the greatest heresy against the True Church of Christ, which has existed in our terres­trial world as a theanthropic body ever since the appearance of the God-man. No other heresy has revolted so violently and so completely against the God-man Christ and His Church as has the papacy with the dogma of the pope—man’s infallibility. There is no doubt about it. This dogma is the heresy of heresies, a revolt without precedent against the God-man Christ on this earth, a new betrayal of Christ, a new crucifixion of the Lord, this time not on wood but on the golden cross of papal humanism. And these things are hell, damnation for the wretched earthly being called man.Is there any way out of these innumerable humanistic hells? Is there resurrection from these innumerable European graves? Is there a cure for these innumerable deadly diseases? There is, oh there is: repentance.______Orthodox Wisdom is dedicated to sharing the writings and lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church. Glory to Jesus Christ!