By Dimitris Hatzinikolaou, former Associate Professor of Economics, University of Ioannina
The current situation
is extremely gloomy from every respect the Hellenic Nation is based on. The
common cause of all the evils that are occurring is the treachery of the current
and past puppets that “govern” the State and the Church, where obviously a
division of "work" has taken place, the first are handing Hellas over
to her enemies, whereas the second are submitting the Church to the New World
Order, i.e., to international Satanism, with the first step being her
submission to the "pope of Rome." The people do not seem to care,
thus making it easy for the traitors. This is an ideal situation for further
treason in each sector. Regarding the Church, a new important step has already
been announced for its submission to the "pope":
the change of the Orthodox Paschalion, so that the
common celebration of Pascha is achieved, with the final goal being the complete
submission to the "pope." (Partial submission has already taken place
since 7-12-1965, when the "lifting" of the
excommunications, i.e., the "lifting" of the Schism of 1054, took
place.) Most people are theologically illiterate and do not understand that
whoever contributes to the change of the Paschalion renders himself rejectable
from the Church (see 1st Canon of the Local Council of Antioch,
confirmed by the 2nd Canon of the 6th Ecumenical Council).
Nor do they understand what Papacy exactly is and that their submission to it will
result in their condemnation to eternal Hell. The purpose of the present article
is to reveal briefly the anti-Christian character of the Papacy by exposing some
of the decisions of the "council" of Trent.
The "council" of Trent took place in three periods during
1545-1563, with the aim of fighting Protestantism. For the Papacy, it is the 19th
"Ecumenical Council," which introduced significant reforms. Only a
few Orthodox Christians know, however, that, as Dositheus (1641-1707),
Patriarch of Jerusalem, writes, this "synod" "anathematizes the
Church, the holy Fathers, the Apostles, and Christ Himself"![1]
I will refer to just a few points. My main sources are Dositheus’s Dodekabiblos
and Schroeder’s English translation of the minutes of the "council” of Trent.[2]
1. Session 3 (Feb. 1546),
Decree concerning the Creed. After quoting the Creed, with the addition of
the Filioque,
it commands: "all who profess the faith of Christ necessarily agree"
with this Creed, otherwise they are heretics. Thus, the Church and the holy
Fathers, who wrote the Creed without the Filioque, are anathematized (Schroeder, ibid., p. 15).
2. Session 7 (March 1547),
Canons on Baptism, Canon 3: "If anyone says that in the Roman Church,
which is the mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true
doctrine concerning the sacrament of baptism, let him be anathema" (Schroeder,
ibid., p. 53). As Dositheus (ibid.) writes, "following the Apostles, the catholic
(i.e., the Orthodox) Church baptizes in three immersions and emersions for the
trinity of God and the three-day Resurrection." The papists, who replaced baptism
with the "Latin sprinkling," anathematize with this "synod"
anyone who says that this innovation is not good. In other words, they
anathematize the catholic Church, the holy Fathers, and the Apostles, who left
a clear decree for the ritual of baptism (see the 50th Apostolic Canon,
The Rudder, published by The Orthodox Christian Educational Society,
Chicago, Illinois, 1957, English translation by D. Cummings from the 5th
Edition of the Pedalion in Hellenic, Printed in England by W.H.
Houldershaw, Ltd., Essex, p. 81).
3. Sessions 13 (Oct. 1551) and 21
(July 1562), Canons and Decrees concerning the sacrament
of the holy Eucharist. Here, the papists innovated this great sacrament in two
ways. First, they decided that it is not necessary to communicate the divine
gifts in both kinds, bread and wine, but that one kind suffices. Second, they
decided that it is not necessary to give the divine gifts to children. And they
anathematize those who say that these reforms were not well done. Specifically,
in Chapter IV of Session 21 they laid down the following canons (Schroeder, ibid.,
pp. 134-135):
Canon 1: "If anyone
says that each and all the faithful of Christ are by a precept of God or by the
necessity of salvation bound to receive both species of the most holy sacrament
of the Eucharist, let him be anathema."
Canon 2: "If anyone
says that the holy Catholic Church was not moved by just causes and reasons that
laymen and clerics when not consecrating should communicate under the form of bread
only, or has erred in this, let him be anathema."
Canon 4: "If anyone
says that communion of the Eucharist is necessary for little children before
they have attained the years of discretion, let him be anathema."
Dositheus (ibid.) comments on these canons as follows: "The Lord
said, Take, eat, and drink of it, all of you, and the holy Fathers have
accepted the words of the Lord, that all Christians must eat the flesh and
drink the blood, whereas the Pope innovated against the saints and against
Christ himself, and decided that the laity should take communion of the one
kind only, that is, bread, which was affirmed before by the Latin councils in
Constance and in Basel, and the present council accepted this decision with
great blasphemy, and anathematizes those who say that the Roman Church did not do
this for a good reason." And he continues: "The Lord said, Receive,
eat, and drink of it, all of you, and the catholic Church from the beginning offered
the communion of the Sacrament to the children as well, whereas the Roman, that
is, the papal Church, decided that only those who have attained the years of
discretion can take communion, and not the children, and anathematizes those who
say that the papal Church is not justified in doing so, thus anathematizing
again the catholic (i.e., the Orthodox) Church, and the holy Fathers, and
Christ himself"!
4. Session 24 (November
1563), Canons concerning the sacrament of matrimony, Canon 7: "If anyone
says that the Church errs in that she taught and teaches that in accordance
with evangelical and apostolic doctrine the bond of matrimony cannot be
dissolved by reason of adultery on the part of one of the parties, and that
both, or even the innocent party who gave no occasion for adultery, cannot
contract another marriage during the lifetime of the other, and that he is
guilty of adultery who, having put away the adulteress,
shall marry another, and she also who, having put away the adulterer, shall
marry another, let him be anathema” (Schroeder, ibid., pp. 181-182).
Commenting on this canon, Dositheus (ibid.) writes that it "anathematizes
those who get a divorce for adultery, and so anathematizes the one who said that
whoever divorces his wife except for the reason of adultery, and the catholic
Church, and the holy Fathers." That is, this canon anathematizes Christ(!),
as He allows the divorce because of adultery (Matt. 5:32 and 19:9).
Having said that, we conclude that Dositheus
did not exaggerate when he wrote that "the papacy is
anti-Christianity" (Dodekabiblos, ibid., Book 11, Ch. 1, Par. 4) and
that the papists are "proven liars" (Dodekabiblos,
ibid., Book 12, Ch. 9, Par. 3). Nor was he lying when he described events
such as the following: "In order to demonstrate themselves to be the
ancient and inexorable enemies of the orthodox, the Latins broke the Iconostasis
of the Temple in Bethlehem . . . they laughed at and trampled on the holy Cross
and the holy Icons alluding that they are paintings of the Romans, and dug up the
holy table in the arch in front of the holy tomb, where the Patriarchs
distributed the holy light" (Dodekabiblos, ibid, Book 12, Ch. 13).
When will the faithful people abide
by the exhortation of Athanasius the Great and vote out the false bishops who
call the Papacy "sister Church"? He writes: "If the bishop or
the presbyter, being the eyes of the Church, behave in an unorthodox manner and
scandalize the faithful, they ought to be expelled. For it is in interest of
the faithful to assemble in the church without them rather than going to the
lake of fire with them, as with Annas and Caiaphas"
(Patrologia Graeca, vol. 27, p. 1369C). In other words, if the faithful do
not want to go to Hell, they ought not to be together in the holy temples with
the false bishops who go along with the pseudo-synod of Crete (2016). That is,
they must wall off from the Ecumenists, who now accept in communion even those who
openly reject the Gospel, i.e., those who recently (on 15 Feb. 2024) supported
and shamelessly legitimized homosexuality as a God-given normality! As I have
written repeatedly, according to all the Scriptures, all the Councils, and all
the Holy Fathers, those who knowingly communicate ecclesiastically with
heretics are to be anathematized.
Source: Newspaper Orthodoxos Typos, Friday 12
July 2024, no. 2503 (in Hellenic, English translation by the author).