Thursday, June 25, 2009

Pope St. Clement an apparent anti-pope

WCM provides

Pope Benedict XV, Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, Nov. 1, 1914: “For the whole of mankind was freed from the slavery of sin by the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ as their ransom, and there is no one who is excluded from the benefit of this Redemption”

This is supposedly contradictory to the following :

St. John 8:34: "Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin"

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Chapter 3, Who are justified through Christ, Jan. 13, 1547: “But, though He died for all, yet do not all receive the benefit of His death, but those only unto whom the merit of His passion is communicated. For as in truth men, if they were not born propagated of the seed of Adam, would not be born unjust,-seeing that, by that propagation, they contract through him, when they are conceived, injustice as their own,-so, if they were not born again in Christ, they never would be justified; seeing that, in that new birth, there is bestowed upon them, through the merit of His passion, the grace whereby they are made just.”

If such a contradiction exists, I would provide the following:

(Epistle of Pope St. Clement to the Corinthians)
Let us fix our eyes on the blood of Christ and understand how precious it is unto His Father, because being shed for our salvation it won for the whole world the grace of repentance.

No contradiction exists, save in the minds of those seeking a fallen church that does not, and will never, exist.

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