Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio, paragraph 6: Adding that if at any time it shall appear that some bishop, even conducting himself as an archbishop or patriarch or already mentioned cardinal of the Roman Church, even, as shown, a legate, or even a Roman Pontiff, before his promotion or assumption as cardinal or as Roman Pontiff had deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy or incurred, encouraged or incited schism, before his promotion or assumption as Cardinal or as Roman Pontiff, that promotion or assumption concerning him, even if made in concord and from the unanimous assent of all the cardinals, is null, void and worthless; not by the reception of consecration, not by the ensuing possession of the office and administration, or as if, either the enthronement or homage of the Roman Pontiff, or the obedience given to him by all, and the length of whatever time in the future, can be said to have recovered power or to be able to recover power, nor can (the assumption or promotion) be considered as legitimate in any way, and for those who are promoted as bishops or archbishops or patriarchs or assumed as primates, or as cardinals or even as Roman Pontiff, no faculty of administration in spiritual or temporal matters may be thought to have been attributed or to attribute, but may all things and each thing in any way said, done, effected and administered and then followed up in any way through them lack power and they are not able to attribute any further power nor right to anyone; and they themselves who are thus promoted and assumed by that very fact, without any further declaration to be made, are deprived of every dignity, place, honor, title, authority, function and power; and yet it is permitted to all and each so promoted and assumed, if they have not deviated from the Faith before nor have been heretics, nor have incurred or excited or committed schism.
It is simpler to define the three sins that remove one from the Catholic Church than to define what is necessary to remain. However, it is necessary for salvation to beleive all that is taught by the infallible Divine and Catholic Faith without question. True it is permitted to ask an honest quesiton to seek better knowledge of what the Church teaches, but it is neveer permitted to question what God the Holy Ghost has had the Church infallibly define as true!
For not every sin, however great it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi)
Latin coming soon
Canon 1325: 1. Fidelis Christi fidem aperte profiteri tenentur quoties eorum silentium, tergiversatio aut ratio agendi sesumferrent, implicitam fidei negationem, contemptum religionis, injuriam Dei vel scandalum proximi.
2. Post receptum batpsimum si qui, nomen retinens chrisanum, pertinactier aliquam ex vertatibu fide divnia et catholica credendis denegat aut de ea dubitat, hereticus; si a fide chrisana totaliter recedit, apostata; si denique subesse renuit Summo Pontifici aut cum membris Ecclesiae et subjectis communicare recusat, schismaticus etc.
Canon 1325: 1. The faithful are bound to profess their faith publicly, whenever silence, subterfuge, or their manner of acting would otherwise entail an implicit denial of their faith, a contempt of religion, an insult to God, or scandal to their neighbor.
2. Any baptized person who, while retaining the name of Christian, obstinately denies or doubts any of the truths proposed for belief by the divine and Catholic faith, is a heretic; if he abandons the Christian faith entirely, he is called an apostate; if, finally, he refuses to be subject to the Supreme Pontiff, or to have communication with the members of the church subject to the Pope, he is a schismatic.
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio: 6: Adjicientes quod si ullo umquam tempore apparuerit aliquem Episcopum, etiam pro Archiepiscopeo, seu Patriarcha, vel Primate se gerentem, aut praedictae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem, etiam us praefertur, Legatum, seu etiam Romanum Pontificem, ante ejus promotionem, vel in Cardinalem, seu Romanum Pontificem assumptionem a fide Catholica deviasse, aut in aliquam haeresim incidisse, seu schisma incurrisse, vel excitasse, aut commisisse, promotion, seu assumption de eo etiam Concordia, et de unanimi omnium Cardinalium assensu facta, nulla, irrita, et inanis existat, new per suscetionem muneris consecrationis possessionem, seu quasi, vel ipsius Romani Pontificis inthronizationem, aut adorationem, sey praestitam ab omnibus obedientiam, et cujusvis temporis in praemissis cursum, convaluisse dici, aut convalescere posit, nec pro legitma in aliqua sui parte habeatur, mullamquen talibus in Epsicopus, seu Archiepiscoa, vel Patriarchas aut Primates promotes, seu Cardinales, vel Romanum Pontificem assumptis, in spiritualibus, vel temporalibus administrandi facultatem tribuisse, aus tribuere censeatur, sed omnia, et singular per eos quomodolibet dicta, facta, gesta, et administrate, ac inde secuta quaecumque viribus careant, et nullam prorsus firmitatem, nec jus alicui tribuant, sintque ipsi sic promoti, et assumpti, eo ipso absque aliqua desuper facienda declaratione, omni dignitate, loco, honore, titulo, auctoritate, officio, et potestate private, liceatque omnibus, et singulis sic promotes, et assumptis, si a fide antea non deviassent, nec haeretici fuissent, neque schisma incurrissent, aut excitassent, vel comisissent.
Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum states: Heresies and schisms have no other origin than that obedience is refused to the priest of God, and that men lose sight of the fact that there is one judge in the place of Christ in this world" (Epist. xii. ad Cornelium, n. 5). No one, therefore, unless in communion with Peter can share in his authority, since it is absurd to imagine that he who is outside can command in the Church. Wherefore Optatus of Milevis blamed the Donatists for this reason: "Against which ages (of hell) we read that Peter received the saving keys, that is to say, our prince, to whom it was said by Christ: 'To thee will I give the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the gates of hell shall not conquer them.' Whence is it therefore that you strive to obtain for yourselves the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven—you who fight against the chair of Peter?" Paragraph 15 But the Episcopal order is rightly judged to be in communion with Peter, as Christ commanded, if it be subject to and obeys Peter; otherwise it necessarily becomes a lawless and disorderly crowd., Satis Cognitum of Pope Leo XIII. Paragraph 15
Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis Christi, paragraph 22 stated: Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. In the next paragraph he stated: For not every sin, however great it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.
He who deserts the Church will vainly believe that he is in the Church; Saint Cyprian (quoted in Amantissimus by Pope Pius IX, paragraph 3):
Wherefore, if any should presume to think in their hearts otherwise than as it has been defined by Us, which God avert, let them know and understand that they are condemned by their own judgment; that they have suffered shipwreck in regard to faith, and have revolted from the unity of the Church; and what is more, that by their own act they subject themselves to the penalties established by law, if, what they think in their heart, they should to signify by word or writing or any other external means. Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX (DZ 1641)
