Bergoglio died this morning. His fate is, of course, in God’s hands, but it is worth noting what the pre-Vatican II Church teaches about social sins, such as scandal and heresy, which “strike at others,” destroying the faith of the “little ones”:
St. Augustine, in “Sermo 82” (c. 410), warns:
“Qui scandalizat unum de pusillis istis, gravissimum supplicium meretur” (“He who scandalizes one of these little ones deserves the severest punishment”) (Sermo 82, Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 507). Scandal and heresy are graver than personal sins, for they destroy the faith of the entire community, acting like poison on the souls that Christ desires to save.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in “Summa Theologica” (II-II, q. 43, a. 8), emphasizes:
“Scandalum activum, quando est voluntarium, est peccatum mortale, quia inducit alios ad peccatum” (“Active scandal, when it is voluntary, is a mortal sin, because it leads others to sin”) (Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 43, a. 8). Social sins, such as scandal and heresy, bear a double guilt: personal, that is, rebellion against God, and social, that is, harm done to the souls of others. They are closer to sins against the Holy Spirit when the sinner knowingly persists in error, rejecting the Church’s admonitions.
The Roman Catechism (1566) clearly states:
“Scandalum est gravissimum peccatum, quod fidem et mores pusillorum corrumpit” (“Scandal is a most grievous sin, which corrupts the faith and morals of the little ones”) (Part II, ch. 7, q. 10). Heresy, as a betrayal of revealed truth, is an attack on God’s plan of salvation, which protects simple believers, and it incurs severe divine punishment.
These words relate to the sins spoken of by Jesus: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Mt 18:6), and by St. Paul: “Even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed” (Gal 1:8). Such sins – scandal and heresy – are a “strike at others,” for they destroy the faith of simple souls, incurring God’s justice.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò commented thus:
In 2018, Eugenio Scalfari reported the words that Bergoglio supposedly confided to him about his vision of the afterlife:
“Sinful souls are not punished: those who repent obtain God’s forgiveness and join the ranks of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, sinful souls simply disappear”.
These heretical ravings are directly opposed to the Catholic Faith, which teaches us that there is a particular Judgment for everyone, which Bergoglio could not escape. His soul has therefore not disappeared, nor has it dissolved: he will have to account for the crimes he has committed, first of all having usurped the throne of Peter in order to destroy the Catholic Church and loose so many souls.
But if this non-pope and anti-pope can no longer harm the Mystical Body, his heirs still remain, the subversives whom he has invalidly created “cardinals” and who have long been organizing themselves to ensure a continuator of the synodal revolution and the destructuring of the Papacy. In support of them are also the conservative Cardinals and Bishops who have been careful not to question the legitimacy of Jorge Bergoglio. It is on these people that the greatest responsibility for the outcome of the next “conclave” falls.
Arkadiusz Niewolski
Catholic during the Great Apostasy 
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