Bruno Forte is an apostate
Council of Florence (XVII Ecumenical)No one living outside the Catholic Church, not even the Jews, can participate in eternal lifeIt firmly believes, professes, and proclaims
that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” (Mt 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock. (
Denzinger-Hünermann 1351. Council of Florence. Bull Cantata Domino, February 4, 1442)
Saint John ChrysostomThe Jews when be forgiven neither by circumcision nor by other deeds, but only by Baptism“For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” (Rom 11:27
).
Not when they are circumcised, not when they sacrifice, not when they do the other deeds of the Law, but when they attain to the forgiveness of sins. If then this hath been promised, but has never yet happened in their case, nor have they ever enjoyed the remission of sins by baptism, certainly it will come to pass. Hence he proceeds, “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Rom 11:29). (
Saint John Chrysostom, Homily XIX, Letter to the Romans, no. 6)
Saint Thomas AquinasIt is a mortal sin to observe the old rites after the Passion of ChristThe Apostle says (Gal 5:2): “If you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.” But nothing save mortal sin hinders us from receiving Christ’s fruit. Therefore since Christ’s Passion
it is a mortal sin to be circumcised, or to observe the other legal ceremonies.
All ceremonies are professions of faith, in which the interior worship of God consists. Now man can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in either profession, if he make a false declaration, he sins mortally. Now,
though our faith in Christ is the same as that of the fathers of old; yet, since they came before Christ, whereas we come after Him, the same faith is expressed in different words, by us and by them. For by them was it said: “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,” where the verbs are in the future tense: whereas we express the same by means of verbs in the past tense, and say that she “conceived and bore.” In like manner the ceremonies of the Old Law betokened Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer: whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently,
just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old fulfilled with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching Augustine (
Contra Faust. XIX, 16), who says: “It is no longer promised that He shall be born, shall suffer and rise again, truths of which their sacraments were a kind of image: but it is declared that He is already born, has suffered and risen again; of which our sacraments, in which Christians share, are the actual representation.” (
Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica I-II, q.103, a.4, s.c. /co)
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.
