To a Traditional web site:
In response to your article listed on your web site, “A Pope Who Apostatized from the Catholic Faith”, I must place you either in the schismatic Old Catholics or among the Modernists Vatican II Counciliarists. I cannot categorize your opinion among Roman Catholics who are faithful to the teaching magisterium and accept the infallibility of the Pope as defined by the Vatican Council (1870).

Bishop Döllinger opposed the Vatican Council in defining the infallibility of the pope on the basis that, as an historian, history proved the pope was not infallible—you make the same claim. But, his proposition was rejected by the Fathers of the Council with the support of other historians and apologists who demonstrated that in no case had a pope taught, ex cathedra, heresy. The chief examples, such as you also list, are all disclaimed as spurious, misinterpreted, or not touching upon infallibility. For you to renew these attacks against the papacy would set you in opposition to Vatican I. Döllinger joined the Old Catholics.

The present Counciiarists have nothing better than to apologize for all the errors of the Catholic Church and setting the record straight. The whole attitude of Vatican II was to change the direction of the Church in the adaptation of theories that the Roman Catholic Church has condemned continuously, but which the Concilarists now claim are true and the pre-Vatican II (post Trent ) were in error. This would mean the Church could error. It would mean the Church can change according to whether we have conservatives or liberals. It would mean the faith does evolve. Are you saying you also recognize the Church (popes) can err? If you do, maybe you should change your site so it is not as deceptive as you are making it to be presently. If you claim to be defending the Roman Catholic Faith in its entirety, do not post arguments from schismatics and apostates as though they were Catholic. If you want a brief Catholic source for the truth of these popes, you may choose looking in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1912-1913 edition). I can provide refutation for each, but it has already been sufficiently done by Roman Catholic historians and theologians and, as I just stated, found in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Hoping for your quick return to Roman Catholicism.

In Christ, Joseph B. D. Saraceno