by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

To any Catholic with a simple sense of the Faith, what Bergoglio did in attending and worshiping before the idol of Pachamama on Oct. 3, 2019 was an act of idolatry and apostasy. But since that time, many a Bergoglian apologist has sought to insist that Bergoglio was not ipso fact thrust out of the Church, as are all apostates. They argue that worshiping another God may violate the First Commandment, but it does not constitute rejection of the true God.

Here is the video proof:

This is utter nonsense, since the First Commandment forbids absolutely that one have other gods alongside the true God.

It is also utter nonsense, since the worship of idols involves an act of heresy. Yet to this third charge, the Bergoglians have marshaled a strong defense by claiming that no pope has classified idolatry as heresy.

Well in this they lie, because Pope Alexander IV (Dec. 12, 1254 to May 25, 1261 A. D.), in his Bull, Quod super nonnullis, wrote the following:

Crimes involving magic should be left to local authorities unless they had “knowledge of manifest heresy to be involved”, wherein “manifest heresy” included “praying at the altars of idols, to offer sacrifices, to consult demons, [or] to elicit responses from them”*

Canon 1364, by imposing ipso facto excommunication latae sententiae immediately thrusts out of the Catholic Church all who commit public acts of heresy, apostasy, or schism and show no repentance.  This must include, therefore, in accord with the Bull of Alexander IV, all who attended and participated in the adoration of Pachamama on Oct. 3, 2019 in the Garden of the Vatican, and on Oct. 4, 2021 in the Basilica of St. Peter the Apostle at the Vatican.

UPDATE & CORRECTION as of September 5, 2025.

In the original article, the final sentence read thus:

“That means no one can reasonably argue that Jorge Mario Bergoglio holds any office in the Church, since as canon 1331, teaches, those who are excommunicated can obtain no dignity, office or munus in the Church.”

But looking more closely at the same Canon 1331, I find that in the original article I misstated the Canon, for in §1 it says that someone who has been excommunicated latae senentiae or ferendae sententiae — that is, either automatically or with a sentence by a superior or tribunal — that they cannot exercise any office or munus in the Church, nor celebrate the Sacraments or any sacramentals. However, in §2, it says that those excommunicated ferendae senentiae — that is, with a declared sentence — cannot be promoted to office. So an act of public idolatry, as reported above, requires tribunals and superiors to act, but in the present Code it does not result in loss of office. In the case of an antipope, only the true pope could depose him, or a council called by a true pope. In the case of a true pope falling into idolatry, only a provincial Synod at Rome could declare the man a heretic, by which he would ipso facto lose his claim to the office. See the Sutri Initiative for more info on this.

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** Cited from the Wikipedia article on Pope Alexander IV, which in turn cites A. Tomassetti (ed.), Bullarum, Diplomatum et Privilegiorum Sanctorum Romanorum Pontificum Taurensis editio (Turin 1858), pp. 663–666, no. XLVI.

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