In the antipapal bull announcing the beginning of the Jubilee Year on December 8, 2015, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Vaticanum II, Bergoglio uttered yet another heresy, namely the heresy of Martin Luther.

The heresy of Martin Luther consisted in confusing Saint Paul’s comments on the Mosaic law with the moral law.

Saint Paul fought unceasingly against the Judaizers, who required pagan converts to observe the legal prescriptions of the Old Testament. These rules included repeated washings of the hands, avoiding dead bodies, abstaining from pork, and many other detailed regulations. Therefore there are many texts of Saint Paul condemning Old Testament observances. He opposes obedience to the old law to faith in Christ, which is the source of our justification. Yet in rejecting the observance of the customs of the Old Law, Saint Paul did not reject the moral law contained in the Old Testament.

Martin Luther’s interpretation of various texts of Saint Paul came down to this: that faith alone justifies, that it alone cleanses our souls, and not the observance of the moral law.

From the many texts showing that those who do not observe the moral law will not enter the kingdom of heaven, it clearly follows that Saint Paul required the observance of that law.

Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6, 9-10).

In his epistles Saint Paul repeatedly admonished the faithful concerning the necessity of observing the moral law.

The heretic Martin Luther thought otherwise:

Be a sinner, and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly… No sin shall separate us from the Lamb, even if we were to commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day.

Elsewhere he says:

If adultery were to be committed in faith, it would not be a sin.

Antipope Bergoglio says:

It is not the observance of the law that saves, but faith in Jesus Christ, who by His Passion and Resurrection brings salvation together with the mercy that justifies (no. 20 of the antipapal bull ‘Misericordiae vultus’).

Quoting Saint Paul:

But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. (Gal 2, 16).

Saint Paul wrote this epistle precisely against the Judaizers of Galatia. It obviously refers to the observance of the Old Testament law.

What does Bergoglio mean when he speaks of the law?

He refers to the moral law, because throughout his entire “pontificate” he attacked, as Pharisees and “doctors of the law” – in a pejorative sense – those who would impose the moral law upon erring Catholics. Those who emphasize the observance of the moral law he compares to the enemies of Christ. He heaps insults upon them. He sets against them those who believe in “mercy”, that is, those who approve communion for the divorced and those living in new unions, those who accept sodomy, and those who accept adultery in the form of living together.

There is no other reasonable way of understanding what Bergoglio is saying here. The general principles of reasoning require us to take into account analogous texts, that is, other statements in which Bergoglio opposes mercy to the observance of the law.