That Horrible Crime...

On the 30th August 1568, Pope St. Pius V issued the Bull Horrendum Illud Scelus, in which he judged that the only fitting punishment for clerics who commit the unspeakable sin of Sodomy was...death. 

Can you imagine any Post-Vatican II Pope (excluding Francis, of course, since he isn't a Pope) making any such declaration? Of course not! And why? Because it would mean that at least half of the Vatican's clerics would be missing their heads. 

The Bull is also a reminder of the morality of the death penalty for crimes. Never forget that the death penalty - rather then being opposed to the Gospel as Antipope Francis heretically claims - is absolutely and positively willed by Almighty God and commanded by Him for certain crimes, like murder. I mean, just read what God said after Cain murdered Abel in Genesis. Right there, in the opening chapters of Genesis and at the infancy of the human race, God ordered the death penalty for murder. Therefore, to claim that such a commandment by God is somehow contrary to the Gospel or is immoral or is outdated is blasphemy of the highest grade and, in my books, should merit either having one's tongue cut out or - ironically - having one's head cut off! 

Below is the Latin and English texts of the Bull. Remember, these are the words of an actual Catholic Pope who didn't shy away from his duty of being the Supreme Pastor of the Church. This isn't a wishy-washy, Vatican II Modernist who thinks the Church started in 1962. This is a real manly Pope who ordered for priests to be beheaded for such crimes as the Church is now reeling from. And why is She reeling from them? Because, like all other things, from Vatican II onwards, the Chruch's authorities became soft of sodomy (naturally, since the Sodomites had infiltrate the ranks of the clergy and were the one's now in charge...and still are!). 

Horrendum illud scelus, quo pollutae foedataeque Civitates a tremendo Dei iudicio conflagrarunt, acerbissimum Nobis dolorem inurit, graviterque animum nostrum commovet, ut ad illud, quantum potest, comprimendum, studia nostra conferamus.

§ 1. Sane Lateranensi Concilio dignoscitur constitutum, ut quicumque Clerici, illa incontinentia, quae contra naturam est, propter quam ira Dei venit in filios diffidentiae, deprehensi fuerint laborare, a Clero deiiciantur, vel ad agendam in Monasteriis poenitentiam detrudantur.

§ 2. Verum ne tanti flagitii contagium, impunitatis spe, quae maxima peccandi illecebra est, fidentius invalescat, Clericos huius nefarii criminis reos, gravius ulciscendos deliberavimus, ut qui animae interitum non hor­rescunt, hos certe deterreat civilium legum vindex gladius saecularis.



​§ 3. ltaque quod Nos iam in ipso Pontificatus nostri principio hac de re decrevimus, plenius nunc, fortiusque persequi intendentes, omnes,  et quoscumque Presbyteros, et alios Clericos saeculares, et regulares, cuius­cumque gradus, et dignitatis, tam dirum nefas exercentes, omni privilegio clericali, omnique officio, dignitate, et beneficio Ecclesiastico praesentis cano­nis auctoritate privamus. Ita quod per ludicem Ecclesiasticum degradati, potestati statim saeculari tradantur, qui de eis illud idem capiat supplicium, quod in laicos hoc in exitio devolutos, legitimis reperitur sanctionibus con stitutum.

​Nulli ergo, etc.

That horrible crime, by which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire through divine condemnation, causes Us most bitter sorrow and shocks Our mind, impelling Us to repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.

§ 1. Quite opportunely the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517] issued this decree: “Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature, given that the wrath of God falls over the sons of perfidy, be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery” (chap. 4, X, V, 31).

§ 2. So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity by taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, We determine that they should be handed over to the severity of the secular authority, which enforces civil law.

​§ 3. Therefore, wishing to pursue with greater rigor than We have exerted since the beginning of Our Pontificate, We establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefice, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss.


​Nothing to the contrary withstanding, etc.