A Roman Catholic Profession of Faith against the Great Apostasy

I, _________________________________________________________, on this day of ________________________, in the city, state, and country of ___________________________________________________________, having before my eyes the holy Gospels, which I touch with my hand, believe that no one can be saved without that faith which the holy, Catholic, apostolic, and Roman Church holds, believes, and teaches. Enlightened by the grace of God, I profess that I believe the one, holy, Catholic, apostolic, and Roman Church to be the one true Church established on earth by our Divine Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to which I submit myself with my whole heart. I firmly believe all the articles that she proposes to my belief, I reject and condemn all that she rejects and condemns, and I am ready to observe all she commands me.

1. I reject and condemn as heretical and apostate the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). I reject and condemn the Conciliar Church [or Novus Ordo Church or Vatican II Church] invented at the robber Council of Vatican II since it is a heretical and apostate sect.
2. I reject and condemn the apostate and heretical antipopes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and all future leaders of the Vatican II Church.
3. I reject and condemn as null and void the non-Catholic 1983 Code of Canon Law; the new Catechism of the new "catholic church"; the new bibles promulgated by the conciliar church; and all of the writings and acts of the apostate antipopes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and all future leaders of the apostate Vatican II Church.
4. I reject and condemn the heresy of religious liberty which states that God gives men the right to believe in false religions and that the State has the right to be separated from the Catholic religion and the Catholic Church. I also reject and condemn the belief that men have the God given right to read, view, or hear the following: forbidden books, forbidden movies, forbidden music, and forbidden lectures or sermons. I believe in the Catholic Church's condemnation and ban of all items that promote anti-Catholicism and immorality — such as some Soap Operas, Atheism, Freemasonry, Illuminati, Cabbala, golems, Eastern Mysticism, the occult, black and white magic, black and white witchcraft, witches, wizards (such as Harry Potter), warlocks, trolls, elves, hobbits, genies, imps, gnomes, fairies, leprechauns, vampires (such as Dracula), space aliens, mythological gods and creatures, fantasy super heroes and humans, sorcerers, fortunetellers, astrology, palm readers, horoscopes, Tarot Cards, Ouija boards, Voodoo, Santeria, Satanism, and all other false religious sects, doctrines, or practices.
5. I reject and condemn the heresy and idolatry of false ecumenism; that is, respect for and meetings and dialogues with false religious sects and individual heretics and schismatics. I believe in the dogma which states that the only religious communication Catholics can have with non-Catholic entities is to denounce them and attempt to convert them.
6. I reject and condemn the heretical and idolatrous belief and practice that Catholics are allowed to pray or sing religious songs in communion with non-Catholics and to participate in their religious rites and ceremonies.
7. I reject and condemn the non-Catholic New World Order, Marxist Communism, Freemasonry, and all other similar societies and sects that plot against the Catholic Church.
8. I reject and condemn the heresy of Americanism, "these new opinions, that, in order to more easily attract those who differ from her, the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit of the age and relax some of her ancient severity and make some concessions to new opinions... not only in regard to ways of living, but even in regard to doctrines which belong to the deposit of the faith."
9. I reject and condemn the apostate and heretical belief which states that unbelieving Jews and Muslims worship the one true God, the God of the Catholic Church, because it denies the divinity of Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost and, therefore, also denies God the Father.
10. I reject and condemn the false and blasphemous religions of Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, Talmudic Judaism, the false religions of the American Indians, and all other false religions.
11. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that Protestants and schismatics are joined to the Catholic Church.
12. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that the Catholic Church is divided or that the Catholic Church cannot have unity until the Protestants and schismatics enter the Catholic Church.
13. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that Protestant and schismatic religions are a means to salvation and thus can sanctify souls.
14. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that certain men who died worshipping false gods or practicing false religions or no religion are saved. I believe in the Salvation Dogma that only those who died professing and living the full deposit of the Catholic faith and in subjection to the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Pontiff (when we had one) and the papacy have a hope to be saved.
15. I reject and condemn the heresy which states, "Even by dogmatic definitions, the Church's magisterium cannot determine the genuine sense of the Sacred Scriptures."
16. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that there is no hell and the heresy which states that devils and damned humans are not damned for all eternity but will one day be released from hell and its torments.
17. I reject and condemn as contrary to the ordinary magisterium the belief that few are damned and many are saved. I believe in the ordinary magisterium doctrine that few men are saved because this has been taught by the unanimous consensus of the Church Fathers.
18. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that Protestants and schismatics have the God given right "to proclaim" or "to witness" their false religions.
19. I reject and condemn as implicitly heretical, implicitly sacrilegious, and irreverent, apostate Antipope Paul VI's Mass (also known as The Novus Ordo Mass) as promulgated in Latin and likewise all the vernacular versions of Paul VI's Mass, many of which are also explicitly heretical. (I call the novus ordo the mess, the former indult or motu mess in Latin of 1962 is also a mess and invalid, illicit and cannot be attended either. You cannot attend any Tridentine Mass either of the sedevacantists for many reasons without being in heresy or grave mortal sin. You cannot be in communion with them either. Do your pre-1955 Missals and pray much to help save your soul. Missals from the 1940's are not tampered with at all so you can sleep easy.
20. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that men with the use of reason can be justified without explicit faith in the Incarnation and the Most Holy Trinity.
21. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that Protestants and schismatics can be saved by an implicit faith in Catholicism.
22. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that "Christ Jesus was given of God to men, as a redeemer in whom to trust, and not also as a legislator in whom to obey."
23. I believe the following about baptism - Baptism by water is absolutely necessary for justification and salvation. There is no further debate. It was settled at the Council of Chalcedon, Florence and Trent.
24. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that the sacrament of baptism by water is not necessary for the justification and salvation of men who do not have the use of reason, such as infants and mentally retarded adults.
25. I reject and condemn as apostates or heretics any patriarch, primate, cardinal, archbishop, or bishop who signed any one of the Vatican II documents or supported the apostate Second Vatican Council. And I believe that by the authority of Canon 188, n. 4, they automatically (ipso facto) lost their offices for publicly defecting from the faith; that is, if they had not lost their offices previously.
26. I reject and condemn the heresy which states, “In proscribing errors, the Church cannot demand internal assent from the faithful by which the judgments she issues are to be embraced.” I believe the Catholic dogma which teaches that the faithful must believe in their minds and hearts what they profess with their lips.
27. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that it is "necessary, according to the natural and divine laws, for either excommunication or for suspension, that a personal examination should precede, and that, therefore, sentences called automatic (ipso facto or latae sententiae) have no other force than that of a serious threat without any actual effect."
28. I reject and condemn any priest or layman who did not separate himself from the non-Catholic Conciliar Church and its apostate antipopes when the heresies of the Conciliar Church and its apostate antipopes and the papal deposition teachings were made manifest to him or could have easily been known by him.
29. I reject and condemn any patriarch, primate, cardinal, archbishop, bishop, priest, or layman who did not publicly condemn the heresies nor denounce the heretics of the non-Catholic Conciliar Church once the heresies and heretics were made known to him or could have easily been known by him because of the wide circulation and promulgation of the heresies—ignorance, at that point, does not excuse.
30. I reject and condemn the heretical and schismatic Society of Saint Pius X because it denies the Salvation Dogma, it does not condemn the Second Vatican Council as a heretical and apostate council, it does not denounce the Vatican II leaders as apostates and antipopes, and it schismatically consecrated bishops contrary to the will of a man it believed was the pope.
31. I reject and denounce as schismatics or heretics or apostates everyone who adheres to the Vatican II or Conciliar Church in these latter days of the Great Apostasy because all the churches in these latter days that acknowledge the Second Vatican Council as a Catholic council or the apostate antipopes of the Vatican II Church as true popes are non-Catholic churches because heresy is taught to the flock in every one of these churches. I believe in the dogma that all who belong to these non-Catholic churches, including children with the use of reason, are outside the Catholic Church for the mortal sin of schism because they adhere to a non-Catholic church and then for the mortal sin of heresy as soon as they believe any heresy taught in their church or any other heresy. See RJMI book Baptized Non-Catholic Children. See RJMI book Faith Before the Mass.
32. I reject and condemn the heresy which teaches that Catholics are allowed to attend Mass at non-Catholic churches or pray in communion with notorious heretics.
33. I reject and condemn as schismatics all illegally consecrated or ordained bishops or priests and anyone or any sect that condones them.
34. I reject and condemn as illegal and schismatic any bishop or priest that was consecrated or ordained by the following non-Catholic bishops: Marcel Lefebvre, De Castro Mayer, Noe Thuc, Carmona, Musey, Roberto Martinez, Guerard des Lauriers, Mendez, Clarence Kelly, Robert McKenna, Oliver Oravec, John Hesson, Mark Pivarunas, Daniel Dolan, Vezelis, Patrick Taylor, Thomas Sebastian, or any non-Catholic bishop or priest in their lineage who has not repented and abjured from his illegal consecration or ordination. These are independent sedevacantists, SSPV, CMRI or other sedevacantist outfits. They are right on many dogmatic and doctrinal issues, morals and Church teaching but they hold either apostate, heretical or some other positions of faith and morals that makes them uncatholic or outside the Church. I believe there are no true bishops that can ordain a valid priest now or even consecrate another to be a Catholic Bishop due to the many heresies they hold previously upon any holy orders. We cannot presume the validity or licitness of these sede or non sede trad outfits.
35. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that a man can be the pope without having full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the Roman Catholic Church. This heresy teaches that a man can be materially the pope (hold the office) while not formally being the pope (with no jurisdiction) and is known as the Materialiter/Formaliter Theory or the Cassiciacum Thesis which was formulated by the Thucite Bishop Michel-Louis Guerard des Lauriers.
36. I reject and condemn the following as non-Catholic antipopes:
Gregory XVII (Fr. John Gregory) and his Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God of St. Jovite; the Thucite bishop Gregory XVII (Clemente Dominguez Gomez) of Palmar de Troya, Spain, and his sect; and Pius XIII (Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher) and his sect.
37. I reject as contrary to the universal Church law the belief that denies the principle or need of epikeia in these days of the Great Apostasy for Catholic bishops or Catholic priests to offer Mass, hear confessions, preach sermons, consecrate bishops, and ordain priests; and for a penitent non-Catholic (a catechumen) to abjure; and for a Catholic cleric or a Catholic layman to publicly teach the Catholic faith.
38. I reject and condemn as contrary to the ordinary magisterium the theory that man evolved from an ape or some other lower form of life. I believe that God created man “of the slime of the earth” and the first woman from the rib of Adam because this is taught by the unanimous consensus of the Church Fathers and hence is part of the ordinary magisterium.
39. I reject and condemn the heresy which blasphemously states that God created men to be homosexuals and thus “once a homosexual, always a homosexual.” I believe the Catholic Church's moral dogma which states that the homosexual perversion is a sin that man brings upon himself by the consent of his free will and hence homosexual thoughts and deeds are always mortal sins.
40. I reject and condemn the heresy of feminism. Some of which or all Richard says is true but I have deleted it, but you can find it and the law of the Church on it and what God intended for the female and why the male is the head. Hence I reject and condemn as the heresy of feminism the belief that a wife need not be subject to her husband. I believe the dogma that a wife must obey her husband in all things except matters that are sinful, near occasions of sin, or matters that would jeopardize her salvation or that of others.
41. I believe in the Catholic dogma which states that marriage is indissolvable.
42. I reject and condemn as heresy (against a dogma of morals) the belief that the use of Natural Family Planning to prevent conception during conjugal relations is not contraception and thus not mortally sinful. I also believe the Catholic doctrine that the primary purpose of marriage is the pro-creation and education of children in the Catholic faith to become saints for Almighty God.
43. I reject and condemn any theory which states that Giuseppe “Cardinal” Siri was a legitimate Roman Pontiff after the 1958 Conclave. Instead of referring to himself as the pope, Siri served the four apostate antipopes of the Conciliar Church and signed the apostate Vatican II documents.
44. I reject and condemn the heresies which state that the Blessed Virgin Mary was not a perpetual virgin and that she had other children besides Jesus Christ.
45. I reject and condemn the heresy which states that there are no just reasons for capital punishment, corporal punishment, and war.
46. I reject and condemn as contrary to the ordinary magisterium the belief that the sun is at the center of the universe, also known as Heliocentrism. I believe that the earth is in the center of the universe and immovable, also known as Geocentrism, because this is taught by the unanimous consensus of the Church Fathers and hence is part of the ordinary magisterium.
47. I reject and condemn as heresy the belief that Catholics are allowed to receive sacraments from non-Catholic priests (which includes notorious heretics or schismatics).
48. I reject and condemn the heresies which state that those who died with the sole guilt of original sin are not in the hell of the damned and are not eternally punished by God. See RJMI book Damned Infants.
49. I reject and condemn the heresies which state that those who died with the sole guilt of original sin are happy and united to God. I believe the solemn magisterium dogmas that all who died with the sole guilt of original sin are not happy nor united to God because they are in the hell of the damned for all eternity where there is no happiness and where they are united to Satan and where there is no love of God nor grace nor any other good things. I will try to make clear what Richard Ibranyi is saying. The unbaptized babies born and unborn are in original sin, they cannot be cleansed without baptism of water, they go to the limbo of hell which is the least punishment one soul and body can have for eternity. I do not know the gravity of any fire or punishment, misery in this part of hell. The one thing that is certain they are eternally separted from God and can never get to heaven.
50. I reject and condemn as idolatry, contrary to the natural law, and contrary to the ordinary magisterium all psychology, psychiatry, hypnosis, and self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous that claim to cure spiritual ills. I believe in the ordinary magisterium doctrine that only the one true God, the Catholic God, and His Catholic Church can truly cure spiritual ills. Anyone else or any other thing that claims they can cure spiritual ills is a false god or a false religion and hence is idolatry and of the Devil.
51. I reject and condemn as heresy and apostasy the belief that God could create a thing (such as the world) that always existed and hence had no beginning. I believe that this heretical and apostate belief makes the created thing equal and coeternal with God. Hence I believe the dogma that only God has always existed, that only God had no beginning.
52. I reject and condemn the sinful law that allows excommunicated Catholics (that is, persons who remain Catholic after their excommunication) to receive sacraments under certain conditions and the sinful law (such as Canon 2261, Canon 2232, and part of Canon 882) that allows excommunicated Catholics to administer any sacrament other than the sacrament of baptism. See RJMI book Faith Before the Sacraments.
See RJMI book Bad Laws in the 1917 Code: Attending non-Catholic religious services (c. 1258). See RJMI book Natural Family Planning Is Contraception.
53. I believe in the Catholic dogma that heretics and schismatics and other baptized non-Catholics are forbidden to receive any sacrament.
54. I believe in the Catholic dogma that heretics and schismatics and other non-Catholics are forbidden to administer any sacrament other than the sacrament of baptism.
55. I believe in the solemn and ordinary magisterium teachings that a Catholic does not need non-Catholic priests or excommunicated Catholic priests to save his soul and that a Catholic who does not have access to Catholic priests can nevertheless be in a state of grace and save his soul.
56. I reject and condemn any sinful law that allows Catholics to passively attend the religious services of non-Catholics.
57. I reject and condemn as contrary to the biblical account of creation and to the ordinary magisterium the belief that UFO's (Unidentified Flying Objects) and so-called aliens from other planets are not from the Devil. I believe that UFO's are illusions of the Devil and so-called aliens are devils from hell. I believe in the Catholic Church's teaching that devils can take on many forms, such as the form of humans, animals, mythological creatures, and inanimate objects such as rocks.
58. I reject and condemn as contrary to the biblical account of creation and to the ordinary magisterium the belief that humans inhabit planets other than the earth.
59. I reject and condemn the heresy of Non-Judgmentalism which denies the Catholic obligation to profess the Catholic faith, to condemn sin, and to rebuke and admonish sinners and call them to repent and convert. Hence I reject and condemn as the heresy of Non-Judgmentalism the belief that denies the Catholic obligation to condemn all heresies, non-Catholic religions, non-Catholic Churches, and all other sinful things or to denounce and rebuke all heretics and other non-Catholics and all other sinners and call them to repent and convert.
60. I reject and condemn as contrary to the natural law the democratic form of government, also known as democracy. I believe that democracy is intrinsically evil because it overturns God's hierarchic order in the family, society, work place, and State and promotes rebellion, immorality, and the heresies of religious liberty, the equality of all men, separation of the Catholic Church from the State, and humanism.

With a sincere heart, therefore, and with unfeigned faith, I detest and abjure each and every heresy and/or schism that I have held, and each and every non-Catholic sect that I was associated with. I beg and pray that almighty God, the triune and undivided Godhead, the most holy and eternal Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who can neither deceive nor be deceived, will have mercy on me and forgive me, a poor wretched sinner, of each and every mortal sin that has denied him and has placed me outside the one, holy, Catholic, apostolic, and Roman Church, outside of which there is no salvation. I also beg the holy, perpetual virgin Mary, Mother of God, our Queen, through her sorrowful and immaculate heart; with St. Joseph, patriarch of the most Holy Family and protector of holy Mother Church; St. Michael the Archangel, prince of the heavenly host and our defender in battle; St. John the Baptist; the holy apostles Peter and Paul; St. Joachim and St. Anne; and all the angels and saints to pray for me before the throne of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ the King, that he may hide me in his most sacred wounds, cover me with his most Precious Blood, and wash me clean with the water that flowed from his pierced side in his crucifixion and death; and I beg his most Sacred Heart to have mercy on me, that he may strengthen me and suffer me not to fall due to my concupiscence or human weakness into these sins or any sin again. May he protect me from the deceptions and snares of Satan, who with his lying signs and wonders appears as an angel of light. Please, dear God, save me from the world, the flesh, and the Devil so that I may not be damned to the eternal fires of hell because I know that I am nothing, can know nothing, and do nothing without thee, O Lord and my God. By cooperating with thy priceless graces obtained from thy infinite sacrifice on the cross and by uniting myself with thee, may I be made worthy to become the saint that thou hast called me to be in order that I may attain after my death and judgment the perfect happiness and eternal bliss of loving, praising, and glorifying thee by gazing upon thy most adorable and Holy Face in heaven, together with all the angels and saints, forever and ever. Amen.

I promise to live and profess the holy Roman Catholic faith without compromise, until and through my last dying moment, for the salvation of my immortal soul, so help me God, and these his holy Gospels, which I touch with my hand. Amen.

The Profession of the Catholic Faith

I with firm faith believe and profess all and everything which is contained in the Creed of Faith, which the holy Roman Church uses, namely: I believe in one God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation descended from heaven, and became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; he was also crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, died, and was buried; and he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven; he sitteth at the right hand of the Father, and will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose kingdom there shall be no end; and in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified; who spoke through the prophets; and in one holy Catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins, and I await the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

The apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances and constitutions of that same Church I most firmly admit and embrace. I likewise accept Holy Scripture according to that sense which our holy Mother Church has held and does hold, whose [office] it is to judge of the true meaning and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures; I shall never accept nor interpret it otherwise than in accordance with the unanimous consent of the Fathers.

I also profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the New Law instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, although not all are necessary for each individual; these sacraments are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme unc-tion, order, and matrimony; and [I profess] that they confer grace, and that of these baptism, confirmation, and order cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the accepted and approved rites of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of all the aforesaid sacraments. I embrace and accept each and everything that has been defined and declared by the holy Synod of Trent concerning original sin and justification. I also profess that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper sacrifice of propitiation for the living and the dead, and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially present the body and blood together with the soul and the divinity of our Lord Je-sus Christ, and that there takes place a conversion of the whole substance of bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood; and this conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation. I also acknowledge that under one species alone the whole and entire Christ and the true sacrament are taken.

I steadfastly hold that a purgatory exists, and that the souls there detained are aided by the prayers of the faithful; likewise that the saints reigning together with Christ should be venerated and invoked, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics should be venerated. I firmly assert that the images of Christ and of the Mother of God ever Virgin, and also of the other saints should be kept and retained, and that due honor and veneration should be paid to them; I also affirm that the power of indulgences has been left in the Church by Christ, and that the use of them is especially salutary for the Christian people.

I acknowledge the holy Catholic and apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches; and to the Roman Pontiff, the successor of the blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles and vicar of Jesus Christ, I promise and swear true obedience. Also all other things taught, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and ecumenical Councils, and especially by the sacred and holy Synod of Trent, (and by the ecumenical Council of the Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching), I without hesitation accept and profess; and at the same time all things contrary thereto, and whatever heresies have been condemned, and rejected, and anathematized by the Church, I likewise condemn, reject, and anathematize. This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, (and) which of my own accord I now profess and truly hold, I do promise, vow, and swear that I will, with the help of God, most faithfully retain and profess the same to the last breath of life as pure and inviolable, and that I will take care as far as lies in my power that it be held, taught, and publicly professed by those who depend on me and by those whom I shall have charge, so help me God, and these holy Gospels of God.

WHEREFORE, I being of sound mind and reason and by the use of my unrestrained free will, attest, assent, and humbly submit to each and all of the above points of this abjuration and profession of faith, in their entirety and without any reservation.

If you can find one or two witnesses then do it. If you cannot you are permitted to do it alone with just your knowledge, nor do you have to panic or be afraid of not knowing anyone who can be a witness, God knows your heart and intentions. I did have to change some things in Richard's abjuration rules and forms due to over doing things. I don't find it heresy to watch reruns of Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie, Petticoat Junction or watch many shows that may have some questionable things in them on faith or morals. Are there things that are on tv, Hollywood films... and other entertainment that is an act against the Catholic Faith? Sure you decide what to watch and as long as you don't condone the evils of entertainment at that cutoff point such as semi-porn, blasphemy... you are not committing a heresy or grave sin or sin at all. I watch Boardwalk Empire on HBO but while it is offensive in many ways with what I have seen and heard, I don't think it is okay to speak that way or do these things. I don't condone the sins I see in the show but it is a good show. There are many examples of this in music, radio, tv, movies, dance, entertainment or live theatre....

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Abjuration Instructions

"Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in Heaven. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in Heaven." - Our Divine Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - WARNING: Before taking this "Abjuration from the Great Apostasy", you must make sure you understand and believe in all that is contained in it. I strongly suggest that you send for the "Catechism Questions and Answers on the Catholic Faith" from Richard Ibranyi or another sedevacantist source to see if you are prepared to take the abjuration. St. Pope Pius X taught that most Catholics were falling outside the Church and going to hell because of ignorance of things they must know regarding the Catholic faith. Once you become a Catholic, God does not want this to happen to you.

Pope Pius X, Acerbo Nimis: “We are forced to agree with those who hold that the chief cause of the present indifference and, as it were, infirmity of soul, and the serious evils that result from it, is to be found above all in ignorance of things divine. And so, Our Predecessor Benedict XIV had just cause to write: "We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect." [April 15, 1905]

The only saving remedy, then, is to study the Catholic faith and expel ignorance, because the alternative is hell, if you do not study and learn the faith. The mysteries of faith must be known and believed, therefore, the purpose of this Catechism questions is to make sure you are prepared to take the “Abjuration from the Great Apostasy”. These questions will let you know in what area you need to study, and what dogmas you still may be denying. A Catholic becomes a heretic if he doubts or denies one dogma, either by obstinacy or omission of due diligence, and thus falls outside the Catholic Church and becomes a non-Catholic. Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum: “...The Church has always regarded as rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children all who held beliefs on any point of doctrine different from her own."

St. Augustine notes that other heresies may spring up, to a single one of which, should any one give his assent, he is by the very fact cut off from Catholic unity... if any one holds to one single one of these he is not a Catholic. (S. Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88). [June 29, 1896]

1917 Code of Canon Law: “c. 2314.1. All apostates from the Christian faith, and all heretics and schismatics: (1) are ipso facto excommunicated...”
It is necessary that you know, understand, and consent to all that is in the form; first, for the hope of your own salvation, for without the Catholic faith you cannot even have a hope of being saved; second, so that you may defend and propagate the faith to others in hope of converting them. It is a spiritual act of mercy to instruct the ignorant and admonish the sinner, and it is a Catholic's obligation to profess the faith when the situation presents itself.

1917 Code of Canon Law: “c.1325.1 Obligation to Profess the Faith - The faithful are bound to profess their faith openly whenever under the circumstances silence, evasion, or their manner of acting would otherwise implicitly amount to a denial of the faith, or would involve contempt of religion, an offense to God, or scandal to the neighbor.” How can you fulfill these obligations if you do not know the Catholic faith? If you do not know and understand the faith, then others will come along and seductively subvert you from the truths of the Catholic faith, which is your only hope of salvation. Pope Pius X, Editae Saepe, 1910: “If those who associate with heretics are not firmly rooted in the Faith there is reason to fear that they will easily be seduced by the heretics into the trap of impiety and false doctrine.”

St. Peter, the first Pope, warns that you must be faithful: “For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.” (2 Peter 2:20-22)

Your baptism cannot be valid if you were baptized by a Conciliar (Vatican II) priest who did not follow the ritual for the Roman Rite of baptism before Vatican II. If you even doubt that the priest did not properly baptize you, then you must be conditionally baptized. You must be conditionally baptized after you have taken the abjuration and profession of faith and signed the document, and before you go to confession. Your abjuration and confession would be considered conditional also. If you were not validly baptized, you would not have incurred any censures of excommunication and your conditional baptism would have effected the forgiveness of all your sins, original and actual. If you were truly baptized, then the conditional abjuration would have lifted your censure of excommunication in external forum, thereby placing you inside the Catholic Church, and the conditional confession would have absolved you of your actual sins in the internal forum. See the Booklet on Baptism and follow all the rules for the Baptism Rite in chapter four and the additional rules for Conditional Baptism chapter 5. A conditional baptism only differs from non-conditional baptism in the words (form) used when pouring the water over the forehead of the candidate. The words for a conditional baptism are, “If thou art not baptized, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

Abjuration, Profession of Faith, and Lifting of the Censures of Excommunication

The Holy Roman Catholic Church requires an abjuration and profession of faith from all the baptized who have publicly believed in heresy and/or schism, or have been in communion with those who are in public heresy and/or schism.
1917 Code of Canon Law: “c. 731 It is forbidden to administer the Sacraments of the Church to heretics and schismatics, even though they are in good faith and request the Sacraments unless they shall have previously renounced their errors and obtained reconciliation with the Church.”
1917 Code of Canon Law: “c. 2314.2 The abjuration is made in juridical form, when it takes place in the presence of the local Ordinary or his delegate and at least two witnesses.” Throughout these instructions, in order to not be redundant, whenever we mention taking the abjuration before a Catholic bishop or priest, let it be understood that at least two witnesses are required in all cases, if available. Notary publics are not required to witness the abjuration, but they may be used if other witnesses are not available. The principle of epikeia exempts you from the above need of a Catholic bishop, priest, or even two witnesses if it is impossible to access them. Even if you could not find one person to witness your abjuration, and take it alone, it would still be considered public because you put it in writing for all to see as evidence.

The following is the teaching of the Church that abjurations are to be public and specific. The penitent must renounce his association with any heretical and/or schismatic sect he adhered to, along with its founder. He must also condemn every heresy and/or schismatic teaching or practice that the sect held, even if he did not hold them personally. It is very important to note that the penitent must personally condemn all the heresies he held and/or all the heresies of the non-Catholic sect he belonged, or adhered to, along with all the leaders of the sect.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907, “Abjuration”: “A denial, disavowal, or renunciation under oath. In common ecclesiastical language this term is restricted to the renunciation of heresy made by the penitent heretic on the occasion of his reconciliation with the Church. The Church has always demanded such renunciation, accompanied by appropriate penance... after the birth of Nestorianism and Eutychianism, the abjuration of heresy was added a solemn profession of faith... In all cases there was demanded the presentation of a libellus, or form of abjuration, in which the convert renounced and anathematized his former tenets. After declaring his abjuration to be free from compulsion, fear, or other unworthy motive, he proceeded to anathematize all heresies in general and in particular that sect to which he had belonged, together with its heresiarchs, past, present, and future. He then enumerated the tenets accepted by said sect, and, having repudiated them singly and generally, he ended with a profession of his belief in the true Faith.” After you take the abjuration and profession of faith according to Church law, then your censure of excommunication is lifted and you are a member of the Catholic Church. Once you are a member of the Catholic Church, you must go to confession to have your sins forgiven in the internal forum. There must be a validly ordained priest for confession in the pre-Vatican sacrament in order to obtain a valid confession. If this is not possible because the priest is a heretic then you must confess your sins to God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost by the power of Christ in the name of Jesus in your prayers and a perfect act of contrition. Make reparations if you can.

The Procedure to Follow

1) If a Catholic bishop is not accessible within six months, proceed to step two.
2) If you can locate a Catholic priest and have easy access to him by easy access we mean within six months then you must take the abjuration and profession of faith before him. After that, the priest will then absolve you from your censures.
If a Catholic priest is not accessible within six months, proceed to step three. There is an exception taught in Canon 2254.3 that gives the Catholic priest the option of foregoing the necessary recourse to the local Ordinary (Catholic Bishop) in the urgent case where it is morally impossible to have recourse to a Catholic Bishop.
3) If you can locate any two witnesses, Catholic preferably, and have easy access to them by easy access we mean within six months then you must take the abjuration and profession of faith before the two witnesses. If only one witness is available that will suffice. After that, your censures will then be absolved by the Church, provided you promise to ultimately go before a Catholic priest, If you go before a Catholic priest because a Catholic bishop is not accessible. If you do not go before a Catholic bishop, or priest the first available opportunity then the censures fall back on your head, and you re-incur the sentence of excommunication. Notary publics are not required to witness the abjuration, but they may be used, if other witnesses are not available. If witnesses are not accessible within six months, proceed to step four.
4) You can take the abjuration and profession of faith alone, if you have no access to any other man who is willing to witness it, with the promise to fulfill the above conditions as soon as possible.

In Danger of Death
If you are in danger of death, you can immediately fulfill any of the above conditions that apply. In this near death situation, the basic Catholic teachings, which condemn the principal heresies of the Great Apostasy must be known before completing as much of the abjuration and profession of faith as possible, summarizing when necessary, depending on the circumstances, before signing or acknowledging it in whatever external way possible on the condition that you learn the details later, if the danger of death ceases.

After Signing your Abjuration and Profession of Faith, You must go to Confession.

You must confess your sins against the faith and morals to God since we have no bishops today or any validly ordained priest who is not a heretic or apostate. If you do not have access to a priest, then you must privately confess your sins before God followed by an act of perfect contrition, with the promise to go before a Catholic priest at the first opportunity to do so. If you did not go to confession to a Catholic priest at the first opportunity to do so; then, your sins will fall back on your head, and you will re-incur the guilt of your sins.

The Council of Trent, On penance: "The Synod teaches moreover, that, although it sometimes happens that this contrition is perfect through charity, and reconciles man with God before this Sacrament be actually received, the said reconciliation, nevertheless, is not to be ascribed to that contrition, independently of the desire of the Sacrament which is included therein."
The Council of Trent, On penance, sess. xiv, chap. 4; D 898.
All facts covered in this introduction and the abjuration itself are theologically explained in detail in Ibranyi's book "The Abjuration from the Great Apostasy".

Profession of Catholic Faith Promulgated solemnly by Pope Pius IV and the Council of Trent

I, _____, with firm faith believe and profess each and every article contained in the symbol of faith which the holy Roman Church uses; namely:
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages; God from God, light from light, true God from true God; begotten not made, of one substance (consubstantial) with the Father, through whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was made incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, died, and was buried; and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven; He sits at the right hand of the Father, and He shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who equally with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified; who spoke through the prophets. And I believe that there is one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins; and I hope for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. I resolutely accept and embrace the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and the other practices and regulations of that same Church. In like manner I accept Sacred Scripture according to the meaning which has been held by holy Mother Church and which she now holds. It is Her prerogative to pass judgment on the true meaning and interpretation of Sacred Scripture. And I will never accept or interpret it in a manner different from the unanimous agreement of the Fathers.

I also acknowledge that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the New Law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and that they are necessary for the salvation of the human race, although it is not necessary for each individual to receive them all. I acknowledge that the seven sacraments are: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of the seven, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders cannot be repeated without committing a sacrilege. I also accept and acknowledge the customary and approved rites of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of these sacraments. I embrace and accept each and every article on Original Sin and Justification declared and defined in the most holy Council of Trent.

I likewise profess that in Mass a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice is offered to God on behalf of the living and the dead, and that the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is truly, really, and substantially present in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, and that there is a change of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood; and this change the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation.

I also profess that the whole and entire Christ and a true Sacrament is received under each separate species.
I firmly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls detained there are helped by the prayers of the faithful.
I likewise hold that the saints reigning together with Christ should be honored and invoked, that they offer prayers to God on our behalf, and that their relics should be venerated.
I firmly assert that images of Christ, of the Mother of God ever Virgin, and of the other saints should be owned and kept, and that due honor and veneration should be given to them.
I affirm that the power of indulgences was left in the keeping of the Church by Christ, and that the use of indulgences is very beneficial to Christians.
I acknowledge the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches; and...
I unhesitatingly accept and profess all the doctrines (especially those concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching authority) handed down, defined, and explained by the sacred canons and ecumenical councils and especially those of this most holy Council of Trent (and by the ecumenical Vatican Council I). And at the same time:
I condemn, reject, and anathematize everything that is contrary to those propositions, and all heresies without exception that have been condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the Church.
I, ___________, promise, vow, and swear that, with God's help, I shall most constantly hold and profess this true Catholic faith, outside which no one can be saved and which I now freely profess and truly hold. With the help of God, I shall profess it whole and unblemished to my dying breath; and, to the best of my ability, I shall see to it that my subjects or those entrusted to me by virtue of my office hold it, teach it, and preach it. So help me God and His holy Gospel.