Did he die a happy and holy death?
John Lennon reaped what he sowed.
Just for your information, there have been periods in the history of the Catholic Church when anti-popes reign. We have been living in such a period for about fifty years now.
In the time of St. Athanasius, who lived in the fourth century, there was a true pope named Liberius who during his reign gave in to pressure to deny the divinity of Christ. Most all popes preceding Liberius went to their death defending the teachings of the Church and its founder the God-Man Jesus Christ. Athanasius was excommunicated five times and exiled from his episcopal seat in Alexandria Egypt because he refused to go along the heresy of anti-pope Liberius. Athanasius, in a famous letter to faithful Catholics wrote: "they have the buildings but we have the true faith; what is more important the buildings or the faith? Anti-Pope Liberius eventually came around to his senses and cursed the day that he went along with the pressure to deny the divinity of Christ, rather than follow in the footsteps of Christ's Passion and death. However Liberius was the first of a long line of popes preceding him not to be canonnized as a saint.
It is the same today. For those outside of the true Catholic Church, which includes many Novus Ordo Catholics today, those who have always sought to deny its primacy over Christians and all peoples worldwide, who rely on their own private interpretation of Scripture would do well to re-read it and beg the Blessed Virgina Mary and her spouse the Holy Ghost to enlighten their minds.
"And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?"
"Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:"
"You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come."
"Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin."
"Leaving the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,
"Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin."
"Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law"
And finally, let me add regarding the apostasy throughout world history since about the fifteenth century and which seems to have culminated in the Novus Ordo Catholic Church:
"Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,"
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