Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
John Wesley was a non-Catholic heretic, and the founder of his own religion! He started out as an Anglican and then formed Methodism. He denied the Papacy; he denied all of the dogmatic Councils of the Catholic Church; he denied apostolic succession; he denied all but two of the seven sacraments, admitting only Baptism and the Eucharist, but he rejected that Baptism confers sanctifying grace and he denied that Our Lord is truly present in the Eucharist. He denied Purgatory, and he held that man is justified by faith alone and thereby assured of his salvation. How is that for “wholehearted commitment to spreading the good news of salvation”? How is that for “fostering of Scriptural holiness and structuring of communities of Christians”? How is that for “evangelical zeal, the pursuit of holiness… the virtues and goodness which we have come to know and respect in you”? Yes, heresy, schism and the spreading of false doctrines of the worst kind – including the evil doctrine of faith alone – are “virtues” that the Vatican II sect wants to come to know and respect in everyone.
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215:
“We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy raising itself up against this holy, orthodox, and Catholic faith which we have expounded above. We condemn all heretics, whatever names they may go under. They have different faces indeed but their tails are tied together in as much as they are alike in their pride.”
Pope Saint Martin I, First Lateran Council, 649:
“If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that has been down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God, and likewise by the holy Fathers and the five venerable Councils, let him be anathema.”
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