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If I were elected Pope, the FIRST thing I would do would be to issue a Bull (not an Encyclical) called Ecclesia Sancta.

I would solemnly redefine EENS (without allowing any wiggle room), solemnly reaffirm the necessity of the Sacraments for salvation, and solemnly teach the VISIBILITY of the Catholic Church.

While I would fall short of declaring BoD heretical, I would characterize it as a speculation and positively FORBID any mention of it among Catholics.  Let your speech be "yes, yes" and "no, no".  If asked whether anyone outside the Catholic Church can be saved, the answer is an unqualified NO, no ifs, and, or buts.  When asked if the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary for salvation, the answer is an unqualified YES.

I would order that the references in the works of the Doctors to BoD be removed from the main text and inserted as a mere footnote with an explanation that the Church no longer allows speculation with regard to BoD.

Next would be a Bull regarding the nature of the Liturgy, including forbidding all lay participation in strictly Liturgical functions, and re-establishing the practice that all those in the Sanctuary and participating in the Liturgy should have the Minor Orders (which would thereafter be allowed to be permanent).  This to wipe out any aberrant notions regarding the nature of the Liturgy.

I would DESPOSE every single Novus Ordo bishop and have them consigned to a monastery and, if unwilling, defrock them.  I would immediately obtain a list of all Traditional priests active in any Diocese and appoint them bishops with strict instructions to do exactly as they were told.  Those who have dubious orders would be immediately conditionally ordained and/or consecrated.

Problem:

If you did that, you might find yourself holding the short end of the stick.  Check out this terrifying blurb from the latest Avrille Dominicans newsletter on the problem of invalid baptisms:

Indeed, if a Pope had to fix ALL the problems caused by the Novus Ordo, it would probably take 10 years.

I agree.  I would conditionally have every NO Sacrament redone, including interviewing candidates to check if they were actually Catholic.  They would have to take an oath of some kind, an extremely expanded Anti-Modernist Oath or Profession of Faith since 90% of them don't have the faith and shouldn't be admitted into the Church.

Novus Ordo has created a disaster of epic proportions.

I imagine that some bishops would refuse to leave and pull what the Nine did against the SSPX, sue Rome to keep their properties.  They would probably win too, given that the governments are all controlled.  That's why you need the Great King to be there, since the Triumph of the Church will need to be both spiritual and temporal.  In that case, I would in fact appropriate the Traditional Catholic infrastructure and move the Sees to the closet Traditional Church.  I bet 90% of the Novus Ordites would stay with their schismatic bishop in their new Church.

That's why I said this would just be the FRIST thing I'd do.

We could come up with a list a few yards long if we thought about it much.

If you were elected Pope and *Universally Accepted*, the Gates of Hell would prevail against the Catholic Church. Not going to happen.

This actually shows your true colors.  You would rather have a guy like Ratzinger or even Bergoglio than someone who happens to believe, with St. Augustine, that God will not let anyone die without actually receiving the Sacrament of Baptism.  Given that this dogma (EENS and ecclesiology) is hard hit even among Traditional Catholics, THAT is why I said that this would be the FIRST thing that I did.  Rabid BoDers consider Feeneyites to be a bigger threat to the faith and open Conciliar heretics.  They consider Fr. Feeney to be the bad guy and the heretic Cushing the good guy in that entire ordeal.  That shows how warped your mind and your sense of the faith are.

For you, BoD has become some bizarre strange warped super-dogma that tops all other dogmas.

Of course, after having replaced all the NO bishops (I would rather have a Traditional priest in that position than a NO heretic with advanced degrees from Conciliar Rome), if the Consecration of Russia had not already been done (unlikely since a great pope like me :-) would never be elected unless that had happened), I would immєdιαtely order all these new Bishops to make the Consecration ASAP.