*************https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/04/20/the-mirage-of-an-imperfect-council-authority-illusion-and-the-crisis-of-the-church/"...Cajetan, writing amid conciliar crises, allows that in extreme necessity the Church may act ministerialiter to preserve her constitution, yet always through those who possess true ecclesiastical standing and authority.⁹ Likewise, Bellarmine insists upon the necessity of a caput visibile et determinatum, a visible and determinate head, without which the Church’s unity cannot be sustained.¹⁰ A claimant whose title is doubtful or only partially received cannot fulfil this office. Their arguments, therefore, do not justify the assembly of bishops lacking ordinary jurisdiction, but rather reinforce the principle that even extraordinary remedies must remain anchored in the Church’s visible and juridical order....
"What, then, of the Transalpine Redemptorists? Their position introduces a further layer of complexity. Historically aligned with the Society of St. Pius X, subsequently reconciled with the Holy See, and now engaged in public dispute with ecclesiastical authorities, they occupy a liminal position within the Church: canonically recognised, yet increasingly critical of the structures to which they remain juridically bound. Their apparent openness to similar ideas of episcopal initiative does not arise from sedevacantist premises, as in the case of Bishop Roy, but from a growing disillusionment within a recognise-and-resist framework. Yet the theological difficulty remains unchanged. Canonical status does not confer the authority to convene a council or to substitute for the structures of the universal Church, and any such attempt risks not reform but rupture.
It must, however, be noted in fairness that His Excellency, Bishop Pierre Roy does not advance the proposal in a crude or precipitous form. He explicitly distances himself from any immediate attempt to act, cautioning against “jumping” directly to the convocation of a council or the election of a pontiff,..."
, “any papal election… is in doubt if the universal Church does not accept this election,” thereby underscoring that the Church, as a visible society, must recognise her head in a manner that is clear, certain, and universal.⁵
**************This is not about the Imperfect council, but related, sortof...
https://kokxnews.substack.com/p/bishop-pierre-roy-calls-on-sspx-to"...to give full meaning to the words spoken by the superiors of your community in 1988:
“On the other hand, we have never wanted to belong to this system which calls itself the Conciliar Church and defines itself by the Novus Ordo Missæ, indifferentist ecuмenism, and the secularization of the whole Society. Yes, we have no part, nullam partem habemus, in the pantheon of religions of Assisi.”
For too long now, souls have been led to believe that the faithful and the unfaithful can coexist indefinitely within the Church; that those who profess the true Faith can tolerate the promoters of heresy within the Church. This situation must end. Your Fraternity represents the majority of clerics of Tradition. You have a role to play in gathering your brothers into a holy assembly that will finally officially reject the promoters of heresy from within the Church. Your role is not to hold discussions with someone who presents himself as the guardian of the doctrine of the Faith but who is in reality one of its many gravediggers, as he recently demonstrated by denying the Virgin Mary, our Mother in Heaven, her titles of Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix.
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