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Online DecemRationis

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Re: Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2023, 09:56:52 AM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on December 06, 2023, 09:51:55 AM
Am I correct in understanding that Paul VI just left Castro Mayer alone, and took no disciplinary action against him, a situation that continued under John Paul II until CM incurred the putative latae sententiae excommunication in 1988 for consecrating the four bishops?

I'm just starting to read up on the bishop, but it's my understanding that they never took any formal disciplinary action against him.
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Re: Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2023, 09:59:21 AM »
Did Montini ever respond to this letter above?
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2023, 10:00:30 AM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on December 06, 2023, 09:59:21 AM
Did Montini ever respond to this letter above?

Very good question. 

David White wrote a book about Castro Mayer, but it's out of print apparently. Too bad. 
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Re: Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2023, 10:01:19 AM »
Quote from: DecemRationis on December 06, 2023, 09:56:52 AM
I'm just starting to read up on the bishop, but it's my understanding that they never took any formal disciplinary action against him.

Not directly.  They force retired him in 1981, however, so this was before the consecrations.  Bishop de Castro Mayer relied upon the notion that V2 was a "pastoral" Council and held that in his diocese pastoral considerations weighed against it.

By the time of the 1988 consecrations, he had become a sedevacantist.

I do wonder why neither Montini nor Wojtyla moved to remove him.  I think that until Bergoglio started removing +Strickland, it was considered contrary to the principles of "collegiality".
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2023, 10:03:47 AM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on December 06, 2023, 10:01:19 AM
By the time of the 1988 consecrations, he had become a sedevacantist.

Did he ever reduce his thoughts in that regard to writing as far as you know?
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