http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=1056


Since the time of the Second Vatican Council and the changes it brought, a considerable number of disaffected traditional Catholics have joined schismatic sects such as the Society of St. Pius X (founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre) and the sedevacantists (who believe, for dubious reasons explained later, that the Chair of Peter is currently vacant). While there are certain peripheral differences between these traditionalist sects, they share the same common denominator: the exclusive use of the Tridentine Mass and the rejection of Vatican II. The angry traditionalist fringe blames Vatican II for causing the current crisis in the Church. They claim that the changes decreed by the Council are heretical; hence, it was a false council and "true" Catholics should not assent to its teachings. But there is an obvious problem with this argument: It has been the traditional teaching of the Church that an ecuмenical council is guided by the Holy Spirit and thus protected from error.

Please discuss.....

It is how they see it.

It isn't about the mass or rejection of Vatican 2. It is about keeping the Faith. In order to keep the faith passed down to us, those innovations must be rejected but they are not the basis for our end, which is holding fast to our traditions and the Catholic Church that made saints and saved souls. They can't tell me it is the same religion.

The life of a Catholic prior to the 60's:

Born
Day 3, get baptized
Parish catechism with sisters or a priest for 12 years
Receive Catholic education
Mass every Sunday and Holy day
7-8 First Communion
Participate in school and church related activities
Family has at minimum a few statues, prayer books, a Bible in the home
Child graduates from school
Gets married with a nuptial mass
Has 6-10 children
Dies after Extreme Unction and holding the rosary, surrounded by family
Buried in Catholic cemetery, family and parish pray for the soul

Now:
Possible baptism 3-6 months after birth
Public school
Random attendance at CCD, free babysitting service, taught by old lady in polyester pants
Go home after CCD or participate in school sports teams
Novus Ordo when grandma visits or Christmas
First communion at 8-9, if grandma pushes
No Catholic items in home, save an old rosary because it is pretty
Age 14 forced to attend confirmation classes
Confirmed, and graduates from going to church
Graduate public school
Go to college and graduate
Get engaged, get married five years later after living in sin
Contracept for at least one year
Have two children
Divorce
Remarry
Die alone in a nursing home on morphine
Cremated and buried in town cemetery, Novus Ordo priest tells everyone that the person is in heaven

It is how they see it.

It isn't about the mass or rejection of Vatican 2. It is about keeping the Faith. In order to keep the faith passed down to us, those innovations must be rejected but they are not the basis for our end, which is holding fast to our traditions and the Catholic Church that made saints and saved souls. They can't tell me it is the same religion.

The life of a Catholic prior to the 60's:

Born
Day 3, get baptized
Parish catechism with sisters or a priest for 12 years
Receive Catholic education
Mass every Sunday and Holy day
7-8 First Communion
Participate in school and church related activities
Family has at minimum a few statues, prayer books, a Bible in the home
Child graduates from school
Gets married with a nuptial mass
Has 6-10 children
Dies after Extreme Unction and holding the rosary, surrounded by family
Buried in Catholic cemetery, family and parish pray for the soul

Now:
Possible baptism 3-6 months after birth
Public school
Random attendance at CCD, free babysitting service, taught by old lady in polyester pants
Go home after CCD or participate in school sports teams
Novus Ordo when grandma visits or Christmas
First communion at 8-9, if grandma pushes
No Catholic items in home, save an old rosary because it is pretty
Age 14 forced to attend confirmation classes
Confirmed, and graduates from going to church
Graduate public school
Go to college and graduate
Get engaged, get married five years later after living in sin
Contracept for at least one year
Have two children
Divorce
Remarry
Die alone in a nursing home on morphine
Cremated and buried in town cemetery, Novus Ordo priest tells everyone that the person is in heaven

Nice post!   :applause: :applause: :applause:

Matt Abbott was a student of business in some nearby college at the time he wrote that article so it's understandable the conclusions he draws.  For instance, he wouldn't really grasp the 1974 visit to Econe from those two marxists in clerical garb and the deliberate provocative statements made by them.  

The concept that Archbishop LeFebrvre taught and believed what he received, this is the Catholic Faith, and he remained the same throughout his ecclesial career and that the other group underwent a complete rewrite and new creation would be lost on him because being a kid, he would have a hard time grasping a historical perspective.    

Does the HS guide an ecuмenical council or the pope who initiates/presides over it? I'm asking because the quote from the article states that the HS guides the Council.  Is it possible for the HS to guide a council from error even if it is presided over by a false pope?

 :confused1:  

The Holy Spirit is willing to guide anyone who is willingly to be lead to the Truth; from the First Vatican Council:

To this witness is added the effective help of power from on high. For, the kind Lord stirs up those who go astray and helps them by his grace so that they may come to the knowledge of the truth; and also confirms by his grace those whom he has translated into his admirable light, so that they may persevere in this light, not abandoning them unless he is first abandoned.

Heresy, however, is defined as choice:

Middle English heresie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin haeresis, from Late Greek hairesis, from Greek, action of taking, choice, sect, from hairein to take
First Known Use: 13th century

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heresy

Therefore, if Pope Paul VI was a human being with free will, it stands to reason that he could choose to embrace false beliefs, and by that choice, he would cease to be Catholic, and hence, Pope, which means that he would lose his charism of infallibility, assuming, of course, that such was ever his to begin with.  As Bishop Williamson has said, the Extraordinary Magisterium is the servant of the Ordinary Magisterium and not her master, and as the latter is every bit as infallible as the former, Vatican II cannot be regarded as having taught without error, if only by the omissions which the council made.

Decide for yourself:

http://www.cmri.org/sedevacantist-position.shtml

Quote from: Lover of Truth

Quote from: 2Vermont

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=1056


Since the time of the Second Vatican Council and the changes it brought, a considerable number of disaffected traditional Catholics have joined schismatic sects such as the Society of St. Pius X (founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre) and the sedevacantists (who believe, for dubious reasons explained later, that the Chair of Peter is currently vacant). While there are certain peripheral differences between these traditionalist sects, they share the same common denominator: the exclusive use of the Tridentine Mass and the rejection of Vatican II. The angry traditionalist fringe blames Vatican II for causing the current crisis in the Church. They claim that the changes decreed by the Council are heretical; hence, it was a false council and "true" Catholics should not assent to its teachings. But there is an obvious problem with this argument: It has been the traditional teaching of the Church that an ecuмenical council is guided by the Holy Spirit and thus protected from error.

Please discuss.....

The above is correct and the point could not have been made better by a sedevacantist.  Ecuмenical councils approved by a valid Pope are guided by the Holy Ghost and protected from error.  So if Paul 6 and those his successors who have maintained the council since are valid Popes then the doctrine's which Vatican 2 teaches in regards to ecuмenism, religious liberty and the mystical body of Christ are as true as the doctrine's it contradicts.  Truth is relative and the Holy Ghost is schizophrenic.  Because it sure is not a false Pope that approved a council which contradicts and teaches the opposite of previous infallible doctrine.  It's the Holy Ghost's fault, I mean our faults that we do not accept the fact that two contraries can both be true.

All the problems since vatican 2 have nothing to do with a false pope approving it.  That's crazy talk.  In fact there is no problem.  The traditionalists are just too stupid to realize it.  



 

OK, I think that makes sense to me, but I need clarification on something because I want to be able to defend it.  Bare with me.  

Does the HS guide an ecuмenical council or the pope who initiates/presides over it? I'm asking because the quote from the article states that the HS guides the Council.  Is it possible for the HS to guide a council from error even if it is presided over by a false pope?

 :confused1:  

The Holy Ghost does not guide it so much as prevents a council that teaches error and or heresy from being approved by a valid Pope.

Infallibility is a negative charism in that it prevents from error rather than causing the truth.  

Holy Scripture was inspired.  The Holy Ghost both inspired the writers of Scripture to write truth and prevented them from erring.

But strictly speaking Infallibility does not cause the Pope to speak the truth but prevents him from erring.  

Does that make sense?

I just re-read your question.  The Holy Ghost does not guide a council presided over by an invalid Pope.  It is a group of mostly heretics that barfed out some nonsense and a primary anti-Christ approved it.  Had nothing to do with the Holy Ghost other than His disappearing from the scene.  

Poor Father Fenton could not believe what they were pushing through and knew it could not be approved, until he saw that it was.  He disappeared from the public scene after that.  Much easier to look back than to live through it.

I read a writing of Father Gommar DePauw where he was trying to convince himself that Paul 6 just had to be Pope as well.  He couldn't see how but he figured he just had to be.  The Holy Ghost would not allow a false Pope to be elected in his mind.  The Holy Ghost probably did not allow a false Pope to be "elected".  The freemasons got their man in John 23, but he probably was not validly elected and the apostates have taken firm hold ever since.  

But it is probably possible for a false pope to be elected as the Bull by Paul IV seems to suggest when he writes on how one should be treated if a heretic appeared to take the seat of Peter explaining how he would lose his office ipso facto if he ever held it in the first place.  It would seem that a public heretic could get elected hypothetically, but Catholic Cardinals would not elect such a man unless they were evil and or ignorant but those who claim ecclesiastical office do not have ignorance as an excuse.  They could easily elect a private heretic though.