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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
« Reply #45 on: June 15, 2018, 09:54:29 AM »
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    Not unless you have at least some positive doubts about their authority and/or their legitimacy.
     Further, you repeatedly point to the "positive doubts" as a reason to be a sede.  You contradict yourself yet again and your logic is retarded.

    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #46 on: June 15, 2018, 09:55:37 AM »
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  • It is clear that you have an agenda, and your arguments against the principles of R&R have been repeatedly shown.  "Oh", you say, "there are versions of R&R that I accept," yet you never explain these versions

    You must not be paying attention because I have explained this at length several times now.


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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #47 on: June 15, 2018, 09:56:51 AM »
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  • Further, you repeatedly point to the "positive doubts" as a reason to be a sede.  You contradict yourself yet again and your logic is retarded.

    It would appear that you are the one who's intellectually retarded.  Being in a state of positive doubt is not the same thing as being a "sede" (PS everybody is a sede, but you're obviously using that as short for sedevacantist).  +Lefebvre and all the SSPX bishops he consecrated have publicly voiced positive doubts about the legitimacy of the V2 popes.  I am not a sedevacantist, but have adopted the term "sededoubtist".  We're in a state of positive doubt regarding the status and legitimacy of the V2 papal claimants.  That creates a condition in which we as Catholics can in good conscience avoid them (cf. Father Chazal).  If I believed with the certainty of faith that they are legitimate, I would fight various problems and abuses from within ... while continuing in submission to the hierarchy.

    Not only am I not a sedevacantist, I am not even a sedeprivationist.  I just feel that sedeprivationism is the most theologically acceptable position to theoretically describe the current situation.  But unlike most sedeprivationists, I consider the matter to be in doubt.

    Offline Pax Vobis

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #48 on: June 15, 2018, 10:53:30 AM »
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    Being in a state of positive doubt is not the same thing as being a "sede"
    You mis-read what I said.  R&R exists due to the doubts of the bishops' consecrations, the doubts of the NOM, etc, etc.  Sedevacantism exists due to the same doubts.  My point is, anyone who is a trad is one due to doubts they have of the orthodoxy of new-rome, whether they are sede or not.

    I don't even understand, logically, how you can agree with Fr Chazal yet disagree with R&R.  Fr Chazal argues against a dogmatic sede position, which means, logically, that he accepts the pope as the pope, even if he has doubts.  +ABL, who I define as being the founder of R&R (just to simplify things), accepted the pope as the pope, but he made many statements where he was doubtful and said he could see why the sede theory had merits.  In both cases, Fr Chazal and +ABL recognized the pope and his office, but refused to submit to his errors (which errors only require conditional submission anyway, so not true submission), so how are they different?   They might differ on a few specifics, but over-all, it's the same view.

    (Now I do think that +Fellays' view of R&R is different from +ABL's, and highly destructive, but that's another topic).

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #49 on: June 15, 2018, 11:06:46 AM »
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  • Fr Chazal argues against a dogmatic sede position, which means, logically, that he accepts the pope as the pope, even if he has doubts.

    No, your logic fails you again.  He accepts him as pope in so far as having legitimate election and materially possessing the chair, but not in terms of having teaching authority.  So he accepts him but doesn't accept him.  Why can't anyone understand basic distinctions?

    Also, being against DOGMATIC sedevacantism does not mean being against sedevacantism in general (when held as a non-dogmatic position).

    You claim that Fr. Chazal accepts the pope but has "doubts".  That is NOT sedeplenism.  When Catholics accept a Pope as legitimate, they accept him with the certainty of faith.  Accepting him with doubts is NOT actual sedeplenism.  It's more of an in-between position which I call sededoubtism.  +Lefebvre and Chazal merely resolve this doubt in their favor, at least in terms of material possession of the office, in the practical order.


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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #50 on: June 15, 2018, 11:15:41 AM »
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  • I don't even understand, logically, how you can agree with Fr Chazal yet disagree with R&R.
    You have to try to understand, poor lad is a dogmatic doubtist. As such, there is no logic to most of what he says about this subject. Remember, poor lad said: "And if you don't at least have a positive doubt, then you have no business being a Traditional Catholic, for you are a schismatic."
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #51 on: June 15, 2018, 11:18:04 AM »
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    Also, being against DOGMATIC sedevacantism does not mean being against sedevacantism in general (when held as a non-dogmatic position).
    Agree, never said that. 

    All of these sede terms are confusing and unnecessary, imo.  I get that they are used to distinguish particular views, but some of them are made up by individuals (i.e. it's not like there is an ecclesiastical dictionary which explains all of this) so different people can disagree with what the definitions are.  This is problematic in some ways.

    Here's my question (which you didn't answer):  In both cases, Fr Chazal and +ABL recognize the pope and his office, but refused to submit to his errors (which errors only require conditional submission anyway, so not true submission), so how are they different?

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #52 on: June 15, 2018, 11:29:54 AM »
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  • Here's my question (which you didn't answer):  In both cases, Fr Chazal and +ABL recognize the pope and his office, but refused to submit to his errors (which errors only require conditional submission anyway, so not true submission), so how are they different?

    How are they different from what?  From one another?  From some other position?


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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #53 on: June 15, 2018, 11:30:37 AM »
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  • You have to try to understand, poor lad is a dogmatic doubtist.

    That's an oxymoron ... dogmatic doubtist.  Try to read and understand the entire sentence.

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #54 on: June 15, 2018, 11:51:16 AM »
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  • Novus Ordo and R&R people are dogmatically certain that Bergolio is the pope. The sedevacantes are dogmatically certain that Bergolio is not a pope. Ladislaus does not see a solid foundation in the "dogmatism" of all three groups. I am with him on that. 

    :popcorn:

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #55 on: June 15, 2018, 12:24:51 PM »
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    R&R people are dogmatically certain that Bergolio is the pope.
    +ABL was not dogmatically certain, and the sspx under his leadership reflected this stance, so that's not true.


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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #56 on: June 15, 2018, 12:56:38 PM »
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  • Novus Ordo and R&R people are dogmatically certain that Bergolio is the pope. The sedevacantes are dogmatically certain that Bergolio is not a pope. Ladislaus does not see a solid foundation in the "dogmatism" of all three groups. I am with him on that.

    :popcorn:

    Ladislaus believes that R&R is schismatic and heretical. He's just not allowed to say it outright anymore, so he just "suggests" it now. That's seems like a dogmatic position to me.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #57 on: June 15, 2018, 01:21:57 PM »
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  • +ABL was not dogmatically certain, and the sspx under his leadership reflected this stance, so that's not true.
    ABL died almost 30 years ago. If you are not dogmatically certain that Bergolio is the pope, you have not the certainty of faith that he is the pope, then how can you say you recognize him as the pope? By what you just wrote, it seems to me that you don't know whether he is or he isn't.

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #58 on: June 15, 2018, 01:45:41 PM »
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  • Ladislaus believes that R&R is schismatic and heretical. He's just not allowed to say it outright anymore, so he just "suggests" it now. That's seems like a dogmatic position to me.

    I guess that some people simply don't understand distinctions.  Is +Lefebvre "R&R"?  I have repeatedly stated that +Lefebvre's position is neither schismatic nor heretical.  And I have explained why.  It all just floats over your head or through your ears or something.

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    Re: Contra Cekadam: A response by Fr Cekada
    « Reply #59 on: June 15, 2018, 01:49:39 PM »
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  • ABL died almost 30 years ago. If you are not dogmatically certain that Bergolio is the pope, you have not the certainty of faith that he is the pope, then how can you say you recognize him as the pope? By what you just wrote, it seems to me that you don't know whether he is or he isn't.

    Exactly.

    Theologians teach that Catholics need to hold a pope legitimate with the CERTAINTY OF FAITH.  Papal legitimacy is a dogmatic fact.  If I did not know that Pius XII was a legitimate pope with the certainty of faith, then neither can I know with the certainty of faith that the Assumption is a revealed dogma.

    Certainty of faith PRECLUDES ALL DOUBT.  You could no more publicly question the legitimacy of Paul VI or John Paul II than you could question that there are Three Divine Persons in God.

    Probably fewer than 5% of Traditional Catholics hold the V2 papal claimants to be popes with the certainty of faith.

    And this doubt justifies the Traditional Catholics "Resistance" (and this answer's Meg's question from before ... for the 100th time).