It is an historical fact that the authentic UOM were at V2. How can we say this with absolute certainty?
Because no one has ever proven, nor will anyone ever prove that the UOM were not the authentic, legitimate, legal and official UOM no matter WHAT Fr. Cekada chooses to speculate, believe and preach - in that order.
Um, no. He is not saying that it was a "defected version of the UOM". He is saying it was NOT the UOM. Those are two very different things, but I think you know that and I also think you know that that is NOT what Fr Cekada is saying.
Perhaps to take another false stab at SVism? ...........
According to you, it is historical fact that the AUTHENTIC UOM was at V2. Then act like it was: attend the NO and submit to the AUTHENTIC UOM's V2 teachings.
You are stuck firmly in the Cekadian muck. I call it muck because if you've ever been stuck in muck (there are a lot of muck farms by me), you can sink in it up to the roof - and getting unstuck even if only stuck a little, takes an amazing amount of time and effort. I call it "Cekadian muck" because it is through Fr. Cekada's teachings that the sheeple who follow him into the muck get stuck.
Any way, I get the various different speculations mixed up. Someone said the UOM defected, maybe that was +Sanborn who said that - and you say Fr. Cekada teaches it was not the UOM at all, which is even more wild than a defected UOM in my opinion - I could be wrong about that, perhaps the defected UOM is actually the more wild speculation. Either way, they are both speculations.
I guess I want to know who were the people who were in the Council if they were not the UOM? I don't expect an answer from you on this btw, because I am certain you have no answer or your answer will only be more speculations - that's how it works with speculations.
To reply to your last sentence where you want me to join the Novus Ordo.
I would first like you to understand that what you told me to do is akin to cursing me into losing the faith. Catholics do not say things like that to other Catholics, Catholics do not wish that on anyone, fyi. I understand you are merely trying to make a point so no harm taken, yet you believe so strongly in your speculation that you stoop to ignoring what is absolutely necessary (keeping the faith) which you certainly understand, in favor of what is opinion, aka the UOM did it so I must follow them, even when that means to follow them right into the pit.
We know that the Church held a Council and per de fide teaching, the Holy Ghost was supposed to protect whatever came out of that Council from the possibility of error. But instead, during and more especially after the Council, error flowed like water flows down Niagara Falls. So what happened?
The truth of the matter is - we do not know what happened with the UOM or with V2. That is the truth. That is simply being honest. It is my opinion that God does not want us to know with certainty how V2 was able to do what it did - otherwise we would all know exactly what happened. But we don't.
Perhaps we will never know until the next world exactly what happened, but whatever happened, our responsibility is to persevere in the faith, not try to understand the abundant theological questions and possibilities of what happened, then not fully understanding, make guesses about what happened and pass off those guesses as factual or Church teachings.
In society, people who claim to know something they really do not and could not know, are either wrong or mistaken, but people who are persistent and teach the same mistake for years on end, are appropriately known as liars.
No, I do not know with absolute certainty what happened at V2 and neither do you, neither does Fr. Cekada or +Sanborn, or +Kelly, or +Fellay or etc. but we do know that we cannot partake of the NO because it is a danger to our faith.
Our concern lies in striving to persevere in and practice the faith as was handed down to us for +2000 years no matter what else happens, that is where our responsibility lies, if we want to save our souls.
How do we know what things the popes can and cannot legitimately do? We do not have to know. The only thing we have to know is our obligations to Christ as Catholics, all of which have been laid down for us for many centuries, all of which make up the traditional Catholic religion, practically all of which can be found in the catechism.