Matthew said:The fruits of Sedevacantism only serve to emphasize the truth of my position.
Home-aloners are actually a fruit of the SSPX position. We are where we are because you guys have turned your backs on reality. You want your pretty little Mass and your Little House on the Prarie fantasyland with the long-skirts and the apple pie on the hearth and you refuse to accept that what you call the Church and the Pope are impostors.
If all the traditional bishops were sedevacantist a long time ago, if they said what was obvious, that Rome had been hijacked, and elected a new Pope, the fruits would be entirely different. But for this to happen, they would have to really be traditional in the first place. That is another problem for another thread.
The Church can be flawed in its members, not in its teaching -- trying to heal the Church "from within" is futile because the faith is NOT THERE. This reminds me of some girl who dates an ex-convict rapist because she wants to "cure" him, to show him true love, then ends up getting raped and killed. Really this is pure sympathy for the devil. You are saying the Church could be run by people who are bitter enemies of the Church; heretics. Heretics by definition
don't have the faith. They are rapists and murderers of souls, and they aren't in the Church!
For the millionth time, we aren't talking about a sick Church that can be healed by a St. Francis or St. Catherine, a Church with indifferent, amoral or even wicked members. We're talking about an impostor Church. Can the true bride of Christ be teaching fatal, anti-Christ doctrine? Do you not see how absurd this is? No matter how bad the immorality in the Church was before, the Magisterium was immaculate, because by definition, it is immaculate.
SSPXers, if they really want to be consistent, should be like Caminus. They should try to reconcile all the teachings of VII with the traditional Magisterium ( which will make them schizophrenic, by the way, as well as heretics ). But then if you do this the question remains -- why not go to an Indult?
We're backed into this home-alone corner partly because of YOU, SSPX-ers. Stop buying the lies; and no one will be able to sell them anymore. The bulk of traditionalists are content to go halfway towards the truth, they'll go as far as is comfortable, and then they stop. They don't want the UGLY TRUTH. They want the PRETTY HALF-TRUTH.