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Offline Stubborn

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Re: Is a quote by St. Francis de Sale too much for R&R?
« Reply #105 on: Today at 04:51:57 AM »
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  • :confused: isn't ^ this what you have been doing your whole life?
    No, all I've been doing is striving to live according to the traditional Catholic faith, knowing I must avoid everything that contradicts that faith.   
    "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: Is a quote by St. Francis de Sale too much for R&R?
    « Reply #106 on: Today at 05:23:19 AM »
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  • 1) The Sedes would rally around that true Pope because he will have confirmed what they already believe.

    2) The Sedes would submit themselves to the true Pope's judgment in the matter because they know that a true Pope is guided by Jesus Christ. Again, you said this man would be a "true Pope." Let's say there was a miraculous sign that confirmed his status as such. If a Sede did not submit to him, they would betray their own principles.
    Thank you, good answer.

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    Again, Sedevacantism is nothing more than an opinion that tries to make sense of the Crisis. It is not a dogma. But it is not formally inconsistent with Catholic dogma. The version of R&R that claims that the true Popes can be "heretics" while continuing to be true Popes is formally inconsistent with Catholic dogma.
    Yes, sedeism is nothing more than an opinion, the problem with that opinion is that for most who've convinced themselves that their opinion is fact, it is no longer an opinion, it becomes a binding dogma of the Church wherein all those who do not agree with that dogma are low life heretics.
     
    There are valid arguments re: heretics can/cannot be popes on both sides. In one of his talks, Fr. Hesse makes some sense of it from a non-sede point of view, but in the end, whether they're popes or not, there. is. nothing. anyone. can. do. about. it - anymore than anyone can make the sun shine on a cloudy day. Which, like St. Francis in the OP, is why non-sedes do not dwell on the idea, and like St. Francis in the OP, are content to leave the matter up to the Church, in her own good time. 

    Then there's the dogma stating "that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
    Referencing, as I have already done in this thread, St. Thomas More's last words, non-sedes absolutely, positively and unequivocally achieve this even if the pope is a lying, modernist, no good thieving apostate, murderer, adulterer, commie heretic.

    But for sedes whose opinion had morphed into dogmatic certainty, the reality is that they can only rely on their opinion/conclusion to be right. For non-sedes, the price is too high, that's too much to risk on our opinion. Leave it up to the Church.   
    "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: Is a quote by St. Francis de Sale too much for R&R?
    « Reply #107 on: Today at 09:42:28 AM »
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  • Your hypothetical is untenable because without condemning V2 there is no restoration at all. 
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    So what you're saying is that regardless of him restoring the Church back to all things pre-V2, sedes will remain sede even when a "true pope" is sitting in the Chair because he did not do what they think must be done. Do you not see the folly here? You are dictating to a "true pope" what popes must and must not do, or what they can and cannot do.
    So we agree that a future "true Pope" would have to condemn V2? 

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    « Reply #108 on: Today at 02:30:13 PM »
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    So we agree that a future "true Pope" would have to condemn V2?
    Only if he is going to restore the Church.
    "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: Is a quote by St. Francis de Sale too much for R&R?
    « Reply #109 on: Today at 02:50:41 PM »
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  • Only if he is going to restore the Church.
    OK, I think I understand you. 

    You are saying:

    No matter what, whoever the Cardinals say is Pope is Pope. 

    For you Stubborn, he will always be the Pope no matter what.

    If he decides to keep Vatican II - he is a true pope.
    If he decides to condemn it so he can "restore" the Church - he is a true Pope.
    If he renounces every dogma of the Catholic Faith openly and in writing - he is still a true Pope. 

    For you, what matters most is that you are consistent, and stubbornly so I might add. :laugh1:

    Your position is, come hell or high water, they are true Popes no matter what.

    That is...

    Unless the Cardinals issue a special declaration stating that he had already lost the papacy due to his heresy, you Stubborn will "play it safe".

    Did I understand correctly?