Let me answer briefly the more general issue here - believing the Church can defect by giving a Corrupt Liturgy - Ladislaus does not know this is impossible, because he has never read Pre-Vatican II Theology:The Major Mistake some SSPX is making – (which “encourages Atheism” per Lefebvre)In the course of 50 years, the SSPX has done much good. I’ve defended them before. But in the wake of increasing extremism of saying that the Ordinary Form (or New Mass) is like a “Black Mass” and must be avoided in all circuмstances, do you know that some, including SSPX Priests and Laity, are promoting a heretical opinion (contradicts the Council of Trent) that, even according to Archbishop Lefebvre himself, “encourages Atheism”.
Hardline rad-trads encouraging Atheism? Yes. Read it below:“Should all the world’s churches be emptied? I do not feel brave enough to say such a thing. I don’t want to encourage atheism.”Here, Archbishop Lefebvre [+ABL] precisely expresses the Truth that telling Roman Catholics to empty all Diocesan Churches encourages only Atheism.
A 2nd time: “if one does not have the choice and if the priest celebrating Mass according to the Novus Ordo is faithful and worthy, one should not abstain from going to Mass.”Beautiful and brilliantly said, Archbishop Lefebvre. This expresses precisely the Indult Traditionalist teaching (which
Fr. Chad Ripperger has admirably explained here) and which this author holds.
[whether Archbishop Lefebvre changed his position later on or not is a matter of dispute, but it is ultimately irrelevant. If he did, this original position was correct, and the later one, an error. As we will see next,
Pope Ven. Pius XII, Pope Pius VI, Van Noort and all Pre-Vatican II Catholic Theologians, and the Council of Trent also, all teach this.On 9 May 1980, +ABL still told Michael Davies: “Those who feel themselves obliged in conscience to assist at the New Mass on Sunday can fulfil their Sunday obligation.” And on 5 May 1988, after the “Promise always to be faithful to the Catholic Church and the Roman Pontiff, its Supreme Pastor, Vicar of Christ .. we declare that we recognize the validity of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments celebrated with the intention of doing what the Church does, and according to the rites indicated in the typical editions of the Roman Missal and the Rituals of the Sacraments promulgated by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II.” +ABL clearly rejected what more extreme “rad-trads” like Fr. Wathen held.
Theological Proof: He who says the Church can give evil makes Her a Monster, not a Mother:Proof I: From
Pre-Vatican II Theology: “The principle, set forth in classic dogmatic theology texts such as Salaverri, Zubizarreta, Herrmann, Schultes and Iragui (see Appendix 2), is explained as follows by Van Noort:
“The Church’s infallibility extends to….ecclesiastical laws passed for the universal Church for the direction of Christian worship and Christian living….But the Church is infallible in issuing a doctrinal decree as intimated above – and to such an extent that it can never sanction a universal law which would be at odds with faith or morality or would be by its very nature conducive to the injury of souls….
If the Church should make a mistake in the manner alleged when it legislated for the general discipline, it would no longer either be a loyal guardian of revealed doctrine or a trustworthy teacher of the Christian way of life. It would not be a guardian of revealed doctrine, for the imposition of a vicious law would be, for all practical purposes, tantamount to an erroneous definition of doctrine; everyone would naturally conclude that what the Church commanded squared with sound doctrine. It would not be a teacher of the Christian way of life, for by its laws it would induce corruption into the practice of religious life.[Dogmatic Theology. 2:91]
Catholic Theologians produced many Magisterial sources as Proof, including: (1) The Council of Trent (Sess 22, Can.7), (2) Pope Pius VI [Auctorum Fidei] and (3) Pope Pope Ven. Pius XII (Mystici Corporis Christi, p. 66) among other sources.“the Church which is ruled by the Spirit of God could have established discipline which is not only useless and burdensome for Christian liberty to endure, but which is even dangerous and harmful and leading to superstition and materialism,—false, rash, scandalous, dangerous, offensive to pious ears, injurious to the Church and to the Spirit of God by whom it is guided, at least erroneous.”The heresy I am combating here is condemned/censured by the Church. It is false, rash, scandalous, dangerous, offensive to pious ears, injurious to the Church and to the Holy Spirit of God who guides Her in every age.