The implication is, sedes claim to be theologians, sedes are not theologians, therefore SV is wrong.
This is an old strawman hurled at SV, and it fails miserably.
First off, l don't know of any SV's who claim to be theologians.
Second, aren't the anti-SV's doing the exact same thing? Do they all not make judgments about Vatican 2 and the New Mass? Are you a theologian Ladislaus? Why do you reject BoD/BoB/implicit BoD then?
l have never seen them answer this.
I agree, but to further that second point, what worries me about being an "anti-sede" (which I am NOT) is
if turning a blind eye to various abominations of desolation is being
lukewarm, as spoken of in Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers: you can't claim stupidity and just look the other way
so you don't see what's happening, without at least
seeming "lukewarm".
That concerns me for Catholics who
want things to be c. 1900 Catholic Church and try to go with the flow,
wherever that flow may lead. I pray for them. It's a hard position to be in, and I respect the Diocesans who at least look abomination square in the face (a scary thing indeed; I turn tail and run from abominations — I'm cowardly and not ashamed of it). I'm not talking about the 'catholics' who don't care about their final dispostion, if they even "believe in" an afterlife. I'm talking about those who really want to worship Our Lord and be part of Our Lady, the Church, and are sort of
floating out there, questioning, and not liking what they see, but not having another solution that's palatable to them.
Haven't we
all been there, sort of? What if all our parishes were to disappear suddenly, and we were left with an awful choice: Diocesan or bust.
These Catholics (
who I consider Catholic, though I may fear the parish in which they worship) may be listening to the local hippies sing "Imagine" by John Lennon as they approach
the card table I mean
the sacristy —oh,
whatever it is they approach to get what they hope is the Sacrament. (It used to all be down the nave toward the Sacristy at the altar rail, liturgical east; now, like in Rio last year at WYD, what is said to be the Sacrament might be tossed through the air on a beach by some bikini-clad girls). Regardless, they're
seeking (the Catholics, that is, who are at least concerned enough to be here discussing it), and it may be all they have. And it surely must be terrifying.
I feel for those people, and pray for them incessantly, as did King David prophetically in his Psalms, and as the Holy Ghost instructs us to through the Prophets. I do wonder if they realize they're more like the non-dogmatic sedes who are likewise seeking. I hope they do. Maybe
Ladislaus and others are brought here to discover these things. To his credit (from what I've read quoted of him), at least he's not lukewarm!