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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: TuAmigo on September 23, 2024, 12:14:08 AM

Title: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: TuAmigo on September 23, 2024, 12:14:08 AM
Did sedevacantism exist prior to Vatican 2?

My early research hasn't detected anything in Church history on the same level as the sedevacantism that originated with Vatican 2.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Godefroy on September 23, 2024, 03:36:36 AM
Did sedevacantism exist prior to Vatican 2?

My early research hasn't detected anything in Church history on the same level as the sedevacantism that originated with Vatican 2.
There have been around 40 antipopes but always when there was another sitting pope. The current period is unprecedented
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: MiracleOfTheSun on September 23, 2024, 08:24:48 AM
There have been around 40 antipopes but always when there was another sitting pope. The current period is unprecedented

The current period is unprecedented because it is The Great Apostasy of the End Times but there hasn't always been another sitting pope.  There have been various periods where there has been no pope.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Yeti on September 23, 2024, 08:40:47 AM
Yes. Sedevacantism is taught by all the Fathers of the Church, as St. Robert Bellarmine tells us. Fr. Cekada's pamphlet here (https://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/TradsInfall.pdf) cites numerous pre-Vatican 2 theologians in favor of sedevacantism.

Actually, it is recognize and resist that does not exist before Vatican 2.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: JPKTrad on September 23, 2024, 09:00:38 AM
Did sedevacantism exist prior to Vatican 2?

My early research hasn't detected anything in Church history on the same level as the sedevacantism that originated with Vatican 2.
My early research has detected that an apostacy such as Vatican II has never affected the Church before. 
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: HeidtXtreme on September 23, 2024, 09:34:02 AM
This will be another interesting thread (though I believe fairly simple to answer?) as long as it doesn’t turn into another Sedevacantist vs R&R debate hahaaaa…..
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Stubborn on September 23, 2024, 09:54:10 AM
Yes. Sedevacantism is taught by all the Fathers of the Church, as St. Robert Bellarmine tells us. Fr. Cekada's pamphlet here (https://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/TradsInfall.pdf) cites numerous pre-Vatican 2 theologians in favor of sedevacantism.

Actually, it is recognize and resist that does not exist before Vatican 2.
Pope Paul IV taught R&R in 1559 in his Apostolic Constitution, cuм ex Apostolatus Officio...

1.In assessing Our duty and the situation now prevailing, We have been weighed upon by the thought
that a matter of this kind [i.e. error in respect of the Faith] is so grave and so dangerous that the Roman
Pontiff,who is the representative upon earth of God and our God and Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the
fulness of power over peoples and kingdoms, who may judge all and be judged by none in this world,
may nonetheless be contradicted if he be found to have deviated from the Faith.

This shows that he taught that not only is a heretical pope possible, he also told us what to do about it.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Giovanni Berto on September 23, 2024, 09:56:33 AM
Yes. Sedevacantism is taught by all the Fathers of the Church, as St. Robert Bellarmine tells us. Fr. Cekada's pamphlet here (https://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/TradsInfall.pdf) cites numerous pre-Vatican 2 theologians in favor of sedevacantism.

Actually, it is recognize and resist that does not exist before Vatican 2.

As a theory, Sedevacantism has existed before, as Yeti says, but, as a reality, the current crisis is unprecedented.

This is why we have so much confusion. Some say that what we have today is not what the scholars of old taught. Others say that it is as they said, but each group applies it slightly differently.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Yeti on September 23, 2024, 08:08:13 PM
My early research hasn't detected anything in Church history on the same level as the sedevacantism that originated with Vatican 2.
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This is a bit of an odd claim. Can you tell us a little about your research? Did you read Canon 188 of the 1917 code of canon law, for example?
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: Stubborn on September 24, 2024, 04:50:27 AM
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This is a bit of an odd claim. Can you tell us a little about your research? Did you read Canon 188 of the 1917 code of canon law, for example?
Perhaps in reference to cuм ex, he read Canon 1556.
Title: Re: Sedevacantism in Church History
Post by: TuAmigo on September 30, 2024, 06:26:02 PM
This is a bit of an odd claim. Can you tell us a little about your research? Did you read Canon 188 of the 1917 code of canon law, for example?
Yeti, no.  I had not read the Code of Canon Law before your suggestion above.  A quick look at it reminds me of legal docuмents, which means not intended for a general audience.

Is the section below what you referenced?  If so, I have some questions:

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Canon 188


Any office becomes vacant upon the fact and without any declaration by tacit resignation recognized by the law itself if a cleric:
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4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith;
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