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Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2023, 09:50:16 AM »
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  • There are a few errors and inconsistencies in your post:

    1. “Many” is a Biblical idiom that sometimes means “all.” Daniel 12:2 is written of the general resurrection and states, “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Here “many” means “all.”
    Moreover cuм Occasione in condemnation of the Jansenists: "It is Semi-Pelagian to say that Christ died or shed His blood for all men." - Condemned.

    2. Trent not only didn't anathematize the use of the vernacular in the Roman rite (it only anathematized those who condemned the use of Latin) actually allowed Rome to permit the use of the vernacular, and it was allowed for a while in the Roman rite in central Europe in the wake of Trent. Moreover, the NOM does not condemn the silent canon.

    3. As for Amoris Laetitia and communion to those in objective mortal sin, see here: https://reducedculpability.blog/2018/02/13/amoris-laetitia-and-the-1917-code-of-canon-law/

    4. Personal false worship by individual Popes is not a new matter. The Synod of Rome of 963 accused John XII drinking a toast to the Devil, and while playing at dice invoked the name of Jupiter, Venus and other pagan gods. So personal piety is not related to the magisterial power of the Pope.

    5. What you claim Vatican II teaches regarding partial communion is the same thing taught by Pius IX in Quartus Supra and Pius XII in Mystici Corporis 22 . Do you consider them heretics?

    6. See my response QVD regarding religious liberty.
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    1. Your response is irrelevant. Scripture says "for many". The Novus Ordo changes that to say "for all". What it says in the Book of Daniel is not what it says in the institution narrative of the Holy Eucharist. Also, "many" and "all" are two different words, and the New Testament was written in Greek which has two separate words for "many" and "all", and was translated into Latin (which is used in the Mass) which likewise has two separate words for "many" and "all". So the Novus Ordo lies about what Scripture says.

    3. That post is about 20 pages long. Can you give us the gist of the argument?

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #31 on: September 29, 2023, 09:50:41 AM »
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  • OK let's address Etsi Multa. I don't believe the Pope fell into heresy, only that no Pope has been elected for some time.

    Regarding the bishops, all of those who fell into heresy lost their office and are no longer bishops.

    We don't hold that the Church, the Pope or an Ecuмenical Council has taught error.

    On the other hand, Etsi Multa applies very nicely to the Lefebvrites who stand defenseless against their indictment for calling an ecuмenical council erroneous.

    Likewise, we're not the ones blindly following a bishop who entered not by the gate.

    Was not John XXIII or Paul VI universally and peacefully elected? What led to the revaluation of their pontificates except that they were supposedly teaching heresy? After which, it was decided that they were not Popes and therefore the Popes dis not teach heresy.

    What made them lose their office? Is it not heresy? The same accusation which led the Old Catholics leveled against Vatican I. 

    You don’t hold that the Church, the Pope, or an ecuмenical council taught error because you believe they were illegitimate after the fact of promulgating heresy by those very acts.

    This is all indistinguishable from Old Catholicism’s attitude towards the first Vatican Council.


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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #32 on: September 29, 2023, 09:53:31 AM »
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  • Explain WHY you believe / claim / assert that SVs run afoul of Etsi Multa?

    No SV holds that the Pope and bishops have fallen into heresy, since we don't believe that the Conciliar Popes are true popes in the first place.  To claim we believe the Pope and bishops have fallen into heresy is to beg the question that these V2 papal claimants have been popes.

    Some R&R do hold that the Conciliars are in heresy (while some might say it's error less than the notes of heresy), and those that do hold the Conciliars to be heretics would in fact be running afoul of EM.  In fact, I've often criticized a number of R&R here for promoting a thinly-veiled Old Catholicism.

    You just hurl an allegation out there and assume (but never demonstrate) that SVs run afoul of EM.

    You're making the allegation, so at least attempt a logical demonstration of it instead of assuming the truth of multiple layers of propositions and implied syllogism, eh?

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #33 on: September 29, 2023, 09:55:48 AM »
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  • No, the problem is that his attribution of this problem to SVism is a strawman.  SVs do not, as per etsi multa claim that the Catholic hierarchy has fallen into heresy.  That accusation is more against R&R than anyone else.  As Salza usually does, he begs the question that these men are the popes, and uses circular reasoning.

    The distinction is non-existent and imaginary. Pope Pius IX claims that the Old Catholics said this about the hierarchy since Pius IX believed he was the hierarchy along with those in communion with him whereas the Old Catholics did not believe they were the hierarchy. The distinction is in the perception of the accuser and not the accused. To Francis and those in communion with him, they are the hierarchy whereas Sedevacantists reject this. Tit for tat Old Catholic attitude towards the Vatican I era.

    In other words, Sedevacantists believe that the post-conciliar hierarchy is not the hierarchy precisely because of their teachings after the fact of an event. This is indistinguishable from Old Catholic views which held to the same after Vatican I; that they were no longer the hierarchy or never were in the first place because of the event which shined light on their true identity vis a vis teaching heresy.

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #34 on: September 29, 2023, 09:57:05 AM »
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  • Was not John XXIII or Paul VI universally and peacefully elected? 

    OK, so now we're retreating to one of your assumptions.  In the allegation you made in the OP, you begged the question that these men are popes.  We dispute that.  So now you have to backtrack and explicitly mention Universal Acceptance.  At least we can begin to unravel this mess that you presented in the OP.

    I hold that Roncalli et al. were not legitimately elected, but that Siri was the legitimately elected pope.  I don't believe that universal acceptance can "sanate" an illegitimate election.  This principle is held by some theologians but is nowhere proven.  As for UAP in general even ensuring a legitimate pope, I reject that as well, for reasons I've articulated.  Firstly, we have historical examples that falsify the principle, and secondly, Paul IV in cuм ex Apostolatus implicitly rejects the principle of UAP.


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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #35 on: September 29, 2023, 09:57:28 AM »
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  • Explain WHY you believe / claim / assert that SVs run afoul of Etsi Multa?

    No SV holds that the Pope and bishops have fallen into heresy, since we don't believe that the Conciliar Popes are true popes in the first place.  To claim we believe the Pope and bishops have fallen into heresy is to beg the question that these V2 papal claimants have been popes.

    Some R&R do hold that the Conciliars are in heresy (while some might say it's error less than the notes of heresy), and those that do hold the Conciliars to be heretics would in fact be running afoul of EM.  In fact, I've often criticized a number of R&R here for promoting a thinly-veiled Old Catholicism.

    You just hurl an allegation out there and assume (but never demonstrate) that SVs run afoul of EM.

    You're making the allegation, so at least attempt a logical demonstration of it instead of assuming the truth of multiple layers of propositions and implied syllogism, eh?
    I’ve addressed this in my previous post. Please see there.

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #36 on: September 29, 2023, 09:58:19 AM »
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  • The distinction is non-existent and imaginary.

    Absurd.  Have you even taken a single course in logic, John Salza?  Your posts are a logical disaster and an intellectual nightmare.

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #37 on: September 29, 2023, 10:02:24 AM »
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  • OK, so now we're retreating to one of your assumptions.  In the allegation you made in the OP, you begged the question that these men are popes.  We dispute that.  So now you have to backtrack and explicitly mention Universal Acceptance.  At least we can begin to unravel this mess that you presented in the OP.

    I hold that Roncalli et al. were not legitimately elected, but that Siri was the legitimately elected pope.  I don't believe that universal acceptance can "sanate" an illegitimate election.  This principle is held by some theologians but is nowhere proven.  As for UAP in general even ensuring a legitimate pope, I reject that as well, for reasons I've articulated.  Firstly, we have historical examples that falsify the principle, and secondly, Paul IV in cuм ex Apostolatus implicitly rejects the principle of UAP.

    Your paradigm is subjective to the point of absurdity. There is no epistemological basis on which to base who is Pope at any given time.


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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #38 on: September 29, 2023, 10:05:04 AM »
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  • Random,

    Hi. I agree that no one has really addressed the "crux" of your post. That happens often around here, but it is understandable, concerning the topics of discussion, their significance. The subject matters we discuss naturally call forth passion and strong emotions. If I have more time, I'll try to engage the "crux" of your initial post.

    As to the religious liberty issue, John Daly advanced the Sede argument with brevity and concision,  so I'll just paste it here. I'd be interested in your response:

    Daly seems to be arguing that one of these views must be heretical, since they are contradictory (again, in his view) and both say their views are "divinely revealed." If they are both revealed, and opposed to one another, one of them is contrary to divine revelation, and necessarily heretical. That appears to be the reasoning.

    As I said, I'd like to hear your response.

    DR

    Thank you for posting this, but RF seems not to be in good faith.
    For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #39 on: September 29, 2023, 10:12:28 AM »
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  • Your paradigm is subjective to the point of absurdity. There is no epistemological basis on which to base who is Pope at any given time.

    You have yet to present a single logical structured argument, but have piled on a hodge podge of false-dilemma strawmen layered on top of several begged questions.

    You completely ignored my arguments for why UAP fails and just claim that it's absurd.

    There's nothing absurd about it.  There's a disagreement regarding the nature of certitude regarding papal legitimacy.  Some hold UAP makes it dogmatically certain, while others hold that can only be at a level of moral certitude.  So your allegation reduces to your claim that it's dogmatically certain that UAP makes papal elections dogmatic fact.  This is clearly untrue, as some theologians hold to the moral certitude theory, and their opinion hasn't been condemned as heretical.

    Back to my arguments (which you ignored) regarding why UAP is a false principle.

    1) Two different historial episodes where a living pope went into exile, a new "Pope" was elected and universally accepted.  That would be tantamount to the deposition of a pope.

    2) Paul IV in cuм ex Apostolatus decrees that heretics cannot be legitimate Popes even if they "are accepted by all.".  If UAP is a thing, this decree would be nonsensical, since "acceptance by all" would trump any heresy the individual may be guilty of.

    Let's say that we had a "Pope Joan" scenario where some transgender (especially in these days of hormonal and/or surgical interventions, where it may be impossible to tell) gets elected pope and become accepted by all.  Would UAP sanate this election?  It can't.  All that's preventing such a scenario is God's Providence in not permitting it to happen.  But UAP cannot sanate a defective election.

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #40 on: September 29, 2023, 10:59:31 AM »
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  • …blah, blah, blah…

    RandomFish, are you John Salza?


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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #41 on: September 29, 2023, 11:01:21 AM »
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  • The distinction is non-existent and imaginary. Pope Pius IX claims that the Old Catholics said this about the hierarchy since Pius IX believed he was the hierarchy along with those in communion with him whereas the Old Catholics did not believe they were the hierarchy. The distinction is in the perception of the accuser and not the accused. To Francis and those in communion with him, they are the hierarchy whereas Sedevacantists reject this. Tit for tat Old Catholic attitude towards the Vatican I era.

    In other words, Sedevacantists believe that the post-conciliar hierarchy is not the hierarchy precisely because of their teachings after the fact of an event. This is indistinguishable from Old Catholic views which held to the same after Vatican I; that they were no longer the hierarchy or never were in the first place because of the event which shined light on their true identity vis a vis teaching heresy.

    A good observation. The Old Catholics (who are schismatic) believed that the Catholic hierarchy after V1 were not the Catholic hierarchy. The current sedevacantists believe the same about the hierarchy during and after Vll. So it would seem that the sedevacantists today who believe that there is no longer a Catholic hierarchy (based in Rome) are also schismatics.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #42 on: September 29, 2023, 11:39:43 AM »
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  • No, the problem is that his attribution of this problem to SVism is a strawman.  SVs do not, as per etsi multa claim that the Catholic hierarchy has fallen into heresy.  That accusation is more against R&R than anyone else.  As Salza usually does, he begs the question that these men are the popes, and uses circular reasoning.

    Lad,

    You haven't addressed his argument, but side stepped it. You miss the point that Pius IX is making. Here's the quote:

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    “Incredibly, they boldly affirm that the Roman Pontiff and all the bishops, the priests and the people conjoined with him in the unity of faith and communion fell into heresy when they approved and professed the definitions of the Ecuмenical Vatican Council. Therefore they deny also the indefectibility of the Church and blasphemously declare that it has perished throughout the world and that its visible Head and the bishops have erred. They assert the necessity of restoring a legitimate episcopacy in the person of their pseudo-bishop, who has entered not by the gate but from elsewhere like a thief or robber and calls the damnation of Christ upon his head.”

    According to you, all that the Old Catholic would have to say in response is, "not so, you, and the bishops in union with you, are heretics, and not part of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church - of which you are not - remains indefectible, and your defection from the faith is not attributable to the Church, which remains indefectible with us."

    Until the late 20th Century and Sedevacantism, the idea that the pope and all the bishops in union with him would lose the faith would be unthinkable. Catholics believed, like Pius IX, that the Holy Ghost would not have permitted such a total and radical usurpation of the hierarchy. That is the protection of indefectibility identified, and referred to, by Pius IX in Etsi Multi: that there could not be such a radical usurpation of the hierarchy such that it becomes a total seat of pestilence, such that it could be taken over by Satan. A bishop here or there, or even possibly a heretic pope, who would be opposed by legitimate bishops who were successors to the apostles - even if that nightmare was a possibility, that would not destroy indefectibility as understood.  But indefectibility, as understood by Pius IX, would not be compatible with such a total usurpation.

    You morph this into a circular, tautological argument swirling around terminology: the pope and all the bishops in union with him in the Catholic Church cannot be heretics, and so if they are heretics, they aren't the pope and the bishops of the Catholic Church. That's a total evasion of Pius IX's point: if the pope and the all Catholic bishops in union with him joined to issue heresy in an ecuмenical council, the Church would have defected. Period. The Old Catholics could not, and you can not, evade that point by saying, "but the pope and all the bishops who did so were not Catholic."

    But that is what you are doing. You are evading the "crux" of the argument: the Holy Ghost would not allow that to happen, i.e.,  that any "person" sitting in the seat of Peter could have all the "persons" possessing Catholic sees or bishoprics joining him in union to do such a thing.

    You haven't addressed Random's post, or the "crux" of the issue.




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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #43 on: September 29, 2023, 04:08:39 PM »
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  • Lol. Reading Decem's post is like peeking into a different reality. Decem, you're talking about the conciliar counter-church's apostasy as if it didn't happen. 

    It did happen, now we know it can happen.

    Just as a Catholic before the Great Western Schism would say it could never happen, however, you've actually seen the Great Apostasy with your own two eyes and are pretending it isn't there.

    One thing is perfectly clear to me, the Pope must be a Catholic and these antichrists aren't. From the moment I saw Bergoglio and Wojtyla promoting demon worship I knew they were non-catholic antipopes. I don't know what you have to see them do to reach the same conclusion, especially considering they already did every heretical and apostate act imaginable.

    Here are some prophetic words from Fr. O'Reilly: 

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    “There had been anti-popes before from time to time, but never for such a continuance… nor ever with such a following…

    “The great schism of the West suggests to me a reflection which I take the liberty of expressing here. If this schism had not occurred, the hypothesis of such a thing happening would appear to many chimerical. They would say it could not be; God would not permit the Church to come into so unhappy a situation. Heresies might spring up and spread and last painfully long, through the fault and to the perdition of their authors and abettors, to the great distress too of the faithful, increased by actual persecution in many places where the heretics were dominant. But that the true Church should remain between thirty and forty years without a thoroughly ascertained Head, and representative of Christ on earth, this would not be. Yet it has been; and we have no guarantee that it will not be again, though we may fervently hope otherwise. What I would infer is, that we must not be too ready to pronounce on what God may permit. We know with absolute certainty that He will fulfil His promises; not allow anything to occur at variance with them; that He will sustain His Church and enable her to triumph over all enemies and difficulties; that He will give to each of the faithful those graces which are needed for each one’s service of Him and attainment of salvation, as He did during the great schism we have been considering, and in all the sufferings and trials which the Church has passed through from the beginning. We may also trust He will do a great deal more than what He has bound Himself to by His promises. We may look forward with a cheering probability to exemption for the future from some of the troubles and misfortunes that have befallen in the past. But we, or our successors in future generations of Christians, shall perhaps see stranger evils than have yet been experienced, even before the immediate approach of that great winding up of all things on earth that will precede the day of judgment. I am not setting up for a prophet, nor pretending to see unhappy wonders, of which I have no knowledge whatever. All I mean to convey is that contingencies regarding the Church, not excluded by the Divine promises, cannot be regarded as practically impossible, just because they would be terrible and distressing in a very high degree.


    There are only three answers to the problem: deny the facts, deny the papacy or deny the claimant.

    RandomFish started from the assumption that the Jєωιѕн satanists were popes and that led him to the only possible conclusion that Vatican II wasn't erroneous.

    He forgot to read Galatians it seems.

    What about you Decem? Do you have the same faith as Francis? If you don't, you're not in the Church where he's Pope. If you do, you're going to the same place he is. Simple as.

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    Re: The Impossibility of Sedevacantism
    « Reply #44 on: September 29, 2023, 04:36:59 PM »
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  • Lol. Reading Decem's post is like peeking into a different reality. Decem, you're talking about the conciliar counter-church's apostasy as if it didn't happen.

    It did happen, now we know it can happen.

    Just as a Catholic before the Great Western Schism would say it could never happen, however, you've actually seen the Great Apostasy with your own two eyes and are pretending it isn't there.

    One thing is perfectly clear to me, the Pope must be a Catholic and these antichrists aren't. From the moment I saw Bergoglio and Wojtyla promoting demon worship I knew they were non-catholic antipopes. I don't know what you have to see them do to reach the same conclusion, especially considering they already did every heretical and apostate act imaginable.

    Here are some prophetic words from Fr. O'Reilly:


    There are only three answers to the problem: deny the facts, deny the papacy or deny the claimant.

    RandomFish started from the assumption that the Jєωιѕн satanists were popes and that led him to the only possible conclusion that Vatican II wasn't erroneous.

    He forgot to read Galatians it seems.

    What about you Decem? Do you have the same faith as Francis? If you don't, you're not in the Church where he's Pope. If you do, you're going to the same place he is. Simple as.

    Marulus,

    Please do calm down and take a break from your Holy Crusade.

    I believe we are in the Great Apostasy. Just FYI. Part of the reason I believe it is being visited upon the Church is its arrogance and pride, just like the Jєωs. For example, the claim of the hierarchy to be "indefectible."

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    Jer. 8:8 -  How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

    Jer. 18:18 - And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

    Isa. 28:15 -  For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.

    Rom. 11:17-22 - And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,  18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.  19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.  20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.  22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

    For your further FYI - I  believe that Vatican II and the Conciliar consquence proves the hierarchy not "indefectible," at least on its own arrogant terms,  as it defined it.

    I believe a variation of what Stubborn maintains: the Church is indefectible.

    DR

    Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins" 

    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.