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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
« Reply #45 on: November 27, 2023, 02:06:57 PM »
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    indiscriminately re/conditionally ordain every and any NO priest that come to them based on them being ordained NO
    Being ordained in the NO is not an "indiscriminate" reason.  Shame on you.



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    What is worth it, is spending what, a whole 10 - 20 minutes if that, looking into the individual's NO ordination to prove doubt/invalidity - and then go ahead with it.
    10-20 minutes of "investigation" is all you deem necessary?  What, pray tell, would be the questions asked?  What kind of investigation lasts only 20 minutes?

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #46 on: November 27, 2023, 02:45:27 PM »
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  • Being ordained in the NO is not an "indiscriminate" reason.  Shame on you.
    Because the Church always initially presumes validity, yes it is.


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    10-20 minutes of "investigation" is all you deem necessary?  What, pray tell, would be the questions asked?  What kind of investigation lasts only 20 minutes?
    Q. Who ordained you and when?
    A. +Vigano 3 years ago
    Didn't even take one minute.

    Was that too difficult?

    Next one....
    Q. Who ordained you and when
    A. +Yahoo Heretic 20 years ago
    Now the trad bishop needs to spend a few ( maybe 10 - 20) minutes to find out what he needs to know about that bishop. Sometimes the trad bishop, who has been through this plenty of times already, may already know what he needs to know and does not even need to spend another minute investigating.

    Was that too difficult?
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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #47 on: November 27, 2023, 03:07:38 PM »
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    Q. Who ordained you and when?
    A. +Vigano 3 years ago
    Didn't even take one minute.
    So...because +Vigano is a non-bishop, having been consecrated in the new rite, then this ordination is doubtfully valid, right?

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    Next one....
    Q. Who ordained you and when
    A. +Yahoo Heretic 20 years ago
    Now the trad bishop needs to spend a few ( maybe 10 - 20) minutes to find out what he needs to know about that bishop. Sometimes the trad bishop, who has been through this plenty of times already, may already know what he needs to know and does not even need to spend another minute investigating.
    A heretic bishop could still validly ordain.  That's the part you're missing.  The rite used is WAY more important than the bishop.  A heretic bishop, using the old rite, can validly ordain/consecrate.  That's why the +ABL slanders about his consecrating bishop, +Leinart, being a freemason, don't matter. 

    Conversely, in the case above, no matter how orthodox the new-rite bishop is, no matter if he ordains using the True Rite, since his bishop-ness is in doubt, he cannot ordain (or, to put it better, canon law tells us we treat as invalid).

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    Because the Church always initially presumes validity,
    You keep repeating this falsity.  The Church only presumes validity for a) approved rites, b) which are properly performed, and c) having no positive doubts in their circuмstances.

    A.  The new rites of V2 are not "approved rites".  Paul VI did not use his apostolic authority to create them.  They are man-made, not from the Holy Ghost.
    B.  The only way to know if they were properly performed/ have proper intent, would be to be visibly present.  No way anyone can know this.
    C.  Positive Doubts exist due to the very text of the rites themselves.  They have the same flaws as the Anglican rites which were already condemned.

    So, no, Trads do not presume validity.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #48 on: November 27, 2023, 05:45:55 PM »
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  • Being ordained in the NO is not an "indiscriminate" reason.  Shame on you.


    10-20 minutes of "investigation" is all you deem necessary?  What, pray tell, would be the questions asked?  What kind of investigation lasts only 20 minutes?
    Perhaps it is not an indiscriminate reason now, so far into the crisis, with so much accuмulation of doubt from a series of new consecrations and new ordinations which could make it almost impossible to obtain certainty about validity. What Stubborn is surely referring to is the fact that with the ordination rite, Archbishop Lefebvre very clearly taught that the new rite did contain the essential form necessary for validity. So from this point of view, if it could be ascertained, as it often could at least in the early years, that everything else required for validity was present, then a competent judge, like Archbishop Lefebvre, could pronounce the ordination valid with certainty. That is the traditional SSPX belief, and it is the Resistance position, faithful to Archbishop Lefebvre and the SSPX of old.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #49 on: November 27, 2023, 07:17:06 PM »
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    What Stubborn is surely referring to is the fact that with the ordination rite, Archbishop Lefebvre very clearly taught that the new rite did contain the essential form necessary for validity.
    +ABL was right, for the period of the 70s/80s, when there were valid bishops in new-rome.  But that’s all gone now.  That view is outdated.  They’re all dead.  

    The new rite of consecration is NOT essentially the same, and highly doubtful.  Thus, new rite “bishops” (99.99999% of bishops in the world) are most likely fake and their ordinations (whether with the old or new rite) are highly suspect. 


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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #50 on: November 27, 2023, 08:58:29 PM »
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  • +ABL was right
    I'm glad we agree on that Pax.
    With regards the NREC, whether you side with Fr Cekada (invalid) or Fr Calderon (the rite is most probably valid), the practical conclusion is almost the same: the priests who were ordained by such new bishops must be (at least conditionally) 're-ordained'. Even the Dominicans don't seem entirely comfortable with the conclusion of their study now. Interestingly, the more recently turned sedevacantist Fr Rioult argues for the validity of the rite... amidst so much disagreement I don't think we accept anything short of reconsecration/reordination.
    In defence of Stubborn, there are still priests from the New Church who find their way to Tradition who may have been ordained in the new rite decades ago by a true bishop. For such priests, a study of the facts may reveal that no conditional ordination is required.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #51 on: November 28, 2023, 05:33:53 AM »
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    So...because +Vigano is a non-bishop, having been consecrated in the new rite, then this ordination is doubtfully valid, right?

    To me, yes, it is doubtfully valid, because I don't trust the NO to do anything right, but I cannot prove it valid/invalid or doubtful one way or the other. There are those who can, but I am not one of them and neither are you.

    A heretic bishop could still validly ordain.  That's the part you're missing.  The rite used is WAY more important than the bishop.  A heretic bishop, using the old rite, can validly ordain/consecrate.  That's why the +ABL slanders about his consecrating bishop, +Leinart, being a freemason, don't matter. 

    Conversely, in the case above, no matter how orthodox the new-rite bishop is, no matter if he ordains using the True Rite, since his bishop-ness is in doubt, he cannot ordain (or, to put it better, canon law tells us we treat as invalid).

    No, I am not missing that part. Per Fr. Hesse, +ABL, +Williamson and I think Fr. Schmidberger all said that an and old rite bishop who ordained priests in the new rite, and a new rite bishop who ordained priests in the old rite, were both validly ordained priests. According to your thinking, both are invalid ordinations. 


    You keep repeating this falsity.
    The Church only presumes validity for a) approved rites, b) which are properly performed, and c) having no positive doubts in their circuмstances.
    A.  The new rites of V2 are not "approved rites".  Paul VI did not use his apostolic authority to create them.  They are man-made, not from the Holy Ghost.
    B.  The only way to know if they were properly performed/ have proper intent, would be to be visibly present.  No way anyone can know this.
    C.  Positive Doubts exist due to the very text of the rites themselves.  They have the same flaws as the Anglican rites which were already condemned.

    So, no, Trads do not presume validity.

    Very simply Pax, you refuse to accept the Church, as the sole owner of all of the sacraments, always has and always must presume validity initially. Until such a time that a pope comes out as Pope Leo XIII did regarding the Anglicans, validity is presumed - or what reason did pope Leo XIII even bother?

    This is easily exemplified using any of the sacraments, but let's take the sacrament of baptism for example. A prot who was baptized as a young child and has no knowledge of whether or not it was done correctly wants to become a Catholic and wants to be baptized in the Catholic Church.

     The priest may not simply re/conditionally baptize as if the other baptism was automatically invalid or doubtful, under pain of sacrilege he must first prove invalidity or doubt - because validity is always presumed initially. This is not the least bit complicated Pax, and the same goes for all of the sacraments, including NO ordinations/consecrations. The ordaining bishop has got to be sure he is not repeating a sacrament that the Church forbids under pain of mortal sin from being repeated.
     




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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #52 on: November 28, 2023, 06:18:28 AM »
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  • "+ABL, +Williamson and I think Fr. Schmidberger all said that an and old rite bishop who ordained priests in the new rite, and a new rite bishop who ordained priests in the old rite, were both validly ordained priests."

    What is this Stubborn? I challenge you to docuмent this.


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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #53 on: November 28, 2023, 06:31:48 AM »
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  • "+ABL, +Williamson and I think Fr. Schmidberger all said that an and old rite bishop who ordained priests in the new rite, and a new rite bishop who ordained priests in the old rite, were both validly ordained priests."

    What is this Stubborn? I challenge you to docuмent this.
    First, there's this, a phone call I made to someone at SSPX about this issue.

    Although the video has been removed, I have posted about this in the past:
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    @ 1:04 "...I have been ordained, unfortunately in the new rite of ordination, but thank God in Latin, everything strictly by the book and +ABL said that would be valid, +Fellay said it's valid and Fr. Franz Schmidberger who is my present superior in Austria says it's valid and +Williamson said there's no need for conditional ordination...." - Fr. Hesse

    https://youtu.be/lfJZv44xFHQ?t=62
    I will post the whole quote if I find the recording of him saying what I quoted him as saying. He's got quite a few recordings out there and it's on one of them, not sure which one tho.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #54 on: November 28, 2023, 09:10:59 AM »
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    To me, yes, (+Vigano's consecration) is doubtfully valid, because I don't trust the NO to do anything right,
    It's not a matter of trust; it's not a personal decision or feeling.  It's a factual matter that the new rite of consecration has the same defects as the Anglican rites, which have already been declared invalid. 


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    but I cannot prove it valid/invalid
    It's near impossible to prove validity, and that's not the goal here.


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    or doubtful one way or the other.
    Yes, it is doubtful because the new rite has changes to the old rite.  These changes to the consecration formula cause the doubt.


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    There are those who can, but I am not one of them and neither are you.
    We don't have to prove invalidity.  All we have to prove is positive doubt.  Is there factual evidence which causes one to doubt the validity?  If yes, then you use the conditional formula.

    Example:  A child was baptized by famous protestant preacher on tv.  It was later found, during an interview, that this preacher liked to use "We baptize" instead of "I baptize".  We don't know for sure if he used "We" on this particular child (since we weren't there and the godparents don't remember), but there's enough evidence to say there is a positive doubt that this baptism is invalid.  Thus, a conditional baptism is used.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #55 on: November 28, 2023, 09:13:52 AM »
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    No, I am not missing that part. Per Fr. Hesse, +ABL, +Williamson and I think Fr. Schmidberger all said that an and old rite bishop who ordained priests in the new rite,
    This could be valid.  The new rite of ordination is not as problematic as the new rite of consecration.  A fact that many in the new-sspx don't distinguish.


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    and a new rite bishop who ordained priests in the old rite, were both validly ordained priests.
    This is very probably invalid.  The new rite of consecration is the problem.

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    Very simply Pax, you refuse to accept the Church, as the sole owner of all of the sacraments, always has and always must presume validity initially. Until such a time that a pope comes out as Pope Leo XIII did regarding the Anglicans, validity is presumed - or what reason did pope Leo XIII even bother?
    The V2 changes mirror the Anglican errors, which is why many Trad clerics say we can't presume validity.  Why is this so difficult?


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    This is easily exemplified using any of the sacraments, but let's take the sacrament of baptism for example. A prot who was baptized as a young child and has no knowledge of whether or not it was done correctly wants to become a Catholic and wants to be baptized in the Catholic Church.

     The priest may not simply re/conditionally baptize as if the other baptism was automatically invalid or doubtful, under pain of sacrilege he must first prove invalidity or doubt - because validity is always presumed initially.
    Theologians say that marriage and baptism by protestants is *usually* but not always, valid.  It's not a blanket presumption of validity.

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    This is not the least bit complicated Pax, and the same goes for all of the sacraments, including NO ordinations/consecrations. 

    The only reason that baptisms/marriages by protestants are presumed valid is because they a) use the EXACT words of Catholic baptisms, and b) the essential vows of marriage are there.  The novus ordo ordinations/consecrations CHANGED THE WORDS (just like the Anglicans).  The presumption of validity is not there.

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    The ordaining bishop has got to be sure he is not repeating a sacrament that the Church forbids under pain of mortal sin from being repeated.
    A conditional sacramental formula does not "repeat" the sacrament.  :facepalm:  


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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #56 on: November 28, 2023, 09:20:15 AM »
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  • This could be valid.  The new rite of ordination is not as problematic as the new rite of consecration.  A fact that many in the new-sspx don't distinguish.

    This is very probably invalid.  The new rite of consecration is the problem.

    Yeah, I agree that there's probably LESS doubt about ordination than there is about consecration (almost certainly invalid), but there's still enough there to constitute positive doubt.  I know that apologists for the new ordination rite like to point out that it's just one two-letter word that was changed in the essential form, but I counter that if it's just a two-letter word, why would they bother do mess with it.  It's not like removing the Latin "ut" would have any effect in terms of making the form more "modern".  So what was their motivation?  While it's only two letters, the "ut" is very significant because it implies effect.  What comes before it is the cause, and what comes after it the intended effect.  Pius XII when he taught about the essential form indicated that the Holy Spirit must be invoked for a specified Sacramental effect, that the Holy Ghost must be invoked and the Sacramental effect indicated.  But the removal of "ut" leads to a separation of the two.

    [Highly Paraphrased]
    Old:  "May the Holy Ghost come down upon you to make you a priest."
    New:  "May the Holy Ghost come down upon you.  May you become a priest."

    In the first, it's absolutely clear that you're invoking the Holy Ghost to have the effect of making the man into a priest.  In the second, it could be viewed as two separate prayers or invocations.  Holy Ghost can come down upon people for any reason, to give them the proper dispositions, etc.  And then to whom is the second part addressed?

    There's just enough there to constitute positive doubt.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #57 on: November 28, 2023, 09:48:28 AM »
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  • This is very probably invalid.  The new rite of consecration is the problem.
    No, if anything, this is doubtful. +ABL and co said that was valid.


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    The V2 changes mirror the Anglican errors, which is why many Trad clerics say we can't presume validity.  Why is this so difficult?
    I don't presume validity, I presume doubtful and do not go to them for anything, ever. I am also not the one who has to prove doubt lest I commit sacrilege administering the re/conditional ordination.
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    Theologians say that marriage and baptism by protestants is *usually* but not always, valid.  It's not a blanket presumption of validity.
    Yes, it is. It has to be, otherwise as regards baptism, why bother to ask the convert if they were ever baptized? Simply go ahead and conditionally or just baptize them. I won't get into the sacrament of matrimony.

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    The only reason that baptisms/marriages by protestants are presumed valid is because they a) use the EXACT words of Catholic baptisms, and b) the essential vows of marriage are there.  The novus ordo ordinations/consecrations CHANGED THE WORDS (just like the Anglicans).  The presumption of validity is not there.
    You could not convince +ABL of this, nor +Williamson, nor most or all of the SSPX bishops and priests - who are not exactly idiots you know.

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    A conditional sacramental formula does not "repeat" the sacrament.  :facepalm: title=facepalm 
    Trent's catechism says that it's a sacrilege to even conditionally baptize without first due inquiry, and to do such a thing is an abuse of the sacrament - ask yourself why is it an abuse of the sacrament. The bold is what you are repeating, and what you repeat cannot be done without sacrilege....

    "...In this connection, however, there are some matters, in which, to the very great injury of the Sacrament, abuses are of almost daily occurrence, and which therefore demand the diligent attention of pastors. For there are not wanting those who think that no sin is committed if they indiscriminately administer conditional Baptism.
    Hence if an infant be brought to them, they think that no inquiry need be made as to whether it was previously baptised, but proceed immediately to baptise the child. Nay more, although they be well aware that the Sacrament was administered at home, they do not hesitate to repeat its administration in the Church conditionally, making use of the solemn ceremonies of the Church.

    This certainly they cannot do without sacrilege and without incurring what theologians call an irregularity.
    According to the authority of Pope Alexander the conditional form of Baptism is to be used only when after due
    inquiry doubts are entertained as to the validity of the previous Baptism. In no other case is it ever lawful to
    administer Baptism a second time, even conditionally."
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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #58 on: November 28, 2023, 10:16:29 AM »
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  • Stubborn, I've tried to explain the principles on this issue, but you're either not listening, or I'm not explaining it properly.  For some reason, you are using Trent to approve of V2, which is nonsense.  This shows you don't understand, and are improperly applying, the theological principles. 

    Major - Trent: The conditional form of a [sacrament] is to be used only when after due inquiry doubts are entertained as to the validity of the previous [sacrament].
    Minor - V2's bishop consecration/priestly ordination have new/omitted words, which after 50+ years of study, give most Trad clerics doubts as to validity.
    Minor 2 - Due inquiry is satisfied with confirming that the new rites were used, as these are not approved of by the Church, but from a V2 schismatic/masonic sect.
    Conclusion - The conditional form can (and should be) used for V2's consecration/ordination rites, due to positive doubts from the masonic "updating" of rites.

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    Re: Thoughts on the FSSP, Indult?
    « Reply #59 on: November 28, 2023, 10:23:34 AM »
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    Yes, it is. It has to be, otherwise as regards baptism, why bother to ask the convert if they were ever baptized? Simply go ahead and conditionally or just baptize them.
    You're oversimplifying it.  This isn't the only question asked.  The second question is, "What religion baptized you?"  If the answer is Jehova Witness or some crazy Unitarian sect, then it's invalid.

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    You could not convince +ABL of this, nor +Williamson, nor most or all of the SSPX bishops and priests - who are not exactly idiots you know.
    Again, you're oversimplifying it.  
    1.  +ABL's comments should be taken in the time/age when he lived (i.e. there were still old rite, valid bishops, operating in the novus ordo).
    2.  +W argues that the new mass is valid and ok to attend.  His theology is all over the map, and I can't trust him to make a non-emotional decision.
    3.  As we know now, most of the new-sspx leadership wants to be part of the V2 false church, which they've been working for DECADES (even before +ABL died) to infiltrate and change the sspx from within, into an indult community.  They have EVERY reason to minimize the V2's changes to the new rites, since they want to minimize their treachery and heresy.

    Let's look at the "Bishop" Huonder case, which the new-sspx treats like a valid bishop.  He was ordained in 1971 (new rite = probably invalid), and then made a bishop in 1998 (again, even if he was a priest, his bishop status is doubtful).  Same applies to +Vigano.

    Would you advise a family member to receive confirmation from this "bishop"?  Would you want to receive extreme unction using oils he "blessed"?  You say you have personal doubts, but then keep repeating that +ABL, +W and the new-sspx say this guy is legit.  Why the contradiction?