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Offline 2Vermont

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Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
« Reply #240 on: November 11, 2019, 04:54:37 PM »
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  • Lad, when you say this is the problem most sedevacantist have....what do you mean?  Because sedevacantists agree with Fenton.

    Offline Clemens Maria

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #241 on: November 11, 2019, 05:02:49 PM »
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  • Popes have been judged by a discretionary judgment while they remained Pope.  These were true Pope who were being judged for alleged crimes they had committed.  The discretionary judgment was not seeking to determine if they were Popes.  Bellarmine has a chapter on this in De Concilli.
    No they haven't.  And I think you mean De Romano Pontifice.  Previously you quoted part of it:


    "For example, in response to the objection that “Leo IV asked for judges from Emperor Louis and promised to obey their decisions, as [is] contained in the canons Nos so incompetenter 2, q. 7,” Bellarmine said:  “Leo subjected himself to the discretionary judgment of the Emperor, not the coactive, as is easily deduced from the same chapter” (De Romano Pontifice, lib II, cap xxix)"


    Leo freely chose to subject himself to such a judgement.  But what you are proposing is to compel Frank to leave the papacy.  And the whole point of that sixth argument is to refute the idea that the Roman Pontiff can be subjected to emperors.  So your interpretation is tortured.  For you, it's all about justifying the SSPX position, not about finding the truth.  Otherwise, you wouldn't be accusing sedes of being manifest schismatics/heretics while defending Joe Biden's membership in the Church.


    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #242 on: November 11, 2019, 05:15:07 PM »
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  • Lad, when you say this is the problem most sedevacantist have....what do you mean?  Because sedevacantists agree with Fenton.

    No, sorry.  What I meant is that this is the biggest problem sedevacantists have with R&R.  I too agree with the Msgr. Fenton ... and the sedevacantists on this particular issue.  What I'm trying to say is that the bigger concern for sedevacantists, the bigger issue they have with R&R, is the implications for the Church's holiness and indefectibility.  I think we can get too mired down in the finer points of this dispute regarding Bellarmine vs. Cajetan vs. John of St. Thomas, etc.  We can get lost in the weeds and lose sight of the bigger issue.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #243 on: November 11, 2019, 05:19:18 PM »
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  • How can a True Pope lack the authority to dissolve a Council?  How does not this reject the teaching of Lateran V?

    You can only say that a Pope who's suspect of heresy LACKS FULL PAPAL AUTHORITY, that his authority is somehow crippled.

    Here's what St. Alphonsus wrote:


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    St. Alphonsus: It must be prefaced, I. The fact that a Pope is above a council must not be understood about a doubtful Pope in a time of schism, when there will be probable uncertainty about the legitimacy of his election; because then in each case the doubtful Pope ought to be under a council, just as the Council of Constance defined (sess. 4). For then, a general Council holds supreme power immediately from Christ, just as in a time when the See is vacant, as St. Antoninus rightly adverts (p. 3, tit. 23, c. 2, §26).
    “It must be prefaced, II. The same thing avails in regard to a manifestly and externally heretical Pope, but not for a secret or mental one. However, others argue more accurately that, in this case, the Pope cannot be deprived of his authority by the council as if it were above him, but that he is deposed immediately by Jesus Christ, when the condition of this deposition [the declaration of the council] is carried out as required.” (Moral Theologym 1748.

    I would nuance St. Alphonsus’ teaching a bit by saying, along with Torquemada, that “the council is not greater than the Pope by the power of jurisdiction, but with the authority of a discretionary judgment for greater knowledge.”

    Tanquerey relates that during the First Vatican Council, Bishop Gasser took the time to address the question of an heretical Pope.  After explaining that it is ‘probable’ that a Pope will never fall into heresy, he added this: “If it did happen that the Pope fell into pertinacious heresy, he would either be ipso facto be deprived of the Pontificate, or the body of bishops could depose him, as in the case of doubtful pope: for in this extraordinary case, the authority passes (delolvitur) to the episcopal body.” (Tanquerey, Synopsis theologiae dogmaticae)

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #244 on: November 11, 2019, 05:23:29 PM »
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  • Okay, let’s take this one point at a time.   You initially made two assertions that I responded to by quoting Pope Innocent III.  Your first was this: “… the constant doctrinal and canonical tradition of the Church presupposes that a pope cannot be a heretic.” (Fr. Kramer)  Your second was this: “the papal magisterium has constantly taught that the pope can never be judged by anyone.” (Fr. Kramer)

    I quoted Innocent who readily admitting the possibility that he could “wither away into heresy,” which contradicts your first entirely false statement that “the constant doctrinal and canonical tradition” presupposes the contrary.  The traditional teaching is that a Pope can fall into heresy, and the contrary opinion was not seriously defended until Alber Pighius did so in 16th century (Hierarch. Eccles. lib. 4, cap.   So, your first statement was and is entirely false.

    You second - that "the papal magististerium has contantly taught the the pope can never be judged by anyone" is also false, because you failed to make a necessary distinction.  Plenty of Pope have been legitimately judged by men.  Pope Leo IV asked for the Emperor and his legates to judge him, and the Pope agree to submit to their ruling and obey it.

    What is forbidden is for a Pope be juridically judged with a coercive (coactive) judgment. The Pope is the supreme ruler on earth and no one can exercise jurisdiction or coercive force over him.  It is metaphysically impossible for a Pope to be legitimately judged by men with a coercive judgment. But Popes can and have been judged with a discretionary judgment, which is a legitimate judgment from an authority, who has the right to render the judgment, but who lacks any coercive force over the one judged. That’s how the Pope have been judged in the past, as Bellarmine, St. Alphonsus and countless other theologians teach.  For example, in response to the objection that “Leo IV asked for judges from Emperor Louis and promised to obey their decisions, as if contained in the canons Nos so incompetenter 2, q. 7,” Bellarmine said:  “Leo subjected himself to the discretionary judgment of the Emperor, not the coactive, as is easily deduced from the same chapter” (De Romano Pontifice, lib II, cap xxix).   The same form of judgment was used again Sixtus III, (Mandasti’ 2, quaest. 5), Leo III (ch. ‘Auditum’), as well as other Pope.  
    .  And the judgment was not being rendered against former Popes who had secretly been deposed by God, but against true "formal Popes" - jurisdiction and all -  whose legitimately was not in doubt.  So, your second statement is just as false as your first.

    Now let’s consider the third statement you added in the latest reply. You claim that “shown to be already judged" means “proven to have already fallen from office.”  But that’s an argument that was used to defend the 2nd Opinion – i.e., that an entirely occult heretic ceases to be Pope - which Bellarmine refutes, and which was entirely abandoned by theologians centuries ago.  I thought you and your fellow Sedevacantists agreed with Bellarmine?  Why are you now appealing to an argument that was used to defend the opinion he refuted?

    Here’s how Cajetan describes the second opinion, and how he responded to the argument you just presented to defend it:

    “[the Second Opinion maintains that] when the Pope becomes a heretic, he is deprived of the papacy ipso facto by divine law, which is based on the distinction between believer and unbeliever. When he is deposed by the Church on this account, it is not the pope who is either judged or deposed, but he who has already been judged, because he does not believe (in accordance with what the Lord says in John 3), and who has already been deposed; since, having become an unbeliever, and being removed by his own will from the body of the Church, he is formally declared judged and deposed.”

    Does that sound familiar?  That’s the 2nd Opinion that Bellarmine refutes, that every theologian abandoned centuries ago, and that you’re now attempting to resurrect by your interpretation of Innocent III.  Here’s what Cajetan says in response to your argument:

    “first of all, the Lord’s authority is not to the point, because He is speaking of the judgment of eternal damnation, by which ‘he that doth not believe is already judged’ [John 3:18], and on God’s part, because, ‘The Lord knows who they are’ … and in regard to obvious condemnation without a trial at the last judgment, as Gregory explains.”  

    What he means is the Pope is not deposed by the judgment of God without the judgement of men.  He goes on to answer another one of your argument by saying when "St. Thomas and others" speak of heretics lacking jurisdiction, they are to understood as referring to those who are heretics "in the Church's judgment."

    Bellarmine refutes the 2nd Opinion by stating that just as God does not make a man Pope without the cooperation of men (the Cardinal who elect him), neither does he remove a Pope without the cooperation of men (the bishops who judge and declare him deposed).  God does not secretly depose a Pope without the Church knowing about it or being involved in the process, any more than he secretly makes a man Pope without the Church knowing about it or being involved in the process.   The "judgment of men" that's required for God to depose a Pope is a discretionary judgment, and no coercive power is needed for the Church do so - just as no coercive power was necessary when you to judge the person you the person you mistakenly thought was the Pope (Benedict XVI) on April 30th, before posting your judgment on Facebook and "exhorting" everyone to presume that the See is now vacant.  

    You've provided very good information, but most of the sedevacantists and at least one of the sedeprivationists aren't going to pay much attention to information from the other side, unless they can find a way to call it "heretical" (their favorite word in the English language). That's what they live for - to look for heresy in everything and everywhere and everyone. That's why I hardly debate with them anymore.

    I'll keep posting the work of John of St. Thomas, though of course it may give them fits.
    "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
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29


    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #245 on: November 11, 2019, 05:23:40 PM »
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  • Here's what St. Alphonsus wrote:

    Fine, but that is just reiterating the point that a doubtful pope can be judged by a Council.

    WHY?  HOW?

    That is the key question here, not just a restatement of the same thing.

    Lateran V clearly taught that a True Pope has the right to dissolve a Council.

    Clearly then the doubtful pope is somehow in a crippled or suspended state ... and lacking the usual authority.

    Note, I am not in fact disputing the fact that a doubtful pope is crippled.  That is precisely the condition I believe the Church to be in right now, which is why I have called myself a sede-doubtist.

    Doubtful popes have crippled authority.  How?  Why?  Unless this can be explained, the "exception" granted is merely gratuitous and would seem to violate Lateran V.

    This is a bit too convenient a deus ex machina pulled out of Bishop Gasser's hat in merely gratuitously stating that it's an exception, an "extraordinary situation".

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #246 on: November 11, 2019, 05:25:26 PM »
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  • You've provided very good information, but most of the sedevacantists and at least one of the sedeprivationists aren't going to pay much attention to information from the other side, unless they can find a way to call it "heretical" (their favorite word in the English language). That's what they live for - to look for heresy in everything and everywhere and everyone. That's why I hardly debate with them anymore.

    Stop polluting the thread with your worthless ad hominems and your spamming of John of St. Thomas.  We're actually having some decent interesting discussion here that might be going somewhere.  I don't enjoy having to scroll past your 10-paragraph spam posts just to get to the next point being made by PC2, Clemens, Decem, or XavierSem.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #247 on: November 11, 2019, 05:36:46 PM »
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  • So let's expand the earlier scenario:

    March 1, 2020:  Bergoglio says something that could be heretical depending on its interpretation.
    April 1, 2020:  General Council convenes, admonishes Bergoglio, he refuse to recant.
    April 2, 2020:  Bergoglio dissolves the General Council and declares it null.
    April 3, 2020:  General Council declares Bergoglio outside the Church.

    At some point before April 1, 2020, Bergoglio entered a "doubtful pope" state.

    This to me is different from:

    March 1, 2020:  Bergoglio says something clearly heretical, "I know the Church teaches the Real Presence, but I don't believe it."
    April 1, 2020:  General Council declares Bergoglio a heretic.

    To me, THIS is the distinction between a Pope leaving the Church himself vs. a Pope being "judged" a heretic. ... and not the apostasy vs. everything else division.

    And now, let's add a twist.  On April 3, 2020:  The General Council declared 51% to 49% that Bergoglio was a heretic.  But the 49% do not accede to this judgment and remain adamant that Bergoglio is still the pope.

    What then?


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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #248 on: November 11, 2019, 05:41:19 PM »
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  • I wish I could find the quotation of a theologian made by Father William Jenkins regarding the "doubtful pope" and how he lacked authority.

    Note well the theological maxim:  papa dubius papa nullus ... a doubtful pope is no pope.  Citations have been made from Cajetan, Capello, and DeGroot.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #249 on: November 11, 2019, 05:50:04 PM »
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  • Tanquerey relates that during the First Vatican Council, Bishop Gasser took the time to address the question of an heretical Pope.  After explaining that it is ‘probable’ that a Pope will never fall into heresy, he added this: “If it did happen that the Pope fell into pertinacious heresy, he would either be ipso facto be deprived of the Pontificate, or the body of bishops could depose him, as in the case of doubtful pope: for in this extraordinary case, the authority passes (delolvitur) to the episcopal body.” (Tanquerey, Synopsis theologiae dogmaticae)

    Note, however, that there's no indication here that ANY Pope who hasn't been judged by a Council is a doubtful pope.  It's also possible that he is also ipso facto deprived of the Pontificate.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #250 on: November 11, 2019, 06:00:04 PM »
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  • So we must conclude that a Doubtful Pope is certainly not a True Pope simpliciter.  Otherwise, it would be heretical to state that he could not dissolve any General Council.

    So a Doubtful Pope is merely a pope secundum quid.

    Might one not say this secundum quid works out along the lines of formaliter vs. materialiter.  Gasp.


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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #251 on: November 11, 2019, 06:02:26 PM »
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  • PC2, you actually cited 2 cases, but I focused on one ...

    1) multiple disputed popes
    2) true pope suspect of heresy

    In both cases, isn't the common denominator that they are "doubtful" popes?

    Is this a case where a papa dubius lacks full papal authority?

    So if a pope who's suspect of heresy lacks the authority to dissolve a General Council, then what other aspects of his authority are also somehow "suspended"?  Nestorius' ability to excommunicate people perhaps?  

    That's my personally position, but I would nuance it a bit. To clarity what I wrote previously, I wouldn't say he lacks the authority.  He always possesses full supreme authority as an undivided and inseparable habit; but being a pertinacious heretic and a manifest wolf in sheep's clothing has the unfortunately effect of preventing him from licitly and validly exercise certain aspects of it (in certain circuмstances), such as excommunicating those who resist him or preventing the Bishops from gather at an imperfect council.


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    Does the doubtful pope have the authority to define a dogma?

    Yes, and the charism of infallibility, which is attached to the Petrine office - the teaching office, not governing office -  will prevent him from erring if he does so.


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    Does the doubtful pope have the authority to promulgate and impose a new Rite of Mass?  

    He would have the authority to publish a new missal and express the "wish" and "hope" that everyone really likes it (which is essentially what Paul VI did), but he would not have the authority to abrogate the true Mass (which Paul VI never did).


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    This is actually drawing things closer to Father Chazal's sedimpeditism and sedeprivationism ... is it not? Father Chazal studied the theologians as well and he came to the conclusion that heretical popes are in fact "suspended" or "quarantined" or "impounded" and that they lack all authority, even though they remain legally in office until the Church declares otherwise.   THIS makes sense to me.

    I had an lengthy correspondence with Fr. Chazal about this a few years ago.  I'll see if I can located it.  At the time, he recommended that we publish into a booklet, so I'm sure he won't mind if I post it here.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #252 on: November 11, 2019, 06:31:16 PM »
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  • PC2, are you and Fr Chazal in agreement, generally speaking?
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    If so, what is you opinion on how the current sspx leadership would accept such views?  I can’t see the sspx endorsing any Fr Chazal-like view, because it would be negative towards +Francis.

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #253 on: November 11, 2019, 06:34:23 PM »
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  • "PaxChristi", Siscoe, or whatever your real name is: It is absolutely clear that you are obstinately and knowingly entrenched in heresy. What part of"absolute power" do you not understand? How can a council or any other body or individual exercise a "ministerial function" against a pope who possesses by divine right the "absolute fullness of this supreme power" over the whole Church? It is infallibly defined that the pope possesses absolute authority over a council. It is infallibly defined that the pope can freely dissolve a council whenever he chooses to do so. Fifth Lateran Council: “t is clearly established that the Roman Pontiff alone, possessing as it were authority over all Councils, has full right and power of proclaiming Councils, or transferring and dissolving them". Pastor Æternus: "[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]So, then, if anyone says that the Roman pontiff has ... not the full and supreme power of[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]jurisdiction[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] over the whole Church, and this not only in matters of [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]faith and morals[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)], but also in those which concern the [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]discipline and government[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] of the Church dispersed throughout the whole world; or that he has only the principal part, but not the[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]absolute fullness[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)], of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]ordinary and immediate[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]both over all and each of the[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]churches[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]and over all and each of the[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]pastors[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]and[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]faithful[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]: let him be[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]anathema[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]."[/color][/i]

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    Re: Tony La Rosa: Benedict XVI Is the True Pope!
    « Reply #254 on: November 11, 2019, 06:39:32 PM »
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  • "PaxChristi", Siscoe, or whatever your real name is: It is absolutely clear that you are obstinately and knowingly entrenched in heresy. What part of"absolute power" do you not understand? How can a council or any other body or individual exercise a "ministerial function" against a pope who possesses by divine right the "absolute fullness of this supreme power" over the whole Church? It is infallibly defined that the pope possesses absolute authority over a council. It is infallibly defined that the pope can freely dissolve a council whenever he chooses to do so. Fifth Lateran Council: “t is clearly established that the Roman Pontiff alone, possessing as it were authority over all Councils, has full right and power of proclaiming Councils, or transferring and dissolving them". Pastor Æternus: "So, then, if anyone says that the Roman pontiff has ... not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church, and this not only in matters of faith and morals, but also in those which concern the discipline and government of the Church dispersed throughout the whole world; or that he has only the principal part, but not the absolute fullness, of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not ordinary and immediate both over all and each of the churches and over all and each of the pastors and faithful: let him be anathema."