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Offline Meg

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Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
« Reply #120 on: April 04, 2017, 09:45:34 AM »
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  • little girl , only adults should be posting here, go call your daddy , I'll forgive you for your insult, I remember when I was 12 I said some idiotic things myself and my daddy corrected me  


    My dad passed away, so I'm not able to consult him. Besides, he hated Christianity, having been raised in a Protestant Pentacostal snake-handling hillbilly church. He wasn't able to forgive, unfortunately.

    Anyway, what do you think of Archbishop Lefebvre's position? I mean, that the Church is occupied by a Modernist sect?

    Bishop Tissier de Mallerais developed the view further. His study is here:

    http://www.dominicansavrille.us/is-there-a-conciliar-church/

    Excerpt:

    "It [the study] reflects Archbishop Lefebvre's true position concerning the mystery of a Pope residing over the destruction of the Church: The Pope remains the Pope, but he is at the head of two churches [...].
    "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

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #121 on: April 04, 2017, 10:25:49 AM »
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  • I don't believe a person who denies BoD has any idea at all what the Magisterium is.
    It is the living voice of God on earth, and therefore you eaither must attribute the Promulgated Missale Romanum of Paul VI as an act of Christ's will for his Church or deny the authority issuing it. It's really all that is available to you, otherwise you charge the Church with handing down harmful disciplines, which is condemned by Pope Pius VI.
    Which will it be?
    The mass of PPVI obviously is not an act of Christ's will for His Church, yet PPVI promulgated it using his authority along with the authority of the hierarchy because there was nothing to stop him - no one should ever accuse the Church, which is Christ, of handing down harmful disciplines.

    The people who went along with the new religion, those who helped further the destruction wrought by the hierarchy of the day, they were the ones who compromised the faith for themselves and their children - and they did so of their own free will, they'll never be able to blame anyone but themselves for losing their faith. Many of them did so while using the excuse that they did so in "obedience to the pope and the magisterium" - but before God, such a farce of a reason will never relieve them of their guilt in the matter.

    The flavor of the day was "if the pope said to do it then blindly, we must do it".  So many people believed this lie because that is what they were taught. These days that same polluted mentality prevails - I attribute that mentality in large part to the half truths taught by certain "well respected" 19th/20th century theologians, whose false teachings have been embraced as if they are authentic teachings of the Church.

    In the words of +ABL:

    "After all of these liberal ideas have been infiltrated into the seminaries, the catechisms and all the manifestations of the church, I am now being asked to align myself with these liberal ideas."  

    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse


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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #122 on: April 04, 2017, 10:54:13 AM »
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  • Do you understand Stubborn that Popes own authority is Christ's? The authority he uses to promulgate an act is Christ wielding that authority. That's why he's a Vicar. He wields the authority of Christ. Papal authority is not divorced from Him but exists as a participation IN him.

    Every act in the AAS is, or ought to be, something you can attribute to Christ.
    The saints are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are; yet among those few I wish to be!
    -St. Alphonsus Liguori. (The Holy Eucharist, 494)

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #123 on: April 04, 2017, 11:14:10 AM »
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  • Do you understand Stubborn that Popes own authority is Christ's? The authority he uses to promulgate an act is Christ wielding that authority. That's why he's a Vicar. He wields the authority of Christ. Papal authority is not divorced from Him but exists as a participation IN him.

    Every act in the AAS is, or ought to be, something you can attribute to Christ.

    Why don't you actually address what Stubborn wrote, rather than just using the usual..."The Pope must be obeyed no matter what," approach?

    The sedevacantists use the same type of logic....that everything is absolutely black-and-white.
    "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

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #124 on: April 04, 2017, 11:17:19 AM »
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  • Why don't you actually address what Stubborn wrote, rather than just using the usual..."The Pope must be obeyed no matter what," approach?
    The actual approach is that all the official Magisterial acts of the Papacy YOU OWE submission of mind and will.
    Now Vatican II is an official act of Paul VI and So is Missale Romanum.
    So why do you resist what Christ has clearly willed for his Church?
    And if you insist he does not then just be honest enough to admit then that the Authority that issued it was in some way divorced from Christ's own authority.
    But the authority is intrinsic to the office,
    Therefore there was a loss of office.
    Easy.
    The saints are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are; yet among those few I wish to be!
    -St. Alphonsus Liguori. (The Holy Eucharist, 494)


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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #125 on: April 04, 2017, 11:27:38 AM »
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  • Do you understand Stubborn that Popes own authority is Christ's? The authority he uses to promulgate an act is Christ wielding that authority. That's why he's a Vicar. He wields the authority of Christ. Papal authority is not divorced from Him but exists as a participation IN him.

    Every act in the AAS is, or ought to be, something you can attribute to Christ.
    Sorry Augustinus but your understanding of the the pope's own authority as regards this matter is the same understanding that people were taught, which helped give legs to this crisis. Your understanding, which is typical, as +ABL described: "...all of these liberal ideas have been infiltrated into the seminaries, the catechisms and all the manifestations of the church,"  I accuse certain "well respected" 19th/20th century theologians for disseminating those liberal ideas which ended up in all the manifestations of the Church.

    There was nothing to stop the pope and hierarchy from doing what they did. Nothing. But because the masses were taught to believe as you and most believe, they chose to abandon their faith, the only faith that all Catholics knew for +500 years, for the new faith under the guise of "that Popes own authority is Christ's no matter what" - which is a lie.

    To get an understanding of what the Pastoral Council (V2) was, read this OP.

    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #126 on: April 04, 2017, 11:33:28 AM »
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  • The actual approach is that all the official Magisterial acts of the Papacy YOU OWE submission of mind and will.
    Now Vatican II is an official act of Paul VI and So is Missale Romanum.
    So why do you resist what Christ has clearly willed for his Church?
    And if you insist he does not then just be honest enough to admit then that the Authority that issued it was in some way divorced from Christ's own authority.
    But the authority is intrinsic to the office,
    Therefore there was a loss of office.
    Easy.

    What you seem to be saying is that if we don't give our full submission of mind and will to the Pope, (which includes Vatican ll, and the New Mass), then this means that we must believe that there is a loss of office, and that we are then basically sedevacantists, is that right?
    "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

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #127 on: April 04, 2017, 11:35:20 AM »
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  • Ultimately, Meg, that's right. 


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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #128 on: April 04, 2017, 11:38:24 AM »
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  • Ultimately, Meg, that's right.

    I know that's what the nutty SV's think. I'm asking Augustinus what he thinks.

    I've said this a few times on this forum already, but it warrants repeating: Bishop Faure said that the Resistance is attacked from both the right and the left...from the left are those who believe that the SSPX should reconcile, and on the right are the Sedevacantists.

    The Resistance gets attacked from both sides.
    "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

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #129 on: April 04, 2017, 11:44:43 AM »
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  • The actual approach is that all the official Magisterial acts of the Papacy YOU OWE submission of mind and will.

    This is wrong. I would like to see where got this from.

    Please provide your source.

    FYI, the truth of the matter is, those things which we are bound in conscience too besides dogmatic decrees, are doctrinal decisions stemming from pontifical congregations, or to points of doctrine which, with common and constant consent, are held in the Church as truths and as theological conclusions so certain that opposing opinions, though they may not be dubbed heretical, nonetheless, merit some other form of theological censure. - Pope Pius IX

    We are never to owe anyone and are even forbidden by God to give submission of our mind and will to anyone except God, certainly not even the pope - but it should be getting plain to see that with a mentality like that, is there any wonder the sheeple compromised by the millions upon the wishes of the pope and hierarcy?
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #130 on: April 04, 2017, 12:12:28 PM »
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  • Sedevacantists do NOT understand what submission of the mind and will means.

    It is not the same as giving absolute intellectual assent to every proposition that emanates from Bergoglio.  Sedevacantists twist "submission of mind and will" into something that renders basically every single act of the authentic Magisterium infallible in the practical order.  Submission of mind and will refer to a genuine internal disposition of submission, i.e. it's an attitude or disposition towards the Magisterium, which essentially gives any acts of the authentic Magisterium the "benefit of the doubt" and would question it only for very grave reasons.  Internal is distinguished from mere external lip service.  Being submissive does not necessarily mean given intellectual assent to absolutely everything -- it means being disposed to do so.

    Now, with that said, it's safe to say, that Traditional Catholics do not have submission of mind and will to Bergoglio ... in fact we typically assume that anything that emanates from his authentic "Magisterium" is going to be thoroughly polluted with Modernism.


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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #131 on: April 04, 2017, 12:14:47 PM »
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  • We are never to owe anyone and are even forbidden by God to give submission of our mind and will to anyone except God, certainly not even the pope 

    False.  That's a Protestant attitude.  When it comes to the Magisterium, the pope takes the place of God and requires our submission (as properly defined).  This does not mean absolute intellectual assent to every non-infallible proposition because, after all, it's theoretically possible that some error has crept in.

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #132 on: April 04, 2017, 12:21:51 PM »
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  • Now Vatican II is an official act of Paul VI and So is Missale Romanum.
    So why do you resist what Christ has clearly willed for his Church?

    Now those are MORE than just "merely authentic" acts of the Magisterium or Church's Universal Discipline.  Since these are directed towards the Universal Church, the teachings of Vatican II must be regarded as at least infallibly safe (not containing any substantial error that can harm souls) and the New Mass must be considered as not intrinisically bringing harm to faith, spirituality, or piety (one can argue differently about various "abuses" that have crept in of course).

    But your allegation that we owe internal "assent" (as you mis-defined "submission") to even the merely authentic acts of the Magisterium is simply wrong and not accepted by any Catholic theologian.

    That's where the middle road lies in this debate.  SVs invariably distort infallibility and extend it to nearly the entire authentic Magisterium, at least for all intents and purposes, while R&R types claim that a teaching presented to the Universal Church can bring harm to the faith and the Universal Discipline of the Church could harm faith and piety.  That's contrary to the indefectibility of the Church.

    This is another case where the truth lies in between.

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #133 on: April 04, 2017, 12:24:29 PM »
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  • False.  That's a Protestant attitude.  When it comes to the Magisterium, the pope takes the place of God and requires our submission (as properly defined).  This does not mean absolute intellectual assent to every non-infallible proposition because, after all, it's theoretically possible that some error has crept in.
    False, that is a Catholic principle, not a prot attitude.

    When it comes to the magisterium (Church teaching) yes I can agree we owe our submission to that, but the pope never takes God's place to the point that we owe the man submission of our mind and will, he is God's representative on earth, he is not God.

    Please post the source that teaches we owe the pope submission of our mind and will.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: What good is Sedevacantism?
    « Reply #134 on: April 04, 2017, 12:35:37 PM »
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  • False, that is a Catholic principle, not a prot attitude.

    When it comes to the magisterium (Church teaching) yes I can agree we owe our submission to that, but the pope never takes God's place to the point that we owe the man submission of our mind and will, he is God's representative on earth, he is not God.

    Please post the source that teaches we owe the pope submission of our mind and will.

    Yes, it's the same Prot attitude that goes along the lines of how only God can forgive sins and not man (vs. Confession).

    In any case, 1) you too misunderstand the term "submission of mind and will" (please see my previous post) and 2) we owe even absolute assent (the certainty of faith) to things taught by the Pope in an infallible manner.  So when teaching infallibly, the Pope might as well in fact be God.