Hello everybody! Don't mean to beat a dead horse here, its late,, but, this argument shuts itself down. There is nothing to add, only apply the logic:
Cantarella, you said...
"All those consecrated [] by any ... heretic or schismatic, cannot exercise their orders lawfully since they (in addition to being heretics and outside the Church) lack the canonical mission which the Council of Trent dogmatically teaches to be necessary for a bishop to be a legitimate minister of the word and the sacraments:
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This means either we are ALL,,, EACH ONE OF US ,,, up a creek!
OR ... it means ... the Church provides.
In other words,,, Either
#1. There ARE NO MORE LAWFUL CLERGY at all. Anywhere. Since it is clear this law applies to berGog and his ilk, who are all heretics or schismatics, and therefore cannot exercise orders and clearly lack canonical mission (and are not even Catholic to begin with!) and possess no power from God ... And as you suggest,Cantarella, this law must also apply to any modern traditionalist clergy trying to carry on the Catholic Faith, via Thuc or Lefebvre lines,,,, So there is either no clergy nor visible Church,
.. OR ...
2. ... The Church provides in the case of emergency. (since the purpose of the Church is to save souls, not damn them .. but man abandons God for his own will and damns himself.)
God said, your ways are not my ways,, He also said He does not change.
He also taught that a thousand years to man is a single day to him.
Who set the time limit to how long we could last without a pope?? How could the pope be such a source of disunity and destruction except that he be one who we have been warned about,, as St. Jude made clear: ..."For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ." jude 1;4
In which case we would have to turn to clergy who are trying to fight the enemy 'who has done this to us', and rebuild the Church .... But that means we must know the Faith, in order to figure out which clergy that would be! God will not be mocked.
and that means we would have to go to our closet and PRAY incessantly! And study, and watch, and pray!! Poor wretched men that we are, of our century, lost, whose charity has grown cold.
All those consecrated by Bishop Thuc or by others of his line (or by any other heretic or schismatic) cannot exercise their orders lawfully since they (in addition to being heretics and outside the Church) lack the canonical mission which the Council of Trent dogmatically teaches to be necessary for a bishop to be a legitimate minister of the word and the sacraments:
“If anyone say… that those who have not been rightly ordained by ecclesiastical and canonical power and have not been sent [by the Church], but come from some other source [such as a heretical or schismatical source], are lawful ministers of the word and of the sacraments: let him be anathema.”