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Offline NishantXavier

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Re: Feeney the nut job
« Reply #120 on: October 18, 2024, 07:46:09 AM »
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  • Not getting into a big debate about this now. Bod does not say "salvation outside the church by the Church". Bod says individuals in inculpable ignorance can enter the Church by the extraordinary means of baptism of desire in some circuмstances.

    If you hold the AAS of a legitimate Pope can teach heresy, you have no grounds for rejecting Vatican II or the new Catechism. Why is John XXIII a heretic if Pius XII is not? Why is John Paul II a heretic for teaching baptism of desire in his Catechism but Pius X is not a heretic for the same reason? Why is it ok for the Magisterium of Pius XII to teach heresy in the AAS but not ok for the Magisterium of Francis to teach heresy? The Magisterium cannot teach heresy. You claim Trent taught no one can receive justification without Baptism. St. Alphonsus and others say one can receive justification without water baptism by baptism of desire. If your interpretation of Trent is right, it would logically follow St. Alphonsus is a heretic, as Ibranyi holds, but which all Catholics everywhere recognize is schismatic.

    The Catechism of Trent also refutes your absurd opinion. Imagine Vatican I declaring the Immaculate Conception that Mary is without any sin at all and then Vatican I releasing a Catechism that says Mary supposedly had some sins. Your position is like that. A theological absurdity. No wonder 99% of traditional clergy reject it. Moving on now. May God enlighten you.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #121 on: October 18, 2024, 07:51:27 AM »
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  • Not getting into a big debate about this now. Bod does not say "salvation outside the church by the Church". Bod says individuals in inculpable ignorance can enter the Church by the extraordinary means of baptism of desire in some circuмstances.

    What "individuals"?  Catechumens?  Infidels living among animists in the jungle?

    Depending upon who you identify as these "individuals" (which varies from one BoDer to the next), you absolutely are saying either that there's salvation outside the Church or that these "individuals" (who are not Catholics) are actually inside the Church.

    If the former, it's heresy.  If the latter, then your ecclesiology is identical to that of Vatican II, which posits a Church that subsists (in its visible core) of Catholics but then also consists of various non-Catholics.

    There's really no getting around this.


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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #122 on: October 18, 2024, 07:52:37 AM »
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  • If you hold the AAS of a legitimate Pope can teach heresy ...

    You've already been corrected about this strawman.  Very few Feeneyites hold that BoD is heresy.  Actually, no Feeneyites do.  There are some who hold more the opinion of the Dimonds Brothers that may consider it to be heresy, but very few here on CI do.

    What do you mean by "AAS"?  Are you talking about Suprema Haec?  SH wasn't IN AAS.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #123 on: October 18, 2024, 07:53:11 AM »
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  • The Catechism of Trent also refutes your absurd opinion.

    Debunked.  It does no such thing.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #124 on: October 18, 2024, 07:57:29 AM »
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  • Pope Pius XII confirmed in the AAS that he agreed with baptism of desire. Note that this was in 1951 "In an adult an act of love may suffice to obtain him sanctifying grace and so supply for the lack of Baptism". (PIUS XII, “Allocution to Italian Midwives”, Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 43 (1951), 841.) 

    AAS is the Act Aposotolicae Sedis or the acts of the apostolic see. If baptism of desire contradicts Trent, the simple fact is that Pius XII was a heretic. Why are you so afraid to go there? If John XXIII can be a heretic and the see vacant for nearly 70 years, then pius xii could have been a heretic too and the see vacant for just a bit longer.


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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #125 on: October 18, 2024, 08:06:25 AM »
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  • Br. Dimond: "the docuмent claims that he [Pius XII] did approve of it ... no pope could have signed the Protocol because it is quite heretical, as I have shown. If he had come out in favor of the Protocol and against Fr. Feeney then he would have been a heretic."

    If Br. Dimond is right, then Pius XII was a heretic. It's not required that Pius XII sign it personally if he expresses support for its decision in other ways. For e.g. by teaching Bod of his own accord, in 1951, no less, after the Fr. Feeney case, and inserting it into the AAS. If Br. Dimond is right, then Ibranyi is correct that Pius XII is a heretic.

    Is Pius XII a heretic? No. That means Br. Dimond is wrong, and Pius XII is not a heretic but repeating Church teaching.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #126 on: October 18, 2024, 08:10:51 AM »
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  • "The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office has examined again the problem of Father Leonard Feeney and St. Benedict Center. Having studied carefully the publications issued by the Center, and having considered all the circuмstances of this case, the Sacred Congregation has ordered me to publish, in its entirety, the letter which the same Congregation sent me on the 8th of August, 1949. The Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, has given full approval to this decision. In due obedience, therefore, we publish, in its entirety, the Latin text of the letter as received from the Holy Office with an English translation of the same approved by the Holy See." https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/letter-to-the-archbishop-of-boston-2076

    If in spite of this one wants to say Pius XII was not a heretic, then one can easily say the same of John XXIII or John Paul II for the same reason. If one of them lost their office ipso facto such that their acts were invalid, then so did the other. And if the act was indeed invalid, that would explain how a "Pope" inserted heresy into the AAS/Magisterium. A legitimate Pope, as those who've studied the issue know, cant teach heresy in the Magisterium.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #127 on: October 18, 2024, 08:16:06 AM »
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  • Guess what? The Holy Office decree excomunicating Fr. Feeney is in the AAS too. Again, the Church defects if a legitimate Pope teaches heresy in his Magisterium:

    "On February 13, 1953, the Holy Office issued a decree declaring Father Feeney “excommunicated.”  It read as follows:
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    “Since the priest Leonard Feeney, a resident of Boston (Saint Benedict Center), who for a long time has been suspended from his priestly duties on account of grave disobedience of Church Authority, being unmoved by repeated warnings and threats of incurring excommunication ipso facto, has not submitted, the Most Eminent and Reverent Fathers, charged with safeguarding matters of faith and morals, in a Plenary Session held on Wednesday, 4 February 1953, declared him excommunicated with all the effects of the law.   
    “On Thursday, 12 February 1953, Our Most Holy Lord Pius XII, by Divine Providence Pope, approved and confirmed the decree of the Most Eminent Fathers, and ordered that it be made a matter of public law.
    “Given at Rome, at the Headquarters of the Holy Office, 13 February 1953.”
    Marius Crovini, Notary
    AAS (February 16, 1953) Vol. XXXXV, Page 100





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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #128 on: October 18, 2024, 08:27:01 AM »
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  • Not getting into a big debate about this now. Bod does not say "salvation outside the church by the Church". Bod says individuals in inculpable ignorance can enter the Church by the extraordinary means of baptism of desire in some circuмstances.
    What???:confused::confused::confused: that's not what BoD is. BoD is if a catechuman who wanted baptism but died before they physically received it, then their desire sufficed for the sacrament in voto.

    I can't even, I do not have the patience and time for this, Ladislaus is truely a saint compared to me in this regard. I cannot go over the same ridiculous arguments over and over and over and over. 

    I can't, i just can't. I'm done for today. Goodnight.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #129 on: October 18, 2024, 08:40:35 AM »
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  • Read the Magisterium's explanation, which is Christ's, as Pope Pius XII said "he who hears you hears Me" applies to the explanations of the Magisterium rather than going by your own lights. The Pharisees/Jєωs went by their own lights and were deceived. They were absolutely sure that the Messiah could not be God. They thought He was only a human person. They were wrong. He was and is a Divine Person who became a human being for our sake. They should have accepted His authorized explanation of the Bible rather than their own lights. Here is the relevant part:

    "However, this desire need not always be explicit, as it is in catechumens; but when a person is involved in invincible ignorance God accepts also an implicit desire, so called because it is included in that good disposition of soul whereby a person wishes his will to be conformed to the will of God.
    These things are clearly taught in that dogmatic letter which was issued by the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Pius XII, on June 29, 1943, <On the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ> (AAS, Vol. 35, an. 1943, p. 193 ff.). For in this letter the Sovereign Pontiff clearly distinguishes between those who are actually incorporated into the Church as members, and those who are united to the Church only by desire."

    So another AAS docuмent that clearly teaches Baptism of desire. I had forgotten about that. The references are above.



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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #130 on: October 18, 2024, 09:16:16 AM »
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  • Read the Magisterium's explanation, which is Christ's, as Pope Pius XII said "he who hears you hears Me" applies to the explanations of the Magisterium rather than going by your own lights.

    So who's "lights" are you following in rejecting Vatican II?  Every bishop and theologian has told you that Vatican II is perfectly Catholic.  And, if you believe Suprema Haec, then you have absolutely no business rejecting Vatican II's ecclesiology, since it's identical.  This is why most of you live in bizarre mental contradiction ... since if Pius XII passed wind before Vatican II it was infallible, but then when Vatican II was saying the same thing, it was suddenly wrong.  No Catholic theologian has ever held that these low-level "teachings" of a Pope are infallible or irreformable.  So you're also making that up with your own "lights".

    You're so full of it that your eyes are brown.


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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #131 on: October 18, 2024, 09:27:41 AM »
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  • Ladislaus said: So whose "lights" are you following in rejecting Vatican II?  Every bishop and theologian has told you that Vatican II is perfectly Catholic.  And, if you believe Suprema Haec, then you have absolutely no business rejecting Vatican II's ecclesiology, since it's identical.  This is why most of you live in bizarre mental contradiction ... since if Pius XII passed wind before Vatican II it was infallible, but then when Vatican II was saying the same thing, it was suddenly wrong.  No Catholic theologian has ever held that these low-level "teachings" of a Pope are infallible or irreformable.  So you're also making that up with your own "lights".

    This explains it. It’s illogical to think both ways. If they could understand this, they might understand why the EENS doctrine couldn’t change, and why Father Feeney was fighting against change just like they believe they are doing now.

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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #132 on: October 18, 2024, 09:30:33 AM »
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  • If in spite of this one wants to say Pius XII was not a heretic, then one can easily say the same of John XXIII or John Paul II for the same reason. If one of them lost their office ipso facto such that their acts were invalid, then so did the other. And if the act was indeed invalid, that would explain how a "Pope" inserted heresy into the AAS/Magisterium. A legitimate Pope, as those who've studied the issue know, cant teach heresy in the Magisterium.
    Yes, and this was pointed out pages ago in this thread as the real reason why the average sede or SSPX adherent will not look honestly at the facts of the Fr. Feeney case. The timeline and facts challenge their dogmatic view of the crisis in the Church. It's also why they end up bleeding souls off into the Eastern Orthodox sects once they see the evidence for how far back the corruption goes. (Not recommending that course, it will damn you). The fact remains that Fr. Feeney was not excommunicated over BOD. He didn't take a position on that until later, when he pointed out that BOD was what the Holy Office used to say that he was wrong for saying EENS. It's only some trads who insist it was over BOD because they can't wrap their minds around what actually happened.
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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #133 on: October 18, 2024, 10:33:55 AM »
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  • Not getting into a detailed debate on this subject as it bores me. You can preach EENS very well without ever mentioning bod. But if you deny or attack bod, the Church will push back, as it did to SBC. The three AAS docuмents I cited are very clear. Whoever wants to learn the teaching of the Church can learn it from those. Preach EENS, invite souls to baptism or confession, and to the Holy Eucharist for perseverance in grace, and you will do well. Keep attacking or denying doctrine or dogma, and you will get confused, claim dozens of Popes or even hundreds of years of Popes are heretics (like Orthodox do), possibly lose the faith and become a heretic or a schismatic yourself, lapse into Photian Orthodoxy as ihsv mentioned, or even apostatize completely and become a worldling again. Not good. The Holy Office letter btw clearly teaches EENS in the Catholic sense.

    "Accordingly, the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Cardinals of this Supreme Congregation, in a plenary session held on Wednesday, July 27, 1949, decreed, and the august Pontiff in an audience on the following Thursday, July 28, 1949, deigned to give his approval, that the following explanations pertinent to the doctrine, and also that invitations and exhortations relevant to discipline be given:
    We are bound by divine and Catholic faith to believe all those things which are contained in the word of God, whether it be Scripture or Tradition, and are proposed by the Church to be believed as divinely revealed, not only through solemn judgment but also through the ordinary and universal teaching office (<Denzinger>, n. 1792).
    Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.
    However, this dogma must be understood in that sense in which the Church herself understands it. For, it was not to private judgments that Our Savior gave for explanation those things that are contained in the deposit of faith, but to the teaching authority [i.e. Magisterium - MM] of the Church.
    Now, in the first place, the Church teaches that in this matter there is question of a most strict command of Jesus Christ. For He explicitly enjoined on His apostles to teach all nations to observe all things whatsoever He Himself had commanded (Matt. 28: 19-20).
    Now, among the commandments of Christ, that one holds not the least place by which we are commanded to be incorporated by baptism into the Mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church, and to remain united to Christ and to His Vicar, through whom He Himself in a visible manner governs the Church on earth.
    Therefore, no one will be saved who, knowing the Church to have been divinely established by Christ, nevertheless refuses to submit to the Church or withholds obedience from the Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ on earth."



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    Re: Feeney the nut job
    « Reply #134 on: October 18, 2024, 10:54:34 AM »
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  • "All of the Apostles, due to their lack of diplomacy, due to their lack of 'getting along,' were all put to death because they preached the dogma Outside the Church there is no salvation."  -Fr. James Wathen.   The Apostles did not preach any of the nonsense spouted by Bishop Cushing and his ilk.
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