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Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: hollingsworth on September 28, 2013, 10:34:42 AM
Charlemagne includes the following quote from  Pius X on all of his posts, I think.

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“If one loves the Pope, one does not raise discussions as to what he ordains or demands, or as to how far obedience must go and in what things obedience is due. When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken with sufficient clearness, as if he were obliged to repeat to the ear of each person that desire which has been expressed clearly, so many times, not by word of mouth only but by letters and other public docuмents. One does not call into question his orders by resorting to the facile pretext of those who do not wish to obey, that it is not the Pope who commands but those who surround him. One does not oppose to the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, since these if they are learned are not holy, for those who are holy cannot dissent from the Pope.” -- Pope St. Pius X


How do most of you deal with this saint's remarks in light of the fact that all of the Conciliar and post-Conciliar popes have been modernists?  Pius X chides those of us who "dissent from the Pope." He says that to do so indicates that we are not holy.  How about it?
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: hollingsworth on September 28, 2013, 01:08:08 PM
Strange.  Not one comment yet.  Are you all still thinking about it?  Let me offer a hypothetical.  Were Pius X's papacy to have followed the five Conciliar papal flounders who occupied the Chair just prior to his reign, would he have written this?
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“If one loves the Pope, one does not raise discussions as to what he ordains or demands, or as to how far obedience must go and in what things obedience is due. When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken with sufficient clearness, as if he were obliged to repeat to the ear of each person that desire which has been expressed clearly, so many times, not by word of mouth only but by letters and other public docuмents. One does not call into question his orders by resorting to the facile pretext of those who do not wish to obey, that it is not the Pope who commands but those who surround him. One does not oppose to the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, since these if they are learned are not holy, for those who are holy cannot dissent from the Pope.” -- Pope St. Pius X


Would he not have couched his words a bit more discreetly?  Would he not have inserted a caveat or two? Would he have not provided a provisional way out for faithful Catholics, who in good conscience were unable to yield unquestioning obedidence to his five predecessors?  Pius X wrote the above prior to 1910.  I have a hard time believing that he would have written such after the 50 year plus nightmare of Concilar popes which we have experienced and are still living under.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Nishant on September 28, 2013, 02:18:54 PM
The theologian Francisco Suarez said, “If the pope gives an order contrary to right customs, he should not be obeyed; if he attempts to do something manifestly opposed to justice and the common good, it will be lawful to resist him"

So this is an exceptional case where the Pope requires us to do or say something manifestly unlawful, like today to participate in false worship or acquiesce to indifferentism, where we reverently refuse. We must balance at the same time the due respect for the Vicar of Christ with the necessity under divine law never to obey a sinful command from any superior whatsoever.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: PereJoseph on September 28, 2013, 02:42:14 PM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Would he not have couched his words a bit more discreetly?  Would he not have inserted a caveat or two? Would he have not provided a provisional way out for faithful Catholics, who in good conscience were unable to yield unquestioning obedidence to his five predecessors?  Pius X wrote the above prior to 1910.  I have a hard time believing that he would have written such after the 50 year plus nightmare of Concilar popes which we have experienced and are still living under.


Well, the problem only exists if one insists that they absolutely must be Popes.  Most people who feel morally uncomfortable about disregarding papal authority and who are also not comfortable with a fideist faith that admits being logically incoherent become sedevacantists.  Or they spend their lives in strained denial of the obvious.  Sifters/Recognise and resisters seem to always be seeking ways to dispense themselves from obedience, or else they downplay papal authority in a way St Pius X's quotation doesn't allow, etc.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Ambrose on September 28, 2013, 03:21:34 PM
I will answer you.  St. Pius X is teaching how we are to behave towards the Pope, and stating that if you do not treat the pope in the manner he describes it means that you are not holy.  

Now, I do not believe that those who treat the Vatican II "popes" with contempt by ignoring them, exposing them for who they are, and warning Catholics to stay away from them are lacking holiness.   That is how Catholics should treat heretic antipopes.  

Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: parentsfortruth on September 28, 2013, 05:32:07 PM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Charlemagne includes the following quote from  Pius X on all of his posts, I think.

Quote
“If one loves the Pope, one does not raise discussions as to what he ordains or demands, or as to how far obedience must go and in what things obedience is due. When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken with sufficient clearness, as if he were obliged to repeat to the ear of each person that desire which has been expressed clearly, so many times, not by word of mouth only but by letters and other public docuмents. One does not call into question his orders by resorting to the facile pretext of those who do not wish to obey, that it is not the Pope who commands but those who surround him. One does not oppose to the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, since these if they are learned are not holy, for those who are holy cannot dissent from the Pope.” -- Pope St. Pius X


How do most of you deal with this saint's remarks in light of the fact that all of the Conciliar and post-Conciliar popes have been modernists?  Pius X chides those of us who "dissent from the Pope." He says that to do so indicates that we are not holy.  How about it?


Sorry, just ran across this thread.

You're listening to the words of a pope, when we actually HAD a decent pope. These popes of now, are popes of a NEW RELIGION.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Jerry on September 28, 2013, 05:47:24 PM
At some point, people need to face the reality of the popes heretical departure from the Catholic faith.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Mabel on September 28, 2013, 06:03:10 PM
We need to treat the papacy and valid popes with reverence and not be on opposing sides, it is pretty simple.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: songbird on September 28, 2013, 06:44:53 PM
Define Pope.  It was defined in Vatican I before Pius x and so he was going on the definition of Pope, one who is catholic, and not against the Church that Christ founded.  
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Ambrose on September 28, 2013, 06:47:39 PM
Quote from: songbird
Define Pope.


Read here:  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12260a.htm
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: 2Vermont on September 28, 2013, 06:53:28 PM
Yeah, I think the bottom line is: are we dealing with a valid Pope?  If we are, then we must not dissent.  If not, then we can dissent (and probably should).
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Mabel on September 28, 2013, 07:29:58 PM
Quote from: 2Vermont
Yeah, I think the bottom line is: are we dealing with a valid Pope?  If we are, then we must not dissent.  If not, then we can dissent (and probably should).


Exactly. In all things, charity. Sometimes charity is standing up and saying "You are a heretic and I cannot follow you."  
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Mithrandylan on September 28, 2013, 08:10:38 PM
Quote from: songbird
Define Pope.  It was defined in Vatican I before Pius x and so he was going on the definition of Pope, one who is catholic, and not against the Church that Christ founded.  


Because the definition of pope is subjective?  What nonsense.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Neil Obstat on September 29, 2013, 02:54:32 AM
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It seems you made a few boo-boos, hollingsworth:  

Quote from: hollingsworth
Strange.  Not one comment yet.  Are you all still thinking about it?  Let me offer a hypothetical.  Were Pius X's papacy to have followed [any one of] the five Conciliar papal [flounderers] who [had they] occupied the Chair just prior to his reign, would he have written this?

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“If one loves the Pope, one does not raise discussions as to what he ordains or demands, or as to how far obedience must go and in what things obedience is due. When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken with sufficient clearness, as if he were obliged to repeat to the ear of each person that desire which has been expressed clearly, so many times, not by word of mouth only but by letters and other public docuмents. One does not call into question his orders by resorting to the facile pretext of those who do not wish to obey, that it is not the Pope who commands but those who surround him. One does not oppose to the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, since these if they are learned are not holy, for those who are holy cannot dissent from the Pope.” -- Pope St. Pius X


Would he not have couched his words a bit more [discretely]?  Would he not have inserted a caveat or two? Would he have not provided a provisional way out for faithful Catholics, who in good conscience were unable to yield unquestioning obedidence to his five predecessors?  Pius X wrote the above prior to 1910.  I have a hard time believing that he would have written such after the 50 year plus nightmare of [Conciliar] popes which we have experienced and are still living under.



If that's what you had in mind, yes, I agree.  

If that's not what you had in mind, no, I don't agree.  



Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  




Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Neil Obstat on September 29, 2013, 03:27:23 AM
Quote from: Ambrose
I will answer you.  St. Pius X is teaching how we are to behave towards the Pope, and stating that if you do not treat the pope in the manner he describes it means that you are not holy.  

Now, I do not believe that those who treat the Vatican II "popes" with contempt by ignoring them, exposing them for who they are, and warning Catholics to stay away from them are lacking holiness.   That is how Catholics should treat heretic antipopes.  



Endemic in the principle that St. Pius X alludes to in the quote is
that the pope in question is acting as a good pope should act.  He
was not a purveyor of any manner of false infallibility or papolatry
(which is a word that did not even exist in his day).  

It is an error to presume that simply on the basis that
any particular pope does not ACT like a pope that he is therefore
not the pope, any more than when your father comes home drunk
he therefore ceases to be your father.  

There is even Scriptural basis for this doctrine of the Church.

Respectfully resisting the false teachings of the pope is one thing
and contemptuous disrespect is quite another.  But at some point,
the menace of misunderstanding creeps in, such that it behooves
a holy Catholic to say things like "the unholy Holy Father" or "John
XXIII of infelicitous memory" or "the abominable Paul VI" or "JPII
the InGrate," or "B16 the unclean."  Such terms might wake up
the listener who would otherwise not be paying any attention.  
The moral crimes of these men have exceeded the limits of
reasonable reservation and hope of redemption.  But they are still
popes.  



Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Ambrose on September 29, 2013, 12:10:47 PM
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Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  


Pope Pius IX, did not cave into anyone.  He taught the flock as a Pope always teaches the flock.  If you deny this teaching, it is matter for a mortal sin.  
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: 2Vermont on September 29, 2013, 12:46:29 PM
Quote from: Ambrose
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Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  


Pope Pius IX, did not cave into anyone.  He taught the flock as a Pope always teaches the flock.  If you deny this teaching, it is matter for a mortal sin.  


Sounds like he's a BOB and BOD denier.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Ambrose on September 29, 2013, 01:06:44 PM
Quote from: 2Vermont
Quote from: Ambrose
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Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  


Pope Pius IX, did not cave into anyone.  He taught the flock as a Pope always teaches the flock.  If you deny this teaching, it is matter for a mortal sin.  


Sounds like he's a BOB and BOD denier.


I agree, it does sound that way.  This is going to be a battle for a future pope, who will have to warn these people of their heresy and grave error, and if they will not submit, they may be excommunicated.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Sigismund on September 29, 2013, 05:23:50 PM
Quote from: Jerry
At some point, people need to face the reality of the popes heretical departure from the Catholic faith.


Yes, or they need to obey him.  There really is no third option.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: songbird on September 29, 2013, 06:54:49 PM
Ambrose: Under definition, does not explain laws in regarding the nomination, what it takes to be nominated to be a Pope, he must be outwardly showing his fruits of being catholic.  In this case: Under this www. you gave it states: If then the Church should adopt a constitution other than Christ (sacraments other than what Christ instituted) gave it, it  would no longer be HIs there by becoming human, not Divine.

Francis continues the changes of sacraments, which no one has any authority to change.  He had outward signs before his election, of not being catholic.  That all religions can be saved.  The one sin that a pope to-be can not have.  We know that the enemies are at the top and we were warned a long time ago that it would.  And Chapter 12 of Daniel brings us to the truth, that His Precious Blood, "continual sacrifice" on this earth will end and for how long.

We are very near.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Emitte Lucem Tuam on September 29, 2013, 06:59:49 PM
Quote from: Ambrose
Quote from: 2Vermont
Quote from: Ambrose
Quote
Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  


Pope Pius IX, did not cave into anyone.  He taught the flock as a Pope always teaches the flock.  If you deny this teaching, it is matter for a mortal sin.  


Sounds like he's a BOB and BOD denier.


I agree, it does sound that way.  This is going to be a battle for a future pope, who will have to warn these people of their heresy and grave error, and if they will not submit, they may be excommunicated.


A Future Catholic Pope.
I pray for that every day.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Mabel on September 29, 2013, 07:21:08 PM
Quote from: Emitte Lucem Tuam
Quote from: Ambrose
Quote from: 2Vermont
Quote from: Ambrose
Quote
Keep in mind, that Bl. Pius IX caved in to the Liberals when he
wrote about "invincible ignorance" in an official capacity, and notice:  
in all of St. Pius X's papacy, NOT A WORD about this menace of a
microbe.  That should tell us something about 'invincible ignorance'!  


Pope Pius IX, did not cave into anyone.  He taught the flock as a Pope always teaches the flock.  If you deny this teaching, it is matter for a mortal sin.  


Sounds like he's a BOB and BOD denier.


I agree, it does sound that way.  This is going to be a battle for a future pope, who will have to warn these people of their heresy and grave error, and if they will not submit, they may be excommunicated.


A Future Catholic Pope.
I pray for that every day.


Us too. After the rosary every night.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Neil Obstat on October 01, 2013, 02:19:33 AM
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It makes utterly no sense why certain people are all worked
up about this latest barrage of false ecuмenism.  

All anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God, they say,
and they have sufficient membership in the Church for their
salvation.  So what's the problem with ecuмenism?  Why get
upset about it?  It is the logical end of your own belief!    

Take your premise to its logical end, if you're capable of
thinking, that is, and embrace ecuмenism.  Of course, if you
don't embrace ecuмenism, it proves you can't think, logically
speaking.  

End of story.



Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: Ambrose on October 01, 2013, 06:50:38 AM
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All anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God, they say,
and they have sufficient membership in the Church for their
salvation. So what's the problem with ecuмenism? Why get
upset about it? It is the logical end of your own belief!


Who is "they"?
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: bowler on October 01, 2013, 08:12:41 AM
Quote from: Ambrose
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All anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God, they say,
and they have sufficient membership in the Church for their
salvation. So what's the problem with ecuмenism? Why get
upset about it? It is the logical end of your own belief!


Who is "they"?


From my long experience here, "they" are all BODers here on CI, for they all  believe that for salvation, "all anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God". They won't put it that way, they may not even know what they believe, nevertheless, that is what they believe, since that is what the 1949 with no AAS number says and they keep bringing it forward as the "authoritative" docuмent against those that deny BOD, "because it was written by the Holy Office under the reign of Pius XII".

Meanwhile they all (the BODers,  at least the sedevacantes BODers)reject the Holy Week Mass changes promulgated directly by Pius XII.

That's two inconsistencies among tons more for BODers, people with no common sense.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: bowler on October 01, 2013, 08:23:26 AM
Quote from: Ambrose
Quote from: Neil Obstat

It makes utterly no sense why certain people are all worked
up about this latest barrage of false ecuмenism.  

All anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God, they say,
and they have sufficient membership in the Church for their
salvation.  So what's the problem with ecuмenism?  Why get
upset about it?  It is the logical end of your own belief!    

Take your premise to its logical end, if you're capable of
thinking, that is, and embrace ecuмenism.  Of course, if you
don't embrace ecuмenism, it proves you can't think, logically
speaking.  

End of story.




Who is "they"?


Neil Obstat hit the nail on the head!

From my long experience here, "they" are all BODers here on CI, for they all  believe that for salvation, "all anyone needs is an implicit desire to please God". They won't put it that way, they may not even know what they believe, nevertheless, that is what they believe, since that is what the 1949 with no AAS number says and they keep bringing it forward as the "authoritative" docuмent against those that deny BOD, "because it was written by the Holy Office under the reign of Pius XII".

Meanwhile they all (the BODers,  at least the sedevacantes BODers)reject the Holy Week Mass changes promulgated directly by Pius XII, for which they would have been excommunicated in 1 minute, and goes directly against Pius X's instructions, the subject of this thread!!!

That's two inconsistencies among tons more for BODers, people with no common sense.
Title: Dissenting from the pope
Post by: hollingsworth on October 01, 2013, 03:36:35 PM
From dissenting from the pope to BOD.  Let's put this topic out of its misery.