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Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 26, 2014, 04:28:44 PM
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Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cathman7 on January 26, 2014, 05:08:03 PM
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 26, 2014, 05:50:08 PM
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Francisco on January 27, 2014, 04:35:07 AM
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."

Thanks for posting this Matto. I think I like him better than Fellay!
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Francisco on January 27, 2014, 05:41:12 AM
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."

Thanks for posting this Matto. I think I like him better than Fellay!


Sorry! I've just looked at his stuff on the web. I withdraw my comment!
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 27, 2014, 12:10:51 PM
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."

Thanks for posting this Matto. I think I like him better than Fellay!


Sorry! I've just looked at his stuff on the web. I withdraw my comment!

This guy is no dummy. His video provides a laboratory demonstration of self-interpreting Tradition to custom-design one's own post-Vatican II traditionalist position (PV2TP). His action parallels the protestants' self-interpretation of the bible when custom designing their own denominations.

Michael's position is arguable, just like most of the other PV2TP's. Traffic on trad forums largely consists of such argumentation. Typically, each of the more thoughtful trads to develops his own unique PV2TP.

The protestant denomination development process ensures diverse conflicting doctrines, as the PV2TP development process also results in diversity.

It is mistaken to hold out one's own or one's groups' PV2TP as a test of Catholic orthodoxy. Instead, the sole measure should consist of pre-Vatican II orthodoxy, but with the current status of papal office consigned as a paradox for the duration of the crisis.

I think it is schismatic for Catholics to divide from others who share pre-Vatican II orthodoxy, but I do not hold this opinion out as a test of Catholic orthodoxy.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 28, 2014, 05:01:45 AM
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."

Thanks for posting this Matto. I think I like him better than Fellay!


 :dancing:  [time is ticking by]                      

Quote from: 66 minutes later, Francisco
Sorry! I've just looked at his stuff on the web. I withdraw my comment!


That's a flash in the pan!  "Pope" Michael's following lasted just 66 minutes!


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Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Wessex on January 28, 2014, 08:46:42 AM
"For the duration of the crisis" is a weak form of interregnum which may in time turns an institution of protest into a de facto church while she searches for de jure status. As Michael says, the SSPX was conceived as an expression of protest in the post-V2 church. It was to stay there until booted out where upon it became that de facto church with bishops and all while unilaterally claiming partial-communion status with the post-V2 church. I think this explanation should satisfy the most dispassionate observer except for drawing a clear distinction between the Church and the post-V2 church which Michael does.

THe "mistakes" of ABL: novus ordo validity, papal recognition and 'unauthorised' episcopal consecration would be considered as so much "half-way garbage", turning the serious work of the traditionalist movement (the Church) into a joke. We can see in hindsight where the Society went wrong and how it is now deparately backtracking to its pre-expulsion days in order to help in 'reforming the Church', with an offshoot solidifying ABL's harder moments in the form of another 'resistance'. These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.    
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 28, 2014, 01:17:55 PM
Quote from: Wessex
These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.

ABL wanted to keep some connection with Rome while avoiding a surrender to Modernist control. Certainly many formerly trad societies have been captured by the Modernists, as if drawn in by some mysterious deathstar tractor beam. According to such an analogy, maintaining discrete distance from the newRoman deathstar is necessary to remain properly traditionalist.

Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance? If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cantatedomino on January 28, 2014, 04:32:02 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."

Thanks for posting this Matto. I think I like him better than Fellay!


Sorry! I've just looked at his stuff on the web. I withdraw my comment!

This guy is no dummy. His video provides a laboratory demonstration of self-interpreting Tradition to custom-design one's own post-Vatican II traditionalist position (PV2TP). His action parallels the protestants' self-interpretation of the bible when custom designing their own denominations.

Michael's position is arguable, just like most of the other PV2TP's. Traffic on trad forums largely consists of such argumentation. Typically, each of the more thoughtful trads to develops his own unique PV2TP.

The protestant denomination development process ensures diverse conflicting doctrines, as the PV2TP development process also results in diversity.

It is mistaken to hold out one's own or one's groups' PV2TP as a test of Catholic orthodoxy. Instead, the sole measure should consist of pre-Vatican II orthodoxy, but with the current status of papal office consigned as a paradox for the duration of the crisis.

I think it is schismatic for Catholics to divide from others who share pre-Vatican II orthodoxy, but I do not hold this opinion out as a test of Catholic orthodoxy.


This post is so good, it deserves to be the OP of a thread.

Rock on, Dove.

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: JPaul on January 28, 2014, 09:34:09 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Wessex
These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.

ABL wanted to keep some connection with Rome while avoiding a surrender to Modernist control. Certainly many formerly trad societies have been captured by the Modernists, as if drawn in by some mysterious deathstar tractor beam. According to such an analogy, maintaining discrete distance from the newRoman deathstar is necessary to remain properly traditionalist.

Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance? If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.


Archbishop Lefebvre was dancing on a tightrope with an end to the modernist piper's tune nowhere in sight. It was a frightful and fruitless effort as the carnal melody still resounds louder than ever in Rome, having never ceased the siren of Gehenna.

Traditionalists don't really know what heritage they claim if any. There is black and there is white. That is orthodoxy according to what the Church has always said, and according to what She has always taught, believed and practiced.  And there is heterodoxy which exists in rebellion to the former in direct parallel of its dark author.
But most traditionalists in general are happy living in an in between no man's land believing that Catholics can exist with a bit of grey over here and a bit over there as long as they can stand in the white circle on Sunday.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cantatedomino on January 29, 2014, 04:42:39 AM
Quote from: J.Paul
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Wessex
These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.

ABL wanted to keep some connection with Rome while avoiding a surrender to Modernist control. Certainly many formerly trad societies have been captured by the Modernists, as if drawn in by some mysterious deathstar tractor beam. According to such an analogy, maintaining discrete distance from the newRoman deathstar is necessary to remain properly traditionalist.

Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance? If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.


Archbishop Lefebvre was dancing on a tightrope with an end to the modernist piper's tune nowhere in sight. It was a frightful and fruitless effort as the carnal melody still resounds louder than ever in Rome, having never ceased the siren of Gehenna.

Traditionalists don't really know what heritage they claim if any. There is black and there is white. That is orthodoxy according to what the Church has always said, and according to what She has always taught, believed and practiced.  And there is heterodoxy which exists in rebellion to the former in direct parallel of its dark author.
But most traditionalists in general are happy living in an in between no man's land believing that Catholics can exist with a bit of grey over here and a bit over there as long as they can stand in the white circle on Sunday.


Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are? Have you noticed that cliche, party line, 'position,' and default settings have forcefully asserted themselves in that craven realty that self-nominates "traditional Catholic," apparently entirely replacing prayer, meditation, objective consideration, deep study, and consequent militant Catholic action?

What comes out of the mouth comes forth from the heart.

Whenever anything refuses to prune itself, God will come in and do the pruning.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Tridentine MT on January 29, 2014, 07:10:47 AM
Not the right thread perhaps but what does one think of the below theories?

http://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-blocked-agreement.html


http://www.ourladysresistance.org/pope-in-portugal.html

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: ggreg on January 29, 2014, 08:01:26 AM
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are?


Yes, but there are a lot of good things about them too.  They have children and they don't like fαɢɢօts or fαɢɢօtry and they are almost never aborting their children.

Being a bunch of stubborn stick in the muds seems reasonable under the circuмstances.

I wouldn't complain if I was in a fox hole with a solider who swore a lot because the enemy is trying to kill us both.

But I agree more introspection would be a good thing, in an ideal world.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Capt McQuigg on January 29, 2014, 01:16:18 PM
I think it's actually introspection and questioning the status quo that convinced us trads to become trads.

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: JPaul on January 29, 2014, 01:24:54 PM
Quote from: ggreg
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are?


Yes, but there are a lot of good things about them too.  They have children and they don't like fαɢɢօts or fαɢɢօtry and they are almost never aborting their children.

Being a bunch of stubborn stick in the muds seems reasonable under the circuмstances.

I wouldn't complain if I was in a fox hole with a solider who swore a lot because the enemy is trying to kill us both.

But I agree more introspection would be a good thing, in an ideal world.


Have you noticed, that were are in the virtual foxhole with them ?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Capt McQuigg on January 29, 2014, 01:40:17 PM
Trads should remain true to all pre-Vatican II doctrines and practices and avoid going beyond that to predict any outcomes.  It's not for us to say what the future holds.  

Stand Fast.  Those are two words that trads should adhere to.

A good four word combination is as follows:  Do Not Follow Them.  These four words are applicable to the novus ordo structure.

This advice is for Trad Catholics as devout souls.  It's good advice for all the trad communities out there too.   :wink:
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matthew on January 29, 2014, 01:54:14 PM
Quote from: obscurus
Who cares what "Pope" Michael thinks.


Took the words out of my mouth.

Besides shock value, what is the man's claim to fame?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: hollingsworth on January 29, 2014, 02:29:31 PM
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 29, 2014, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.

I agree but at least he is a true bishop now, which is more than I can say (for sure) about Francis. And a billion people follow him.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Capt McQuigg on January 29, 2014, 02:37:27 PM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  


In that case, it would be a case of mental illness and not malice nor ignorance.

I don't think anyone who posts on CathInfo thinks "Pope" Michael is actually the Vicar of Christ.  

 
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 29, 2014, 02:54:43 PM
Quote from: ggreg
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are?


Yes, but there are a lot of good things about them too.  They have children and they don't like fαɢɢօts or fαɢɢօtry and they are almost never aborting their children.

Being a bunch of stubborn stick in the muds seems reasonable under the circuмstances.

Anti-social types are, by definition, those most resistant to the undertow of social change. When a society veers toward insanity, the anti-social will by default remain among those closest to sanity and therefore will disproportionately gravitate toward sanctuaries of sanity like the traditionalist movement.

The anti-social personality "package" that includes benefits such as ability to resist to mass insanity may also include negatives such as an inability to practice self-criticism.

Again, the "pope" Michael video serves as an illustrative example of common trad behavior. He fails to apply the critical faculties used against somebody else's (ABL's) position toward his own.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 29, 2014, 02:56:48 PM
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
I think it's actually introspection and questioning the status quo that convinced us trads to become trads.

Menzingen and its followers have not proven adept at introspection.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 29, 2014, 03:12:01 PM
Quote from: J.Paul
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Wessex
These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.

ABL wanted to keep some connection with Rome while avoiding a surrender to Modernist control. Certainly many formerly trad societies have been captured by the Modernists, as if drawn in by some mysterious deathstar tractor beam. According to such an analogy, maintaining discrete distance from the newRoman deathstar is necessary to remain properly traditionalist.

Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance? If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.


Archbishop Lefebvre was dancing on a tightrope with an end to the modernist piper's tune nowhere in sight. It was a frightful and fruitless effort as the carnal melody still resounds louder than ever in Rome, having never ceased the siren of Gehenna.

Traditionalists don't really know what heritage they claim if any. There is black and there is white. That is orthodoxy according to what the Church has always said, and according to what She has always taught, believed and practiced.  And there is heterodoxy which exists in rebellion to the former in direct parallel of its dark author.
But most traditionalists in general are happy living in an in between no man's land believing that Catholics can exist with a bit of grey over here and a bit over there as long as they can stand in the white circle on Sunday.

You cannot be saying there is only black and white and no grey issues for modern trads to consider. R&R, SV'ism, and the literally infinite variations thereof most certainly constitute grey areas. Black and white is limited to a pre-Vatican II orthodoxy that excludes the grey paradox of the modern papacy.

R&R is paradoxical in its very name and SV'ism has no mechanism to refill the supposed empty seat.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cantatedomino on January 29, 2014, 04:57:34 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: ggreg
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are?


Yes, but there are a lot of good things about them too.  They have children and they don't like fαɢɢօts or fαɢɢօtry and they are almost never aborting their children.

Being a bunch of stubborn stick in the muds seems reasonable under the circuмstances.

Anti-social types are, by definition, those most resistant to the undertow of social change. When a society veers toward insanity, the anti-social will by default remain among those closest to sanity and therefore will disproportionately gravitate toward sanctuaries of sanity like the traditionalist movement.

The anti-social personality "package" that includes benefits such as ability to resist to mass insanity may also include negatives such as an inability to practice self-criticism.

Again, the "pope" Michael video serves as an illustrative example of common trad behavior. He fails to apply the critical faculties used against somebody else's (ABL's) position toward his own.


I have a question: When you refer to the "anti-social personality package," do you exclude sociopathology?

I presume you do, but want to make sure.

And if, indeed, you do exclude psychopaths from this personality profile, then anything else you might be able to add by way of definitions or qualifying terminology would be most welcome.

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: SoldierOfChrist on January 29, 2014, 05:02:48 PM
A guy who has no evidence of ever having been ordained a priest or consecrated a bishop, claims to occupy the Seat of Peter, because his parents and relatives held a papal election.  That same man, proceeds to celebrate or pretend to celebrate the Holy Mass, and then points the finger at ABL for never declaring the new rite of ordination to be invalid.  Is "pope" Michael's ordination valid?  Who performed it?  How about his consecration?  Furthermore, even as a layman, his argument against ABL is ludicrous, because how could ABL have made a declaration of something about which he was not certain?  Is "pope" Michael suggesting the the archbishop should have lied???  And his reasoning for why ABL should have made the declaration is for political/pragmatic reasons.  Does the Holy Church make theological declarations based on politics, pragmatics, and convenience???  So let me reiterate what others have said already, who cares what "pope" Michael thinks?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: JPaul on January 29, 2014, 07:23:05 PM
Columba,
Quote
You cannot be saying there is only black and white and no grey issues for modern trads to consider. R&R, SV'ism, and the literally infinite variations thereof most certainly constitute grey areas. Black and white is limited to a pre-Vatican II orthodoxy that excludes the grey paradox of the modern papacy.

 R&R is paradoxical in its very name and SV'ism has no mechanism to refill the supposed empty seat.


Orthodoxy being the light of the Kingdom and heterodoxy being the darkness of Satan, black and white are laid out clearly enough. One resides in one or in the other. The "grey" appears by one unlike substance washing into the other. Imbibing this greyness excludes a soul from being in one or the other, leaving such people in a flux of adulteration thereby making I difficult or impossible to identify those who have left the light for darkness.
The modern papacies are not grey paradoxes. They have been stunningly heterodox, they have left the light and reside firmly in the Kingdom of Satan.

Mixing that reality with one's purity of Faith is the gravest danger to the soul, and all of the arguments for the greyness are no more than carnal excuses for the faithlessness of the Conciliarists of the parishes, in the Chanceries, and upon the Roman throne.

Trads need only consider what is orthodox and judge and act accordingly, rejecting all that in not of it.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 29, 2014, 07:34:34 PM
Quote from: cantatedomino
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: ggreg
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are?


Yes, but there are a lot of good things about them too.  They have children and they don't like fαɢɢօts or fαɢɢօtry and they are almost never aborting their children.

Being a bunch of stubborn stick in the muds seems reasonable under the circuмstances.

Anti-social types are, by definition, those most resistant to the undertow of social change. When a society veers toward insanity, the anti-social will by default remain among those closest to sanity and therefore will disproportionately gravitate toward sanctuaries of sanity like the traditionalist movement.

The anti-social personality "package" that includes benefits such as ability to resist to mass insanity may also include negatives such as an inability to practice self-criticism.

Again, the "pope" Michael video serves as an illustrative example of common trad behavior. He fails to apply the critical faculties used against somebody else's (ABL's) position toward his own.


I have a question: When you refer to the "anti-social personality package," do you exclude sociopathology?

I presume you do, but want to make sure.

And if, indeed, you do exclude psychopaths from this personality profile, then anything else you might be able to add by way of definitions or qualifying terminology would be most welcome.

I am not sure what to think of sociopathology, except that it is probably the rightmost position on some bell curve. It could be the result of sin, mental illness, possession, bad genes, or any combination thereof. The mind is largely mysterious to both religion and science.

My experience is that some trads can appear unwelcoming or standoffish to those they do not know very well. This can be due to a suspicious nature, shyness, or an aspergy deficiency in social perception such that they are not consciously aware of being standoffish. I seems logical and is consistent with my observation that possessing such qualities makes one more likely to end up traditionalist.

So when I feel like I am getting the cold shoulder in a trad environment, I chuckle to myself, persevere, and offer it up as a small price to pay for the privilege of attending the true mass in these difficult times. Ofttimes, a trad who seems standoffish at first will turn out to be supremely warmhearted and generous after getting to know them. Patience and non-needy demeanor is the key.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 29, 2014, 08:09:37 PM
Quote from: J.Paul
Columba,
Quote
You cannot be saying there is only black and white and no grey issues for modern trads to consider. R&R, SV'ism, and the literally infinite variations thereof most certainly constitute grey areas. Black and white is limited to a pre-Vatican II orthodoxy that excludes the grey paradox of the modern papacy.

 R&R is paradoxical in its very name and SV'ism has no mechanism to refill the supposed empty seat.


Orthodoxy being the light of the Kingdom and heterodoxy being the darkness of Satan, black and white are laid out clearly enough. One resides in one or in the other. The "grey" appears by one unlike substance washing into the other. Imbibing this greyness excludes a soul from being in one or the other, leaving such people in a flux of adulteration thereby making I difficult or impossible to identify those who have left the light for darkness.
The modern papacies are not grey paradoxes. They have been stunningly heterodox, they have left the light and reside firmly in the Kingdom of Satan.

Mixing that reality with one's purity of Faith is the gravest danger to the soul, and all of the arguments for the greyness are no more than carnal excuses for the faithlessness of the Conciliarists of the parishes, in the Chanceries, and upon the Roman throne.

Trads need only consider what is orthodox and judge and act accordingly, rejecting all that in not of it.

Sojourning in this veil of tears, one encounters problems where there is no clear or clean solution. One chooses the lessor of apparent evils with confidence that God will judge our decision on subjective motive rather than objective outcome.

You apparently ascribe to a version of Sedevacantism despite arguments put forth that such a position is erroneous. I do not begrudge you this position, except to say that dogmatizing it into an issue of black and white is mistaken. Pre-Vatican II orthodoxy is dogmatic, but one's personal post-Vatican II position cannot be.

I dare say that if your position were fully fleshed out and dogmatized, it would divide you from practically every other professed traditionalist Catholic alive today. If this is not true of you, it is certainly true of me and virtually everyone else among the wide variety of trads with whom I've spoken on these matters. In practice, most trads dogmatize their positions up to some arbitrary level, and then reluctantly put up with the remaining difference with their priest and parish mates. I submit that one should dogmatize no further than pre-Vatican II orthodoxy and permit liberty elsewhere. That seems the most logical and clean traditionalist cut-off point.

Every thoughtful trad posses his own unique and continually evolving ad hoc post-Vatican II position. This is natural and unavoidable given the situation, but it should be obvious that dogmatizing an ad hoc position, never officially approved in the present context, is mistaken.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on January 29, 2014, 09:01:41 PM
Oh come on.  It is always nice to hear from "His Holiness".   :wink:

I am pretty sure that no pope has ever used the phrase, "Dag gum".
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Francisco on January 30, 2014, 12:41:53 AM
Quote from: cantatedomino

Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are? Have you noticed that cliche, party line, 'position,' and default settings have forcefully asserted themselves in that craven realty that self-nominates "traditional Catholic," apparently entirely replacing prayer, meditation, objective consideration, deep study, and consequent militant Catholic action?

What comes out of the mouth comes forth from the heart.

Whenever anything refuses to prune itself, God will come in and do the pruning.


There is a possibility that trads may be excluded from forums if they indulge in such things! Recently, a forum has banned a member for indulging in "lies and slander against Archbishop Lefebvre" and for "criticizing Resistance priests".
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Tridentine MT on January 30, 2014, 03:04:31 AM
Quote from: SoldierOfChrist
A guy who has no evidence of ever having been ordained a priest or consecrated a bishop, claims to occupy the Seat of Peter, because his parents and relatives held a papal election.  That same man, proceeds to celebrate or pretend to celebrate the Holy Mass, and then points the finger at ABL for never declaring the new rite of ordination to be invalid.  Is "pope" Michael's ordination valid?  Who performed it?  How about his consecration?  Furthermore, even as a layman, his argument against ABL is ludicrous, because how could ABL have made a declaration of something about which he was not certain?  Is "pope" Michael suggesting the the archbishop should have lied???  And his reasoning for why ABL should have made the declaration is for political/pragmatic reasons.  Does the Holy Church make theological declarations based on politics, pragmatics, and convenience???  So let me reiterate what others have said already, who cares what "pope" Michael thinks?


From official records David Bawden was ordained a priest and consecrated a bishop (photos of the event):

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403269786369604.105467.205851636111421&type=3

Of course that doesn't make him a POPE!!!

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Tridentine MT on January 30, 2014, 03:12:00 AM
Quote from: Sigismund
Oh come on.  It is always nice to hear from "His Holiness".   :wink:

I am pretty sure that no pope has ever used the phrase, "Dag gum".


He also published an encyclical, dated August 10, 2010, well sort of... the title itself speaks volumes:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-bawden/strange-contacts/144323052264532

Strange Contacts

There are several people who have been causing my friends and me trouble over the past years. They are separated into two unrelated groups. I wish to take this time to issue a warning to my friends of these problems, and ask you to forward me anything suspicious.
 
Let us proceed to the first group of people, who have been plaguing my friends and I for about seven years, according to their claim. They have masqueraded as everything from Catholic laymen to priests, to communities who wish to join with me in the Catholic Church, to Bishops and even to a claim to the Papacy. They have used so mamny names and fake email addresses over the years that I have been unable and unwilling to attempt and sort them out. They have not only attacked my friends and I, but also my enemies.

Although I see no difficulty through Facebook of a serious attack, you should be warned of what they have done. In early 2005, I had just built a new computer with a fresh install of Windows XP and Norton Antivirus. I received an email with an attachment from pope@vatican.va. I deleted the attachment immediately, but not quickly enough, because the computer slowly went down sick with a virus. (No, I do not believe they are connected with Antipope John Paul II the Great Deceiver or Benedict XV or the usurpers in the Vatican City State.) More recently my computer got sick again and would simply shut down for no reason. I would be going along and the power would shut immediately off. I reformatted and the computer began showing signs of sickness again. Several others I was in contact with at the same time also suffered serious problems. However, if you run Vista or Windows 7, you should be fine. I was still running XP at the time. This group may even have stolen the identity of a former friend, who has decided to become my enemy and is part of the other smaller group I will discuss in a moment. Note well, I have seen no evidence that these two groups are in any way related, except the group I am discussing has made contact with the other group I will soon discuss, as well as many others on the internet.
This group will make wild claims from being a Bishop supporting Pope Michael to being totally against Pope Michael, and anything in between. I would name names, but that would only stir them up again. They will most likely see this note and may be my 'friend' on Facebook at the moment. I have a policy of accepting most friend requests. I only turn down those, which are not proper, such as a recent one from a prostitute, promoting her wares on Facebook, which I believe is against Facebook policy. (I also reported here as well, but probably some of you have had to do this as well.) I am simply here, because there is a community that wishes to discuss serious matters. This enemy I am discussing so harassed members of an egroup I was in for the same reason, that we all had to shut it down. Security must be better here at Facebook, which protects all of us.

Now to the other smaller group. In this group there are only two, possibly three on the internet. Only one is on Facebook, and she has 'declared war' on me, stating: “Know this, ..., I will NOT be silenced!!! If I can help just one person to know what you are doing to people I will do my best. I have all the proof I'll ever need for any situation which may arise and I'm not afraid. It is my duty and my right to expose who and what you are.” She has contacted at least two of my friends and made some rather strong statements about me that are utterly false. However, I prefer not to name any names, for the same reason as I gave above. However, I don't think she can see what you or I write as none of you are friends with her. (This was not true, a few days ago, but the mutual friend unfriended both of us.)
In the same message she claims not to have contacted me in two years, when she sent me an email on February 5, 2010, and a signed notarized letter from herself and three others from July 2009. This should be enough to discredit this person, who admitted to me in an email in 2008, that she does not remember things well, when I inquired about incidents from the previous year. She was my friend, but a fair-weather friend at the time.
If you receive anything, I will happily answer any and all questions and help make all things clear. Until then, I ask you to pray for these people that they may cease what they are doing and start working for the good of the Catholic Church, which is why I believe all of us are friends here.

Pope Michael
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: JPaul on January 30, 2014, 08:31:20 AM
Columba,
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Sojourning in this veil of tears, one encounters problems where there is no clear or clean solution. One chooses the lessor of apparent evils with confidence that God will judge our decision on subjective motive rather than objective outcome.

 You apparently ascribe to a version of Sedevacantism despite arguments put forth that such a position is erroneous. I do not begrudge you this position, except to say that dogmatizing it into an issue of black and white is mistaken. Pre-Vatican II orthodoxy is dogmatic, but one's personal post-Vatican II position cannot be.

 I dare say that if your position were fully fleshed out and dogmatized, it would divide you from practically every other professed traditionalist Catholic alive today.


Your analysis is far and wide of the mark. If pre Vatican II orthodoxy is the benchmark of what you dogmatize, I am saying that you should live according to and by that dogmatic framework, be guided by it, and be faithful to it. The problem with Traditionalists today is that they content themselves with living in a constant state of "lesser of two evils", so often compromising and salving their conscience by appealing to the maxim.  A concept so well overtaxed today just as R&R is, Such actions which should be used occasionally or a short term solutions, are now institutionalized in Catholic thought as a permanent way of life.

And yet you, like so many others are quite dogmatic when one criticizes an aspect of the Archbishop or the inconsistency of R&R or the faithlessness of the Conciliar popes, whereby such a one must be determined to be a Sedevacantist as a given fact.

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I do not begrudge you this position, except to say that dogmatizing it into an issue of black and white is mistaken. Pre-Vatican II orthodoxy is dogmatic, but one's personal post-Vatican II position cannot be.

This exemplifies my point, You can be assured that orthodoxy is dogmatic, but to say that "one's personal post-Vatican II position cannot be" is the clear surrender to Conciliar induced pragmatism and is itself an alarming statement.

Only when uncompromised and unalterable orthodoxy is championed once again by Traditionalists, will it be possible to rout the Conciliar criminals and mitered rats from the safe harbor which this pragmatism and prudence has provided for them since the council.


Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 30, 2014, 10:55:11 AM
Quote from: J.Paul
If pre Vatican II orthodoxy is the benchmark of what you dogmatize, I am saying that you should live according to and by that dogmatic framework, be guided by it, and be faithful to it.

Which, if any, chapels conform to pre Vatican II orthodoxy and which are best avoided?

Quote from: J.Paul
The problem with Traditionalists today is that they content themselves with living in a constant state of "lesser of two evils", so often compromising and salving their conscience by appealing to the maxim.  A concept so well overtaxed today just as R&R is, Such actions which should be used occasionally or a short term solutions, are now institutionalized in Catholic thought as a permanent way of life.

You hold R&R to be acceptable for the short term, but what is to be done when a crisis unexpectedly extends to a longer term?

Quote from: J.Paul
And yet you, like so many others are quite dogmatic when one criticizes an aspect of the Archbishop or the inconsistency of R&R or the faithlessness of the Conciliar popes, whereby such a one must be determined to be a Sedevacantist as a given fact.

Touche. Liberals demand tolerance from others and yet metaphorically burn anyone at the stake who will not yield before them. Don't let me get away with playing such a trick!

I am trying to break the trad habit of dogmatizing my personal opinion. If you are a dogmatic Sedevacantist, I do not condemn you to Hell for that position. Rather, I go no further than observing that definition of that position as dogmatic is non-authoritative. At the same time, I reaffirm the principle of damnation for the transgression of authoritatively defined dogma.

Quote from: J.Paul
You can be assured that orthodoxy is dogmatic, but to say that "one's personal post-Vatican II position cannot be" is the clear surrender to Conciliar induced pragmatism and is itself an alarming statement.

The concept of a "surrender to Conciliar induced pragmatism" makes no sense. It is like decrying a "surrender to attacker induced defense." A pragmatic defense against the Conciliar attack is the opposite of surrender. However, locating an authoritatively dogmatic alternative to the merely "pragmatic" defense could certainly improve the effectiveness of said defense.

Quote from: J.Paul
Only when uncompromised and unalterable orthodoxy is championed once again by Traditionalists, will it be possible to rout the Conciliar criminals and mitered rats from the safe harbor which this pragmatism and prudence has provided for them since the council.

Amen. The task is to flesh out this "uncompromised and unalterable orthodoxy" as a set of clear steps for men of good will to follow in support of restoration.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 30, 2014, 11:35:50 AM
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 30, 2014, 12:36:44 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Capt McQuigg on January 30, 2014, 01:03:44 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

 
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: SoldierOfChrist on January 30, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
Quote from: Tridentine MT
Quote from: Sigismund
Oh come on.  It is always nice to hear from "His Holiness".   :wink:

I am pretty sure that no pope has ever used the phrase, "Dag gum".


He also published an encyclical, dated August 10, 2010, well sort of... the title itself speaks volumes:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-bawden/strange-contacts/144323052264532

Strange Contacts

There are several people who have been causing my friends and me trouble over the past years. They are separated into two unrelated groups. I wish to take this time to issue a warning to my friends of these problems, and ask you to forward me anything suspicious.
 
Let us proceed to the first group of people, who have been plaguing my friends and I for about seven years, according to their claim. They have masqueraded as everything from Catholic laymen to priests, to communities who wish to join with me in the Catholic Church, to Bishops and even to a claim to the Papacy. They have used so mamny names and fake email addresses over the years that I have been unable and unwilling to attempt and sort them out. They have not only attacked my friends and I, but also my enemies.

Although I see no difficulty through Facebook of a serious attack, you should be warned of what they have done. In early 2005, I had just built a new computer with a fresh install of Windows XP and Norton Antivirus. I received an email with an attachment from pope@vatican.va. I deleted the attachment immediately, but not quickly enough, because the computer slowly went down sick with a virus. (No, I do not believe they are connected with Antipope John Paul II the Great Deceiver or Benedict XV or the usurpers in the Vatican City State.) More recently my computer got sick again and would simply shut down for no reason. I would be going along and the power would shut immediately off. I reformatted and the computer began showing signs of sickness again. Several others I was in contact with at the same time also suffered serious problems. However, if you run Vista or Windows 7, you should be fine. I was still running XP at the time. This group may even have stolen the identity of a former friend, who has decided to become my enemy and is part of the other smaller group I will discuss in a moment. Note well, I have seen no evidence that these two groups are in any way related, except the group I am discussing has made contact with the other group I will soon discuss, as well as many others on the internet.
This group will make wild claims from being a Bishop supporting Pope Michael to being totally against Pope Michael, and anything in between. I would name names, but that would only stir them up again. They will most likely see this note and may be my 'friend' on Facebook at the moment. I have a policy of accepting most friend requests. I only turn down those, which are not proper, such as a recent one from a prostitute, promoting her wares on Facebook, which I believe is against Facebook policy. (I also reported here as well, but probably some of you have had to do this as well.) I am simply here, because there is a community that wishes to discuss serious matters. This enemy I am discussing so harassed members of an egroup I was in for the same reason, that we all had to shut it down. Security must be better here at Facebook, which protects all of us.

Now to the other smaller group. In this group there are only two, possibly three on the internet. Only one is on Facebook, and she has 'declared war' on me, stating: “Know this, ..., I will NOT be silenced!!! If I can help just one person to know what you are doing to people I will do my best. I have all the proof I'll ever need for any situation which may arise and I'm not afraid. It is my duty and my right to expose who and what you are.” She has contacted at least two of my friends and made some rather strong statements about me that are utterly false. However, I prefer not to name any names, for the same reason as I gave above. However, I don't think she can see what you or I write as none of you are friends with her. (This was not true, a few days ago, but the mutual friend unfriended both of us.)
In the same message she claims not to have contacted me in two years, when she sent me an email on February 5, 2010, and a signed notarized letter from herself and three others from July 2009. This should be enough to discredit this person, who admitted to me in an email in 2008, that she does not remember things well, when I inquired about incidents from the previous year. She was my friend, but a fair-weather friend at the time.
If you receive anything, I will happily answer any and all questions and help make all things clear. Until then, I ask you to pray for these people that they may cease what they are doing and start working for the good of the Catholic Church, which is why I believe all of us are friends here.

Pope Michael


Should this be regarded as infallible, or is it just strongly advised under risk of grave error?   :roll-laugh1:
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: VinnyF on January 30, 2014, 01:05:28 PM
I think it is high time that we had a pope who sounds like he came from an Arkansas trailer park - it would drive the Vaticanistas insane.  Hopefully, though, it would be a Pope that is at least an ordained priest.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 30, 2014, 02:32:00 PM
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: VinnyF on January 30, 2014, 03:00:59 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.


Part of problem as traditionalists is that we think and speak too much like Plato and not enough like Aristotle.  So, in this case, please clarify.  Using the conceptual "Modernist Rome" is too vague for the next phase of the battle.

So, cutting to the chase, can I say "separation, submission,conquest  from/of Pope Francis"? If so, separation and submission are fairly straightforward.  Conquest, in the Catholic sense, can only mean conversion, assuming he is Pope and layman cannot (canonically) depose a pope. True?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: BTNYC on January 30, 2014, 03:01:43 PM
This fellow's name is David Bawden. He should be referred to as such, and not by his alleged "papal" name, use of quotation marks notwithstanding. This should be doubly true for those around here who refer to Pope Francis as "Bergoglio," despite the plain fact of his being pope by all outwardly apparent criteria.

I also recommend watching the docuмentary film made about him ( http://popemichaelfilm.com ) for no other reason than to excite in you all the profound sorrow and pity I feel for this poor man and his family, and not the scorn and derision that I see in some of the comments. This man and his family are perhaps the most extreme public example of the catastrophic spiritual damage wrought by the diabolical modernist disorder in this infelicitous post conciliar age.

Please pray a Rosary tonight for the Bawdens (and Phil Friedl).
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 30, 2014, 03:50:42 PM
Quote from: VinnyF
So, cutting to the chase, can I say "separation, submission,conquest  from/of Pope Francis"? If so, separation and submission are fairly straightforward.  Conquest, in the Catholic sense, can only mean conversion, assuming he is Pope and layman cannot (canonically) depose a pope. True?

That is a fair question. Separation or submission to modernist Rome could take place immediately but conquest will take some time.

Rome would be influenced by a large-scale conversion of Novus Ordo's and the un-churched to Catholic Tradition. Slay the modernist beast by depriving it of oxygen. Continents fall when the sword of Traditional Catholic evangelism is unsheathed. Catholics have been accommodating and bargaining with the world for too long. Time for a return to methods proven effective.

Who can say this will not work without trying? It is what we should be doing anyway. Traditionalists cannot claim Apostolocity without re-taking up the cross of the Great Commission. This is the road of conquest to Rome.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cantatedomino on January 30, 2014, 04:45:30 PM
Quote from: VinnyF
I think it is high time that we had a pope who sounds like he came from an Arkansas trailer park - it would drive the Vaticanistas insane.  Hopefully, though, it would be a Pope that is at least an ordained priest.


Hi Vinny!

This your maiden voyage here?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: VinnyF on January 31, 2014, 08:33:42 AM
Quote from: cantatedomino
Quote from: VinnyF
I think it is high time that we had a pope who sounds like he came from an Arkansas trailer park - it would drive the Vaticanistas insane.  Hopefully, though, it would be a Pope that is at least an ordained priest.


Hi Vinny!

This your maiden voyage here?


Nope .. been pontificating on Cathinfo since early 2012.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 12:00:25 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.


I get the feeling that you are working on the assumption that the modernists in Rome are actually members of the hierarchy of the Church.  They are not.  They are heretics and schismatics who have no authority in the Church whatsoever.  If there is separation it is between them and the Church.  Traditionalists are not separated from the Church.  It is the schismatics who are separated from the Church hence they are also separated from traditionalists.  Don't forget that ABL called the Romans schismatic.  He called the Conciliar Church a schismatic church.  So the separation/submission/conquest distinction doesn't really work in this situation.  The modernists in Rome ought to convert to Catholicism but if they choose not to the Church is not thereby lacking anything necessary.  The only thing that truly is necessary is for traditionalists to wake up and understand that they have the authority to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They have that authority right now.  The only thing blocking the restoration of the Church hierarchy is the confusion of traditionalists.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 12:03:50 PM
Quote from: BTNYC
This should be doubly true for those around here who refer to Pope Francis as "Bergoglio," despite the plain fact of his being pope by all outwardly apparent criteria.


Does he have the four marks?  Does he have apostolicity of doctrine (you can research it by reading Van Noort's ecclesiology text book).  If he doesn't have apostolicity of doctrine, he is not the pope--not even by "outwardly apparent criteria".
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 31, 2014, 01:11:56 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.


I get the feeling that you are working on the assumption that the modernists in Rome are actually members of the hierarchy of the Church.  They are not.  They are heretics and schismatics who have no authority in the Church whatsoever.  If there is separation it is between them and the Church.  Traditionalists are not separated from the Church.  It is the schismatics who are separated from the Church hence they are also separated from traditionalists.  Don't forget that ABL called the Romans schismatic.  He called the Conciliar Church a schismatic church.  So the separation/submission/conquest distinction doesn't really work in this situation.  The modernists in Rome ought to convert to Catholicism but if they choose not to the Church is not thereby lacking anything necessary.  The only thing that truly is necessary is for traditionalists to wake up and understand that they have the authority to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They have that authority right now.  The only thing blocking the restoration of the Church hierarchy is the confusion of traditionalists.

If traditionalists were to wake up shake off confusion, how would they go about restoring the hierarchy of the Church?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Capt McQuigg on January 31, 2014, 02:09:43 PM
Columba,

Traditionalists would make a very big mistake if they tried to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They must only remain true to the Catholic Faith and wait.  To remain faithful, that would be a big enough challenge in and of itself.  

Picking up swords and storming the bastille - that's all bloody fun but it will only get you dead and anyone trying out this option will almost certainly commit a mortal sin in the process.  

Maybe this will all straighten itself out over the next several centuries.  

I did say in another post that it's unlikely that any of us alive now and posting will live to see the Restoration.  

But we must hold fast to the Catholic Faith.  As Fr. Cekeda said, "You can be saved without the Catholic Mass but you cannot be saved without the Catholic Faith."

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Centroamerica on January 31, 2014, 02:53:32 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.


I get the feeling that you are working on the assumption that the modernists in Rome are actually members of the hierarchy of the Church.  They are not.  They are heretics and schismatics who have no authority in the Church whatsoever.  If there is separation it is between them and the Church.  Traditionalists are not separated from the Church.  It is the schismatics who are separated from the Church hence they are also separated from traditionalists.  Don't forget that ABL called the Romans schismatic.  He called the Conciliar Church a schismatic church.  So the separation/submission/conquest distinction doesn't really work in this situation.  The modernists in Rome ought to convert to Catholicism but if they choose not to the Church is not thereby lacking anything necessary.  The only thing that truly is necessary is for traditionalists to wake up and understand that they have the authority to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They have that authority right now.  The only thing blocking the restoration of the Church hierarchy is the confusion of traditionalists.


I happen to like the 3 options proposed by Columba and his conclusion. I am not claiming to be a sedevacantist. However, if there is no pope in Rome and the entire Vatican is occupied by enemies of Christ's Church are we to sit at our comfortable homes on the internet typing about it or are we going to reclaim Rome for Christianity? The crusaders were willing to suffer everything to put the Holylands back into Christian hands and traditionalists who claim to be sedevacantists are willing to forfeit all of Rome to non-Chritians! It is apparent cowardice in my opinion. Christians won't let the see remain empty and occupied by an impost, they would take back their Church and establish a legitimate successor by force. Am I wrong?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Ambrose on January 31, 2014, 03:01:57 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Columba
Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance?
Yes.  Bishop Tissier said so in his 2013 Pentecost Sermon (see Catholic Family News May 2013).  ABL said "we have the four marks".  Bishop Tissier says we have apostolocity.

Quote from: Columba
If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.
That is true regardless of one's position with respect to the validity of Francis' claim to the papacy.  The pope is the bishop of Rome.

Excellent. We have Apostolocity. Prepare to march upon Rome.


I think instead of marching upon Rome as if worldly glory was important, Catholics need to stand fast in the Catholic Faith.  Any outward public action would probably be goaded on by the Evil One.  In fact, that's "Pope" Michael's biggest sin.  A well-read guy with above average intelligence could see some issues with the R&R view, but if he takes a drastic action (like proclaiming himself "pope") then he would at that point engage in likely sinful activities.

Best I can tell, there are only three available non-temporary postures toward modernist Rome: separation, submission, and conquest. The first would equate to schism and the second to modernism. That leaves only the third option, if constrained by a requirement to maintain Apostolocity.


I get the feeling that you are working on the assumption that the modernists in Rome are actually members of the hierarchy of the Church.  They are not.  They are heretics and schismatics who have no authority in the Church whatsoever.  If there is separation it is between them and the Church.  Traditionalists are not separated from the Church.  It is the schismatics who are separated from the Church hence they are also separated from traditionalists.  Don't forget that ABL called the Romans schismatic.  He called the Conciliar Church a schismatic church.  So the separation/submission/conquest distinction doesn't really work in this situation.  The modernists in Rome ought to convert to Catholicism but if they choose not to the Church is not thereby lacking anything necessary.  The only thing that truly is necessary is for traditionalists to wake up and understand that they have the authority to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They have that authority right now.  The only thing blocking the restoration of the Church hierarchy is the confusion of traditionalists.

If traditionalists were to wake up shake off confusion, how would they go about restoring the hierarchy of the Church?


There are only two ways:

1.  God's direct intervention.

2.  The mechanism of the Church.  

If #2, then in the absence of the Cardinals the power of election falls to the Roman Clergy and the hierarchy.  These two bodies cannot in toto defect from the Faith and become extinct.  If a Pope is to be elected, the electors must be from these two groups.

The Pope must also rule over the diocese of Rome, so some or at least one faithful Roman priest must submit to him.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 03:08:27 PM
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Traditionalists would make a very big mistake if they tried to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They must only remain true to the Catholic Faith and wait.


I think it is becoming more and more obvious that the "Reject and Wait" position is just as internally inconsistent as the "Recognize and Resist" position.  The only position that really makes sense is to reject the authority of the modernist schismatics and recognize the authority of those clerics who remain in the Church.  The Church must have a pope and it is up to the Church's clergy to elect a pope.  There is no law preventing Catholic clergy from electing a pope in a sede vacante period.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 03:13:08 PM
Quote from: Centroamerica
I happen to like the 3 options proposed by Columba and his conclusion. I am not claiming to be a sedevacantist. However, if there is no pope in Rome and the entire Vatican is occupied by enemies of Christ's Church are we to sit at our comfortable homes on the internet typing about it or are we going to reclaim Rome for Christianity? The crusaders were willing to suffer everything to put the Holylands back into Christian hands and traditionalists who claim to be sedevacantists are willing to forfeit all of Rome to non-Chritians! It is apparent cowardice in my opinion. Christians won't let the see remain empty and occupied by an impost, they would take back their Church and establish a legitimate successor by force. Am I wrong?


The way to reclaim Rome is to elect a Bishop of Rome.  The bishop of Rome must live and provide care to the people of Rome.  He can't live with his parents in the Midwest.  There is nothing preventing Catholic clergy from electing a legitimate bishop of Rome during a sede vacante period.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 31, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
There is nothing preventing Catholic clergy from electing a legitimate bishop of Rome during a sede vacante period.

Hasn't this been tried before? What about Lucian Pulvermacher ("Pope Pius XIII").
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 03:27:04 PM
Quote from: Ambrose
There are only two ways:

1.  God's direct intervention.

2.  The mechanism of the Church.  

If #2, then in the absence of the Cardinals the power of election falls to the Roman Clergy and the hierarchy.  These two bodies cannot in toto defect from the Faith and become extinct.  If a Pope is to be elected, the electors must be from these two groups.

The Pope must also rule over the diocese of Rome, so some or at least one faithful Roman priest must submit to him.


I would like to add only one thing to what you have said.  The hierarchy eligible to elect the pope includes those bishops and/or priests who do not currently have or claim to have jurisdiction.  For example, Bishop Tissier claims to have apostolic succession (see May 2013 Catholic Family News) and I would agree with him.  If he does have apostolic succession he is certainly a member of the Catholic hierarchy even if he does not currently claim any jurisdiction.  Therefore he is eligible to elect a pope.  It is a fact of history that even laymen have cast votes for legitimate/valid popes.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 03:37:28 PM
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: Clemens Maria
There is nothing preventing Catholic clergy from electing a legitimate bishop of Rome during a sede vacante period.

Hasn't this been tried before? What about Lucian Pulvermacher ("Pope Pius XIII").


It's definitely a grey area.  When a man is elected to the papacy he must be accepted by the clergy of Rome.  What it means to be accepted by the clergy of Rome is not well defined.  But I don't think an American priest who refuses (or can't afford) to set foot in Rome is not going to have much credibility.  Also, such details as where the election is held and who participates also have an impact on the credibility of a candidate.  If all the traditional bishops of the world participated in an election held in Rome and the candidate agreed to live in Rome and was accepted by all those bishops as the Bishop of Rome then that candidate would have enough credibility to be accepted (at least by Catholics) as the legitimate successor of Peter.

Please read the book _Behind_Locked_Doors_ (http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Locked-Doors-History-Elections/dp/1403969620 (http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Locked-Doors-History-Elections/dp/1403969620)) for an interesting history of papal elections.  I think you will be surprised (maybe shocked) at how mysterious and sometimes tenuous the legitimacy of a claim to the papacy can be.  It definitely is not a black and white issue.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 03:43:47 PM
Griff Ruby has written some interesting articles on the history of the traditional Catholic movement.

http://www.the-pope.com/library.html (http://www.the-pope.com/library.html)

He has also written some interesting articles for Daily Catholic which touch on the issue of a traditional Catholic papal election.

http://www.dailycatholic.org/ (http://www.dailycatholic.org/)
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 31, 2014, 03:46:23 PM
I don't trust Griff Ruby when it comes to religion.

P.S. the main reason I don't trust Griff Ruby is because he believes in evolution (at least I think he does from reading his website).
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Ambrose on January 31, 2014, 04:01:00 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Ambrose
There are only two ways:

1.  God's direct intervention.

2.  The mechanism of the Church.  

If #2, then in the absence of the Cardinals the power of election falls to the Roman Clergy and the hierarchy.  These two bodies cannot in toto defect from the Faith and become extinct.  If a Pope is to be elected, the electors must be from these two groups.

The Pope must also rule over the diocese of Rome, so some or at least one faithful Roman priest must submit to him.


I would like to add only one thing to what you have said.  The hierarchy eligible to elect the pope includes those bishops and/or priests who do not currently have or claim to have jurisdiction.  For example, Bishop Tissier claims to have apostolic succession (see May 2013 Catholic Family News) and I would agree with him.  If he does have apostolic succession he is certainly a member of the Catholic hierarchy even if he does not currently claim any jurisdiction.  Therefore he is eligible to elect a pope.  It is a fact of history that even laymen have cast votes for legitimate/valid popes.


Has anyone contacted Bp. Tissier to confirm as a fact that he is now claiming apostolic succession?    

The traditional bishops and priests other than those sent by the Church have no more power to act in the Church than you or I.  They have orders, and use those orders, but no mission or authority, or any greater power than a layman.  The traditional clergy have no legal status, and operate strictly by the request of the people for the sacraments, and supplied jurisdiction for confessions on a case by case basis.

Laypeople in the early Church may have voted, but it was the clergy of Rome that mattered.  Without the acclamation of the Roman Clergy, a man cannot be Pope.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 31, 2014, 04:43:37 PM
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Columba,

Traditionalists would make a very big mistake if they tried to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They must only remain true to the Catholic Faith and wait.  To remain faithful, that would be a big enough challenge in and of itself.  

Picking up swords and storming the bastille - that's all bloody fun but it will only get you dead and anyone trying out this option will almost certainly commit a mortal sin in the process.

Evangelization is not picking up swords. Remaining faithful requires obedience to the Great Commission. We should be doing this anyway, despite whether or not we have ambitions toward Rome.

I think that if evangelization brought about a massive exodus of faithful from the NO and a massive influx to Tradition, that would motivate heresiarchs to join the winning side or risk losing their Roman office.

With ceasefire declared among participating trad groups, newcomers would not be scared off by the demoralizing factionalism. At the very least, a traditionalist evangelization drive would result in the salvation of souls. It is what we are supposed to be doing anyway.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: BTNYC on January 31, 2014, 05:33:38 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: BTNYC
This should be doubly true for those around here who refer to Pope Francis as "Bergoglio," despite the plain fact of his being pope by all outwardly apparent criteria.


Does he have the four marks?  Does he have apostolicity of doctrine (you can research it by reading Van Noort's ecclesiology text book).  If he doesn't have apostolicity of doctrine, he is not the pope--not even by "outwardly apparent criteria".


This is quite beside the point that I was making, which is simply that sedevacantists who assiduously refrain from referring to the current occupant of the Throne of St Peter by his regnal name, despite his having at least satisfied the criteria of outward apparency, should be at least as assiduous in refraining from referring to Mr. Bawden by his self-proclaimed "regnal" name, as he does not satisfy any criteria at all.

But, for the record, and since you seem interested in proselytizing sedevacantism to me, I will state that my own position on sedevacantism is identical to that of the late Canon Gregory Hesse.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Columba on January 31, 2014, 05:45:12 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Centroamerica
I happen to like the 3 options proposed by Columba and his conclusion. I am not claiming to be a sedevacantist. However, if there is no pope in Rome and the entire Vatican is occupied by enemies of Christ's Church are we to sit at our comfortable homes on the internet typing about it or are we going to reclaim Rome for Christianity? The crusaders were willing to suffer everything to put the Holylands back into Christian hands and traditionalists who claim to be sedevacantists are willing to forfeit all of Rome to non-Chritians! It is apparent cowardice in my opinion. Christians won't let the see remain empty and occupied by an impost, they would take back their Church and establish a legitimate successor by force. Am I wrong?


The way to reclaim Rome is to elect a Bishop of Rome.  The bishop of Rome must live and provide care to the people of Rome.  He can't live with his parents in the Midwest.  There is nothing preventing Catholic clergy from electing a legitimate bishop of Rome during a sede vacante period.

The trad movement is not yet prepared to either to pressure heresiarchs into conversion or unseat them for the crime of schism. We have been trad survivalists, but not yet graduated to become restorationists. I think it is time to start such a movement as the spark of a mass movement that eventually will convert or displace the modernists in Rome.

The betrayals and scandals of the conciliar church have left a vacuum in the form of unmet demand for genuine Catholicism. The vacuum remains stable only because the false scruples and ignorance of well-meaning NO's remains largely unchallenged by the Church Militant.

We have the answer that millions await. ABL launched operation survival just to keep Tradition alive. That operation succeeded brilliantly but has now run its course. As the chapter of mere survival closes and this next chapter of post Vatican II traditionalism dawns, the theme that emerges is restoration.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Centroamerica on January 31, 2014, 05:47:58 PM
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Columba,

Traditionalists would make a very big mistake if they tried to restore the hierarchy of the Church.  They must only remain true to the Catholic Faith and wait.  To remain faithful, that would be a big enough challenge in and of itself.  

Picking up swords and storming the bastille - that's all bloody fun but it will only get you dead and anyone trying out this option will almost certainly commit a mortal sin in the process.

Evangelization is not picking up swords. Remaining faithful requires obedience to the Great Commission. We should be doing this anyway, despite whether or not we have ambitions toward Rome.

I think that if evangelization brought about a massive exodus of faithful from the NO and a massive influx to Tradition, that would motivate heresiarchs to join the winning side or risk losing their Roman office.

With ceasefire declared among participating trad groups, newcomers would not be scared off by the demoralizing factionalism. At the very least, a traditionalist evangelization drive would result in the salvation of souls. It is what we are supposed to be doing anyway.



I agree with Columba. However, how is picking up swords and storming the Bastille a mortal sin? What are we to think of the crusaders then? We are just suppose to roll over and let the modernists apostates, Freemasons, and Jєωs sit up in the Vatican? I whole heartedly disagree.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on January 31, 2014, 07:30:39 PM
Quote from: cantatedomino
Quote from: J.Paul
Quote from: Columba
Quote from: Wessex
These opposite positions should inform their greatly confused congregations that they either are a loyal constituent of the conciliar church (which Menzingen calls the Church) or cannot perform as traditionalists without maintaining a discrete distance from contemorary Rome as she declines and falls again.

ABL wanted to keep some connection with Rome while avoiding a surrender to Modernist control. Certainly many formerly trad societies have been captured by the Modernists, as if drawn in by some mysterious deathstar tractor beam. According to such an analogy, maintaining discrete distance from the newRoman deathstar is necessary to remain properly traditionalist.

Does the traditionalist movement claim to legitimately carry the Apostolic inheritance? If so, then Rome and the Vatican would appear irreplaceable as the seat of the authority included in that inheritance. Therefore, maintaining the claim to Apostolic inheritance requires a serious preparation for the eventual reconquest of Rome.


Archbishop Lefebvre was dancing on a tightrope with an end to the modernist piper's tune nowhere in sight. It was a frightful and fruitless effort as the carnal melody still resounds louder than ever in Rome, having never ceased the siren of Gehenna.

Traditionalists don't really know what heritage they claim if any. There is black and there is white. That is orthodoxy according to what the Church has always said, and according to what She has always taught, believed and practiced.  And there is heterodoxy which exists in rebellion to the former in direct parallel of its dark author.
But most traditionalists in general are happy living in an in between no man's land believing that Catholics can exist with a bit of grey over here and a bit over there as long as they can stand in the white circle on Sunday.


Have you gentleman noticed how many trads - clergy included - simply refuse to look at themselves, at the trad movement, at their trad heros, such as ABL, with any kind of objectivity or healthy critical examination? Have you noticed how immobile, inflexible, and somnambulistic they are? Have you noticed that cliche, party line, 'position,' and default settings have forcefully asserted themselves in that craven realty that self-nominates "traditional Catholic," apparently entirely replacing prayer, meditation, objective consideration, deep study, and consequent militant Catholic action?

What comes out of the mouth comes forth from the heart.

Whenever anything refuses to prune itself, God will come in and do the pruning.


Why yes I have noticed.   :wink:
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on January 31, 2014, 07:32:04 PM
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: hollingsworth
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  


In that case, it would be a case of mental illness and not malice nor ignorance.

I don't think anyone who posts on CathInfo thinks "Pope" Michael is actually the Vicar of Christ.  

 


Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Matto on January 31, 2014, 07:38:22 PM
Quote from: Sigismund

Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?

I read that he recently got a Bishop to ordain him a priest, consecrate him a bishop, and follow him. I think it was a Thuc line bishop. So he does have a small following. :king:
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on January 31, 2014, 07:41:32 PM
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: Clemens Maria
There is nothing preventing Catholic clergy from electing a legitimate bishop of Rome during a sede vacante period.

Hasn't this been tried before? What about Lucian Pulvermacher ("Pope Pius XIII").


Fr. Lucien is dead now.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on January 31, 2014, 07:42:57 PM
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: Sigismund

Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?

I read that he recently got a Bishop to ordain him a priest, consecrate him a bishop, and follow him. I think it was a Thuc line bishop. So he does have a small following. :king:


The consecrator is Bishop Robert Biarnesen.  Does anyone know anything about him?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on January 31, 2014, 09:21:38 PM
Quote from: Sigismund
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: hollingsworth
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  


In that case, it would be a case of mental illness and not malice nor ignorance.

I don't think anyone who posts on CathInfo thinks "Pope" Michael is actually the Vicar of Christ.  

 


Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?


If I'm not mistaken his mother and father have both publicly expressed regret for their involvement in the affair.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: BTNYC on February 01, 2014, 09:10:44 AM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: Sigismund
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
Quote from: hollingsworth
Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  


In that case, it would be a case of mental illness and not malice nor ignorance.

I don't think anyone who posts on CathInfo thinks "Pope" Michael is actually the Vicar of Christ.  

 


Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?


If I'm not mistaken his mother and father have both publicly expressed regret for their involvement in the affair.


Sadly, no. As per the eponymous docuмentary (filmed in 2009 I believe), his poor father died believing his son to be the Supreme Pontiff and his mother and young Mr Friedl (his "seminarian") remain his "faithful" (and only) followers.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Frances on February 01, 2014, 09:16:20 AM
 :dancing-banana:
I wonder if "Pope" Michael knows he has two rivals for his throne, one in Tennessee, the other in Maine?  And these are just the two I've encountered in person!  Both are, um...a bit "off."
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: hollingsworth on February 01, 2014, 01:20:00 PM
Matto:
Quote
I agree but at least he ("Michael") is a true bishop now, which is more than I can say (for sure) about Francis. And a billion people follow him.


Really!? A true bishop now!?  I would be interested to learn from sedes on this forum how many of them, even, believe that this deluded man is a bishop.  He is just another, in a long line of supposed Catholic clerics, bringing shame upon the ancient Faith.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Ambrose on February 02, 2014, 12:58:18 AM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Matto:
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I agree but at least he ("Michael") is a true bishop now, which is more than I can say (for sure) about Francis. And a billion people follow him.


Really!? A true bishop now!?  I would be interested to learn from sedes on this forum how many of them, even, believe that this deluded man is a bishop.  He is just another, in a long line of supposed Catholic clerics, bringing shame upon the ancient Faith.


Even if on the chance that he found a bishop with valid orders to ordain and consecrate him, that still does not mean that any Catholic must hear him or follow him.  His claim to the papacy is outrageous and I have never heard of any Catholic other than his family believing his silly claim.

A Catholic is not bound to hear and submit to anyone nor sent by Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Centroamerica on February 02, 2014, 08:15:02 AM
Quote from: Frances
:dancing-banana:
I wonder if "Pope" Michael knows he has two rivals for his throne, one in Tennessee, the other in Maine?  And these are just the two I've encountered in person!  Both are, um...a bit "off."


In Tennessee? Seriously? Could you explain?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cathman7 on February 02, 2014, 10:24:42 AM
Quote from: Sigismund
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: Sigismund

Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?

I read that he recently got a Bishop to ordain him a priest, consecrate him a bishop, and follow him. I think it was a Thuc line bishop. So he does have a small following. :king:


The consecrator is Bishop Robert Biarnesen.  Does anyone know anything about him?


A simple google search turns up the following link:

http://popemichael.vaticaninexile.com/Files/The%20Consecration%20of%20Pope%20Michael.pdf

Who Is Bishop Robert Biarnesen?

Bishop Biarnesen left the Novus Ordo in the mid 1980's. He had already begun to
work in prison ministry in Texas as a layman. A Traditionalist priest, Fr. Carl
Pulvermacher, recommended he go over to a Bishop in the Duarte-Costa line in order to be ordained a deacon. In 1986 he was indeed ordained deacon. In 2005 he moved to Arizona and began prison ministry there. At the recommendation of the officials he
sought ordination in the Duarte-Costa line so he could continue ministry as a priest. He
had made contact with the Vatican in Exile earlier on and continued to email on occasion, until 2010 when he offered to assist in obtaining ordination and consecration for Pope Michael. This was finally accomplished after much effort at the end of 2011 as reported above. Bishop Biarnesen is in full communion with the Catholic Church under HisHoliness Pope Michael.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: cathman7 on February 02, 2014, 10:29:55 AM
Here are some photos:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403269786369604.105467.205851636111421&type=3

Bizarre...
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sienna629 on February 02, 2014, 05:41:04 PM
Quote from: Tridentine MT
Quote from: SoldierOfChrist
A guy who has no evidence of ever having been ordained a priest or consecrated a bishop, claims to occupy the Seat of Peter, because his parents and relatives held a papal election.  That same man, proceeds to celebrate or pretend to celebrate the Holy Mass, and then points the finger at ABL for never declaring the new rite of ordination to be invalid.  Is "pope" Michael's ordination valid?  Who performed it?  How about his consecration?  Furthermore, even as a layman, his argument against ABL is ludicrous, because how could ABL have made a declaration of something about which he was not certain?  Is "pope" Michael suggesting the the archbishop should have lied???  And his reasoning for why ABL should have made the declaration is for political/pragmatic reasons.  Does the Holy Church make theological declarations based on politics, pragmatics, and convenience???  So let me reiterate what others have said already, who cares what "pope" Michael thinks?


From official records David Bawden was ordained a priest and consecrated a bishop (photos of the event):

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403269786369604.105467.205851636111421&type=3

Of course that doesn't make him a POPE!!!




These pictures do not prove anything-------haven't you seen kids play house?

You did not answer the question-----Who ordained him a priest? when? and where?

As for the episcopal consecration, I would seriously question the credentials of the one consecrating him.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sienna629 on February 02, 2014, 05:45:21 PM
Quote from: Sigismund
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Anyone who thinks that "Pope Michael" is the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a nut.  I say it without hesitation.  If anyone on this forum thinks Pope Michael is really and truly the pope, that person is a nut!  He is deluded.  He is not in possession of his faculties.  He is, spiritually speaking, a moron!  


In that case, it would be a case of mental illness and not malice nor ignorance.

I don't think anyone who posts on CathInfo thinks "Pope" Michael is actually the Vicar of Christ.  

 


Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?


Apparently not many, as the (poor-quality) video they show of his "Christ the King" Mass last Fall doesn't even show an altar server; he does all of the responses himself.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sienna629 on February 02, 2014, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: Matto
Quote from: Sigismund

Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?

I read that he recently got a Bishop to ordain him a priest, consecrate him a bishop, and follow him. I think it was a Thuc line bishop. So he does have a small following. :king:



The Duarte-Costa line is not the Thuc line........it is more bizarre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Duarte_Costa]
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Francisco on February 04, 2014, 10:14:47 PM
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Matto:
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I agree but at least he ("Michael") is a true bishop now, which is more than I can say (for sure) about Francis. And a billion people follow him.


Really!? A true bishop now!?  I would be interested to learn from sedes on this forum how many of them, even, believe that this deluded man is a bishop.  He is just another, in a long line of supposed Catholic clerics, bringing shame upon the ancient Faith.


Those who follow him are no longer sedevacantists. He is their Pope. On this thread it is stated that he has two followers, his mother and a "seminarian". Some years ago I heard that his Personal Assistant was in India.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Neil Obstat on February 06, 2014, 03:30:41 AM
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A personal assistant in India?  

That's either a very safe distance or else a very long commute.


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Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Francisco on February 06, 2014, 03:44:20 AM
Quote from: Neil Obstat
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A personal assistant in India?  

That's either a very safe distance or else a very long commute. .


Obviously an unique papacy! I hear that the Indian guy is still with Pope Michael, so he definitely has three faithful at least. I wish Pope Linus II would also start a website so that we could see what he is up to. I believe he is based in England.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on February 06, 2014, 06:11:51 PM
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Quote from: Sigismund
Quote from: Matto
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Does anyone but his mother think he is actually the Vicar of Christ?

I read that he recently got a Bishop to ordain him a priest, consecrate him a bishop, and follow him. I think it was a Thuc line bishop. So he does have a small following. :king:


The consecrator is Bishop Robert Biarnesen.  Does anyone know anything about him?


A simple google search turns up the following link:

http://popemichael.vaticaninexile.com/Files/The%20Consecration%20of%20Pope%20Michael.pdf

Who Is Bishop Robert Biarnesen?

Bishop Biarnesen left the Novus Ordo in the mid 1980's. He had already begun to
work in prison ministry in Texas as a layman. A Traditionalist priest, Fr. Carl
Pulvermacher, recommended he go over to a Bishop in the Duarte-Costa line in order to be ordained a deacon. In 1986 he was indeed ordained deacon. In 2005 he moved to Arizona and began prison ministry there. At the recommendation of the officials he
sought ordination in the Duarte-Costa line so he could continue ministry as a priest. He
had made contact with the Vatican in Exile earlier on and continued to email on occasion, until 2010 when he offered to assist in obtaining ordination and consecration for Pope Michael. This was finally accomplished after much effort at the end of 2011 as reported above. Bishop Biarnesen is in full communion with the Catholic Church under HisHoliness Pope Michael.


Duarte-Costa was certainly a valid bishop, having been a Roman Catholic bishop before rebelling against Pope Pius XXII, but he is also just as certainly schismatic.  Not a hook I would want to hang my mitre on.  
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Zeitun on February 09, 2014, 09:14:37 AM
I don't believe Michael is a sociopath--I believe he is a paranoid schizoid which is a different group of personality disorders.  

What about following tradition because it pleases God rather than it just seems like the best choice for fox holes?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Tridentine MT on February 17, 2014, 08:27:46 AM
Quote from: Francisco
Quote from: Neil Obstat
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A personal assistant in India?  

That's either a very safe distance or else a very long commute. .


Obviously an unique papacy! I hear that the Indian guy is still with Pope Michael, so he definitely has three faithful at least. I wish Pope Linus II would also start a website so that we could see what he is up to. I believe he is based in England.


Informed sources say that the Indian is a dangerous guy:

http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/indian-writers-slam-mass-killer-breivik-for-quoting-them/838596/

 :devil2: goes to show that Bawden is dangerous...
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Tridentine MT on February 17, 2014, 08:33:40 AM
Other sources, deemed reputable, argue that the prophecy mentioned here concerns Benedict XVI and Michael I. Francis is not pope according to the same sources...

http://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/2013/05/bl-anne-catherine-emmerich-prophecies.html

 :judge: is in your hands.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Wessex on February 24, 2014, 03:36:29 AM
Welcome to the site. At a time when the guys in Rome do not know what they are anymore, a positive candidate for the highest office stands a good chance of being noticed by the Almighty.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on February 24, 2014, 12:03:02 PM
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't appear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on February 24, 2014, 03:01:48 PM
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't appear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?


Hello. It would help to watch Pope Michael's You Tube Videos. His Oldest ones. He sent out letters to all Sedevacantists and thought this election matter over for years before the election happened.

I know to most, Pope Michael seems like a joke. I am currently  a seminarian of his. I am presently studying long-distance. I am a new one. I am not Phil Fridel from the docuмentary. This is a step that I have thought out and I also hope to be married; whether or not I become a married priest.

I have spent a week with Pope, Phil, and a few others who are in theological agreement with Pope Michael. The man has the Love of a child in his heart and soul. We know how children are violated, abused, and mistreated. Mr. David Bawden has been thrown away by people that will dismiss him as a lunatic, nut-case, retard, etc.

We are not living in the golden-age of the church. We are living in the Great Apostasy. Mr. David Bawden would gladly have been a good, saintly priest without having to go through the process of an election.

Pope Michael was consecrated. I do not know all the details. I would call or e-mail him for more information.

I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.

Thanks.

Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Zeitun on February 24, 2014, 03:22:37 PM
Quote from: 62myer
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't appear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?


Hello. It would help to watch Pope Michael's You Tube Videos. His Oldest ones. He sent out letters to all Sedevacantists and thought this election matter over for years before the election happened.

I know to most, Pope Michael seems like a joke. I am currently  a seminarian of his. I am presently studying long-distance. I am a new one. I am not Phil Fridel from the docuмentary. This is a step that I have thought out and I also hope to be married; whether or not I become a married priest.

I have spent a week with Pope, Phil, and a few others who are in theological agreement with Pope Michael. The man has the Love of a child in his heart and soul. We know how children are violated, abused, and mistreated. Mr. David Bawden has been thrown away by people that will dismiss him as a lunatic, nut-case, retard, etc.

We are not living in the golden-age of the church. We are living in the Great Apostasy. Mr. David Bawden would gladly have been a good, saintly priest without having to go through the process of an election.

Pope Michael was consecrated. I do not know all the details. I would call or e-mail him for more information.

I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.

Thanks.



Why do you accept his consecration even though it's not canonically valid?

I agree Mr. Bawden loves Mother Church and appears to have some virtues.  However..........piety is not proof that a man is Pope just like lack of piety is not proof that a man isn't Pope.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on February 24, 2014, 04:31:41 PM
Quote from: 62myer
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't appear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?


Hello. It would help to watch Pope Michael's You Tube Videos. His Oldest ones. He sent out letters to all Sedevacantists and thought this election matter over for years before the election happened.

I know to most, Pope Michael seems like a joke. I am currently  a seminarian of his. I am presently studying long-distance. I am a new one. I am not Phil Fridel from the docuмentary. This is a step that I have thought out and I also hope to be married; whether or not I become a married priest.

I have spent a week with Pope, Phil, and a few others who are in theological agreement with Pope Michael. The man has the Love of a child in his heart and soul. We know how children are violated, abused, and mistreated. Mr. David Bawden has been thrown away by people that will dismiss him as a lunatic, nut-case, retard, etc.

We are not living in the golden-age of the church. We are living in the Great Apostasy. Mr. David Bawden would gladly have been a good, saintly priest without having to go through the process of an election.

Pope Michael was consecrated. I do not know all the details. I would call or e-mail him for more information.

I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.

Thanks.



Don't you think it is more than a coincidence that the man who sent the invites was the very man who was "elected" to the papacy?  Who, if any, were the other candidates considered?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on February 24, 2014, 05:07:16 PM
Quote from: Zeitun
Quote from: 62myer
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't appear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?


Hello. It would help to watch Pope Michael's You Tube Videos. His Oldest ones. He sent out letters to all Sedevacantists and thought this election matter over for years before the election happened.

I know to most, Pope Michael seems like a joke. I am currently  a seminarian of his. I am presently studying long-distance. I am a new one. I am not Phil Fridel from the docuмentary. This is a step that I have thought out and I also hope to be married; whether or not I become a married priest.

I have spent a week with Pope, Phil, and a few others who are in theological agreement with Pope Michael. The man has the Love of a child in his heart and soul. We know how children are violated, abused, and mistreated. Mr. David Bawden has been thrown away by people that will dismiss him as a lunatic, nut-case, retard, etc.

We are not living in the golden-age of the church. We are living in the Great Apostasy. Mr. David Bawden would gladly have been a good, saintly priest without having to go through the process of an election.

Pope Michael was consecrated. I do not know all the details. I would call or e-mail him for more information.

I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.

Thanks.



Why do you accept his consecration even though it's not canonically valid?

I agree Mr. Bawden loves Mother Church and appears to have some virtues.  However..........piety is not proof that a man is Pope just like lack of piety is not proof that a man isn't Pope.


Thanks.

Can you please explain to me why the consecration is not valid ?

We all have read and studied, so I am open to everyones interpertations.

And I do hold the salvation dogma. I am not a Liberal or a Moderinst.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on February 24, 2014, 05:18:20 PM
Quote from: 62myer
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Quote from: Clemens Maria
Quote from: 62myer
Hello.

I am a recent convert to Pope Michael from Sedevacantism.

He is a gentle and caring man who has really been trashed by those (almost all self-professed Christians) who lives revolve around there own Ideals.

I am Interested in what you think of Pope Michael ?

I know everyone is right and I am wrong, so I will not debate because I will always Lose.

Thanks.


I don't think his election meets the requirements for being a true Bishop of Rome.  He would need to be accepted by the clergy.  I can't really define precisely what acceptance means but certainly it doesn't gappear that there was much of an effort on the electors' part to represent the interests of the Roman Church nor the universal Church and that is reflected in a very miniscule acceptance of his claim.  Furthermore, Michael himself has not really attempted to minister to the faithful in Rome.  How can you be the Bishop of Rome when you live in Kansas and have zero care for or influence over the faithful in Rome?

That being said, I agree with Wessex and I am willing to re-evaluate my opinion if there is a major change in the circuмstances.

I have a question for you.  Do you know if Michael has been consecrated yet?  If so, can you give me details on his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood and on his consecration?  i.e. who was the bishop in each case and when and where were they conferred?


Hello. It would help to watch Pope Michael's You Tube Videos. His Oldest ones. He sent out letters to all Sedevacantists and thought this election matter over for years before the election happened.

I know to most, Pope Michael seems like a joke. I am currently  a seminarian of his. I am presently studying long-distance. I am a new one. I am not Phil Fridel from the docuмentary. This is a step that I have thought out and I also hope to be married; whether or not I become a married priest.

I have spent a week with Pope, Phil, and a few others who are in theological agreement with Pope Michael. The man has the Love of a child in his heart and soul. We know how children are violated, abused, and mistreated. Mr. David Bawden has been thrown away by people that will dismiss him as a lunatic, nut-case, retard, etc.

We are not living in the golden-age of the church. We are living in the Great Apostasy. Mr. David Bawden would gladly have been a good, saintly priest without having to go through the process of an election.

Pope Michael was consecrated. I do not know all the details. I would call or e-mail him for more information.

I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.

Thanks.



Don't you think it is more than a coincidence that the man who sent the invites was the very man who was "elected" to the papacy?  Who, if any, were the other candidates considered?


Some would say coincidence, a few divine providence, most would say ridiculous !!

Any person who is a Catholic (non-heretic) would be viable for election.

Am I wrong ?

Thanks.


Who were the electors?  Normally we would accept the decision of cardinals based on their authority in the Church.  But in this case we don't even know who the electors were.  How can we accept their authority if we don't even know who they were?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Clemens Maria on February 25, 2014, 09:22:33 AM
I think this exchange just proves that it is impossible to take Michael's claim seriously.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Centroamerica on February 25, 2014, 09:31:01 AM
Quote from: 62myer
The electors are all known. Pope Michael does not hide it.


The electors were his mother and father and the next door neighbors. The guy is an obvious clown and impostor to the faith. Before any true restoraration takes place he will need to recant or be thrown into the fire.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on February 28, 2014, 11:57:40 PM
All I am asking is give Pope Michael a chance.

Wait until Judgment Day.

You may think Pope Michael, our Bishop, and Phil and I are wackos and fakes .... But we have a Blue Print from God who knows the End from the Beginning.

So, when time Ends .... We will see who Truly Has Been With Christ From The Beginning.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Zeitun on March 01, 2014, 01:18:59 AM
62,

Why hasn't Pope Michael consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 01, 2014, 01:57:26 AM
Quote from: Zeitun
62,

Why hasn't Pope Michael consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart?


You could ask Pope Michael.

Personally, I think we are at the end of time and at the doors of the 3 days of darkness !!

John 23rd spit in the face of The BVM and repressed the Truth.

Pope Michael, our Bishop, and Phil have really helped me and are the three nicest men I have ever known. They are not arrogant and are not yet Saints -- And neither am I -- But in this Evil Age -- We are retaining the Faith of The Apostles.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 04, 2014, 03:27:41 AM
Quote from: hollingsworth
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Pope Michael, our Bishop, and Phil have really helped me and are the three nicest men I have ever known. They are not arrogant and are not yet Saints -- And neither am I -- But in this Evil Age -- We are retaining the Faith of The Apostles.


Say what!!!???


What part do you Object too ?

Pope Michael is MY Pope and I Love the Man. People need to look in the mirror. Why Trash and mock the Life of a Man who has Loved God his Entire Life ?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Sigismund on March 10, 2014, 06:38:55 PM
He doesn't even merit the title of anti-pope.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: johnb104 on March 10, 2014, 07:21:31 PM
This ain't St. Peter's chair.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Centroamerica on March 11, 2014, 05:47:05 AM
Quote from: 62myer


Not that you would ever care -- but God has shown me many future events in my Life via prophetic dreams -- and the True God brought me to the Pope and Bishop people so commonly and assiduously mock and scorn !!


 :shocked:



Looks like we've got a "prophet" on our hands.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: PerEvangelicaDicta on March 11, 2014, 03:41:27 PM
62myer, I've read all your comments.  You are a humble soul.  God bless you in your honest quest for His Truth.... you've repeated this theme a few times:

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I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.


There are very learned men on this forum, sede or not.  Some may not have the best bedside manner, but do have good intent in defending the Faith. Keep seeking Truth, He will guide you.


Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 11, 2014, 05:10:59 PM
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta
62myer, I've read all your comments.  You are a humble soul.  God bless you in your honest quest for His Truth.... you've repeated this theme a few times:

Quote
I am open to comments, criticism, and/or suggestions.


There are very learned men on this forum, sede or not.  Some may not have the best bedside manner, but do have good intent in defending the Faith. Keep seeking Truth, He will guide you.





Thanks my friend. My intent in posting is not to advertise for my Pope and Bishop; rather I just grew tired of the slanders and verbal assaults being spewed at both of them. Not so much here, but everywhere else.

I want to defend Pope Michael and our Bishop. I have meet both of them and have had a one year relationship with them and Phil also. We hold the Faith as best we can. What else can we do if we Love God ??

As our Bishop once said: "If the Apostles believed it, who am I to change what Jesus taught."

Have any of you watched Pope Michael's videos ? If so, what do you think of them ?
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: hollingsworth on March 11, 2014, 05:13:43 PM
Myer 62:
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Not that you would ever care -- but God has shown me many future events in my Life via prophetic dreams -- and the True God brought me to the Pope and Bishop people so commonly and assiduously mock and scorn !!


I think what surprised me the most about this thread is that it has gotten over 8,000 hits.  The "True God brought me to the Pope..."?!?!  Oh my!  
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 11, 2014, 08:48:21 PM
Quote from: hollingsworth
Myer 62:
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Not that you would ever care -- but God has shown me many future events in my Life via prophetic dreams -- and the True God brought me to the Pope and Bishop people so commonly and assiduously mock and scorn !!


I think what surprised me the most about this thread is that it has gotten over 8,000 hits.  The "True God brought me to the Pope..."?!?!  Oh my!  


I think that God is very weird to humans. I believe that God really respects our freedom and puts his Elect in this world until we leave at his beckoning. Then, we enter a place (Heaven) that we can never understand -- A place where we see God with our puny mind. What are we to think of this place called Heaven ?!?!

If we really are in The Great Apostasy .... that means that the most evil people who have ever lived currently inhabit Rome and the rest of the world.

A Protestant minister claims to be: Pope, cardinal, bishop and ultimately God.

So, why is Pope Michael such a joke to many people ? If a person studies his efforts and years of sacrifice, his claim as Pope is not that far-fetched.

Compare: Pope Michael vs Pope Francis .... Who is more authentic and reliable ?

God Knows.
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 14, 2014, 02:49:51 PM
Happy Saint Patrick's day everyone !!

Please don't get to tipsy -- and don't get smashed either.

Also, for those who don't think I am a loser and /or a nut-case, please pray for Me and Pope Michael.

In all my years of life, I have never met a man who is a True Leader like him. Many "religious" worship money and human praise. Pope Michael is not a schizoohrenic (As one person in this thread said he was); he is not retarded; he is not a little boy trapped in an adults body, etc.

God knows who Pope Michael is. God knows who I am.

And nobody else really cares.

So much BS God puts up with from humans. At least, in the end, God will shut the mouth of corrupt and arrogant lay-people, non-believers,  priests, and bishops.    
Title: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: 62myer on March 24, 2014, 12:38:55 AM
Bump ....

I am going to be entering Pope Michael's Seminary on or before May 1st, 2014.

Do any of you fellas have advice for me ? Or words of warning (From your perspective) ?

I am happy to enter. My arrival date has been pushed back twice because I am engaged to be married to a sweet African young woman !!

I am glad to have the chance to be a married priest -- Like the pre-1014/1015 AD days.

Have a nice week everyone. Thanks for your time.
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: monka966 on May 13, 2019, 09:42:15 AM
Does anyone have pictures or links to pictures of Pope Michael's "ordination" and "consecration" by "Bishop" Robert Biarnesen? 
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: monka966 on January 30, 2020, 06:53:56 AM
Does anyone on this forum have a copy of this docuмent they could forward to me?

http://popemichael.vaticaninexile.com/Files/The%20Consecration%20of%20Pope%20Michael.pdf (http://popemichael.vaticaninexile.com/Files/The%20Consecration%20of%20Pope%20Michael.pdf)
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 30, 2020, 07:00:28 AM
Who cares about all this nonsense and drama.  There is nothing to look at here.   Start preparing your own soul instead of worrying about trad soap operas.  
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: monka966 on January 30, 2020, 07:19:17 AM
Who cares about all this nonsense and drama.  There is nothing to look at here.   Start preparing your own soul instead of worrying about trad soap operas.  
Not the reply I was hoping for but Thank You for taking your time to respond. God bless.
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: poche on February 01, 2020, 12:30:21 AM

I care what he thinks. I find him interesting. I wonder if he ever has doubts about his "papacy."
Someone was asking about him on cite.catholique. 
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on February 01, 2020, 05:18:26 AM



Actually, this is interesting. 
Title: Re: "Pope Michael" on the SSPX
Post by: Ekim on February 01, 2020, 05:31:54 PM
Wonder if Phil is still there.  Has his community grown?  Certainly sounds more Catholic than Francis-Bergoglio