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Offline SeanJohnson

Re: Bp. Zendejas's Apostolic Mission?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2021, 01:34:50 PM »
Quote from: Matto on April 05, 2021, 01:07:52 PM
Didn't Saint Athanasius consecrate Orthodox Bishops in dioceses and set them up against the Arian Bishops who were officially under the Pope but heretical? I wonder how things would be now if the traditional Bishops had done the same. I think this only happened in Campos. It would have been interesting if Lefebvre set up Williamson as the Bishop of the United States and had him publicly excommunicate the local modernist Bishops.

As regards consecrating emergency bishops AND conferring jurisdiction on them, the SSPX cited Simonetti’s “The Arian Crisis in the Fourth Century” in their May 1999 SiSiNoNo Angelus insert article titled “The 1988 Episcopal Consecrations: A Theological Study (Part I), in which it noted:

“Longer ago, during the Arian crisis, St. Eusebius of Samosata and other bishops, not only consecrated but even established other bishops in episcopal sees,39 and the Church has not hesitated to proclaim his sanctity.”

Later, in Part II of the same article, it responded to the FSSP’s attack:

“ For that reason, to the authors of Du sacre episcopal contre la volonté du Pape who object that "St. Eusebius [of Samosata) acted without the pope's consent but not against the pope's consent, " we reply that only a question of fact is at stake, not of principle. We concede that St. Eusebius was not faced with the "No" of a pope who promoted and favored Arianism, and demanded respect for laws which would have deprived of help souls placed in grave spiritual necessity. But, had St. Eusebius found himself in that position, he would have had to follow the moral principles recalled above and to fulfil, not "against" the pope's "No" but despite the pope's "No," the most serious duty of charity laid upon his episcopacy by the grave and general necessity of souls.”
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Offline Matthew

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Re: Bp. Zendejas's Apostolic Mission?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2021, 01:45:08 PM »
Quote from: Incredulous on April 05, 2021, 12:13:11 PM
Otherwise, is there a problem here or is this "Catacombs approach" part of tradition's new normal ?    

Yes. Exactly.

What does it take to get a visit from the Resistance's 4th Bishop?

Answer:
He doesn't bilocate, and he doesn't even fly in airplanes, because that would require going on the grid/on the radar. +Zendejas is prudently staying a "mystery bishop" as you call it, to better provide for his flock. And no, that doesn't mean the entire Trad population of the earth. Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer tried that and we all know what a miserable failure that was.

 Bp. Zendejas knows that "what he can do" = God's will for him. Anything beyond that (solving the Crisis in the Church, offering Sunday Mass to every Trad in need of such) is A) impossible and B) therefore not God's will for him. He is wise and prudent in this department. We need Prudence among our Trad clergy as much as we need Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, Purity, holiness, etc.

Interesting you specifically mentioned CÖVÌD in one of your follow-up posts. That is precisely why +Zendejas is staying more off-the-grid than usual. He's usually a very prudent, cautious bishop. But now he's completely off-grid because he doesn't want to run into issues with local, state, and national government(s) and CÖVÌD regulations, travel restrictions, quarantines, contact tracing, shutdowns, etc.

Remember, one of his biggest locations is CT/NY. Those places are more like the UK and less like Sweden, when it comes to CÖVÌD.

When the government (a.k.a. "the Power") is not on your side, all it takes is ONE enemy with a phone, and you're shut down. Bishop Zendejas has several (enemies, that is). On every side of him, at that! Not just SSPX, but diocesan, indult, Sedevacantist, home-aloner, you name it.
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Offline SeanJohnson

Re: Bp. Zendejas's Apostolic Mission?
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2021, 01:48:02 PM »
Quote from: Matto on April 05, 2021, 01:34:28 PM
You know more about such things than I do, but I thought that for some time there was a parallel Novus Ordo Campos diocese and a traditional Campos diocese. If this is not the case, then I misremembered. The way I remembered it, was that after a while the Novus Ordo tried to take control of the Diocese and appointed a new Novus Ordo Bishop, and then Mayer set up his own Churches and carried on with tradition with his faithful, and then the SSPX Bishops consecrated his successor in Campos.

Bishop Castro de Mayer retained integral tradition in Campos until he retired in 1981.  
He was then succeeded by the modernist Bishop Navarro.

At no point did Bishop Castro de Mayer ever contest Bishop Navarro’s jurisdiction, or declare that he himself continued to retain ordinary jurisdiction (ie., apostolic mission) for the Diocese of Campos.

What did end up happening was that 40,000 Catholics in Campos refused to sellout, and continued to seek out the traditional priests of Campos who remained affiliated/allied to the retired Bishop Castro de Mayer (creating a sort of diocese within a diocese, but only de facto, not de jure).
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Offline Incredulous

Re: Bp. Zendejas's Apostolic Mission?
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2021, 01:49:57 PM »
Quote from: SeanJohnson on April 05, 2021, 01:30:48 PM
Then why don’t you reach out to him?
Would you like his phone number or email address?


Sure, please PM me.

But, you're implying Bp. Zendejas's assists his American Resistance by "appointment only".

This is the essence of my initial question.  How does the Bishop tend his flock?
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Offline Matto

Re: Bp. Zendejas's Apostolic Mission?
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2021, 01:53:33 PM »
I think it would be nice if Bishop Zendejas wrote public letters like Williamson did. It would be good to hear from him. I remember he used to have a blog but after a while he stopped writing new posts. I think it was because the Pfeifferites were reading it and condemning some of the things he was saying. But Matthew would know better about his reasons. The Blue Paper. Last update in May 2016. Maybe he has a new blog or sends letters, but I am just not on the list. It is true that I almost never hear about Zendejas even though I know a few people who go to his Masses, and he is rarely even mentioned here on Cathinfo even though he is an important member of the resistance.
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