#25: Contradiction (Jedi Mind Trick: "Conciliar Church" or "Official Church"):In recent years, the SSPX has sought to replace the use of the term "conciliar church" with a new term: the "official church."
Why?
Because for a hierarchy insistent on the hermeneutic of continuity, they cannot possibly "regularize" an SSPX which insists on the rupture which is suggested by distinguishing between the "conciliar church" and the "Catholic Church!"
After all, here is how Archbishop Lefebvre responded to the future Pope Benedict XVI's assertion that he was creating a new church:
"Cardinal Ratzinger repeated it many times, “But Monsignor, there is only one Church, you mustn’t make a parallel church.” I told him: "Your Eminence, it is not us who are forming a parallel Church, as we are continuing the Church of all times, it is you who are forming the parallel church for having invented the Church of the Council, which Cardinal Benelli called the Conciliar Church; it is you all who have invented a new church, not us, it is you who have made the new catechisms, new Sacraments, a new Mass, a new liturgy, not us. We continue to do what was done before. We are not the ones who are forming a new church."
-Econe Press Conference, 6/15/88:
https://tradidi.com/semantic-treason-fr-billecocq-respondsHow better to eradicate this distinction than to start replacing the use of the term "conciliar church" with "official church?"
Doing so has the exact
opposite implication!
Fr. Gabriel Billecocq (SSPX) explains:
"Recently, in traditionalist Catholic circles, efforts have been made to impose the term official church instead of conciliar church. Of course, official is a good expression of the idea that we recognize that these bishops, though unworthy, occupy power, and this power, as such, we can only respect. But replacing conciliar with official is a serious ambiguity.
For the traditionalist catholic, who does not recognize himself as a conciliarist and for good reason, must he now say that he does not recognize himself as an official catholic either? So the traditionalist catholic would no longer belong to the official church? Wouldn't he be fully Catholic then? But then which church would he belong to? To find out, one has to wonder what the official word is opposed to. Answer: unofficial, or hidden, clandestine, or patriotic. But then the traditional catholic does not recognize himself in any of them. Should we say that he belongs to the official church at the risk of being confused with the modernists? No. All that remains then is that he does not belong to the Church. And that's the reason why he's getting so desperate for recognition."
http://laportelatine.org/district/prieure/stnicol/Chardonnet/Chardonnet333_1712.pdf[English translation:
https://tradidi.com/semantic-treason-fr-billecocq-responds]
And again in the same article:
"In fact, this is a serious and very pernicious ambiguity. Replacing the term
conciliar church by
official church to apply it to modernists erases the distinction and opposition between
traditional and
conciliar. By erasing this distinction, one clearly diminishes the struggle of the faith at the risk of denying it and comes to make the traditionalist regret that he does not belong to any truly serious church, giving him the impression that he is not normal and therefore needs to seek normalization. This expression thus conceals the true illness of which the Church is afflicted, puts in a state of inferiority or complexity the true Catholic who has kept the faith and sacraments intact, and so one maintains a typically liberal confusion. In reality, the use of such a confused expression is already liberalism itself and is no longer truly Catholic..."
http://laportelatine.org/district/prieure/stnicol/Chardonnet/Chardonnet333_1712.pdf[English translation:
https://tradidi.com/semantic-treason-fr-billecocq-responds]
Let us not fall for this "Jedi mind trick," and keep our bearings, as Fr. Billecocq suggests:
"To fight an enemy, and a fortiori when that enemy has infiltrated inside the citadel, clear and unambiguous language is needed to designate him. Traditional Catholics do not fight the Catholic Church, that is obvious. But can we make him believe that he's fighting the
official church? If it is
official, one risks creating some remorse of conscience to fight against it, because it is
official and the Catholic Church is
official!
No, he's fighting the disease. And this disease, he gave it a name: the conciliar church."
http://laportelatine.org/district/prieure/stnicol/Chardonnet/Chardonnet333_1712.pdf[English translation:
https://tradidi.com/semantic-treason-fr-billecocq-responds]