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Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
« Reply #255 on: July 12, 2022, 08:05:45 AM »
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  • Yes, Feeneyism and R&R have the same root error that the Church can promulgate doctrinal error and be unsafe to follow.

    The whole point of the Church is to be a safe guide.

    No further debate is necessary really, it's just that simple.

    Absolutely false.

    1) Church's Magisterium has never taught BoD.
    2) You exaggerate the scope of the Church's infallibility as most dogmatic SVs do.  You implicitly claim above that the Magisterium cannot even allow errors to go uncondemned ... which is an absurd extension of infallibility that's never been made by the Church or by any Catholic theologian.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #256 on: July 12, 2022, 08:06:19 AM »
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  • Yes, Feeneyism and R&R have the same root error that the Church can promulgate doctrinal error and be unsafe to follow.

    The whole point of the Church is to be a safe guide.

    No further debate is necessary really, it's just that simple.


    Maybe you can get it through to his thick skull. 

    As I said in this thread, there are Sedes who have taken his position regarding indefectibility, who are consistent, and have made a viable case regarding Sedevacantism. For example, in terms of those whose opinion I respect and who are worthy of much consideration, John Daly, John Lane, Bishop Sanborn, Father Cekada . . . those are the ones that jump out to me at the moment. 

    His position is totally inconsistent, and one cannot regard him seriously. He hurts the Sede position with his contradictions. 
    Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins" 

    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #257 on: July 12, 2022, 08:16:36 AM »
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  • Ridiculous, characterizing the notion that the Church's Magisterium cannot become corrupt as novelty.  We have consistent teaching of the Popes and the Church Fathers, Doctors, theologians, that the Magisterium cannot be stained with error.  Yet no theologian holds that the Magisterium is ABSOULTELY free from error.  So what does it mean for the Magisterium to be free from error and not stained by error?  It means that it's substantially or essentially free from error, even if there can be some error there per accidens.  That's the distinction, and Msgr. Fenton, in the passages cited, articulately expressed the threshold between fallibility and infallibility, which you continue to ignore.

    Proposition I:  Magisterium is free from error and all stain of error [taught above by the Popes ... which you reject]
    Proposition II:  Magisterium is not absolutely guaranteed to be free from error [taught by all theologians]

    So then this apparent contradiction requires a distinction for both of these to be true.  That distinction is substantial vs. accidental, or as Msgr. Fenton characterized it extensive and harmful.

    You reject Proposition I above by attributing the doctrinal corruption and the corruption of the Mass to the legitimate authority of the Catholic Church, and that's heresy.  You keep throwing the word novelty out there, but I defy you to find any Catholic theologian ever who agrees with you that the Magisterium can go off the rails so badly that it justifies severing submission to and communion with the Holy See.

    THAT is novelty, not my (and Msgr. Fenton's) distinction to reconcile the notion that the Magisterium is inerrant and unstained by error, and yet not absolutely free from error.  This distinction is absolutely common sense.

    Wow. You're about as blind as a bat.

    Keep it up. I don't even have to respond to you. Keep spinning your novelty to it's absurd lengths.

    It's not about the Magisterium "being absolutely free from error" about everything. This should be clear by now.

    BOD is a serious theological notion that concerns the faith. Despite your novel readings - want to go own about private judgment, again? that would further expose your inconsistency - of Trent, both the Council and the Catechsim - it's clear the OUM has taught BOD.

    Now I'll try to make this as plain as day for you; I'll put it in bold and in red:

    It's not about the Magisterium being incapable of any error -as, for example, Father Fenton indicated that it could be errorneous about prudential matters such as the relationship between the Church and state, but that it couldn't be "substantially corrupt" or "substantially" in error about those matters.

    It's about the Magisterium being incapable of error regarding justification, salvation, the means of grace and the sacraments used by God to reclaim men: the Gospel of Christ. It's about the Church being not capable of being erroneous about such a vital matter that goes to the heart of it's mission and "telos."


    Go ahead, miss the point and go on with your novel ramblings, showing yourself to be more and more absurd and ridiculous.
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    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #258 on: July 12, 2022, 08:27:27 AM »
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  • The obvious alternative is that "popes" who teach error constantly, spitting in the face of the teaching above, are not true popes. As has been stated to be possible time and time again.
    The reason that idea is not an alternative is because those truths quoted, would prove to be lies to the Universal Church, i.e. overwhelming majority, who accept the pope as the pope.

    The Church's magisterium has been repeatedly explained to Lad, but apparently, preferring to remain in his conundrum, he does not accept it or rejects it as heretical or who knows? As soon as one does accept it, it is easy to  understand the truth of those papal quotes.
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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #259 on: July 12, 2022, 08:32:54 AM »
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  • Maybe you can get it through to his thick skull.

    As I said in this thread, there are Sedes who have taken his position regarding indefectibility, who are consistent, and have made a viable case regarding Sedevacantism. For example, in terms of those whose opinion I respect and who are worthy of much consideration, John Daly, John Lane, Bishop Sanborn, Father Cekada . . . those are the ones that jump out to me at the moment.

    His position is totally inconsistent, and one cannot regard him seriously. He hurts the Sede position with his contradictions.


    This would be laughable if it isn't so tragic.  Here you put your dishonestly on display in glaring fashion.

    Those men you cite as "worth of much consideration" would agree with me that your attribution of error to the Church (V2 and the New Mass) is in fact heretical.  I know for a fact that Bishop Sanborn would, as Father Cekada woud have (RIP).  They would condemn your position as heretical even much more strongly than I do, and Servus here has no use for your heresy either.

    But YOU disagree with them about infallibility, and yet you would force me to accept their view of infallibility.  This is absurd dishonesty, and you should be embarrassed

    I disagree with them regarding the extent and the scope of infallibility.  I believe that they've ended up in this exaggerated position precisely as the result of having to combat heresies such as yours.

    But you've played a lot of games to distract from the core issue.  You lump all "Magisterium" in the same category, whereas in fact there are different degrees of authority within the Magisterium.  I've never said that an Ecuмenical Council could teach error in any way shape or form, just lesser expressions of the Magisterium ... a letter by a pope to a bishop, a papal allocation, and to a lesser extent a papal encyclical.  Ecuмenical Councils cannot teach error.  But I hold that Trent did not teach BoD (as you try to define it, and most certainly didn't teach the heretical Pelagian form of BoD that is prevalent out there).  If I believed that Trent actively taught BoD, then I would of course accept it.  But the simple fact is that it did no more than mention a term votum, saying that justification cannot take place without it.

    So you keep playing dishonest games like this to justify your false dichotomy that either there can be errors in the Magisterium or there can't be, going so far here as upholding as "worthy of consideration" the dogmatic Sedevacantists who would condemn for heresy even more strongly than I have ... and rightly so.  But then you try to falsely leverage the notion that there can be errors in the Magisterium to assert that the Magisterium (and the Mass) can become so corrupt that it requires severing communion with the Catholic hierarchy.

    You keep trying to play games to re-assert your false dichotomy in order to justify your heresy.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #260 on: July 12, 2022, 08:39:05 AM »
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  • Perhaps you should "consider" these men who you claim to be "worth of consideration" (that's a blatant lie on your part, BTW, just a shameless attempt to use their position as a weapon) who hold that your attribution of corruption to the Church via Vatican II and the NOM is heretical.  They are on MY side in asserting that your position is heretical.

    I still really can't believe you tried to appeal to them as if they were allies in your heresy.  :laugh1:

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #261 on: July 12, 2022, 09:09:43 AM »
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  • This would be laughable if it isn't so tragic.  Here you put your dishonestly on display in glaring fashion.

    Those men you cite as "worth of much consideration" would agree with me that your attribution of error to the Church (V2 and the New Mass) is in fact heretical.  I know for a fact that Bishop Sanborn would, as Father Cekada woud have (RIP).  They would condemn your position as heretical even much more strongly than I do, and Servus here has no use for your heresy either.

    But YOU disagree with them about infallibility, and yet you would force me to accept their view of infallibility.  This is absurd dishonesty, and you should be embarrassed

    I disagree with them regarding the extent and the scope of infallibility.  I believe that they've ended up in this exaggerated position precisely as the result of having to combat heresies such as yours.

    But you've played a lot of games to distract from the core issue.  You lump all "Magisterium" in the same category, whereas in fact there are different degrees of authority within the Magisterium.  I've never said that an Ecuмenical Council could teach error in any way shape or form, just lesser expressions of the Magisterium ... a letter by a pope to a bishop, a papal allocation, and to a lesser extent a papal encyclical.  Ecuмenical Councils cannot teach error.  But I hold that Trent did not teach BoD (as you try to define it, and most certainly didn't teach the heretical Pelagian form of BoD that is prevalent out there).  If I believed that Trent actively taught BoD, then I would of course accept it.  But the simple fact is that it did no more than mention a term votum, saying that justification cannot take place without it.

    So you keep playing dishonest games like this to justify your false dichotomy that either there can be errors in the Magisterium or there can't be, going so far here as upholding as "worthy of consideration" the dogmatic Sedevacantists who would condemn for heresy even more strongly than I have ... and rightly so.  But then you try to falsely leverage the notion that there can be errors in the Magisterium to assert that the Magisterium (and the Mass) can become so corrupt that it requires severing communion with the Catholic hierarchy.

    You keep trying to play games to re-assert your false dichotomy in order to justify your heresy.


    There is the Sede position of Daly, etc. It is consistent on its own (their own) terms, and it is a viable argument. It says that the Conciliar Church is a false Church and the Conciliar popes are false popes because they and the bishops in union with them teach contra to what the Church has taught in her extraordinary and ordinary universal Magisterium. The Magisterium, to them, consists of whatever the current popes and bishops in union with them say. This is a spatial universality: the pope and all the current bishops united with him throughout the globe (space).

    There is Stubborn's position, which is consistent on his own terms: the Magisterium consists of teachings passed on by Scripture and Tradition, and those teachings are exhibited in the Church's teaching which is universal both spatially (the pope and all the current bishops in union with him agree) and temporally (the teachings go back to the apostles and the original revelation of Christ to them, which was, and is, complete) - that is, it is universal not only in space (the current pope and the current bishops) but time (the prior popes and bishops in union with them).

    Where Daly and co. and Stubborn differ is in their understanding of the Vincentian canon. Daly and co. hold that the universality just has to be spatial: since the current (or recent) popes and the bishops in union with them contradict prior teaching (an inconsistency incompatible with truth), they are not true popes and bishops of the Church.

    Stubborn hold that they are true popes, but where there teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching.

    To both Daly and Stubborn, the Magisterial teaching is pure, as the quotes from the popes said it is.

    You, however, play your game of straddling both camps: you hold the Daly and co view with their definition of indefectibility as only requiring spatial (the current pope and the bishops in union) universality - thus rejecting the Conciliar popes and bishops - but agree with Stubborn on BOD and require a temporal university (a teaching in accord with Scripture and Tradition) on BOD at the same time (you disagree in your private judgment with your "indefectible'" Magisterium as to what is Tradition when it suits you) - thus rejecting the pre-Vatican II Magisterium on BOD.

    The Daly and co. view is the pre-2 teaching that you profess to espouse and you use to attack Stubborn, but you yourself violate the pre-V2 teaching on indefectibility when it comes to BOD, where you apparently adopt his view (that you attack).

    You're confused, and inconsistent. You're a salesman of both apples and oranges, and I for one wouldn't buy either from you.

    I'm not the one who is an embarrassment and confused, Ladislaus.

    For all your big talk and pretense of knowledge, you keep showing yourself to be utterly incapable of making necessary distinctions. You may be very educated and knowledgable, but you don't cut through to the issues very well. 

    You can't have it both ways: you either accept the concept of indefectibility espoused by Daly and co., who accept the OUM on BOD, or you don't. You can't pick and choose  depending on the issue (indefectibility, or BOD). You can either define OUM like Stubborn, and be consistent, or define indefectibility like Daly and co. (which would require you to accept BOD as OUM), and stop your nonsense about rejecting the teaching of BOD.
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    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #262 on: July 12, 2022, 09:11:51 AM »
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  • Perhaps you should "consider" these men who you claim to be "worth of consideration" (that's a blatant lie on your part, BTW, just a shameless attempt to use their position as a weapon) who hold that your attribution of corruption to the Church via Vatican II and the NOM is heretical.  They are on MY side in asserting that your position is heretical.

    I still really can't believe you tried to appeal to them as if they were allies in your heresy.  :laugh1:

    I never said they were "allies." I said they, unlike you, were not inconsistent, and therefore worthy of consideration and intellectual respect.

    You, again, in desperation to defend yourself, fail to make distinctions and follow an argument.

    As Servus said, "so sad, my Lad."
    Rom. 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins" 

    Apoc 17:17 For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #263 on: July 12, 2022, 09:22:37 AM »
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  • Where Daly and co. and Stubborn differ is in their understanding of the Vincentian canon. Daly and co. hold that the universality just has to be spatial: since the current (or recent) popes and the bishops in union with them contradict prior teaching (an inconsistency incompatible with truth), they are not true popes and bishops of the Church.

    Stubborn hold that they are true popes, but where there teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching.

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    The Catholic teaching is that the papacy is the sure rock of Peter on which we must base our faith. This has been taught literally dozens of times by the popes, of which the page I quoted is just a small sample.

    The problem with Stubborn's position in the second paragraph quoted (assuming it accurately describes Stubborn's position) is that it means that the pope and all the bishops can lead people astray by teaching what they claim is the Catholic faith, quod absit.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #264 on: July 12, 2022, 09:54:38 AM »
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  • There is the Sede position of Daly, etc. It is consistent on its own (their own) terms, and it is a viable argument. It says that the Conciliar Church is a false Church and the Conciliar popes are false popes because they and the bishops in union with them teach contra to what the Church has taught in her extraordinary and ordinary universal Magisterium. The Magisterium, to them, consists of whatever the current popes and bishops in union with them say. This is a spatial universality: the pope and all the current bishops united with him throughout the globe (space).

    There is Stubborn's position, which is consistent on his own terms: the Magisterium consists of teachings passed on by Scripture and Tradition, and those teachings are exhibited in the Church's teaching which is universal both spatially (the pope and all the current bishops in union with him agree) and temporally (the teachings go back to the apostles and the original revelation of Christ to them, which was, and is, complete) - that is, it is universal not only in space (the current pope and the current bishops) but time (the prior popes and bishops in union with them).

    Where Daly and co. and Stubborn differ is in their understanding of the Vincentian canon. Daly and co. hold that the universality just has to be spatial: since the current (or recent) popes and the bishops in union with them contradict prior teaching (an inconsistency incompatible with truth), they are not true popes and bishops of the Church.

    Stubborn hold that they are true popes, but where there teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching.

    To both Daly and Stubborn, the Magisterial teaching is pure, as the quotes from the popes said it is.

    You, however, play your game of straddling both camps: you hold the Daly and co view with their definition of indefectibility as only requiring spatial (the current pope and the bishops in union) universality - thus rejecting the Conciliar popes and bishops - but agree with Stubborn on BOD and require a temporal university (a teaching in accord with Scripture and Tradition) on BOD at the same time (you disagree in your private judgment with your "indefectible'" Magisterium as to what is Tradition when it suits you) - thus rejecting the pre-Vatican II Magisterium on BOD.

    The Daly and co. view is the pre-2 teaching that you profess to espouse and you use to attack Stubborn, but you yourself violate the pre-V2 teaching on indefectibility when it comes to BOD, where you apparently adopt his view (that you attack).

    You're confused, and inconsistent. You're a salesman of both apples and oranges, and I for one wouldn't buy either from you.

    I'm not the one who is an embarrassment and confused, Ladislaus.

    For all your big talk and pretense of knowledge, you keep showing yourself to be utterly incapable of making necessary distinctions. You may be very educated and knowledgable, but you don't cut through to the issues very well. 

    You can't have it both ways: you either accept the concept of indefectibility espoused by Daly and co., who accept the OUM on BOD, or you don't. You can't pick and choose  depending on the issue (indefectibility, or BOD). You can either define OUM like Stubborn, and be consistent, or define indefectibility like Daly and co. (which would require you to accept BOD as OUM), and stop your nonsense about rejecting the teaching of BOD.

    Man, when you nail it, you sure nail it!
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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #265 on: July 12, 2022, 09:59:03 AM »
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  • .
    The Catholic teaching is that the papacy is the sure rock of Peter on which we must base our faith. This has been taught literally dozens of times by the popes, of which the page I quoted is just a small sample.

    The problem with Stubborn's position in the second paragraph quoted (assuming it accurately describes Stubborn's position) is that it means that the pope and all the bishops can lead people astray by teaching what they claim is the Catholic faith, quod absit.
    Not sure which 2nd paragraph you are referring to.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #266 on: July 12, 2022, 10:00:57 AM »
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  • Not sure which 2nd paragraph you are referring to.
    Sorry, I meant this paragraph in which 10 was stating your position:


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    Stubborn hold that they are true popes, but where there teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #267 on: July 12, 2022, 10:39:49 AM »
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  • Sorry, I meant this paragraph in which 10 was stating your position:
    Ah, got it.


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    Stubborn hold that they are true popes, but where there teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching.
    Yes, this is accurate enough. Or you could say "but where their teaching departs from prior teaching, thus being inconsistent with the magisterium Tradition (lacks temporal universality), it shows that is it not Magisterial teaching."

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #268 on: July 12, 2022, 09:17:27 PM »
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  • Is it really consistent to posit a spatial universality, and yet reject Vatican II nonetheless?

    Has any other council exceeded Vatican II, in regards to the proportion of prelates that were in attendance? Or the proportion of theological consensus?



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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #269 on: July 12, 2022, 09:25:45 PM »
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  • There is the Sede position of Daly, etc. It is consistent on its own (their own) terms, and it is a viable argument. It says that the Conciliar Church is a false Church and the Conciliar popes are false popes because they and the bishops in union with them teach contra to what the Church has taught in her extraordinary and ordinary universal Magisterium. The Magisterium, to them, consists of whatever the current popes and bishops in union with them say. This is a spatial universality: the pope and all the current bishops united with him throughout the globe (space).

    Aren't those two sentences a contradiction?

    The Magisterium, to them, consists of whatever the current popes and bishops in union with them say.

    I can see the point that Stubborn was making in this thread:


    https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/where-exactly-is-the-ordinary-and-universal-magisterium-of-the-church-today/msg648421/#msg648421


    https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/where-exactly-is-the-ordinary-and-universal-magisterium-of-the-church-today/msg648436/#msg648436
    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.