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Offline DecemRationis

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Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
« Reply #300 on: July 13, 2022, 02:07:21 PM »
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  • Except it's not just talking about infants. 

    So an adult who has both original sin AND actual sins on his/her soul who merely implicitly desires baptism gets to go to Heaven, but another adult who has NO actual sins only gets to go to Limbo.

    Is that what you're saying?

    You can't remove original sin by being born and "not sinning." Otherwise, all babies dying in infancy without baptism would go to heaven, not Limbo.  
    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 #301 on: July 13, 2022, 10:53:24 PM »
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  • Vermont,

    Again, BOD is consistently taught in the respect of a possibility of justification and salvation by votum, without the sacrament. Some call it BOD; as I noted, Pius XII called it an "act of love."

    Show me a catechism that doesn't recognize that "core concept."


    Even if you read Trent the common way, Trent teaches the possibility of "justification" but not the "and salvation" that you throw in there.  There's no "consistent" teaching of what you claim in the Magisterium.  There's barely any teaching about the subject at all.  At best you have to extend the Magisterium to include theologians and catechisms.

    You keep just gratuitously re-asserting the same claim, without any evidence or citations from the Magisterium, and toss the word "Again..." as if by repeating it enough times that'll prove your claims and make them true.

    So, according to you, this Magisterium of theologians and catechisms (which you make part of the OUM) must be accepted, and yet you think it's OK to reject the teaching of an Ecuмenical Council and that which has been taught consistently by Popes, Bishops, and theologians for the past 60 years, namely, that Vatican II and the NOM are Catholic.  And what of the NO Catechism of the Catholic Church?  What about that Catechism, which is a universal catechism on par in authority with that of the Catechism of Trent (vs. the local catechisms)?  You feel free to pitch all that out but then keep citing some offhand comment by Pius XII about "love"?  Give me a break!

    And you accused ME of contradiction?  You're the one in obvious contradiction with yourself.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #302 on: July 14, 2022, 09:16:49 AM »
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  • It doesn't?  Why wouldn't this apply to BOD? This isn't just talking about infants. The section even says that these people have NO SIN, and they still can't go to Heaven.  How is that not the opposite/contradictory of what you're saying the OUM teaches on BOD?

    This is my issue.  BOD is NOT consistently taught.  There are ambiguities...enough to give other Catholics SLACK when you want to accuse them of being contradictory wrt their position on the Crisis.


    Q. 632. Where will persons go who -- such as infants -- have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism?

    A. Persons, such as infants, who have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism, cannot enter heaven; but it is the common belief they will go to some place similar to Limbo, where they will be free from suffering, though deprived of the happiness of heaven
    "Die without baptism" is the key here.  Which form of baptism?

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #303 on: July 14, 2022, 09:19:53 AM »
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  • Because they are stained by original sin and are incapable of desiring baptism obviously. Once they mature to the age of reason they could of course desire baptism.

    I love it how this SSPX thread became a Feeneyite discussion :laugh2:
    I disagree on the first point, agree on the second.

    I was taught that miscarriages or deaths of born babies who did not have an opportunity to get baptized with water but whose parents would have if they had the chance, receive baptism of desire.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #304 on: July 14, 2022, 10:54:33 AM »
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  • I disagree on the first point, agree on the second.

    I was taught that miscarriages or deaths of born babies who did not have an opportunity to get baptized with water but whose parents would have if they had the chance, receive baptism of desire.

    What you were taught is highly-problematic ... and IMO objectively heretical.  Cajetan floated that opinion, but St. Pius V ordered that it be struck from his works.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #305 on: July 14, 2022, 01:17:16 PM »
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  • Matthew, you've got a couple of forum members whose contributions, I argue, hurt rather than help healthy discussion of Catholic issues.  Since your warning 7/10/22, only Ladislaus seems undeterred and unrepentant.  He keeps bringing up arcane matters in which few, I surmise, take much interest. He remains argumentative, self-righteous and self-absorbed.  He constantly accuses others of not enjoying the clarity of perspective that he does.
    There is hardly any activity on the popular "Resistance" section since 7/10, and, I suspect, it is because of him.  I think you must be aware of this.  Ladislaus, speaking plainly, just turns off the rank and file.  They simply stay away from him.  I know I do.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #306 on: July 14, 2022, 01:37:36 PM »
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  • "Die without baptism" is the key here.  Which form of baptism?
    Which form do you think it's referring to [given that the phrase "die without baptism" is preceded by the phrase "through no fault of theirs"]?

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #307 on: July 14, 2022, 02:57:07 PM »
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  • Even if you read Trent the common way, Trent teaches the possibility of "justification" but not the "and salvation" that you throw in there. 

    Justification - the “Just”, those who are justified before God - means you are in a state of sanctifying grace. Therefore salvation is possible, I’d say. Wouldn’t you?

    https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cathopedia/vol8/voleight402.shtml


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #308 on: July 14, 2022, 03:10:38 PM »
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  • Justification - the “Just”, those who are justified before God - means you are in a state of sanctifying grace. Therefore salvation is possible, I’d say. Wouldn’t you?

    https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cathopedia/vol8/voleight402.shtml

    Yes. Lad and I have beaten this exchange to the death and I'm done with it, but I'm glad you mentioned this. 

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    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 #309 on: July 14, 2022, 03:23:54 PM »
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  • Justification - the “Just”, those who are justified before God - means you are in a state of sanctifying grace. Therefore salvation is possible, I’d say. Wouldn’t you?

    https://www.ecatholic2000.com/cathopedia/vol8/voleight402.shtml

    Salvation is always "possible" until one has died and gone to hell.  What I think you're asking is whether someone who dies in a state of justification (but, say, without the Sacrament of Baptism) would ACTUALLY saved, enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and enjoy the Beatific Vision (after any requisite Purgatory time has been served).  That's precisely the point of contention.  I agree with Father Feeney that such a could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven without the Sacramental character conferred at Baptism.  It is my opinion that such as these would go to Limbo (or some other areas of Hell, as Limbo is technically part of Hell, to the extent that their debt of sin had not been removed during their process of justification).  Others here hold that such would go to Heaven.  Father Feeney seems to be in the middle.  He said "I don't know." but doesn't believe that God would allow a soul who's justified at the point of death to leave this life without the Sacrament of Baptism.

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #310 on: July 14, 2022, 04:42:42 PM »
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  • Matthew, you've got a couple of forum members whose contributions, I argue, hurt rather than help healthy discussion of Catholic issues.  Since your warning 7/10/22, only Ladislaus seems undeterred and unrepentant.  He keeps bringing up arcane matters in which few, I surmise, take much interest. He remains argumentative, self-righteous and self-absorbed.  He constantly accuses others of not enjoying the clarity of perspective that he does.
    There is hardly any activity on the popular "Resistance" section since 7/10, and, I suspect, it is because of him.  I think you must be aware of this.  Ladislaus, speaking plainly, just turns off the rank and file.  They simply stay away from him.  I know I do.

    If by "bringing up arcane matters in which few, I surmise, take much interest" you're referring to turning this thread into an argument about BoD, it was not I who brought the subject up.  As for being the ONLY one "undeterred and unrepentant after the 7/10 warning," you ignore the fact that even after said warning SeanJohnson persisted in and doubled down on calling me a "sodomite" and a "homo".  In fact, the tone of the argument heated up in the first place precisely because of that insult in response to a post where I simply pasted a link (without comment on my part) to some text from Father Noel Barbara.

    So with regard to both these accusations, you assert that I am the ONLY culprit, whereas in point of fact both were instigated by others ... whom you curiously leave unaccused, leaving me as the ONLY culprit.  So, basically, it's a lie ... and I surmise that you single me out because you don't like my positions / opinions on this subject.

    As for being "argumentative ... and accus[ing] others of not enjoying the clarity of perspective that [I do]", sure, guilty as charged, in the context of these subjects at least, as that's what typically happens when you believe something strongly and have the arguments and plenty of evidence to back it up, when you're convinced that you're right and that those who disagree with you are wrong.  EVERYBODY who argues a topic could be characterized as "argumentative" and "accusing [their adversaries] of not enjoying their own clarity of perspective".  If I thought these others were right about a particular subject and had a "clarity of perspective" about it, I wouldn't bother arguing / debating with them in the first place.  Those who were arguing AGAINST my positions were equally "argumentative" and felt that THEY "enjoy[ed] a clarity of perspective" that I do not.  But even though it takes more than one person to argue, and (at least) two to tango, you single me out as if I were the only culprit and had been unilaterally launching unsolicited attacks on others, nay, practically arguing with myself, since I was evidently the ONLY one doing that.

    Your additional accusation of my being "self-righteous" and "self-absorbed" ... that's simply your spin on the same phenomenon, that I'm convinced that my position is correct and that of SOME others is wrong.  You spin "he thinks he's right and the others are wrong" into "self-righteous" and "self-absorbed".

    In the final analysis, you're singling me out, from among others who engaged in precisely the same behavior either because you don't like my positions on these subjects or else due to some old baggage where I argued with YOU in the past (your defense of Valtorta, and your recent IMO irrational, emotional, and exaggerated contempt for any and all things SSPX).  You are no stranger to being "self-righteous" in your merciless condemnation of anyone in the neo-SSPX, whether you have any evidence for your allegations or not.

    And, ironically, I find this post of yours to be entirely "self-righteous" ... as you sit in judgment of me, my motives, and my character based on pretty much nothing other than that you don't like my opinions.


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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #311 on: July 14, 2022, 04:50:02 PM »
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  • Matthew, you've got a couple of forum members whose contributions, I argue, hurt rather than help healthy discussion of Catholic issues.  Since your warning 7/10/22, only Ladislaus seems undeterred and unrepentant.  He keeps bringing up arcane matters in which few, I surmise, take much interest. He remains argumentative, self-righteous and self-absorbed.  He constantly accuses others of not enjoying the clarity of perspective that he does.
    There is hardly any activity on the popular "Resistance" section since 7/10, and, I suspect, it is because of him.  I think you must be aware of this.  Ladislaus, speaking plainly, just turns off the rank and file.  They simply stay away from him.  I know I do.
    I don't agree with everything Ladislaus writes, but I actually read his posts because he seems to be respectful, calm and patient with most people.  At least he doesn't seem to throw temper tantrums, storm off, curse, or badger people, like some others here do. 

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #312 on: July 14, 2022, 05:38:40 PM »
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  • Matthew, you've got a couple of forum members whose contributions, I argue, hurt rather than help healthy discussion of Catholic issues.  Since your warning 7/10/22, only Ladislaus seems undeterred and unrepentant.  He keeps bringing up arcane matters in which few, I surmise, take much interest. He remains argumentative, self-righteous and self-absorbed.  He constantly accuses others of not enjoying the clarity of perspective that he does.
    There is hardly any activity on the popular "Resistance" section since 7/10, and, I suspect, it is because of him.  I think you must be aware of this.  Ladislaus, speaking plainly, just turns off the rank and file.  They simply stay away from him.  I know I do.
    Ladislaus, despite a couple of serious errors (cough* Feeneyism-related, mainly *cough) is always a gentleman and a scholar.

     You, on the other hand, are a malicious creep who seems to have no interest in any discussion except salacious stories about clergy.

    What's the problem? Not enough Michael Voris talk around here lately to keep you entertained?

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #313 on: July 14, 2022, 06:00:30 PM »
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  • So with regard to both these accusations, you assert that I am the ONLY culprit, whereas in point of fact both were instigated by others ... whom you curiously leave unaccused, leaving me as the ONLY culprit.  So, basically, it's a lie ... and I surmise that you single me out because you don't like my positions / opinions on this subject.

    You aren't the only culprit. That's true. But....you are the most manipulative. The others (such as Digital Logos and Mark 79) are merely playing softball in comparison.

    You see, most of the other sedevacantists aren't going to call you out on anything. Because ya'll support each other, for the most part. But not all sedevacantists are in line behind you.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29

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    Re: Impressive Silence: The SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #314 on: July 14, 2022, 09:24:17 PM »
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  • Lad:  
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    and I surmise that you single me out because you don't like my positions / opinions on this subject.


    Actually, Lad, you must have some support on this increasingly (I believe) irrelevant forum.  After all, I got five thumbs down (to date) for my post about you.  So you must enjoy some support.
    Lad, believe me when I say it- I have absolutely no interest in your "positions."  It's not that I don't like them.  They simply don't matter to me.  They don't in any way occupy my thoughts. 
    I am beginning to think that you may be a trad with some incipient mental health problems, which suggests that traditional Catholicism itself, as often represented and reflected upon on CI, may make unsettling contributions to your state of mind.