How are y'all still going on about the "evils" of R&R when +Bellarmine CLEARLY says that a bad pope should be ignored. He also says that the faithful can discern if he be a good or bad pope by USING THEIR BRAINS to compare orthodoxy with any novelties. He also says that the people cannot depose a bad pope. All of what +Bellarmine says is the general mindset of many non-sede clerics who lived pre/post V2 (+ABL, Fr Wathen, Fr DePauw, +Castro Meyer, etc, etc). All of you who contend that R&R is heretical are contradicting +Bellarmine.
“I respond that the people indeed ought to discern a true from a false prophet, but not by any other rule than by diligently attending to whether he that is preaching says things contrary to those which were said by his predecessors, or else contrary to those things which are preached by the other legitimate pastors, and especially the Apostolic See, which is the principal Church; …
Moreover, it should be observed that, on the one hand, the people, by the rule which we have laid down, can indeed discern a true prophet from a false one; but, on the other hand, they cannot, for all that, depose the false prophet, if he be a bishop, and substitute another in his place. For the Lord and the Apostle command only that the people not hear false prophets, and not that they depose them. And certainly the practice of the Church has always been thus, that heretical bishops be deposed by bishops’ councils or by the supreme pontiffs.”
Topic: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd? (Read 440912 times)