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Offline Stubborn

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Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
« Reply #225 on: March 26, 2018, 02:12:02 PM »
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  • How about an error regarding justification, like BOD, in a universal catechism for instruction on the faith, like the Catechism of Trent?

    Just a helluva "slip up"? I'd say that's substantial error.

    No?
    Keep pressing him Jeremiah and he'll decide that your posts are not worth responding to at all. That's how it goes with some people who cannot answer clear questions with clear answers and instead, prefer to dance around your questions and dispute the indisputable lest they admit they've had it wrong all along. Keep him - and us all in your prayers please.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #226 on: March 26, 2018, 02:18:32 PM »
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  • The Church will always exist even with heretical popes since 1958:

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    (Athanasius and the Church of Our Time, p. 23):

    The priest Arius denied the central doctrine of Catholicism:  the
    divinity of Christ.  He claimed that Jesus Christ was like God, but was not
    really God.  He thus fashioned a Christ who would be acceptable to the non-
    Catholic world, who would be acceptable to both the Jєωιѕн people and the
    pagans.  Thus, Arianism was the first "ecuмenical" religion.

       Millions were led astray by this charismatic priest, including four out
    of five bishops according to St. Jerome, and two-thirds of all priests.  The
    eminent patristic scholar Fr. Jurgens notes:  "At one point in the Church's
    history, only a few years before Gregory [nαzιanzen]'s present preaching
    (A.D. 380), perhaps the number of Catholic bishops in possession of sees, as
    opposed to Arian bishops in possession of sees, was no greater than something
    between 1% and 3% of the total.  Had doctrine been determined by popularity,
    today we should all be deniers of Christ and opponents of the Spirit."
     (W.A.
    Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 39.)


    So you see if you were taking a popularity poll in 380 AD Arianism won hands down. But they still didn't win in the long haul. People need to chill out. The Church was in just as bad a state under the Arian heresy as it is now under the Modernist heresy. Viola, the Church still exists. The culpable Arians of that time are in hell and the Catholics of that time are in heaven. All the modernists will be gotten rid of by God in his own due time when fire falls from the sky. In the mean time we don't need to lose our minds by following after all the latest theological fads that SEEM to solve our problems in a nice neat bow.

    Stay Catholic. What was believed before October 1958 stay with; ignore what was taught after October 1958.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #227 on: March 26, 2018, 02:26:09 PM »
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  • Your a devotee of Des Lauriers, right? So whatever he said is de fide to you, apparently.

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #228 on: March 26, 2018, 02:57:43 PM »
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    No, sedeprivationism means that the POPES do not exercise authority, predominantly teaching authority.  In other words, it's not the Church teaching but these imposters pretending that they are teaching.  Why are you conflating the Popes and the Magisterium?
    How can the magisterium exist without the pope?  It can't.  The pope is promised infallibility, and the bishops in union with the pope are promised infallibility, BUT NOT the bishops apart from the pope.  If there is no pope, there is no magisterium, there is no teaching authority.

    Therefore, if you want to argue that the magisterium cannot substantially err, then you MUST accept V2, because you have to believe that V2 is not a substantial change from Tradition.

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #229 on: March 26, 2018, 03:19:09 PM »
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  • How can the magisterium exist without the pope?  It can't.  The pope is promised infallibility, and the bishops in union with the pope are promised infallibility, BUT NOT the bishops apart from the pope.  If there is no pope, there is no magisterium, there is no teaching authority.

    Please post this teaching that the bishops in union with the pope are promised infallibility.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #230 on: March 26, 2018, 04:12:20 PM »
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  • Sorry, I worded that oddly.  The bishops aren't promised infallibility, but the pope can be infallible either alone (i.e. dogma of the Assumption) or in union with the bishops (i.e. council).  Either way, there is no infallibility if the pope is not involved.

    Vatican I quotes the Council of Florence:

        "The Roman Pontiff is the true vicar of Christ, the head of the whole Church and the father and teacher of all Christians; and to him was committed in blessed Peter, by our lord Jesus Christ, the full power of tending, ruling and governing the whole Church."

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #231 on: March 26, 2018, 04:56:36 PM »
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  • Why don't you give it a try?

    Post any Catholic source of any type outside the SSPX and the like, which teaches that an Ecunemical Council ratified by a Pope can err. The same request was made to Pax Vobis and Mr. Drew before, but we are still waiting.
    Wow Cantarella, it makes me very sad to see what has happened to you. I thought when you quoted a sede bishop who quoted from V2 and called that a dogma was pretty sad, but now this?

    When are you going to post at least one official Church teaching defining this "dogma of the faith" - or any papal teaching at all (other than that which you already posted from Bishop Pivarunas citing Lumen Gentium) that teaches your "totality of bishops" dogma of the faith, as you called it in this post as quoted below?

    You said:
    The following is a dogma of the Faith, Mr. Drew:

    The totality of the Bishops is infallible, when they, either assembled in general council or scattered over the earth propose a teaching of faith or morals as one to be held by all the faithful.


    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #232 on: March 26, 2018, 05:49:37 PM »
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  • No, these are the actual two alternatives for Catholics.  Defection of the Church is not an option (although I know that you meant it only logically).

    EITHER the V2 hierarchy is not legitimate or V2 taught truth.

    From a story about St. Thomas Aquinas --

    Well, I would sooner believe that Religious Liberty is true than to believe that THE CHURCH could lie.  Hands down.  It's not even a question.  If I came to the conclusion that the V2 hierarchy was/is/has been legitimate, then I would go the way of all those conservative EWTN Catholics where I spent my time showing how V2 can be reconciled with prior Magisterium.
    The V2 hierarchy, while not the Church, is legitimate - and they preach(ed) lies.

    But if your rule of faith really is the magisterium, then none of this matters because I am wrong and so are you because if the magisterium is the rule of faith, then it is of the faith that the V2 "magisterium" is indeed legitimate, but they did not lie. You are bound to follow the magisterium because the magisterium is for you the rule of faith, while dogma is my rule of faith.

    As quoted from Van Noort, being bound to the "magisterium" as your rule of faith, "implies a corresponding duty on the part of the nations to believe whatever the successors of the Apostles teach." According to you, this is de fide - no?

    This being the case, you can't presume to get out of it by claiming they're possibly illegitimate or teach error! That is a blatant rejection of dogma and a total loss of faith - faith in the very rule of faith you keep promoting as being dogmatic!  

    Kind of reminds me of a guy driving a beat up, rusty old pick up truck with the muffler hanging down and wearing cloths from the salvation army, trying to tell you how to become rich.




    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #233 on: March 26, 2018, 06:13:31 PM »
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    Kind of reminds me of a guy driving a beat up, rusty old pick up truck with the muffler hanging down and wearing clothes from the salvation army, trying to tell you how to become rich.

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #234 on: March 26, 2018, 06:40:45 PM »
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    Post any Catholic source of any type outside the SSPX and the like, which teaches that an Ecunemical Council ratified by a Pope can err. The same request was made to Pax Vobis and Mr. Drew before, but we are still waiting.
    For the record, I posted numerous theological opinions which state that EVERY WORD of conciliar docuмents are not infallible.  Only those statements which are authoritarian, clear and bind the faithful to believe matters of faith and morals, are infallible.  

    Multiple people agreed with this.  Some did not, like Ladislaus and you, who then argue that a fallible statement is still “free from error” because of (your personal interpretation of) indefectibility.  So a fallible infallibility.  

    This is nonsense and degrades the idea of infallibility and makes it pointless.  If the Magisterium is protected from err due to indefectibility, then why does infallibility even exist? ? ?

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #235 on: March 26, 2018, 08:07:28 PM »
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  • Stop digressing.  I don't believe that the Catechism of Trent taught BoD.  

    Unfortunately for you, I'm not digressing, but bringing up a very relevant point that directly contradicts not only your position but your attacks on the positions of others, e.g., Stubborn and Drew.

    What is under discussion is the view that the Magisterium is free from error. You have yet to offer a definition of that critical term, Magisterium. You quote popes who say that the Magisterium is "free from error" then you go off on Thomas substance/accidents and say:

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    No, what these Popes are teaching about is the Magisterium considered AS A WHOLE, the "forest" vs. the "trees" view of it that I've been talking about.  It's looking at it from the perspective that the Magisterium cannot, on the whole, be substantially corrupted.

    Why don't you go back and look at your quotes from the popes. Here's some of the phrases they used: "unable to be mistaken," "without danger of error," "could by no means commit itself to erroneous teaching." That is far more than "cannot, on the whole, be subtantially corrupted." Nice try, though, with that Thomist stuff. Impressive.

    And now you say that you "don't believe" that the Catechism of Trent taught BoD. Here's the language, using a quote from another poster, which is cited:

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    [35. Adulti quomodo ante Baptismum instruendi sint.]

    Diversam vero rationem in iis servandam esse, qui adulta aetate sunt, et perfectum rationis usum habent, qui scilicet ab infidelibus oriuntur, antiquae ecclesiae consuetudo declarat. Nam christiana quidem fides illis proponenda est, atque omni studio ad eam suscipiendam cohortandi, alliciendi, invitandi sunt. Quod si ad dominum Deum convertantur, tum vero monere oportet, ne, ultra tempus ab ecclesia praescriptum, baptismi sacramentum different. Nam cuм scriptum sit: Non tardes converti ad Dominum, et ne differas de die in diem; docendi sunt perfectam conversionem in nova per baptismum generatione positam esse. Praeterea, quo serius ad baptismum veniunt, eo diutius sibi carendum esse ceterorum sacramentorum usu et gratia, quibus christiana religio colitur, cuм ad ea sine baptismo nulli aditus patere possit: deinde etiam maximo fructu privari, quem ex baptismo percipimus; siquidem non solum omnium scelerum, quae antea admissa sunt, maculam et sordes baptismi aqua prorsus eluit ac tollit, sed divina gratia nos ornat, cuius ope et auxilio in posterum etiam peccata vitare possumus, iustitiamque et innocentiam tueri: qua in re summam christianae vitae constare facile omnes intelligunt.

    [36. Adultis baptismum differendum esse demonstratur.]

    Sed quamvis haec ita sint, non consuevit tamen ecclesia baptismi sacramentum huic hominum generi statim tribuere, sed ad certum tempus differendum esse constituit. Neque enim ea dilatio periculum, quod quidem pueris imminere supra dictum est, coniunctum habet; cuм illis, qui rationis usu praediti sunt, baptismi suscipiendi propositum atque consilium, et male actae vitae poenitentia satis futura sit ad gratiam et iustitiam, si repentinus aliquis casus impediat, quo minus salutari aqua ablui possint. Contra vero haec dilatio aliquas videtur utilitates afferre. Primum enim, quoniam ab ecclesia diligenter providendum est, ne quis ad hoc sacramentum ficto et simulato animo accedat, eorum voluntas, qui baptismum petunt, magis exploratur atque perspicitur: cuius rei causa in antiquis conciliis decretum legimus, ut qui ex iudaeis ad fidem catholicam veniunt, antequam baptismus illis administretur, aliquot menses inter catechumenos essent: deinde in fidei doctrina, quam profiteri debent, et christianae vitae institutionibus erudiuntur perfectius. Praeterea, maior religionis cultus sacramento tribuitur, si constitutis tantum paschae et pentecostes diebus, solemni caeremonia baptismum suscipiant.

    Ref: Catholic Church (1566) Catechismus ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini ad Parochos Pii Quinti Pont. Max. Iussu Editus. (Rome: Manutius) pp.197-198.
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TPxbAAAAQAAJ
    Headings from the 1845 Rome edition. p.108 ff.


    Here's my translation:-

    [35. How adults should be instructed before baptism.]

    The custom of the early Church testifies that a truly different method is to be kept for those who are at a  mature age and have the complete use of reason, and for those who undoubtedly descend from infidels.  For instance, the Christian faith is at least to be proposed to them, and they are also to be exhorted, drawn and invited to take it up with all zeal.  If they are converted to the Lord God, then truly it is proper to advise them not to put off receiving the sacrament of baptism beyond the time prescribed by the Church; for seeing that it is written: Do not delay to convert to the Lord, and do not postpone it from day to day, they should be taught that complete conversion, by a new coming into being through baptism is, to be highly valued; in addition, those who come late for baptism, still further lose for themselves the advantage and the grace of the other sacraments with which the Christian religion is adorned, since, without baptism, no one can be permitted to approach them [= the other sacraments]; then also they are deprived of the chief reward which we secure from baptism; because not only does the water of baptism wash off and entirely take away the stain and uncleaness of every evil deed which they had previously committed, but it adorns us with divine grace, by whose power and assistance we are also able to avoid sins in the future and to safeguard [our] righteousness and innocence; which, in reality, all easily understand to be the chief point of the Christian life.

    [36. It is shown that the Baptism of adults is to be delayed.]

    But nevertheless the Church has not been accustomed to bestow the sacrament of baptism at once upon this kind of person, whomsoever they might be, but has appointed that it should be deferred to a fixed season.  Nor, in fact, does that delay hold the associated danger, which was said above to be certainly imminent for children, since, for those who are endowed with the use of reason, the intention as well as the resolution of receiving baptism, and repentance for a life badly spent, would be sufficient for the grace and the righteousness [of baptism to be granted to them], if some sudden accident should impede them from being able to be washed in the water of salvation.  Indeed, on the contrary, this delay seems to bring certain advantages.  In the first place, in fact, because it is carefully provided for by the Church that, lest anyone approach this sacrament with a feigned and simulated spirit, the desire of those who seek baptism is, to a greater extent, investigated as well as observed, on account of which we read in ancient decrees of the Councils that those who come to the Catholic faith from the Jєωs, shall spend several months amongst the catechumens before baptism is administered to them.  Then, they are to be completely instructed in the doctrine of the faith which they ought to profess, and in the institutions of the Christian life.  Moreover, a greater degree of reverence is shown towards the sacrament, if it be arranged that, they receive baptism with solemn ceremony only on the days of Easter and Pentecost.

    https://www.cathinfo.com/baptism-of-desire-and-feeneyism/sedevacantist-'-feeneyite-'-bishops/ (Reply 11)

    Now, apart from asking you to look at the language itself, which appears to be well translated above, I also want you to consider the following comments you made to Drew and Stubborn in this thread:

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    "but please stop promoting this false and heretical notion that dogma is the proximate rule of faith ... against the teaching of all Catholic theologians."

    "EVERY Catholic theologian teaches that the Magisterium is the proximate rule of faith.

    I love if how Stubborn dismisses with a wave of his hand any 19th/20th century theologian (who doesn't agree with him)."

    I have one for you: NAME A SINGLE CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN WHO READS THE ABOVE CITED PASSAGE OF THE CATECHISM AS NOT SUPPORTING BOD. I'll let you answer and see what you come up, rather than listing the long roll call of theologians and saints who would not "believe" like you that the Catechism is "not teaching BoD."

    You're simply, ah, selective in applying the accusation of not listening to the theologians when it suits you - namely, applying it to others and avoiding the application to yourself. In fact, unless I'm wrong about what I think you will (or rather won't) come up with,"every Catholic theologian" opposes you. Doesn't stop you on your "belief" regarding the Catechism, so why should "EVERY Catholic theologian" prevent Drew and Stubborn from offering their view, which is at least consistent and doesn't come at you with a beam sticking out of the eye.  

    The Magisterium that is "free from error" appears to be only "free from error" when it agrees with Ladislaus. When it doesn't, well, it commits some real whoppers.

    Digression? Nah. It's a pin that goes straight into your balloon.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #236 on: March 26, 2018, 09:37:49 PM »
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  • Drew, you are just too proud to accept that you've been wrong about this.  Someone cited Van Noort, and one could cite a huge number of Catholic theologians.  I started with St. Thomas himself.  But you just keep regurgitating this nonsense because you won't admit that you got it wrong.  But it's worse than nonsense; it's the very heretical root of Protestantism.

    Again, I know that you're trying to do in order to bolster up R&R.  Do that, instead, by arguing about the limits of the Magisterium, but please stop promoting this false and heretical notion that dogma is the proximate rule of faith ... against the teaching of all Catholic theologians.  I know why you're clutching onto this with white knuckles ... because you argued this position in some op ed piece (or whatever that was, I can't recall 100%).  You similarly erred in misunderstanding and mischaracterizing the notion of "religious assent" to the Magisterium.

    If you want to back R&R, just stick to your argument that the teaching of V2 can be rejected as fallible Magisterium.  But let go of this error.

    Ladislaus,

    In a recent post I apologized for going too far in a personal criticism.  I should make it clear that I was not apologizing for calling you a liar, just for applying the defects of character found in liars to yourself. You posted in different thread your claim that the Magisterium of the Church was not of divine revelation. You repeated this error several times.  You then lied about committing this error and implied the problems were with other's inability to understand you nuanced distinctions between the Magisterium and Authority from Vatican I. If you or anyone else reading this post would like, I will post each link to docuмent this lie in detail. So when I call you a liar, it is docuмented accusation.

    There are various levels of credibility afforded evidence. The weakest is human authority and the strongest is the authority of God. In support to the claim that Dogma is the proximate rule of faith I have provided the relative weak evidence by direct quotations from St. Thomas, from Scheeban's, and Rev. Joseph Pohle. These posts can be pulled up again if necessary. To these authorities you counter with Van Noort's who doesn't even agree with you.  Van Noort does not say that the Magisteruim is the proximate rule of faith, he says the the proximate rule of the faith is Catholic preachers bring the faith to illiterate people. This is the only evidence you have produced.

    Over and above the mere opinion of theologians, I have provided Magisterial evidence from the Fourth Council of Constantinople approved by Pope Adrian II and from a Council approved by Pope Zosimus where both directly hold dogma as the rule of faith. Another poster provided a direct quote from Denzingers saying the same. There is also the evidence from St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lametabili in which he repeatedly refers to dogma. 

    In between these extremes there have been several reasoned arguments all of no avail. You will not distinguish between the means and the ends. 

    You have committed gross theological and philosophical errors that have serious repercussions. The first serious error was your claim that the Magisterium was not part of divine revelation. You then denied the correct definition of supernatural faith that it is believing what God has revealed on the authority of God.  You then took these two necessary attributes of supernatural faith and drove a wedge between them claiming what we believe and why we believe have different sources.  Your doctrine of sedeprivationism postulates a separation of between the form and the matter of the papal office thus causing a substantial change destroying the office that we know by divine and Catholic faith cannot happen. You err in your understanding of the Magisterium constantly using the term equivocally.  You claim that anyone not exercising unqualified obedience to the ordinary authentic magisterium is a "Protestant." You corrupt Catholic morality regarding the regulation of obedience by the virtue of Religion. The only error you are not currently repeating is that the Magisterium is not part of divine revelation but, you did not correct the error. You just tried to lie your way out of it.

    You repeat that the magisterum is your rule of faith but you acknowledge only a material pope that has no authority so he is no pope at all because authority is a necessary attribute of the office. Without a pope you have no access to the magisterium and therefore have no rule of faith. You accuse the conciliar popes of heresy but by what criteria?  If they are the magisterium ("teaching authority"), and the magisterium is your rule of faith, how can it be judged? What is the rule that judges the "teaching authority" by which you can accuse it of heresy? You cannot appeal to dogma because you have already said that only the magisterium ("teaching authority") alone can interpret dogma.  You have already accused others of being "Protestants" for 'interpreting dogma.' 

    You have no place left to go. You have entered a church of your own making.

    Drew


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #237 on: March 27, 2018, 04:18:15 AM »
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    Kind of reminds me of a guy driving a beat up, rusty old pick up truck with the muffler hanging down and wearing clothes from the salvation army, trying to tell you how to become rich.

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    Oh, you mean like Sam Walton?
    No, more like Fred Sanford.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #238 on: March 27, 2018, 06:19:37 AM »
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  • This is just a repetition of the old doctrine that all the bishops dispersed throughout the world in union with the Pope are infallible "when they propose a teaching of faith or morals as one to be held by all the faithful". The words "dispersed" just means that they are not gathered in the setting of an Ecunemical Council. What is the issue with it? All that it means is that there is no need to have the setting of a General Council in which all the bishops are present, in order to engage the Magisterium; which makes sense, given that there has only been 21 Ecunemical Councils since the Church foundation; so not ALL living generations have had an Ecunemical Council going during life time.
    It is not an old doctrine, it is officially a Novus Ordo doctrine, found only in the official docuмents of V2, specifically, it is found only in Lumen Gentium #25.

    In fact, the part I bolded in #3 is by far the best definition of what the Ordinary Magisterium is that I have seen so far.


    Pope Pius IX in Tuas Libenter

    1) "We love to think that they have not intended to restrict this obligation of obedience, which is strictly binding on Catholic professors and writers, solely to the points defined by the infallible judgment of the Church as dogmas of faith which all men must believe.

    2) And We are persuaded that they have not intended to declare that this perfect adhesion to revealed truths, which they have recognized to be absolutely necessary to the true progress of science and the refutation of error, could be theirs if faith and obedience were only accorded to dogmas expressly defined by the Church.

    3) Even when it is only a question of the submission owed to divine faith, this cannot be limited merely to points defined by the express decrees of the Ecuмenical Councils, or of the Roman Pontiffs and of this Apostolic See; this submission must also be extended to all that has been handed down as divinely revealed by the ordinary teaching authority of the entire Church spread over the whole world, and which, for this reason, Catholic theologians, with a universal and constant consent, regard as being of the faith. [the Ordinary Magisterium]

    4) But, since it is a question of the submission obliging in conscience all those Catholic who are engaged in that study of the speculative sciences so as to procure for the Church new advantages by their writings, the members of the Congress must recognize that it is not sufficient for Catholic savants to accept and respect the dogmas of the Church which We have been speaking about: they must, besides, submit themselves, whether to doctrinal decisions stemming from pontifical congregations, or to points of doctrine which, with common and constant consent, are held in the Church as truths and as theological conclusions so certain that opposing opinions, though they may not be dubbed heretical, nonetheless, merit some other form of theological censure.

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    In this teaching above, we read in #1 that dogma rules, that all men must believe the defined dogmas of the Church, not some vague idea of a magisterium. In #2, we read that perfect adhesion to dogma ("revealed truths") is absolutely necessary in the refutation of error. This agrees with dogma being the rule of faith.

    We learn in #3 that we cannot limit our beliefs to defined dogma, that we must also believe (faithfully submit to) "all that has been handed down as divinely revealed by the ordinary teaching authority of the entire Church spread over the whole world" (the Ordinary Magisterium).

    In and of itself, #3 and #4 kills the "totality of bishops doctrine" with the words "all that has been handed down". They then bury it 6 feet under with the words "with a universal and constant consent, regard as being of the faith" since here, the word "universal" simply means "always and every where".  The term "constant consent"  means that all of the Church's authorities and learned have accepted and taught as a part if the faith since the time of the Apostles.

    Because he includes the attribute of time, he immediately eliminates the "totality of bishops doctrine", which by it's very nature excludes the attribute of time. 


    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #239 on: March 27, 2018, 06:21:38 AM »
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  • This is just a repetition of the old doctrine that all the bishops dispersed throughout the world in union with the Pope are infallible

    Now, let's make a simple comparison between 1) what your idea is that TL teaches, vs 2) what TL actually teaches:



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    “For even if it were a matter of that submission which must be manifested by an act of divine faith, nevertheless, this would not have to be limited to those matters that have been
    defined by explicit decrees of ecuмenical councils or by the Roman pontiffs and by this Apostolic See, but would also have to be extended to the totality of the Bishops [which is] is infallible, when they, either assembled in general council or scattered over the earth propose a teaching of faith or morals as one to be held by all the faithful.

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    Even when it is only a question of the submission owed to divine faith, this cannot be limited merely to points defined by the express decrees of the Ecuмenical Councils, or of the Roman Pontiffs and of this Apostolic See; this submission must also be extended to all that has been handed down as divinely revealed by the ordinary teaching authority of the entire Church spread over the whole world, and which, for this reason, Catholic theologians, with a universal and constant consent, regard as being of the faith. [the Ordinary Magisterium]

    If #1 is in fact the way it is, then we are all bound to faithfully submit to the teachings of V2 - and most certainly faithfully submit to all of the NO bishops.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse