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Offline hollingsworth

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Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
« Reply #990 on: May 08, 2018, 09:26:53 AM »
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  • ladislaus:
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    Drew, you are just babbling like a complete idiot.

    True, lad.  But you consistently respond to his idiocy like a complete idiot. ::)

    Offline Stubborn

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #991 on: May 08, 2018, 10:59:56 AM »
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  • I said this.

    You said this.

    I just can't seem to find the quotes from St. Vincent and Pope Pius IX in your post that prove R&R correct. You said you would stick with them, so they must have taught your belief system.

    And you called us Idiots.

    Below are snips of their teachings, I have no doubt that you'll come up with at least one reason why they do not mean what they say and that they do not apply. It would not even be all too surprising for you to foolishly claim they actually support sedeism.

    As I said, sedeism was never believed by anyone anywhere until about 50 years ago, it was never believed because it was never held or taught by any of the faithful. For those not already trapped in sedeism, this is how we know sedeism is not Catholic.

    The Vincentian Canon, the "guiding principle for distinguishing the true Catholic Faith from the degraded falsehoods of heresy."


    (3) Now in the Catholic Church itself we take the greatest care to hold that which has been believed everywhere, always and by all. That is truly and properly 'Catholic,' as is shown by the very force and meaning of the word, which comprehends everything almost universally. We shall hold to this rule if we follow universality [i.e. oecuмenicity], antiquity, and consent. We shall follow universality if we acknowledge that one Faith to be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity if we in no wise depart from those interpretations which it is clear that our ancestors and fathers proclaimed; consent, if in antiquity itself we keep following the definitions and opinions of all, or certainly nearly all, bishops and doctors alike.


    Pope Pius IX:
    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."

    This effectively eliminates sedeism from being Catholic.
    "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 #992 on: May 08, 2018, 11:48:51 AM »
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  • And here we have the nominalism from the other side.
    Platonic forms are only “abstract” is the minds of Aristotelian crypto-materialists, and Aristotelian metaphysics is not dogma nor will it ever be (the Bible and Apostolic tradition know nothing of it).

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #993 on: May 08, 2018, 01:59:45 PM »
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  • Of course not, because sedevacantism is not a doctrine which is "taught"; but simply a plausible explanation of the crisis.  

    If your problem with it, is merely the "novelty" factor, then please realize that first, this is an unprecedent crisis, and second, the same can also be said of R&R...

    Actually no, I take that back, R&R is not new: resisting the Pope of Rome and the Ecunemical Councils of the Church as R&R does is actually a very old practice always associated with the heretics, which I hope you would agree that is even worst than merely being a "novel" reaction.
    Reference the Principle of the Vincentian Canon; The Church has always and everywhere taught that all who denounce the pope as pope *for any reason*, commit an act of schism. This is what all of the people have always believed because it is has always been a teaching of the Church.

    This act of schism, no matter which one of it's many different varieties is invoked, the sedes have dubbed "sedevacantism".  

    In their effort to thwart the most fundamental of Catholic principles, the sedes have dubbed this most fundamental Catholic principle as "R&R", as if this Catholic principle does not apply on account of their better, or higher principle, called sedeism.    

    The Catholic Principle I am speaking of, which the sede's have dubbed "R&R", has also been taught by the Church and believed by all of the faithful always and everywhere, the principle this one:

    "No matter what may happen, since no one may justifiably command another to sin, and since no one is permitted to obey such a command, no one may ever blame another—even an errant pope—for his sins. Conversely, the failure of any person—even the pope—to keep God's law or to preserve his own faith, does not excuse any other person for his failure to do the same. Ignorance of the law or ignorance of the Faith is never an excuse for sinning; one is bound to know when he is being commanded to sin." - Fr. Wathen, The Great Sacrilege

    So it would be nice, as well as Just, to remember that whenever sedes derogatorily refer to R&R, they are referring to the above Catholic Principle.




    "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 #994 on: May 08, 2018, 04:23:13 PM »
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  • YOU denounce the "pope as pope" every single day.  We denounce Bergoglio as non-pope.  You have everything so backwards that it's diabolical.
    It's is really, really quite amazing how the mind of dogmatic doubter works. Absolutely incredible.

    FYI, you can denounce the pope and all of reality all night and day for the rest of your life if that's what makes you feel superior, but God said you are not permitted to do that and if you do, you are guilty of committing an act of schism. 

    To you, that is so backwards that it's diabolical - I attribute that bit of ignorance to your formal NO / Sede theological de-education.

     
     
    "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 #995 on: May 09, 2018, 08:23:47 AM »
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  • You have completely lost your Catholic bearings.  YOU denounce the Pope every single day.  We say that he's not the Pope.  And it has precious little to do with feeling superior ... it's about the indefectibility and incorruptibility of the Church's Magisterium and Universal Discipline, something which you do not believe.  Your concept of the Church lines up with that of Luther and the other Prot heretics.
    They must have really put you through the ringer at your NO and sede theology courses.

    St. Vincent's teaching testifies against all things sede, that includes your personal, confused and consistent contradictory opinions.  


     
    "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 #996 on: May 09, 2018, 09:59:21 AM »
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  • 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.”

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #997 on: May 09, 2018, 10:22:18 AM »
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  • The Campos priests in making their deal with Ecclesia Dei, Bishop De Castro Mayer’s own writings and testimony from the 1988 episcopal consecrations all suggest that he favored the sede vacante position as a valid Catholic opinion. 
    We conclude logically that religion can give an efficacious and truly realistic answer to the great modern problems only if it is a religion that is profoundly lived, not simply a superficial and cheap religion made up of some vocal prayers and some ceremonies...


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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #998 on: May 09, 2018, 05:14:02 PM »
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  • Still waiting for Mr. Drew to answer how is it that manifest heresy does not destroy the Papal Office.

    The belief that a Pope cannot be a heretic is rooted in the dogma that manifest heretics are outside the Church. They are not members.


    Patience is a virtue. Mr Drew has a very demanding profession and has had an extremely busy week and Mass tomorrow night for Ascension Thursday. You may have to wait another day, maybe two.
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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #999 on: May 09, 2018, 08:06:24 PM »
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  • Cantarella:
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    Still waiting for Mr. Drew to answer how is it that manifest heresy does not destroy the Papal Office.

    You have some doubt that he will answer?  Of course he will answer; and he will probably do so lengthily.  He feeds off forum members like you, Cant.  You energize and abet his long winded effusions. 

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #1000 on: May 10, 2018, 05:14:08 AM »
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  • This is quite a childish tactic and extremely deceptive. First, you definitely posted those quotes knowing full well that they do not apply. Second, you add a prediction that I will say they don't apply, because they don't, so that you can look like you are right and super intelligent. It's hilarious. I don't, however, think they support the position that the Papacy can remain vacant for an undetermined amount of time. So you were wrong on that one.
    No, it is no tactic at all, and there is no deception involved because those Catholic quotes are the simple truths to live and die by,  have always been the simple truth and will forever remain simple, Catholic truths to live by.

    It's simple, basic Catholicity - sedeism, being a *new* idea, is not Catholic. This new idea is accepted and promoted only by a  few as if it is doctrine, which means sedewhateverism cannot be Catholic. The whole idea has not been held as a part of Catholic doctrine through all the generations of the Church by the vast majority of the people, that is how we know it is not Catholic.

    Like all sedes who cling to error, poor lad argues against this teaching saying basically the reason sedeism is new, is because it's a reaction to a new situation - it is for this reason that these quoted teachings do not and cannot apply - and he says this as if our Holy Mother did not already forewarn us of what She expects of us in this type of situation.

    The Church always condemning as an act of schism those who presume to decide the status of the pope, we may be absolutely certain is not among those expectations. So we may be absolutely certain of at least one course that we may never presume to undertake, sedevacantism.

    Your argument against the quoted teachings by attempting to equate sedewhateverism to the period of sede vacante, the space of time between the death and election of popes, is altogether childish, bordering on insanity in virtue of reality.




     



    "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 #1001 on: May 10, 2018, 08:48:14 AM »
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  • The situation at Saint Athanasius has caused me to take more of an interest in the issue of sedeism than I had.  It has been interesting indeed.  Having opinions is one thing, but that is not what is going on in the parish.  We have a priest omitting the prayer for the Pope at Mass and various other parts of the liturgy (e.g. Litany of the Saints, Exsultet), and openly attacking the position traditionally associated with Archbishop Lefebvre.  I don't buy it, no priest has the authority to decide such things, only the Church.  At some point the Church will presumably deal with this issue but we are not there yet.

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    Re: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #1002 on: May 10, 2018, 09:16:11 AM »
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  • In the meantime you will continue to be the good and faithful subject of an open and manifest apostate? That is what it boils down to. The Sedes are not trying to take over the role of the ecclesiastical authority of the Church. There are just some things the faithful must recognize and there are Dogmas which prevent us from considering these men Catholic, let alone our hierarchy.


    It's not like you sedes are "trying" to take over the ecclsiatiscal authority of the Church. You ALREADY have taken that role. You have determined that all Catholics MUST accept your proclamation that Francis isn't the pope.

    You are not allowing other Catholics to believe that +ABL was correct in his assessment of the situation. You do not allow any other view, except your own. Whereas we who follow +ABL do admit that the Pope may not be the Pope, but that we don't have the authority to make that determination (that Francis isn't the Pope).
    "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: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #1003 on: May 10, 2018, 09:25:30 AM »
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  • True.

    It is a dogma that manifest heretics are outside the Church and this is not a novelty.

    Anyone has a doubt on that?

    What I doubt is that you have the authority to force others to accept your proclamations regarding the Pope.
    "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: Is Father Ringrose dumping the R & R crowd?
    « Reply #1004 on: May 10, 2018, 09:27:15 AM »
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  • True.

    It is a dogma that manifest heretics are outside the Church and this is not a novelty.

    If you want to argue that Bergoglio is NOT a manifest heretic, that is one thing. But you cannot say that a manifest heretic who is not a member of the Church can be Pope and head of the Church.

    Anyone has a doubt on that?

    We don't actually have to "prove" anything to you or any other sede. We simply take the prudent route, as +ABL did. 
    "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