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Offline Mark 79

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Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
« Reply #195 on: October 21, 2020, 09:05:48 PM »
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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #196 on: October 21, 2020, 09:05:53 PM »
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    Pope Paul IV, cuм ex Apostolatus Officio, Feb. 15, 1559, §6 (Roman Bullarium Vol. IV. Sec. I, pp. 354-357)

    Mark, in your earlier post, you admitted that cuм Ex was abrogated by Pope St Pius X (and again by Pius XII), who both allowed the excommunicated Cardinals to vote/win a papal conclave.  ??  You're going around in circles here.  If cuм Ex doesn't apply anymore (at least to a pope), then quit quoting it.


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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #197 on: October 21, 2020, 09:08:15 PM »
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  • Like the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, Ladislaus would be quite happy with that position, because it had the "virtue" of toleration of the schismatic sedevacantist position.
    Lisping: "Just towerate uth!"
    But never lose track of this:
    A popeless church for 602 years and counting (forevermore), and no way ever to re-establish an hierarchy.
    That's the dope the sedes are smoking.
    They are not merely pope killers: They are church killers.
    I mean, I'm nowhere near a sede, but IDK... some of the sede hatred seems irrational to me.  Is Sedevacantism seriously worse than modernism?  The Pope literally just brazenly violated natural law and said ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ civil unions should be allowed.  Is everyone who questions whether he could be a pope of bad will?

    Keep in mind Lefebvre did doubt the pontificates of Paul VI and JPII, though he never went sede.

    A lot of this feels procedural to me.  I've said before that my biggest critique of sedes is procedure rather than theology.  I find the Sedeprivationist approach to be a cop out (though it theoretically provides a solution to the problem you describe) and the straight sedevacantist position even more so.  If there's truly no pope, the sede bishops need to gather together and elect a pope.  the fact that they won't does bother me.

    But this seems like a procedural problem.  Accusing them of killing the church seems silly to me.  It seems more like the modern hierarchy is killing the church.  The best you can accuse the sedes of is not fixing it, but then, we aren't fixing it either.

    Is God really going to send someone to hell for getting a procedural question wrong?  That seems kinda unfair to me.

    I mean... if St Pius X was pope, both "R and R" *and* Sedevacantist would be guilty of "refusal to submit to the Roman Pontiff" but in this case, both sides for grave reason aren't submitting (at least fully) to the man the entire world recognizes as pope.

    I don't know... none of the solutions seem particularly appealing.  I don't even call myself R and R really.  I more just try to ignore him as much as possible, save my daily prayers for him, unless someone brings him up or I have to address him in some capacity in my efforts to present the faith to Protestant family members and friends which is really what I care about.  I have a seriously hard time God would condemn somebody for accidentally picking the second or third least bad of a series of bad options.  That doesn't make sense to me.  And that goes for the strong Sedes who condemn everyone else too.

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #198 on: October 21, 2020, 09:09:57 PM »
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  • Mental note: 6 of 11 posters currently logged in are sedes.

    Yet, when asked about their affiliation/position in polls, their numbers are half that.

    Could it be that the ytry to hide their predominance on Cathinfo (the de facto headquarters of sedevacantism), but when issues pop up impacting their schism, they simply cant resist?

    Yes, that seems to be it.
    They can't resist 'cause that's an R and R thing ;) 

    Seriously though, is there any evidence for this kind of nefarious assumption of ill will?  Also curious who you're counting as sede.

    Offline Pax Vobis

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #199 on: October 21, 2020, 09:17:00 PM »
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    Yeah, but you have the authority and right to declare their Councils, Mass, Sacraments, Canon Law, universal disciplinary laws, Canonizations and Encyclicals null and void.
    We're not declaring the V2 council, new mass, sacraments, canon law or encyclicals to be null/void, but we declare them to: 1) be legally valid, in the sense that they happened in a historical way and were legally docuмented.
    2) but they are illegal to follow/practice, because they violate the requirements/commands of Quo Primum.
    3) all of the above were not ordered as binding, nor are they obligatory, nor is there any pain of sin attached to ignoring them.
    4) None of these things are part of the "universal discipline" which term presupposes that they are a) binding on the whole church, b) under pain of sin.  They are neither, so the correct term is a "non-universal option".
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    So, there is no sin, nor crisis of conscience in sticking with Tradition/Quo Primum, and ignoring all of V2's nonsense.  In fact, if one DOES NOT stick with Tradition/Quo Primum, they commit many grave sins and violate church law.
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    The "pope question" is a wholly separate matter than the above, which is a matter of Church law.


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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #200 on: October 21, 2020, 09:23:39 PM »
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    Ladislaus, Your main issue with "R and R" seems to be that they say "The Church did this."  But then I see people like Pax saying, actually the Church didn't do this, the Pope just promulgated it in a non binding way.  And you're accusing him of heresy.  I'm unclear on why.

    Byzcat, I too would like to understand Lad's position better, but he never goes deeper than what he wrote earlier.  I think the topic gets him riled up, so he tries to avoid it.
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    It's hard to have a honest discussion of these matters; too many are entrenched in their opinions already.  I'd love a honest critique/discussion of my views, by someone who is searching for the truth, not for the "kill shot" against the "other side".  PM me if you're interested.

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #201 on: October 21, 2020, 09:36:54 PM »
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  • 3) all of the above were not ordered as binding, nor are they obligatory, nor is there any pain of sin attached to ignoring them.

    Except your Pope, “Saint” Paul VI declared the following at the close of Vatican Council II:
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     “…we order and command that all that the Council has decided in synod be sacredly and religiously held by all of Christ’s faithful, unto the glory of God… These things we edict and prescribe, decreeing that this present letter must ever be and remain firm, valid and efficacious and obtain and retain its full and integral effects…Given at Rome, under the fisherman’s ring…”

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #202 on: October 21, 2020, 10:23:13 PM »
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    “…we order and command that all that the Council has decided in synod be sacredly and religiously held by all of Christ’s faithful, unto the glory of God

    But what did the Council "decide"?  It decided that A and not-A can be held simultaneously, in a pastoral way, or something.  It wasn't clear at all.
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    Sorry, this is common legal language at the end of council docuмents.
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    These things we edict and prescribe, decreeing that this present letter must ever be and remain firm, valid and efficacious and obtain and retain its full and integral effects

    "What things" did V2 "edict and prescribe"?  Quote me a council docuмent and show me where it says something unorthodox that we MUST believe, with a certainty of faith, under pain of sin.  Doesn't exist.
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    Again, the above is common legal language.


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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #203 on: October 21, 2020, 10:31:53 PM »
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  • Byzcat, I too would like to understand Lad's position better, but he never goes deeper than what he wrote earlier.  I think the topic gets him riled up, so he tries to avoid it.
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    It's hard to have a honest discussion of these matters; too many are entrenched in their opinions already.  I'd love a honest critique/discussion of my views, by someone who is searching for the truth, not for the "kill shot" against the "other side".  PM me if you're interested.
    PM sent.

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #204 on: October 21, 2020, 11:01:05 PM »
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  • Careless or deceptive?
    Vatican 1 demands that you submit to your Pope.


    So, submit to your Pope, Sean.

    And here is what Pope Leo XIII said in his Encyclical Libertas Praestantissimum, June 20,1888 [.e., AFTER Vatican I]:
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    If, then, by any one in authority, something be sanctioned out of conformity with the principles of right reason, and consequently hurtful to the commonwealth, such an enactment can have no binding force of law."
     
    And a little further on, he says:
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    But where the power to command is wanting, or where a law is enacted contrary to reason, or to the eternal law, or to some ordinance of God, obedience is unlawful, lest while obeying man, we become disobedient to God."
     
    Now our disobedience is motivated by the need to keep the Catholic Faith. The orders being given us clearly express that they are being given us in order to oblige us to submit without reserve to the Second Vatican Council, to the post-conciliar reforms, and to the prescriptions of the Holy See, that is to say, to the orientations and acts which are undermining our Faith and destroying the Church. It is impossible for us to do this. To collaborate in the destruction of the Church is to betray the Church and to betray Our Lord Jesus Christ.
    Now all the theologians worthy of this name teach that if the pope, by his acts, destroys the Church, we cannot obey him (Vitoria: Obras, pp.486-487; Suarez: De fide, disp.X, sec.VI, no.16; St. Robert Bellarmine: de Rom. Pont., Book 2, Ch.29; Cornelius a Lapide: ad Gal. 2,11, etc.) and he must be respectfully, but publicly, rebuked.
    The principles governing obedience to the pope's authority are the same as those governing relations between a delegated authority and its subjects. They do not apply to the Divine Authority which is always infallible and indefectible and hence incapable of failing. To the extent that God has communicated His infallibility to the pope and to the extent that the pope intends to use this infallibility, which involves four very precise conditions in its exercise, there can be no failure.
    Outside of these precisely fixed conditions, the authority of the pope is fallible and so the criteria which bind us to obedience apply to his acts. Hence it is not inconceivable that there could be a duty of disobedience with regard to the pope.
    The authority which was granted him was granted him for precise purposes and in the last resort for the glory of the Holy Trinity, for Our Lord Jesus Christ, and for the salvation of souls.
    Whatever would be carried out by the pope in opposition to this purpose would have no legal value and no right to be obeyed, nay, rather, it would oblige us to disobey in order for us to remain obedient to God and faithful to the Church.
    https://sspx.org/en/can-obedience-oblige-us-disobey
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

    Offline Mark 79

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #205 on: October 22, 2020, 12:41:21 AM »
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  • Mark, in your earlier post, you admitted that cuм Ex was abrogated by Pope St Pius X (and again by Pius XII), who both allowed the excommunicated Cardinals to vote/win a papal conclave.  ??  You're going around in circles here.  If cuм Ex doesn't apply anymore (at least to a pope), then quit quoting it.
    No circles.
    AS I POSTED (please re-read it), the language of the abrogation referred ONLY to election, NOTHING ELSE.
    Unless someone can adduce a more encompassing abrogation, we are left with an [admittedly bizarre] heretics-can-be-elected, but "automatically" and "immediately" depose themselves "without need for any further declaration."
    If there is more extensive abrogation, someone should put it on the table.


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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #206 on: October 22, 2020, 12:48:47 AM »
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  • Is God really going to send someone to hell for getting a procedural question wrong?
    On that question I return to pre-V2 grammar school catechism.
    What are the 3 things necessary to commit mortal sin?
    1. The sin must be serious (mortal).
    2. The sinner must know it is serious (mortal).
    3. The sinner must fully consent to the serious (mortal) sin.
    A man who does his best to answer these questions, even if he is wrong, is clearly NOT fully consenting to something he KNOWS is mortally sinful.
    THAT is why we can discount the anathemata of the dogmatic popolators and the dogmatic sedes.
    Again I invoke the need for love of Truth (2 Thess 2:10-11).

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #207 on: October 22, 2020, 12:53:34 AM »
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  • We're not declaring the V2 council, new mass, sacraments, canon law or encyclicals to be null/void, but we declare them to: 1) be legally valid, in the sense that they happened in a historical way and were legally docuмented.
    2) but they are illegal to follow/practice, because they violate the requirements/commands of Quo Primum.
    3) all of the above were not ordered as binding, nor are they obligatory, nor is there any pain of sin attached to ignoring them.
    4) None of these things are part of the "universal discipline" which term presupposes that they are a) binding on the whole church, b) under pain of sin.  They are neither, so the correct term is a "non-universal option".
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    So, there is no sin, nor crisis of conscience in sticking with Tradition/Quo Primum, and ignoring all of V2's nonsense.  In fact, if one DOES NOT stick with Tradition/Quo Primum, they commit many grave sins and violate church law.
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    The "pope question" is a wholly separate matter than the above, which is a matter of Church law.
    What about those new environmental sins against Gaia?

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #208 on: October 22, 2020, 01:11:24 AM »
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  • And here is what Pope Leo XIII said  <snip>
    https://sspx.org/en/can-obedience-oblige-us-disobey

    1. Do you not see the irony of quoting the correct principle that Divine Law trumps Man-Made (Canon) Law while exempting the papacy from that solid principle?
    I am not the first to notice that you are willing to make all manner of judgments about manifest matters, but proselytize deep denial about the manifest heresies of the anti-Christ "subsisting in" the Chair of Peter.

    2. I do not need to rely upon the manifestly fallible nSSPX or its polemicists to explicate what Galatians 2:11 does so much more succinctly.

    3. There is great tension between Galatians 2:11 and Pastor Aeternus, Chap 3. I begin to appreciate why the Old Catholics had difficulty swallowing Vatican 1.

    4. I do not have the competence or jurisdiction to have a dispositive opinion on these matters AND NEITHER DO YOU.

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    Re: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo
    « Reply #209 on: October 22, 2020, 03:41:53 AM »
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    4. I do not have the competence or jurisdiction to have a dispositive opinion on these matters AND NEITHER DO YOU.
    Exactly!

    It's great to discuss and argue theology on forums, but in the end we can't bind consciences, or compel others under pain of mortal sin, because no one of us is the Pope.
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