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Concedo.

I got my Xavier posts/threads mixed up.

I should say:

“It’s almost miraculous how a thread on the ‘apostolic mission’ of Bishop Zendejas can end up a thread on BOD.”

Ps: Only Catholics are Christians.

The criticisms some have made of Vigano in this thread are reasonable, but not disturbing to those like me who have tracked his trajectory into tradition since 2018.

Just in that span of three years, Vigano has:

1) Acknowledged and explained (and apologized for) his fault for not rejecting the conciliar ʀɛʋօʟutιօn decades ago;

2) Laid the blame at the conciliar and post-conciliar docuмents themselves (which he says contain not mere ambiguities, but actual doctrinal errors);

3) Acknowledged the righteousness of Lefebvre and his apostolate;

4) Rejected the conciliar church (calling it a counterfeit church);

5) Questioned whether Vatican II is even a bona fide ecuмenical council;

6) Left the door open to the possibility that Francis is not a true pope;

7) Encouraged everyone to abandon the new Mass and new Mass clergy;

8) Made contact with Bishop Williamson and the Resistance;

9) Advised faithful to stay home on Sunday if the Mass they would attend does not sanctify Sunday.

His list of blunders pales in comparison:

1) An ill-advised telespeech at the Jehrico march.

As regards his leaving the door open a crack to attend a pius new Mass (if no traditional Mass is available), I will bet one year from now, that same crack will be half as wide, and will end up only remaining open for those in grave necessity (eg., Archbishop Lefebvre’s famous “cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ” exception).  

To me, this man is a gift from God to strengthen wavering souls.

As for those who criticize him for “not doing anything,” you are blind.  Teaching the faith is the most important and most needed thing right now, and I believe God has awoken him to fulfill that roll.

Hi, Quo Vadis. So do you disagree with the Catholic Encyclopedia then?

I hold that validly baptized Christians, who believe explicitly in the Trinity and Incarnation, confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and err in good faith, are real Christians. Msgr. Fenton says such can be saved if they are in good faith.

CE: "The Catholic Church of the twentieth century is vastly in advance of that of the sixteenth. She has made up her loss in political power and worldly wealth by increased spiritual influences and efficiency; her adherents are more widespread, more numerous, more fervent than at any time in her history, and they are bound to the central Government at Rome by a more filial affection and a clearer sense of duty. Religious education is abundantly provided for clergy and laity; religious practice, morality, and works of charity are flourishing; the Catholic mission-field is world-wide and rich in harvest. The hierarchy was never so united, never so devoted to the pope. The Roman unity is successfully resisting the inroads of sects, of philosophies, of politics.

Can our separated brethren tell a similar tale of their many Churches, even in lands where they are ruled and backed by the secular power? We do not rejoice at their disintegration, at their falling into religious indifference, or returning into political parties. No, for any shred of Christianity is better than blank worldliness. But we do draw this conclusion: that after four centuries the Catholic principle of authority is still working out the salvation of the Church, whereas among Protestants the principle of Subjectivism is destroying what remains of their former faith and driving multitudes into religious indifference and estrangement from the supernatural." https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12495a.htm

"Any shred of Christianity is better than blank worldliness". They have a partial Christianity that will always be incomplete in itself.

Catholic Christianity is Complete Christianity, the full 100% Catholic and Apostolic Faith. But other Christians have valid Baptism etc.

Every effort should be made to bring separated Christians back to the Catholic and Apostolic Church. They remain deprived of many gifts.

God Bless.