Here's some more of Fr. Scott. You can see how this kind of thinking in the SSPX helped set the stage for Fr. Paul Robinson's modernist book The Realist Guide to Religion and Science. At 10:01 Fr. Scott starts strongly deriding geocentrists. In the process he even confuses the words rotate and revolve. (Geocentrism, of course, holds that the Earth is motionless. It neither rotates nor revolves.)
There is only one heresy that has been condemned by the Church that has been reversed and become accepted by churchmen (as distinct from the Church), heliocentrism. As we know, the heresy that came closest to dominate Catholicism in the past was the Arian heresy, but in that case St Athanasius I of Alexandria managed to convince all, including popes, of the truth, and the true divinity of Christ prevailed. In the case of the Galilean heresy, there was no Athanasius, merely a Fr Filippo Anfossi (1748-1825) Master of the Sacred Palace, Rome, 1820, and a few colleagues who fought with him to defend the geocentrism of Scripture. In that case however, intellectual pride won the battle and Pope Pius VII ruled that
a heliocentrism without violent effects on Earth was no longer heresy and could be used to change the traditional meaning of Scripture. It was this decision that placed Modernism into the womb of the Church, a ploy by Satan, predicted by God in Scripture when he said that
Satan was the Father of Lies and was capable of fooling even the elect.
Intelligence, the extent or ability of one’s reasoning, while a great gift from God comes with a high price tag, especially when engaging in matters challenging traditional Catholic dogma, theology, and metaphysics. Saint Augustine once affirmed: ‘If there were no pride, there would be no heresy.’ In 2015, an exorcist in Barcelona said of all the sins preferred by Satan, pride was the greatest. We all want to be clever, and the cleverer the better; fallen man revels in ‘vainglory in one’s own reasoning’ as Galileo boasted. Such a talent produces an interior, personal and social satisfaction that is irresistible to those that have it. It can bring honour, glory, respect, advantage, reward, and fame to some who excel in any given field of knowledge. Sir Francis Bacon understood this very well with his ‘knowledge itself is power.’ However, conforming and contributing to a consensus can be a path to success among one’s peers, but in regard to origins, the temptations involved here are enormous, for intelligence can also be the source of pride. The great intellectual saints such as Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Bellarmine all knew that intellectual pride is an area that Satan has not neglected. These men refused accolades and honours, preferring instead to embrace humility and exalt divine authority and teaching.
For if you did believe Moses, you would believe Me also;
for he wrote of Me.(John 5:46)
Now there are some priests of the SSPX who accept the Doctrine of Geocentrism, but they are silenced out of it by those like Fr Robinson and Fr Scott who are allowed talk their way around the teachings of the Church.
thankfully, 30 years ago, I, a farmer if you don't mind, who was educated as a heliocentrist and evolutionist, as we all were and still are, was given a book by my (late wife), who was a silent creationist and geocentrist at the time, a book by Thomas Mac Fadden on evolution. I took me fifteen minutes to realise that I was a fool to believe elephants evolved from sponges. I was so angry that I decided to educate myself and write a book to inform Catholics of the truth. Then came Pope John Paul; II remark that evolution was more than a hypothesis. Now who would take my word against a pope's so I gave it up. But then I was told by a Paul Ellwanger (RIP) that evolution was the baby of heliocentrism. He then sent me all the info on the matter he collected at his own expense. That began my 30 year research into the matter so that I could expose this more recent Arian-type heresy that did manage to pollute Catholicism. Alas, it is a story that most Catholics reject for many reasons including most Catholic forums. Thankfully CIF is different and do champion the fight against this long held heresy that has undermined the Fathers, Saints and theologians of Tradition who upheld the truth of Genesis, God creation as revealed by Him.
I will address Fr Scott directly in my next post.