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Title: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: mcollier on April 11, 2019, 01:22:46 PM
I have seen it said that a Catholic must not approach doubtful sacraments on pain of mortal sin. 

At first, I thought this was based on Catholic moral theology on a position called tutiorism. But when I researched the term I read that tutiorism was condemned by the Holy See and that probabiliorism (or some variant of this position) is the predominant theological opinion/position. 

Then I read, that the prohibition against approaching doubtful sacraments is based on Canon Law itself. If so, what Canon? 

It all makes sense to me, but I would like to better understand this subject. 

Also, what constitutes doubt? In turn what constitutes certainty? Is it enough to have moral certainty to approach the sacraments? (And if so, I would like to better understand what constitutes moral certitude versus the other degrees of certitude that one can possess). 

Thank you. God bless. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: mcollier on April 11, 2019, 08:00:20 PM
Never mind. It looks like I found the answer. 

“We cannot choose a less certain option, called by the moral theologians a simply probable manner of acting, that could place in doubt the validity of the sacraments, as we are sometimes obliged to do in other moral questions. If we were able to follow a less certain way of acting, we would run the risk of grave sacrilege and uncertainty concerning the sacraments, which would place the eternal salvation of souls in great jeopardy. Even the lax “probabilist” theologians admitted this principle with respect to baptism and holy orders, since the contrary opinion was condemned by Pope Innocent XI in 1679. Innocent XI condemned the position that it is permissible
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in conferring sacraments to follow a probable opinion regarding the value of the sacrament, the safer opinion being abandoned.... Therefore, one should not make use of probable opinions only in conferring baptism, sacerdotal or episcopal orders." (Proposition 1 condemned and prohibited by Innocent XI, Dz. 1151)
 
Consequently, it is forbidden to accept a likely or probably valid ordination for the subsequent conferring of sacraments. One must have the greatest possible moral certitude, as in other things necessary for eternal salvation. The faithful themselves understand this principle, and it really is a part of the “sensus Ecclesiae,” the spirit of the Church. They do not want to share modernist, liberal rites, and have an aversion to receiving the sacraments from priests ordained in such rites, for they cannot tolerate a doubt in such matters. It is for this reason that they turn to the superiors to guarantee validity.”
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: mcollier on April 11, 2019, 08:09:27 PM
My original question never pertained to the Novus Ordo per se (I really was thinking of indult, FSSP, neoSSPX sacraments offered by priests with doubtful ordinations). But I also found this which I found helpful...other recent posts had raised similar issues...hopefully others find this helpful too. God bless. 

If intention is necessary for the validity of the sacraments, how can we ever be sure that the sacraments we receive are valid?
There can be no doubt as to the necessity of the correct intention for the valid reception of the sacraments. This is explicitly declared by the Catechism of the Council of Trent, when it states that the ministers of the Sacraments:
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...validly perform and confer the Sacraments, provided they make use of the matter and form always observed in the Catholic Church according to the institution of Christ, and provided they intend to do what the Church does in their administration (p. 155).
The Baltimore Catechism explains what the expression "intending to do what the Church does" really means, namely:
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the intention of doing what Christ intended when He instituted the Sacrament and what the Church intends when it administers the Sacrament.
As a consequence, it follows that if a priest has a positive intention against what the Church does, namely of specifically not intending what Christ intends and what the Church intends, then one of the three elements necessary for the validity of the Mass is absent, and the Mass is invalid.
This is effectively stated by Pope Alexander VIII when he condemned the contrary proposition as Jansenist, namely that baptism is valid when administered by a minister who resolves within his heart not to intend what the Church does (Dz, 1318).
Since none of us can read the innermost intentions of a minister’s heart how, then, does any one of us know whether or not the sacraments we have received were valid. In effect, Saint Robert Bellarmine points out that we can never have a certitude of Faith concerning the reception of a true sacrament, since no-one can see the intention of another. However, in truth we can never have such a certitude concerning human events. The greatest certitude that we can have is a moral certitude, which is also the certitude that we can have about any contingent, singular reality.
However, it is perfectly possible to have a moral certitude. In the traditional rites of the sacraments and of Mass the guarantee of this moral certitude is contained in the rites themselves. For the traditional rites for Mass and the sacraments express the intentions of the Church in a very explicit manner, leaving no room for doubt whatsoever. The same is not the case for the new rites, framed explicitly to be ambiguous, and to be just as compatible with a Protestant intention as with a Catholic one. Since they do not express the intention of doing what the Church does, the intention of the priest cannot be explicitly known. Consequently there is always a doubt as to the intention of the priest in the celebration of the New Mass and sacraments, which does not in any way exist in the traditional rite. The only way to have moral certitude of valid sacraments is to assist at the traditional rite of Mass. Although theoretically it would be possible for a priest to celebrate sacrilegiously in the traditional rite by having a positive counter intention, it is hardly likely, given that the correct intention is repeated several times, which is not the case in the new rite. To the contrary, it is very likely that a Novus Ordo priest celebrate invalidly through lack of intention, since the full and correct intention is not included in the texts of the New Mass.
Note that the Faith is not required for an adequate intention, and that heretics can confer the sacraments validly, provided that they have the intention of doing what the Church does, even though they might not know what that is. This was clear from the third century, when Pope St. Stephen I condemned St. Cyprian’s contention that the baptism of the heretical Novatians had to be repeated.  [Answered by Fr. Peter R. Scott]”
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 11, 2019, 09:39:56 PM
Excellent research!  Most people incorrectly think that a positive doubt is a personal thing, ie person A has a doubt about the new mass but person B does not. That’s not what doubt has to do with at all!  They are viewing doubt as a personal, relativistic and subjective thing.  

The doubts exist because the theology is different.  The doubts are based on factual changes in the new rites.  The doubts exist whether they realize, or accept them or not...just like Truth exists whether people know of it or not.  Facts and truth exist outside of us, as part of reality, which most people ignore or are ignorant of.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 11, 2019, 09:45:40 PM
Excellent research!  Most people incorrectly think that a positive doubt is a personal thing, ie person A has a doubt about the new mass but person B does not. That’s not what doubt has to do with at all!  They are viewing doubt as a personal, relativistic and subjective thing.  

The doubts exist because the theology is different.  The doubts are based on factual changes in the new rites.  The doubts exist whether they realize, or accept them or not...just like Truth exists whether people know of it or not.  Facts and truth exist outside of us, as part of reality, which most people ignore or are ignorant of.
Is it reasonable to have doubts about my Baptism?
I was baptized by a Novus Ordo priest.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 11, 2019, 10:43:53 PM
Baptism is so simple, it's hard to screw up.  Anyone can baptize you - atheist, protestant, heretic priest - as long as they say the correct words.  Don't worry about it.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 12, 2019, 05:31:17 AM
Excellent research!  Most people incorrectly think that a positive doubt is a personal thing, ie person A has a doubt about the new mass but person B does not. That’s not what doubt has to do with at all!  They are viewing doubt as a personal, relativistic and subjective thing.  
It's not relativism that serious people have examined the case of the new mass and come to different conclusions. If we see any credibility in the opposing view, it is a recognition that the reality in this case is difficult to grasp.

On the other hand, if we give no credibility to the opposing view, then we are saying the opposing view is wrong and theologically incompetent.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 12, 2019, 07:57:30 AM
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It's not relativism that serious people have examined the case of the new mass and come to different conclusions. If we see any credibility in the opposing view, it is a recognition that the reality in this case is difficult to grasp.

On the other hand, if we give no credibility to the opposing view, then we are saying the opposing view is wrong and theologically incompetent.

 (https://www.cathinfo.com/the-sacred-catholic-liturgy-chant-prayers/approaching-doubtful-sacraments-and-canon-law-andor-catholic-moral-theology/6/?action=reporttm;msg=649380)
Ok, then your problem is not relativism but ignorance of the facts.  The major doubts about the new mass were explained by the top theologians in rome - Cardinal Ottaviani, Bacci, and others.  They laid out in the "Ottaviani Intervention" why the new mass' validity can be "positively doubted", why it's theology is a "striking departure from the theology of Trent" and why the new mass is a protestantized service.  Obviously no one can say that this study is "theologically incompetant" since it was done at the request of Paul VI.  Now that you know this study exists, you should change your view immediately.
If you resist the facts above and ignore reality, then you can't claim ignorance on the issue but bad will.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 12, 2019, 06:12:36 PM
(https://www.cathinfo.com/the-sacred-catholic-liturgy-chant-prayers/approaching-doubtful-sacraments-and-canon-law-andor-catholic-moral-theology/6/?action=reporttm;msg=649380)
Ok, then your problem is not relativism but ignorance of the facts. 
Are you making this personal?

Are you aware of all the facts?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 12, 2019, 06:38:43 PM
If the top theologians in rome say the new mass can be positively doubtful, then what other facts are there to include?  I'll be happy to read, if you provide.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 12, 2019, 07:30:14 PM
If the top theologians in rome say the new mass can be positively doubtful, then what other facts are there to include?  I'll be happy to read, if you provide.
Well, you have already changed your terms: "can be doubtful" is not "is doubtful".
"Can be" means it's case-by-case where grounds for positive doubt exist. 
Does that not also imply there can be situations where there is no positive doubt?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 12, 2019, 08:08:17 PM
My speech is imperfect.  Mea culpa.  I am just the messenger.  Go read the Ottaviani report (see below link), which was produced by the top theologians in rome in the 60s.  You can also add a positive doubt to the new mass which did not exist in the 60s - the doubt over the new ordination rites and the episcopal consecrations.  However, even if a new mass was said with no doubts, even if we could say with 100% certainty that it is valid, this does not mean one can attend.  The validity of the mass is separate from its licitness and its morality.  The new mass is illegal and immoral, therefore sinful.

It is illegal because it violates Quo Primum, which Pope Benedict said is still a valid law and this law does not allow any other missal to be used, except the 62 missal, under pain of sin to the pope.

It is immoral because of many, many reasons - most notably because its theology is anti-Trent and protestantized, as +Ottaviani points out.  It is also immoral due to communion in the hand, irreverent dress of the laity and the atmosphere in general, which is an occasion of sin to one's Faith.

http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm (http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm)




Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Markus on April 12, 2019, 08:46:41 PM
How does the principle "Ecclesia suplex" fit into this debate?

To me, it seems only natural that God would supply validity if a malicious person (e.g. a Freemason on a mission to destroy the Church's holy orders) were to intentionally refuse intention. 

But that is just my thinking, as I have not researched this question. Would someone more knowledgeable care to comment?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 12, 2019, 09:39:14 PM
My speech is imperfect.  Mea culpa.  I am just the messenger.  Go read the Ottaviani report (see below link), which was produced by the top theologians in rome in the 60s.  You can also add a positive doubt to the new mass which did not exist in the 60s - the doubt over the new ordination rites and the episcopal consecrations.  However, even if a new mass was said with no doubts, even if we could say with 100% certainty that it is valid, this does not mean one can attend.
A valid sacrament requires matter, form, priest and intention. The Ottaviani report did not say the form (the "rite") was doubtful. It said the rite was deficient and so opens the possibility that the minister might not form the proper intention. And this was in a footnote, as I recall.

Intention is interior, however, and a doubt about something without any evidence is a negative doubt. To have a basis for positive doubt about the intention requires evidence in the external forum - the priest must make some external manifestation contrary to the Church.

As I have said elsewhere, I think the current Roman Mass is disgraceful, and it appears a good share of Roman priests give heretical sermons to boot. To an Eastern Catholic, that is more than enough reason to avoid them.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 12, 2019, 09:51:48 PM
How does the principle "Ecclesia suplex" fit into this debate?

To me, it seems only natural that God would supply validity if a malicious person (e.g. a Freemason on a mission to destroy the Church's holy orders) were to intentionally refuse intention.
If a Catholic rite is performed correctly, Church discipline assumes a correct intention unless there is specific evidence to the contrary.

Thus, if a bishop who is a mason ordains someone, by the fact the bishop did the rite correctly, the Church presumes the bishop/mason had the intention to do what the Church does in the rite. The ordination would be valid in law and practice unless the bishop/mason said or did something to the contrary, establishing doubt.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 12, 2019, 10:28:09 PM
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Intention is interior, however, and a doubt about something without any evidence is a negative doubt.
This is true, generally.  But if we are talking about specifically the new mass, +Ottaviani was very clear that the problem is that the new rite’s prayers are not clear in their intention - this is the evidence needed for positive doubt.  Contrary to the True Mass whose intention is explicit and clear, the new mass has an ambiguous intention, thus the “priest” must supply what is lacking in the prayer.  Thus, the doubt about the new mass is a positive doubt (+Ottaviani said the consecration can be “positively doubted”) as we can’t be sure of the ministers intention.  

The teaching of the Church about presumed validity only applies to the old rites since their wording was formulated to be precise and valid.  
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: mcollier on April 13, 2019, 07:10:52 PM
Does the Church provide an official definition of positive doubt and negative doubt? 

It would be helpful to have some concrete examples. (Especially from members that had some formal seminary training). 

Thank you. God bless. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 13, 2019, 07:53:27 PM
But if we are talking about specifically the new mass, +Ottaviani was very clear that the problem is that the new rite’s prayers are not clear in their intention - this is the evidence needed for positive doubt.
I think you're shifting again from "could be doubtful" to "is doubtful". Below are two versions of what I think is the relevant part of the Ottaviani report. They say "could be valid" and "could also not be valid" based on intention. This reads to me as saying case-by-case and not that all new Roman Masses are doubtful.

As you probably know, Paul VI sent the report to the CDF for comment, and Ottaviani's successor at the CDF did not give it a positive review. (Paul VI supposedly also made changes to the Mass before publication that addressed some points of the Ottaviani report.) In any event, after Paul VI gave a couple audiences explaining the new Roman Mass, and the new Mass was actually published, Ottaviani is reported to have written "no one can any longer be genuinely scandalized", though the text still raises "perplexities".


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As they appear in the context of the Novus Ordo, the words of Consecration could be valid in virtue of the priest's intention. But since their validity no longer comes from the force of the sacramental words themselves (ex vi verborum)--or more precisely, from the meaning (modus significandi) the old rite of the Mass gave to the formula--the words of Consecration in the New Order of Mass could also not be valid. Will priests in the near future, who receive no traditional formation and who rely on the Novus Ordo for the intention of "doing what the Church does," validly consecrate at Mass? One may be allowed to doubt it.
http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm

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The words of Consecration as inserted in the context or the Novus Ordo can be valid by virtue of the minister’s intention. They could also not be valid because they are no longer so ex vi verborum, or, more precisely, by virtue of the modus signifcandi they had in the Mass up to the present time.
Will priests of the near future who have not received the traditional formation, and who rely on the Novus Ordo with the intention of “doing what the Church does” consecrate validly? One may be allowed to doubt it.
http://sspx.org/en/ottaviani-intervention
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 13, 2019, 08:39:01 PM
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I think you're shifting again from "could be doubtful" to "is doubtful". Below are two versions of what I think is the relevant part of the Ottaviani report. They say "could be valid" and "could also not be valid" based on intention. This reads to me as saying case-by-case and not that all new Roman Masses are doubtful.
Ok, good points, but you're confusing the prayers of the new mass vs the priest's intention.  +Ottaviani said that based on the prayers alone, there is positive doubt.  This is because the new mass' consecration formula (as well as the deficiencies in the Offertory prayers) no longer make it clear the Church's/priest's intention.  So, based on the prayers alone, the new mass is positively doubtful, 100% of the time.

One could argue that for 40+ years ALL of the masses which used the translation of "for all" instead of "for many" were 100% invalid.  But I don't know enough about this; i've just heard people argue this.  I don't think their argument is extreme, based on +Benedict's correction back to "for many".  If it didn't matter (and I thought he said it did matter a lot) then there would be no reason for a correction.

The priest (if he's a priest) could supply the missing intention for the consecration.  Then the consecration would be valid.  But how would anyone know what his intention is?  How many seminarians for the last 40 years have been taught that the mass is a "remembrance", a "memorial", a "supper", a "eucharistic celebration"?  None of these ideals are sufficient for the validity of the mass, which is an actual sacrifice, the re-enactment of Calvary again.

The point is, one can NEVER know what the priest's intention is, unless you sit down with him and have an in depth interview which covers his entire theological mindset and his understanding of the mass.  Even then, what if he has a doubt against the Faith one day at mass - a temptation to not believe?  If he doubts that the consecration truly happens?  Well, then the mass would be invalid because the prayers do not supply the intention, as they do with the True Mass.

The moral of the story is that the new mass is doubtful any way you slice it.  And as I argued earlier, even if it was 100% valid, it is still illicit and immoral.  So really, the debate over validity is irrelevant.



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As you probably know, Paul VI sent the report to the CDF for comment, and Ottaviani's successor at the CDF did not give it a positive review. (Paul VI supposedly also made changes to the Mass before publication that addressed some points of the Ottaviani report.) In any event, after Paul VI gave a couple audiences explaining the new Roman Mass, and the new Mass was actually published, Ottaviani is reported to have written "no one can any longer be genuinely scandalized", though the text still raises "perplexities".
Every theological issue raised by +Ottaviani, +Bacci and the other theologians about the new mass is still there.  Paul VI may have made some changes after their report, but his changes did not minimize the new theology, the protestantization of the mass, or the doubtful consecration.  

+Ottaviani was not the only theologian who wrote the report.  Even if he compromised his Faith by accepting the new mass, the objections raised in the report by the other theologians are still there.  The new mass' problems did not go away.  
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 21, 2019, 08:05:11 PM
Ok, good points, but you're confusing the prayers of the new mass vs the priest's intention.  +Ottaviani said that based on the prayers alone, there is positive doubt.  This is because the new mass' consecration formula (as well as the deficiencies in the Offertory prayers) no longer make it clear the Church's/priest's intention.  So, based on the prayers alone, the new mass is positively doubtful, 100% of the time.
Ottaviani report said "one may be allowed to doubt it", ie, it could be. If he meant "one must doubt it", that's what he would have said. Well trained theologians are careful with what exactly they write. You see that in Archbishop Lefebvre's doctrinal writing, too.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 22, 2019, 08:53:30 AM
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Ottaviani report said "one may be allowed to doubt it", ie, it could be. If he meant "one must doubt it", that's what he would have said. Well trained theologians are careful with what exactly they write. You see that in Archbishop Lefebvre's doctrinal writing, too.
An obligatory doubt makes no sense, in this case.  1) +Ottaviani didn't have the authority nor the papal directive to issue an order that catholics "must" doubt the new mass.  This type of ruling would have to come from the pope.  2) he was studying the new mass before it was finalized (though it was in its last stages of finalization and didn't change much after this).  He's not going to issue a "final opinion" on an unfinalized liturgy.  3) His allowance that one may doubt the new mass, as an expert theologian, carries all the weight it needs to.
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As i've said before, the issue of the validity of the new mass is irrelevant as to why you cannot attend.  Even if it was valid, +Ottaviani said that its theology was anti-Trent and protestantized.  This alone makes the liturgy illicit and immoral and highly sinful.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 22, 2019, 05:41:10 PM
An obligatory doubt makes no sense, in this case.  1) +Ottaviani didn't have the authority nor the papal directive to issue an order that catholics "must" doubt the new mass.  This type of ruling would have to come from the pope.  2) he was studying the new mass before it was finalized (though it was in its last stages of finalization and didn't change much after this).  He's not going to issue a "final opinion" on an unfinalized liturgy.  3) His allowance that one may doubt the new mass, as an expert theologian, carries all the weight it needs to.
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As i've said before, the issue of the validity of the new mass is irrelevant as to why you cannot attend.  Even if it was valid, +Ottaviani said that its theology was anti-Trent and protestantized.  This alone makes the liturgy illicit and immoral and highly sinful.
Liturgies can be changed as the Church pleases. If it's valid then it's valid and that's that. Calling a valid mass immoral renders you anathema according to Trent. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 22, 2019, 05:57:35 PM
Liturgies can be changed as the Church pleases. If it's valid then it's valid and that's that. Calling a valid mass immoral renders you anathema according to Trent.
Paul VI violated Trent when he fabricated all the new Rites and new Mass. The Novus Ordo Missae is not binding on the faithful at all. I think it can be debated whether his publication was an official act of the Church considering he did not make any indication by a solemn pronouncement that his missal is to used. And, no reference to Quo Primum.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 22, 2019, 06:12:09 PM
Paul VI violated Trent when he fabricated all the new Rites and new Mass. The Novus Ordo Missae is not binding on the faithful at all. I think it can be debated whether his publication was an official act of the Church considering he did not make any indication by a solemn pronouncement that his missal is to used. And, no reference to Quo Primum.
Fabricated? It is within the Pope's authority to promulgate new Masses. Trent does not and could not prevent the Pope from doing that.

And the rest of your post is just legalism at its finest. You cannot honestly argue that the Pope promulgating a new rite is not an official act of the Church. I suppose every parish in the world being ordered to use it, and priests being barred from saying other rites without express permission, is not enough indication that the missal is to be used?

Old laws of the Church do not have to be mentioned by name to be superseded either. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 22, 2019, 07:00:59 PM

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Liturgies can be changed as the Church pleases. 

The human/church-originated parts can; most of it cannot, since the Liturgy is of Divine creation.


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If it's valid then it's valid and that's that. Calling a valid mass immoral renders you anathema according to Trent. 
Just because a consecration is valid doesn't make it moral and pleasing to God.  A priest can walk into a grocery store and perform a valid consecration on all the bread in aisle 8, but that would be HIGHLY sinful, sacrilegious and sinful (i.e. immoral).  It would also be illicit and therefore, sinful (i.e. immoral).


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It is within the Pope's authority to promulgate new Masses. Trent does not and could not prevent the Pope from doing that.
The pope has the authority to revise parts of the mass which are non-essential.  Colin is correct when he said that Paul VI violated Trent (Quo Primum, to be exact, since Quo Primum was made law because of Trent.  They are inseparable).  


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I suppose every parish in the world being ordered to use it, and priests being barred from saying other rites without express permission, is not enough indication that the missal is to be used?
No pope has ever ordered the new mass to be used, under penalty of sin.  The bishops ordered priests to say the new mass and lied to every catholic in the world when they said that the True Mass was outlawed.  But the popes have never said this.  In fact, in +Benedict's motu proprio, he clearly said that the True Mass was never outlawed and that it was always permitted.  Clearly, this directly contradicts your erroneous view of history.

Further, in all the negotiations between new-rome and the sspx, new-rome has NEVER said that the new mass is obligatory.


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Old laws of the Church do not have to be mentioned by name to be superseded either. 
Yes they do.  Every revision made to the Quo Primum missal since the 1570s has included a reference to Quo Primum and a specific mention of the previous missal being revised.  John XXIII did just that in 1962.  When you have established law, you must mention existing laws to overrule them.  But Paul VI was creating a new missal, unrelated to Quo Primum (which is why it's illegal) that's why he didn't revise John XXIII's missal.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 22, 2019, 07:02:29 PM
Forlorn,
I don't even know why you're on this site.  You're clearly not a Traditional Catholic.  Why don't you go hang out on Fisheaters or some other novus ordo site?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 22, 2019, 07:11:41 PM
Fabricated? It is within the Pope's authority to promulgate new Masses. Trent does not and could not prevent the Pope from doing that.

And the rest of your post is just legalism at its finest. You cannot honestly argue that the Pope promulgating a new rite is not an official act of the Church. I suppose every parish in the world being ordered to use it, and priests being barred from saying other rites without express permission, is not enough indication that the missal is to be used?

Old laws of the Church do not have to be mentioned by name to be superseded either.
Yes, the new Mass is a fabrication. Ratzinger, in 1986 wrote,
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"The new Missal was published as if it were a book put together by professors, not a phase in a continual growth.  Such a thing has never happened before.  It is absolutely contrary to the laws of liturgical growth."

Session VII CANON XIII.
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-If any one saith, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church... or be changed, by any pastor of the churches, into other new ones; let him be anathema.

The word for "any" is quemcunque which can be translated to "whomsoever" or "whatever". Is the Pope not a pastor of the Church?

Quo Primum 

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"At no time in the future can a priest, whether secular or order priest, ever be forced to use any other way of saying Mass...  by virtue of our Apostolic authority that we decree and prescribe that this present order and decree of ours is to last in perpetuity, and never at a future date can it be revoked or amended legally. . . . “And if, nevertheless, anyone would dare attempt any action contrary to this order of ours, handed down for all times, let him know that he has incurred the wrath of Almighty God, and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.”



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JUAN CARDINAL DE TORQUEMADA [IOANNES DE TURRECREMATA], O.P. (1388-1468)
(UNCLE OF THE GRAND INQUISITOR)
OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED THEOLOGIAN OF THE COUNCIL OF BASEL/FLORENCE
GIVEN BY POPE EUGENE IV THE TITLE OF "DEFENDER OF THE FAITH"

        "Although it clearly follows from the circuмstances that the Pope  
can err at times, and command things which must not be done, that we are  
not to be simply obedient to him in all things, that does not show that  
he must not be obeyed by all when his commands are good.  To know in  
what cases he is to be obeyed and in what not,... it is said in the Acts  
of the Apostles:  'One ought to obey God rather than man'; therefore,  
were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scripture, or the  
articles of faith, or the truth of the Sacraments, or the commands of  
the natural or divine law, he ought not to be obeyed, but in such  
commands, to be passed over (despiciendus)...."  (Summa de Ecclesia
[1489], founded upon the doctrine formulated and defined by the Council
of Florence and defined by Pope Eugenius IV and Pope Pius IV)
      
    
        "By disobedience, the Pope can separate himself from Christ
despite the fact that he is head of the Church, for above all, the unity
of the Church is dependent upon its relationship with Christ.  The Pope
can separate himself from Christ either by disobeying the law of Christ,
or by commanding something that is against the divine or natural law.  
by doing so, the Pope separates himself from the body of the Church
because this body is itself linked to Christ by obedience.  In
this way, the Pope would, without doubt, fall into schism....
        "He would do that if he did not observe that which the Universal
Church observes in basing herself on the Tradition of the Apostles
, or
if he did not observe that which has been ordained for the whole world
by the universal councils or by the authority of the Apostolic See.  
Especially is this true with regard to the divine liturgy, as, for
example, if he did not wish personally to follow the universal
customs and rites of the Church.  This same holds true for other aspects
of the liturgy in a very general fashion
, as would be the case of one
unwilling to celebrate with priestly vestments, or in consecrated
places, or with candles, or if he refused to make the sign of the cross
as other priests do, or other similar things which, in a general way,
relate to perpetual usage in conformity with the Canons.
        "By thus separating himself apart, and with obstinacy, from the
observance of the universal customs and rites of the Church, the Pope
could fall into schism.
 The conclusion is sound and the premises are
not in doubt, since just as the Pope can fall into heresy, so also he
can disobey and transgress with obstinacy that which has been
established for the common order of the Church.  Thus it is that [Pope]
Innocent [III] states (De Consuetudine) that it is necessary to obey a
Pope in all things as long as he does not himself go against the
universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal
customs of the church, he ought not to be obeyed...."  
(Summa de Ecclesia [1489])
[/pre]

Clearly we see that even the Pope does not have the right to do whatever he pleases in regards to the sacred liturgy. It is YOUR idea that the Pope has the right to construct an entirely new rite of Mass, not the Church's.

Blessed Pope Pius IX, when requested to add the name of St. Joseph to the Canon, replied: “I am only the Pope. What power have I to touch the Canon?”
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 22, 2019, 07:45:27 PM
Yes, the new Mass is a fabrication. Ratzinger, in 1986 wrote,
Session VII CANON XIII.
The word for "any" is quemcunque which can be translated to "whomsoever" or "whatever". Is the Pope not a pastor of the Church?
Popes cannot take power away from their successors. The Tridentine Mass was not the first rite the Church ever used either, and there were many others in use that were not abolished. The Tridentine Rite was only special insofar as the Church chose it, not that it was the only rite the Church could ever use and that using another was heresy or whatever.

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-If any one saith, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church... or be changed, by any pastor of the churches, into other new ones; let him be anathema.
Context is key here. Before Trent there were a multitude of different rites in use, most old but some new too, and even within rites there was a lack of standardisation. Pope St. Pius V sought standardisation, so he banned all the rites less than 200 years old and barred any new ones from being made. No, this prohibition of pastors altering rites does not apply to the Pope. The Pope is above canon law.

Clearly we see that even the Pope does not have the right to do whatever he pleases in regards to the sacred liturgy. It is YOUR idea that the Pope has the right to construct an entirely new rite of Mass, not the Church's.

Blessed Pope Pius IX, when requested to add the name of St. Joseph to the Canon, replied: “I am only the Pope. What power have I to touch the Canon?”
Those quotations refer to the Pope failing to observe the established liturgy and customs, it does not mean that he cannot legally change them just as Pope St. Pius V and many, many other Popes did.

That's an interesting quote from Blessed Pope Pius IX but it's a matter of fact that Popes HAVE changed the Canon plenty of times before Vatican 2.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 22, 2019, 07:48:15 PM
Forlorn,
I don't even know why you're on this site.  You're clearly not a Traditional Catholic.  Why don't you go hang out on Fisheaters or some other novus ordo site?
I don't attend Novus Ordo Masses at all, I go to the SSPX(no Resistance masses available). Maybe if you'd actually read what I say instead of just imagining whatever you want to read instead(like your nonsensical rant about me defending Indults when I NEVER even MENTIONED them), you'd understand.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 22, 2019, 08:52:20 PM
As i've said before, the issue of the validity of the new mass is irrelevant as to why you cannot attend.  Even if it was valid, +Ottaviani said that its theology was anti-Trent and protestantized.  This alone makes the liturgy illicit and immoral and highly sinful.
Archbishop Lefebvre accepted the validity of the Mass of Paul VI in the typical editions in Latin.

I don't think he encouraged attending it.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 22, 2019, 09:13:02 PM
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The Tridentine Rite was only special insofar as the Church chose it, not that it was the only rite the Church could ever use and that using another was heresy or whatever.
That's true, but the aspect that you are missing is that the Tridentine rite is essentially the same as the other rites which are allowed by the Church (i.e. Benedictine, Coptic, Dominican, Eastern, etc, etc).  Even most of the numerous rites which the Tridentine rite replaced (through Quo Primum) were essentially the same.  (I say "most" because there were a few rites that had been corrupted and were scandalous; most rites were fine, sacramentally and liturgically, they had just lost the sense of uniformity which the Church requires in its prayers).

The new mass, however, is NOT essentially the same as the Tridentine mass or any other rite.  +Ottaviani makes this abundantly clear when he says that the theology of the new mass is a striking departure from the theology of Trent and that the liturgy is protestantized.  Yes, the pope is allowed to make non-essential changes to the liturgy's rubrics; he is NOT allowed to change essential prayers (i.e. like the consecration, the offertory prayers and much of the canon).  The pope is NOT allowed to change this because the mass is not the Church's to change; the mass is Christ's!  The Mass is Divine!

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Archbishop Lefebvre accepted the validity of the Mass of Paul VI in the typical editions in Latin.  I don't think he encouraged attending it.
Stanley,
The validity of the mass is separate from it's theology.  A valid consecration does not equal a pleasing, reverent Mass. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is MUCH MORE than just a valid consecration.  You keep arguing about the validity of the new mass's consecration, and you're not grasping the significance of the many, many other changes to its liturgy which are anti-catholic.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 22, 2019, 09:24:05 PM

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I don't attend Novus Ordo Masses at all, I go to the SSPX(no Resistance masses available). Maybe if you'd actually read what I say 
You are clearly arguing that the new mass is legal and valid and therefore ok to attend.  By extension, you should have no problem with the indult.  If the new mass is legal, moral and valid, then why are you attending an sspx chapel, which is not in communion with new-rome?  Your position is hypocritical, just like Xavier's and your attendance at an sspx chapel is a sin of disobedience to your local bishop.  
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 22, 2019, 09:56:53 PM
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Popes cannot take power away from their successors.
You're correct! But the right to significantly change the Mass into a different rite has NEVER EXISTED. No Pope has ever had the right to devise AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT Mass with 70% of the prayers removed.


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No, this prohibition of pastors altering rites does not apply to the Pope.

Minor, relatively insignificant changes, as Pax Vobis has said. Every time a new Roman Missal was issued, the Pontiff would preface by citing Quo Primum and then justifying the changes he was making as necessary and practical because every Pope recognized the binding force of Pope St. Pius V's Bull.


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If it's valid then it's valid and that's that. Calling a valid mass immoral renders you anathema according to Trent.
I don't attend Novus Ordo Masses at all, I go to the SSPX(no Resistance masses available).
What a paradox!

Forlorn, from what you've written, it seems as though you have no justifications for not attending the New Mass. Recognizing the Novus Ordo Missae as valid and licit, yet refusing to attend is ludicrous! What are your justifications for attending SSPX then? You believe it's valid, licit, and a legitimate act of the Catholic Church by a Roman Pontiff. By your own admission, you have no reason not to go to the New Mass.

Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 23, 2019, 01:38:57 AM
You're correct! But the right to significantly change the Mass into a different rite has NEVER EXISTED. No Pope has ever had the right to devise AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT Mass with 70% of the prayers removed.


Minor, relatively insignificant changes, as Pax Vobis has said. Every time a new Roman Missal was issued, the Pontiff would preface by citing Quo Primum and then justifying the changes he was making as necessary and practical because every Pope recognized the binding force of Pope St. Pius V's Bull.

What a paradox!

Forlorn, from what you've written, it seems as though you have no justifications for not attending the New Mass. Recognizing the Novus Ordo Missae as valid and licit, yet refusing to attend is ludicrous! What are your justifications for attending SSPX then? You believe it's valid, licit, and a legitimate act of the Catholic Church by a Roman Pontiff. By your own admission, you have no reason not to go to the New Mass.

I'll try respond to the rest and Pax' other post when I get home later but I just wanted to address this now:

My justification is that I don't believe Paul VI was Pope at all, at least not formally. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stubborn on April 23, 2019, 06:09:08 AM
In an interview with one of the Dimond brothers, prior to them falling into sedesim, Fr. Wathen does a marvelous job of explaining it....


Question: As far as there are three main parts of the Mass, am I right? There’s the liceity, the morality and the validity. Would you explain each of these and give a little explanation of each of these in their different areas.

Fr.When you use the word liceity you’re referring to the question of whether the new mass is legal.
When you speak of validity, you are discussing whether the consecration of the mass is valid and true, whether there is truly transubstantiation.

When you discuss the matter of morality, you are questioning whether it’s a sin either to offer the new mass or to attend it.

I hasten to say that if the new mass is against the law, then it is immoral, and if there is a question of validity in the consecration, then it is immoral for anyone to use it.


Question: You believe it’s actually a sin, a mortal sin to use the new mass, is that not right?

Fr.That’s right. We believe that because the new mass is clearly against the law which governs the liturgy of the Roman Rite, that there is no legality to it - and we think that to violate the law with regard to the True Mass there is a moral violation, we believe that is a grievous violation, and therefore a sacrilegious violation of the True Mass. It is most important for people, when considering the new mass, always to bear in mind that the Traditional Latin Mass, which is to be found in the Missale Romanum of Pope Pius V, that, that is the standard whereby they judge any other Rite in the Roman Rite.


Question: But the people say that the people make the contention that pope Paul VI had the right so therefore we must accept it.

Fr.That of course is a central question. We deny that he had such a right. That exactly is the point. We have every reason to question whether the pope had the authority to introduce a brand new mass, introduce a new Rite of the liturgy of the Western Church. We believe that when one reads Quo Primum of St. Pius V, he can see clearly that it is altogether forbidden for his successors, any of his successors to go contrary to this law.

Here is a key question, whether a successor can override pope Pius V with regard to the establishment of the Rite of the Mass. It’s a key question.

It was never considered that the pope could go contrary to this ruling because Quo Primum was issued to protect the Mass. It was as strong of legislation as the pope could possibly impose. If we say that his successor is not bound by this legislation, we have to say that the Church has no way of protecting it’s own liturgy. There is no doctrine that says that a pope cannot make a mistake, there’s no such doctrine.


Question: He allowed for incidental and minor changes to be made, but obviously he could probably never imagine….

Fr.That goes without saying, incidental changes could be made. Quo Primum states that only the pope could make such changes. The idea that anyone including the pope, could make a substantive change in the Mass, is so obvious that it is not stated.


Question: The Council of Trent Canon 6 says “if anyone says the Mass contains errors, therefore should be abrogated let them be anathema”. Would something like that hold any weight pertaining to what pope Paul VI did? In a way he was saying that it did contain errors therefore should be abrogated did he not?

Fr.I would not say that his changing the Rite of the Mass was a suggestion that there was fault in the old Mass, that canon simply states that the doctrine expressed by the prayers and the ritual of the traditional Mass are thoroughly Catholic, that everyone may have confidence that there is no doctrinal error expressed by this Rite. The matter of the new mass must be considered first of all why the new mass was introduced. Was it introduced because it was suggested there was some deficiency in the old mass, was it introduced for less cogent reasons? It was never suggested that there was some deficiency, it was suggested that there was room for improvement.  ……no sufficient reason was ever given, and no one has a sufficient reason. The only reason they have is that one pope may override the rules and the laws of another. This is an error.


Question: Now people will say Father, that it could be changed because this is simply a matter of discipline, that the pope could change it because it’s not a matter of strictly faith and morals he could not make an ex cathedra statement to define the Mass, therefore the pope has the justification to establish a new rite – that’s what people are saying and that’s why your wrong father.

Fr. People have been given the idea that whatever the pope has the authority to do he may morally do, we deny both that the pope has the authority to introduce a new mass and we insist that the introduction of a totally new Rite with a questionable theology, and that is putting it mildly, the introduction of a new Rite with a questionable theology is not only unlawful, that is, it goes clearly contrary to the established law, but it is immoral, independent of the law of which the pope is bound.

People have the idea that the pope, because he is the head of the Church, has limitless authority. This is altogether wrong. He is not at all limitless in what he may do, he is strictly bound to what he must do and he is bound to adhere to what has been established. The role and the duty of the pope not to deviate from what has been established, but to make sure that all his subjects don’t deviate from it.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: MMagdala on April 23, 2019, 11:20:38 AM
Interesting what my friend Stubborn has bolded of Fr. Wathen's Q&A, versus what I would bold:

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There is no doctrine that says that a pope cannot make a mistake, there’s no such doctrine.

The failure to understand this is the driving force of many, many arguments among the laity in the Church today.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 23, 2019, 12:05:04 PM
You're correct! But the right to significantly change the Mass into a different rite has NEVER EXISTED. No Pope has ever had the right to devise AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT Mass with 70% of the prayers removed.

And who barred the Pope from doing so? The Church has many rites, and many more extinct ones. If no one had the authority to promulgate new rites, then there would be only one. In the past pre-Trent there were many different rites made that weren't even promulgated by Rome, like the Mozarabic and Gallican rites. As for massively overhauling the mass and the prayers said therein, Pope St. Gregory the Great made many large changes to the Roman rite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Tridentine_Mass#Early_changes), cutting out out many prayers and readings, and most notably altering the Eucharistic prayer. I reckon if similar changes were made today you'd call them illegal.

Minor, relatively insignificant changes, as Pax Vobis has said. Every time a new Roman Missal was issued, the Pontiff would preface by citing Quo Primum and then justifying the changes he was making as necessary and practical because every Pope recognized the binding force of Pope St. Pius V's Bull.

Quote from: Quo Primum
By this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever, We order and enjoin that nothing must be added to Our recently published Missal, nothing omitted from it, nor anything whatsoever be changed within it

Note, it does not say nothing major, or nothing substantial. It says that nothing whatsoever may be changed. Therefore, if the command here applied to future Popes, all the minor changes made to the Missal would've been breaches of the aforementioned command.

That's true, but the aspect that you are missing is that the Tridentine rite is essentially the same as the other rites which are allowed by the Church (i.e. Benedictine, Coptic, Dominican, Eastern, etc, etc).  Even most of the numerous rites which the Tridentine rite replaced (through Quo Primum) were essentially the same.  (I say "most" because there were a few rites that had been corrupted and were scandalous; most rites were fine, sacramentally and liturgically, they had just lost the sense of uniformity which the Church requires in its prayers).

The new mass, however, is NOT essentially the same as the Tridentine mass or any other rite.  +Ottaviani makes this abundantly clear when he says that the theology of the new mass is a striking departure from the theology of Trent and that the liturgy is protestantized.  Yes, the pope is allowed to make non-essential changes to the liturgy's rubrics; he is NOT allowed to change essential prayers (i.e. like the consecration, the offertory prayers and much of the canon).  The pope is NOT allowed to change this because the mass is not the Church's to change; the mass is Christ's!  The Mass is Divine!

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Stanley,
The validity of the mass is separate from it's theology.  A valid consecration does not equal a pleasing, reverent Mass. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is MUCH MORE than just a valid consecration.  You keep arguing about the validity of the new mass's consecration, and you're not grasping the significance of the many, many other changes to its liturgy which are anti-catholic.

I don't see how the Byzantine Rite is in any way essentially the same as the Tridentine Rite, but nevertheless I cannot argue that the theology of the mass was completely altered and that the NO resembles Protestant masses.

However, what I don't understand is, how you can call the NO valid and yet also immoral. The above would suggest its immorality, it's altering the sacred Sacrifice to appease and resemble heretics. But if it's a valid mass, then why wouldn't Trent's Canons of the Sacrifice of the Mass apply? The canons were meant to apply to every rite in use by the Church, not just the Tridentine Rite that was being promulgated. I've heard you say things about the NO which would break Canons IV, VI, and VII (http://www.thecounciloftrent.com/ch22.htm) if it were said about the Tridentine Mass. So if the New Rite is valid Mass of the Church, how is it possible for its canon to contain errors, for its ceremonies to be calls to impiety, or for the mass to be blasphemous?


Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Stanley N on April 23, 2019, 12:42:59 PM
Stanley,
The validity of the mass is separate from it's theology.  A valid consecration does not equal a pleasing, reverent Mass. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is MUCH MORE than just a valid consecration.  You keep arguing about the validity of the new mass's consecration, and you're not grasping the significance of the many, many other changes to its liturgy which are anti-catholic.
You keep bringing up validity and doubt. 
Please do not assert what I grasp or don't grasp. Do you have any training in theology?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 23, 2019, 12:48:26 PM

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So if the New Rite is valid Mass of the Church, how is it possible for its canon to contain errors, for its ceremonies to be calls to impiety, or for the mass to be blasphemous?
Because the validity of the consecration is one, minor (yet important) part of the overall Mass.  The consecration is ONE of the the THREE principle parts of the mass.  The mass is much more than just the canon.  A black mass can have a valid consecration - does that mean a black mass is automatically moral?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 23, 2019, 12:55:55 PM
Because the validity of the consecration is one, minor (yet important) part of the overall Mass.  The consecration is ONE of the the THREE principle parts of the mass.  The mass is much more than just the canon.  A black mass can have a valid consecration - does that mean a black mass is automatically moral?
Point taken. I suppose I should be asking, what makes a Mass a true Mass of the Church to which those Canons would apply? 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 23, 2019, 01:06:17 PM
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As for massively overhauling the mass and the prayers said therein, Pope St. Gregory the Great made many large changes to the Roman rite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Tridentine_Mass#Early_changes), cutting out out many prayers and readings, and most notably altering the Eucharistic prayer. I reckon if similar changes were made today you'd call them illegal.
First of all, Pope St Gregory lived post-early persecution era.  For 300 years, the Church was devastated by persecutions and could not openly worship or have large-scale organization.  Once the Church was able to operate in peace, you see Her, through the popes, making changes and updates that were heretofore, impossible.  The early Roman church, when it changed to latin, changed many prayers because the Eastern rites were more developed and had more consistency.  

Even wikipedia says that the essential prayers of the canon were NOT changed by Pope St Gregory, but only certain ones were changed:

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With regard to the Roman Canon of the Mass, the prayers beginning Te igitur, Memento Domine and Quam oblationem were already in use, even if not with quite the same wording as now, by the year 400; the Communicantes, the Hanc igitur, and the post-consecration Memento etiam and Nobis quoque were added in the fifth century.

It is up to you to prove that the changes to the roman rite were essential changes and also were entirely new.  Common sense says that many of these changes had been used by clerics for centuries, but could not be made uniform for the whole latin church until the Church had survived the persecutions, when communication with the entire latin church was possible, predictable and productive.  No church historian worth his salt has ever postulated that Pope St Gregory invented a new liturgy, or that he added prayers to the canon which he wrote himself.  And no pope would be declared a saint who did so, for such actions would be scandalous.
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 23, 2019, 01:16:47 PM

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Pope Gregory (590-604) sought to add the words “diesque nostros in tua pace disponas” [may you order our days in Thy peace] to the Hanc Igitur of the Canon, the Catholics of Rome were so outraged at this act that they threatened to kill him because he had dared to touch the Sacred Liturgy.
I wonder what the faithful of Rome would say to Paul VI considering their keen Sensus Catholicus. I often speculate how scandalized and outraged the Saints would be if they were to step into a Novus Ordo parish and someone tell them this is the Catholic Mass now. 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Your Friend Colin on April 23, 2019, 02:38:49 PM
Point taken. I suppose I should be asking, what makes a Mass a true Mass of the Church to which those Canons would apply?
Apostolic origin?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: forlorn on April 23, 2019, 03:00:20 PM
Apostolic origin?
And the successor of the Apostle St. Peter claims that the New Mass is just another evolution of the Tridentine Mass. Under which criteria do you disprove that? 
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 23, 2019, 10:43:13 PM
Paul VI never claimed the new mass was Tridentine or in any way related to Quo Primum.  Nor did he claim it was a revision of the 62 missal.  He clearly said that it was a new rite, produced because V2 asked for one.  
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: psalter on April 23, 2019, 11:05:01 PM
If the top theologians in rome say the new mass can be positively doubtful, then what other facts are there to include?  I'll be happy to read, if you provide.
Did not the top theologians like Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci who co-wrote the Ottaviani-Bacci intervention stay back in Rome? Though we face a crisis in the Church today, does the treatise of these top theologians give the laity permission to subjectively make decisions on ecclesiastical matters?
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: Pax Vobis on April 23, 2019, 11:08:05 PM
What decisions are being made, other than following canon law, which says that you may not attend doubtful masses and sacraments?  
Title: Re: Approaching Doubtful Sacraments and Canon Law and/or Catholic Moral Theology
Post by: psalter on April 23, 2019, 11:12:29 PM
My speech is imperfect.  Mea culpa.  I am just the messenger.  Go read the Ottaviani report (see below link), which was produced by the top theologians in rome in the 60s.  You can also add a positive doubt to the new mass which did not exist in the 60s - the doubt over the new ordination rites and the episcopal consecrations.  However, even if a new mass was said with no doubts, even if we could say with 100% certainty that it is valid, this does not mean one can attend.  The validity of the mass is separate from its licitness and its morality.  The new mass is illegal and immoral, therefore sinful.

It is illegal because it violates Quo Primum, which Pope Benedict said is still a valid law and this law does not allow any other missal to be used, except the 62 missal, under pain of sin to the pope.

It is immoral because of many, many reasons - most notably because its theology is anti-Trent and protestantized, as +Ottaviani points out.  It is also immoral due to communion in the hand, irreverent dress of the laity and the atmosphere in general, which is an occasion of sin to one's Faith.

http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm (http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm)
Popes that came after Pope St. Pius V changed the Roman missal. With the Church being in crisis today, wouldn't it be best to go back to the Pope Pius V missal? It will remove all sources of confusion and conflict.