Sedevacantism concerns: considered
Quo primum objection: Pius the fifth does not allow reform of the TLM.
Ans: firstly (1), Pius X reformed the breviary and the breviary had that exact same language of “Don’t reform. Nobody can reform it. This is for all times.” And yet he, a saint, Pius X, reformed the breviary. Clement VIII, Urban VIII, Pius X, Leo XIII, and others who actually did reform some aspects of the Roman Missal way before Vatican II and Paul VI (2) “which shall have the force of law in perpetuity, We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly published Missal, nothing omitted therefrom, and nothing whatsoever altered therein" cannot be literally interpreted as binding on possible later actions of Pope St. Pius V or upon his successors. Because if interpreted literally, Pope St. Pius V would have excommunicated himself a couple of years after publishing "Quo Primum" when he added the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary to the missal following the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, not to mention Pope Clement XI who canonized Pius V in 1712, thus altering the missal. Also, excommunication to St. Pius X for reforming the calendar, Pius XI who added the first new preface in centuries for the feast of Christ the King, Pius XII for completely revamping the rites of Holy Week as well as simplifying the rubrics, and Blessed John XXIII for adding St. Joseph's name to the Roman Canon.
Since it is absurd to interpret it literally, the censure is upon those who change the missal without proper authority.
Can pope teach heresy:
He shows a hypothetical heretical pope in vol 1 Book 1: “that a Pope who is a manifest heretic, ceases in himself to be Pope and head, just as he ceases in himself to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church: whereby, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the opinion of all the ancient Fathers, who teach that manifest heretics soon lose all jurisdiction….”
Bellermine’s on the roman pontiff, volume 2, book 4, chapter VI says, “THE FOURTH proposition. It is probable and may piously be believed that not only as ‘Pope’ can the Supreme Pontiff not err, but he cannot be a heretic even as a particular person by pertinaciously believing something false against the faith. It is proved: 1) because it seems to require the sweet disposition of the providence of God. For the Pope not only should not, but cannot preach heresy, but rather should always preach the truth.”https://ronconte.com/2021/06/10/saint-robert-bellarmine-on-popes/
examen/examination of consciousness = review of day
Examination of conscience = recognizing sins for confession
Excommunication on Lefebvre: Can. 1382 A bishop who consecrates some one a bishop without a pontifical mandate and the person who receives the consecration from him incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
SSPX Problem: (1) quoting Archbishop Lefebvre: “that the New Mass, even when said with piety and respect for the liturgical rules, is subject to […] reservations since it is impregnated with the spirit of Protestantism. It bears within it a poison harmful to the Faith.” (sspx.org); quoting Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, “It is evident that the Novus Ordo has no intention of presenting the Faith as taught by the Council of Trent, to which, nonetheless, the Catholic conscience is bound forever.” “doctrinal deficiencies of the New Mass has rendered it a danger to the faith of Catholics.” “Church would never ask her members to endanger their souls, the Sunday Precept does not oblige the faithful to attend the New Mass.”, (2) Benedict XVI: “As long as the Society does not have a canonical status in the Church, its ministers do not exercise legitimate ministries in the Church. [...] In order to make this clear once again: until the doctrinal questions are clarified, the Society has no canonical status in the Church, and its ministers – even though they have been freed of the ecclesiastical penalty – do not legitimately exercise any ministry in the Church (2009 Letter BXVI)
SSPX confession valid and licit Misericordia et misera: “For the Jubilee Year I had also granted that those faithful who, for various reasons, attend churches officiated by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, can validly and licitly receive the sacramental absolution of their sins.[15] For the pastoral benefit of these faithful, and trusting in the good will of their priests to strive with God’s help for the recovery of full communion in the Catholic Church, I have personally decided to extend this faculty beyond the Jubilee Year, until further provisions are made”
SSPX believes Pope Francis: “With the news of the election of Pope Francis, the Society of St. Pius X prays to Almighty God that He abundantly bestow on the new Sovereign Pontiff the graces necessary for the exercise of this heavy charge”(http://archives.sspx.org/news/about_pope_francis_3-13-2013.htm)
Augustine on baptism from schismatic: We do not therefore say to them, "Abstain from giving baptism," but "Abstain from giving it in schism." Nor do we say to those whom we see them on the point of baptizing, "Do not receive the baptism," but "Do not receive it in schism." For if any one were compelled by urgent necessity, being unable to find a Catholic from whom to receive baptism, and so, while preserving Catholic peace in his heart, should receive from one without the pale of Catholic unity the sacrament which he was intending to receive within its pale, this man, should he immediately depart this life, we deem to be none other than a Catholic (Augustine Against Donatists Book I)
Need to be subject to pope even to non-faith and morals teachings: “jurisdictional power of the Roman Pontiff is both episcopal and immediate. Both clergy and faithful, of whatever rite and dignity, both singly and collectively, are bound to submit to this power by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, and this not only in matters concerning faith and morals, but also in those which regard the discipline and government of the church throughout the world” (Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus ch 3)
Latin Mass and Novus Ordo is one rite:
“Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI…The Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V and revised by Blessed John XXIII…These two expressions…are two usages of the one Roman rite” (Benedict XVI “SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM”).
Francis SSPX video: Bishop Vitus says that the Archbishop (founder, Lefebvre) was concerned with the salvation of souls, and he said that it is in this sense that Pope Francis says the SSPX are non-schismatics. Francis never said the SSPX are *totally* non-schismatic
Francis on homosexuality is not a crime video: he said it is a sin but not a crime.
Liturgical Dance:
1975, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship issued Dance in the Liturgy, “the same criterion and judgment cannot be applied in the western culture. Here dancing is tied with love, with diversion, with profaneness, with unbridling of the senses. . . For that reason it cannot be introduced into liturgical celebrations of any kind whatever: That would be to inject into the liturgy one of the most desacralized and desacralizing elements, and so it would be equivalent to creating an atmosphere of profaneness which would easily recall to those present and to the participants in the celebration worldly places and situations.”
Ballet:
“Neither can acceptance be had of the proposal to introduce into the liturgy the so-called artistic ballet” (same document as above)
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