06-09-2022, 05:02 PM
A few thoughts...
As with most laity, we are not legal experts in this area ("Benedict is still the pope"), though overwhelmingly, it doesn't ring true to most traditional Catholics, to their sensus fidei.
What I appreciate about Bp. Schneider's points in this talk is that he refers to how the Church has traditionally dealt with difficult papal elections. This is the same approach the Church has always taught, to see problems through the lens of tradition...
For example, St. Vincent of Lerin wrote, "True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to our children; and that it is our duty, not to lead religion whither we would, but rather to follow religion whither it leads; and that it is the part of Christian modesty and gravity not to hand down our own beliefs or observances to those who come after us, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us."
Archbishop Viganò has pointed out, "Certain Popes, let us not forget, are granted; others are inflicted."
Anyone with eyes to see can observe that the Church certainly continues Her travails under yet another Conciliar pontificate. And that Pope Francis, who quotes and refers to Vatican II as the excuse for nearly every move he makes and every word he says, does everything he can to abandon the last vestiges of tradition that may still present in the Conciliar Church.
St. Anthony Mary Claret said, "If you see a bad priest at the head of a parish, you should be afflicted and fear that perhaps our sins deserved such a horrible chastisement, for Sacred Scripture teaches us that the greatest and most terrible scourge that God sends to a people is to give it bad priests.
"Until the wrath of the Lord reaches its apex, He permits that nations arm themselves one against the other; that the fields become sterile; that hunger, desolation and death exert their dominion over the earth.
However, when His just indignation reaches its climax, He sends the last and most atrocious of His punishments by allowing unfaithful ministers, stained priests, scandalous shepherds to appear among men. Then it happens that the abominations of the people are the cause of the bad priests, and the bad priests are the greatest punishment with which God chastises the people."
If these strong words are for unfaithful priests, how much more weighty of a chastisement and punishment than to labor under bad popes!
As with most laity, we are not legal experts in this area ("Benedict is still the pope"), though overwhelmingly, it doesn't ring true to most traditional Catholics, to their sensus fidei.
What I appreciate about Bp. Schneider's points in this talk is that he refers to how the Church has traditionally dealt with difficult papal elections. This is the same approach the Church has always taught, to see problems through the lens of tradition...
For example, St. Vincent of Lerin wrote, "True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to our children; and that it is our duty, not to lead religion whither we would, but rather to follow religion whither it leads; and that it is the part of Christian modesty and gravity not to hand down our own beliefs or observances to those who come after us, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us."
Archbishop Viganò has pointed out, "Certain Popes, let us not forget, are granted; others are inflicted."
Anyone with eyes to see can observe that the Church certainly continues Her travails under yet another Conciliar pontificate. And that Pope Francis, who quotes and refers to Vatican II as the excuse for nearly every move he makes and every word he says, does everything he can to abandon the last vestiges of tradition that may still present in the Conciliar Church.
St. Anthony Mary Claret said, "If you see a bad priest at the head of a parish, you should be afflicted and fear that perhaps our sins deserved such a horrible chastisement, for Sacred Scripture teaches us that the greatest and most terrible scourge that God sends to a people is to give it bad priests.
"Until the wrath of the Lord reaches its apex, He permits that nations arm themselves one against the other; that the fields become sterile; that hunger, desolation and death exert their dominion over the earth.
However, when His just indignation reaches its climax, He sends the last and most atrocious of His punishments by allowing unfaithful ministers, stained priests, scandalous shepherds to appear among men. Then it happens that the abominations of the people are the cause of the bad priests, and the bad priests are the greatest punishment with which God chastises the people."
If these strong words are for unfaithful priests, how much more weighty of a chastisement and punishment than to labor under bad popes!
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre