54 Years That Changed The Catholic Church
54 Years That Changed The Catholic Church
54 Years That Changed The Catholic Church
“He came unto His own: and His own received Him
not. But as many as received Him, He gave them
power to be made the sons of God, to them that
believe in His name.”
- John 1:11-12
Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................
Introduction............................................................................................5 5
What Are We Bound To Know?............................................................
Know? ............................................................9
9
Where Can the Truths of the Divine and Catholic Faith Be
Found?....................................................................................................
Found?....................................................................................................17
17
Infallibility of the Councils of the Church..................................
Church..................................19 19
Extraordinary Magisterium of the Pope.....................................
Pope.....................................20 20
Minimizing Infallibility .................................................................21
.................................................................21
Professions of Faith........................................................................
Faith........................................................................22 22
Canon Law........................................................................................
Law........................................................................................23 23
Infallibility of Encyclicals..............................................................
Encyclicals..............................................................27 27
The Fathers of the Church.............................................................
Church.............................................................28 28
Conclusion........................................................................................
Conclusion........................................................................................29 29
Sins Against the Faith..........................................................................
Faith..........................................................................30 30
Schism...............................................................................................
Schism...............................................................................................31 31
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio...........................................................
Officio...........................................................33 33
Apostasy............................................................................................
Apostasy............................................................................................35 35
Heresy...............................................................................................
Heresy...............................................................................................37 37
Consequences..................................................................................
Consequences..................................................................................40 40
A Modern Heresy............................................................................
Heresy ............................................................................42
42
Conclusion........................................................................................
Conclusion........................................................................................44 44
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Passion of the Mystical Body of Christ.............................................
Christ.............................................45 45
A Recurring Crisis...........................................................................
Crisis...........................................................................46 46
Antipopes..........................................................................................
Antipopes..........................................................................................50 50
The Crisis Begins.............................................................................
Begins.............................................................................51 51
Angelo Roncalli................................................................................
Roncalli................................................................................52 52
Vatican II................................................................................................
II................................................................................................56
56
The First Heretical Document......................................................
Document......................................................58 58
What Are the Consequences of This?..........................................
This?..........................................66 66
What of Their Progeny?.................................................................
Progeny?.................................................................68 68
Is Allah God?....................................................................................
God?....................................................................................69 69
Are the New Rites of the Sacraments Valid?.............................
Valid?.............................71 71
The Novus Ordo Missae..................................................................
Missae..................................................................75 75
Surely This Cannot Be True..........................................................
True..........................................................80 80
But My Priest Never Said the Novus Ordo..................................
Ordo ..................................83
83
Conclusion........................................................................................
Conclusion........................................................................................84 84
Are Catholics Catholic?.......................................................................
Catholic? .......................................................................85
85
Is Jesus Really Present?..................................................................
Present?..................................................................86 86
The Pedophile Crisis.......................................................................
Crisis .......................................................................88
88
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus..........................................................
Salus..........................................................91 91
What Does the Catholic Church Teach on Salvation?.............. Salvation?..............93 93
A Prophetic Overview..........................................................................
Overview..........................................................................97 97
The Worst Time Ever....................................................................
Ever....................................................................101 101
Antichrist........................................................................................
Antichrist........................................................................................102 102
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ..................................................104
..................................................104
Will Cease Entirely For Some Time............................................
Time............................................104 104
Objections.......................................................................................
Objections.......................................................................................106 106
Aren’t You Speculating?..............................................................
Speculating?..............................................................108 108
Conclusion......................................................................................
Conclusion......................................................................................109 109
And Another Beast Rose..............................................................
Rose..............................................................110 110
Reaction to the Changes...................................................................
Changes...................................................................113 113
Theories on the Papacy................................................................
Papacy................................................................118 118
Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc................................
Thuc................................119 119
The Society of Saint Pius X Splits..............................................
Splits..............................................121 121
The Society Splits Again..............................................................
Again..............................................................122 122
The Indult Mass.............................................................................
Mass .............................................................................123
123
Meanwhile…...................................................................................
Meanwhile…...................................................................................124 124
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Jurisdiction.....................................................................................
Jurisdiction.....................................................................................125
125
Priest Co-Consecrators.................................................................
Co-Consecrators.................................................................127 127
Home Alone....................................................................................
Alone....................................................................................128128
The Church Comfortable.............................................................
Comfortable.............................................................129 129
Catholic Action..............................................................................
Action..............................................................................131 131
What Is Most Important:...................................................................
Important:...................................................................134 134
The Mass or the Faith?......................................................................
Faith?......................................................................134 134
The Solution?......................................................................................
Solution?......................................................................................138
138
Pope Gregory XVII?......................................................................
XVII?......................................................................139 139
Papal Claimants.............................................................................
Claimants.............................................................................140 140
Mission of the Catholic Church.......................................................
Church.......................................................142 142
Habemus Papam............................................................................
Papam............................................................................151 151
An Urgent Appeal...............................................................................
Appeal...............................................................................154 154
Professions of Faith ...........................................................................156
...........................................................................156
Profession of Faith Prescribed by Pope Michael.....................
Michael.....................156 156
Explanation of the Profession of Faith Prescribed by Pope
Michael............................................................................................
Michael............................................................................................158
158
Profession of Faith of Trent........................................................
Trent ........................................................159
159
Oath Against the Errors of Modernism.....................................
Modernism.....................................162 162
Appendices..........................................................................................
Appendices..........................................................................................165
165
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio ........................................................166
........................................................166
Insauratio Liturgica......................................................................
Liturgica......................................................................173 173
Catechism of the Council of Trent.............................................
Trent.............................................174 174
January 1970 Notice From Rome................................................
Rome................................................175 175
May 1970 Notice from Rome.......................................................
Rome.......................................................176 176
Monseigneur, We Do Not Want This Peace..............................
Peace..............................180 180
Declaration of Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc..... Thuc.....182 182
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Introduction
In the past five decades many things have happened to
the Catholic Church from radical changes in doctrine and liturgy
to a host of scandals. Surveys show that many who claim to be
Catholic do not hold the doctrines taught by the Catholic
Church. 88% believe birth control is acceptable and two thirds
see nothing wrong with pre-marital sex. And almost half think
there is nothing wrong with homosexual practices, while half
reject the infallibility of the Pope.
The news regularly echoes scandals among the clergy,
especially the ongoing pedophile crisis. Seeing all of this, we
cannot do anything, but conclude that there is a crisis in the
One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. But we know that
Jesus promised to be with the Church until the end of time, and
that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church.1 We
cannot say Jesus failed the Church, but we can say that men
have failed Jesus and His Church! This book intends to address
these issues.
The first thing Catholics must do is to bring themselves
in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ 100%.2 In fact, if we do
not believe everything Jesus teaches through His Church, we are
not Catholics, even if we claim to be. We might as well call
ourselves wolves in sheep's clothing.3 It is only in total
conformity to the teachings of Jesus that any solution can be
found.
To obtain this solution, we must apply the traditions
which Christ instituted to the current condition of the Church.
In order to properly understand the traditions which Christ
5
instituted, we must seek God with the greatest humility and
sincerity. For God resists the proud.4 And so, we will consider
three things.
Firstly we will determine what the teachings of Jesus and
His Church are and where they can be found. Secondly, we will
analyze the current crisis of the Church. Finally, we will apply
the teachings of Jesus and find the solution, a solution that is in
total conformity with the doctrines of the Divine and Catholic
Faith.
Before proceeding, let us all make a Novena5 to the Holy
Ghost, asking Him to guide us as He has guided Catholics
throughout two millennia. Let us apply the talents God has
given us to this study of the Faith. Study is what we must do.
Jesus foretold that there would be a time when even the elect
will be deceived.6 There will come a time of confusion and
ignorance. Fortunately, ignorance is a curable disease. Jesus has
established His Church on a firm rock. This will teach us all we
need to know to dispel the fog of confusion. In fact, Jesus
commanded us to study: “when you see the abomination of
desolation in the holy place.”7 The Church has always
commanded Catholics to continually study their Faith. It is the
virtue of studiousness that cures us of the disease of ignorance
and shines the light of faith toward Heaven for us to walk and
obtain the precious treasure: eternal salvation. The Church has
always encouraged those who are able to read to continually
refresh their intellect and mind on the eternal truths and
dogmas of the Catholic Faith.
Are we in the times foretold by the Apostle when men
4 “God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” (James
4:6)
5 “(Latin for ninth, consisting of nine) A prayer for some special object
or occasion extended over a period of nine days. It may be carried on in
common in Church but is often private. A number of novenas, chiefly in
preparation for various feasts, have been approved and indulgenced by the
Holy See.” (A Catholic Dictionary, Page: 346)
6 Matthew 24:24
7 Matthew 24:15
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will not hold to sound doctrine?8 This book should answer the
question in the affirmative. This gives us even more reason to
read and understand as Jesus commands.9 The Blessed Virgin
Mary gave us a clue when she commanded the late Lucia dos
Santos, one of the Fatima seers, to learn how to read. Whether
or not you agree that we are in these times, all Catholics should
agree that studying the Faith is not imprudent. What will it
profit us if we do not pass our particular judgment of our souls?
Studying extra hard for this examination is not careless, but
rather sensible and responsible. A look at the last century and a
half, also the teachings of the popes should encourage us to
study our Faith.10
Some may ask: “Why should I believe what you say?” Do
not believe what I am saying, but believe what the Church says.
If you doubt I have quoted a text properly or out of context,
then check it out for yourself. In this presentation, I have tried
to use texts that are readily available either in print, on the
internet, or at least in good libraries. I am not asking you to
take my word for it. Read and understand. Study the question
for yourself. It is our responsibility as Catholics to check things
out. We must correct each other when we err.
One priest long ago advised to trust only books printed
prior to 1958. For the most part I shall refer only to these books.
The reason is simple. The confusion appeared to begin in 1958.
We can be safer with books printed prior to that time. And a
word of caution must be issued about some reprints of older
books. Some presses are faithful to the original, while other
presses are not. As we continue through, I will point out when I
have found people to be unfaithful to the original. In preparing
this, I have compiled a sizeable library of original editions of
most of the works I refer to. I do have and use reprints, but I
have found the publishers I use to be faithful in those works I
8 II Timothy 4:3
9 Matthew 24:15
10 Pope Saint Pius X devoted a whole Encyclical to the necessity of
studying the Catechism, Acerbo Nimis.
7
could check out. If you can check a quote I use against an
original edition of a work, please do so.
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Chapter 1
What Are We Bound To Know?
“Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you. And
behold I am with you all days, even to the
consummation of the world.”11
9
accurate. These false prophets will be so crafty as to deceive
even the elect! Subsequently, we are morally obliged to flee
from places that are preaching dangerous doctrines such as
heresy.
heresy.
We have a choice among various resources for
information. It is reasonable to use those sources we are sure
are correct. It is also reasonable to be opposed to those we are
not sure of. If a book is published by a younger or modern
person, its opinion should be considered as probable, since it is
not established that it has been rejected by the Holy See as
improbable.17 Pope Alexander VII condemned this proposition
on September 24, 1665. So let us rephrase this proposition to be
a true one. We should not consider an opinion valuable, merely
because the Church has not yet condemned it.18
These questions arise: “Are we in these times when we
must read and study?” Has the abomination of desolation been
placed in the Holy Place? These are both complicated questions.
Let us look at a few small things, leaving the larger questions for
later. The Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (1917) commanded
Lucia dos Santos to learn how to read. Pope Saint Pius X feared
in 1903 that Antichrist had already been born.19 These two
things should at least be warnings that we may be in these
times. Therefore, we must devote ourselves to study.
Saint John Vianney, the holy Cure of Ars told his people:
10
way to acquire a knowledge of them; he loves to
hear the word of God, and the more he hears it,
the more he longs for it.”20
11
“As our predecessors understood that that holy
meeting of the universal Church23 was so prudent
in judgment and so moderate that it abstained
from condemning ideas which authorities among
Church scholars supported, they wanted another
work prepared with the agreement of that holy
council which would cover the entire teaching
which the faithful should know and which would
be far removed from any error. They printed and
distributed this book under the title of the Roman
Catechism.”24
Catechism.”
12
the order of Saint Pius V Our Predecessor of
immortal memory.”
13
question! When we follow the basic principle of
scholastic theology,28 we shall move from what we
all should know well (i.e. the Catechism), to what
we do not know yet.”29
14
they did not know their own religion.”31
And a word must be said of the responsibilities of the
clergy. The laity are bound to know the catechism and more.
How much more should the clergy know? Pastors are
commanded to teach their flocks from the Roman Catechism.
Catechism.
Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that every priest should
read the Roman Catechism cover to cover. At the ordination of
lectors, the bishop admonishes them:
15
religions responsibilities. Even practical and
devout Catholics need constant instruction lest
they should stumble into serious doctrinal error.”34
16
Chapter 2
Where Can the Truths of the Divine and Catholic
Faith Be Found?
“124. Q. What do you mean by the infallibility of
the Church? A. By the infallibility of the Church, I
mean that the Church cannot err when it teaches a
doctrine of faith or morals. Infallibility.
Infallibility. When we
say the Church is infallible, we mean that it cannot
make a mistake or err in what it teaches; that the
Pope, the head of the Church, is infallible when he
teaches Ex cathedra -- that is, as the successor of
Saint Peter, the vicar of Christ. Cathedra signifies a
seat, Ex stands for out of;of; therefore, Ex cathedra
means out of the chair or office of Saint Peter.
Chair is sometimes used for office. Thus, we say the
presidential chair is opposed to this or that. We
intend to say the president, or the one in that
office is opposed to it. The cathedral is the church
in which the bishop usually officiates. The
cathedral is called this because of the bishop's
cathedra, or throne, being in it.” 35
17
which we know he is speaking Ex cathedra. What
he says must hold good for the whole Church.
That is for all the faithful, and not merely for this
or that particular person or country. He must
speak on matters of faith or morals. That is: when
the Holy Father tells all the faithful that they are to
believe a certain thing as a part of their faith, or
when he tells them that certain things are sins.
They must believe him and avoid what he declares
to be sin. He could not make a mistake in such
things. He could not say that Our Lord taught us to
believe and do such and such if Our Lord did not so
teach. Our Lord promised to be with His Church
for all time. Our Lord also promised to send the
Holy Ghost, who would teach all truth and abide
with it forever. If the Church could make mistakes
in teaching faith and morals, the Holy Ghost could
not dwell within Her. This is equivalent to saying
Our Lord did not tell us the truth, and to say this
would be blasphemy.”36
18
Infallibility of the Councils of the Church
19
Extraordinary Magisterium of the Pope
20
Minimizing Infallibility
Fr. Le Floch,
Floch, head of the French seminary in Rome in
1926 taught: “The heresy which is now being born will become
the most dangerous of all; the exaggeration of the respect due to
the Pope and the illegitimate extension of his infallibility.”
infallibility.” Fr.
Le Floch was trying to minimize the doctrine of infallibility,
infallibility, by
stating that the next heresy will try to expand infallibility.
infallibility. This
is a typical Gallican idea. Before the ink was even dry on the
decrees of the Vatican Council in 1870, many were trying to
limit Papal infallibility to such rare occurrence as to be almost
non-existent. Some reduced it to three times in the last two
centuries. Namely: The Immaculate Conception, Infallibility,
Infallibility,
and The Assumption. Others expanded infallibility more by
representing the list referred to above. Does Papal Infallibility
go any further? We have not exhausted the list of those things
emanating from the extraordinary magisterium42 of the Church.
However, the Church is also infallible in its ordinary
magisterium,43 which we shall consider in a moment.
magisterium,
21
Professions of Faith
22
Canon Law
23
lawful successors, among whom the Roman Pontiff
holds not only an honorary but also a
jurisdictional
jurisdictional supremacy, the following must be
acknowledged as ecclesiastical lawgivers: “Christ
our Lord, the original source of divine laws laid
down chiefly in the Constitution of the Church,
and next to Him the Apostles as lawgivers either of
divine or human laws, viz.: as inspired or merely
human instruments. The Roman Pontiff, either
alone or in unison with a general council, as
endowed with the supreme and ordinary power of
enacting laws for the universal church. The
Bishops for their respective districts, inasmuch as
they are empowered to enact laws subordinate to
common law. Customs, too, must be considered as
a source of law, universal as well as particular.”
• Sacred Scripture
• Decrees of the Roman Pontiffs
• Canons of Councils
• Unwritten law
24
Apostolic power with which we are invested, by
this Our Constitution, which we wish to be valid
for all time, We promulgate, decree, and order that
the present Code, just as it is compiled, shall have
from this time forth the power of law for the
Universal Church…”52
52 This wording is similar to that found in the Bull of Pope Saint Pius V,
Quo primum promulgating the Missale Romanum for use by the Church until
the end of time.
53 Negative Infallibility: “Negative infallibility is the proposition that
the Pope cannot commit public formal heresy. Therefore his official
statements in Encyclicals and other public documents although not
necessarily a definition of the Divine and Catholic Faith (de fide), they are
free from error in regards to the Faith and therefore may be safely believed
by Catholics as true.”
54 A Practical Commentary On The Code Of Canon Law, Volume 1,
Canon 815, Page: 437
25
General Councils of the Church, etc.
Many of the Canons are merely restatements of
previously defined doctrines. This example is taken from the
Vatican Council:
Council:
From this we can see that God will protect the Church
from issuing a general law that will contradict the Catholic
Faith. This is only reasonable, since the Church is a divine
institution founded to lead all souls to Heaven.
26
Infallibility of Encyclicals
27
The Fathers of the Church
28
Conclusion
29
Chapter 3
Sins Against the Faith
“Finally, the Holy Fathers teach unanimously not only
that heretics are outside of the Church, but also that they are
ipso facto62 deprived of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction and
dignity.”63 Pope Pius XII also infallibly declared: “For not every
sin, however great it may be, is such as of its own nature to
sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or
apostasy.”64 There are three distinct sins to consider:
heresy or apostasy.”
Schism, apostasy,
apostasy, and heresy.
heresy.
62 Ipso facto: (Latin by that very fact). “A phrase used when expressing
that a certain consequence automatically follows a certain action or set of
circumstances; e.g., a priest who with full knowledge of the crime and its
penalty directly violates the seal of confession incurs excommunication ipso
facto, by that very fact, automatically, without sentence of law.” (A Catholic
Dictionary, Page: 261)
63 De Romano Pontifice, Book II, Chapter 30
64 Mystici Corporis Christi, Pope Pius XII, Paragraph 23
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Schism
31
the place of Christ in this world”70 Saint Thomas Aquinas says:
“The unity of the Church is manifested in the mutual connection
or communication of its members, and likewise in the relation of
all the members of the Church to one head.”71
Finally, Saint Cyprian says: “He who deserts the Church
will vainly believe that he is in the Church.”72 Schismatics
Schismatics are
outside of the Church as infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII.
XII.
32
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio
33
or assumed as primates, or as cardinals or even as
Roman Pontiff, no faculty of administration in
spiritual or temporal matters may be thought to
have been attributed or to attribute, but may all
things and each thing in any way said, done,
effected and administered and then followed up in
any way through them lack power and they are
not able to attribute any further power nor right
to anyone; and they themselves who are thus
promoted and assumed by that very fact, without
any further declaration to be made, are deprived
of every dignity, place, honor, title, authority,
function and power; and yet it is permitted to all
and each so promoted and assumed, if they have
not deviated from the Faith before nor have been
heretics, nor have incurred or excited or
committed schism.”
34
Apostasy
35
Certainly. His first loyalty is to Communism. He is only
pretending to be a Catholic in order to infiltrate the Church. His
most probable intention is to destroy the Church. Of the
Modernists,
Modernists, Pope Saint Pius X warned:
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Heresy
37
word obstinately because many have stressed this word. The
Code of Canon Law must judge matters based upon what is seen.
It cannot judge the soul. The judgment of the soul is left to God,
and to the Confessional when a person voluntarily confesses his
sins in order to obtain absolution. We must return to the Bull
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio,
Officio, which is a Fontes for this Canon:
“Adding that if at any time it shall appear that some bishop, …
had deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy
or incurred, encouraged or incited schism…” The mere
appearance of heresy is sufficient to be considered a heretic in
the eyes of the Church. This principle is also enunciated in the
Code of Canon Law itself:
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Although Canon 2200 allows for contrary proof, I have
never seen a case of heresy that has been adjudicated by the
Church and been declared innocent on the grounds of
ignorance. And to what court would we have to appeal? The
only competent court to decide innocence is that of the Roman
Pontiff. Canon Law, however, allows the Local Ordinary to
absolve all who present their cases of heresy before him.
Basically, if a person doubts or denies a doctrine of the
Faith publicly (that is, in the presence of six people), we must
presume that he is heretic and have incurred all of the
consequences of heresy.
heresy.
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Consequences
40
the cesspool he is still dirty. And this dirt remains on his soul
until after he has bathed thoroughly. However, following the
example of leprosy in the Old Testament, which is a symbol for
heresy,
heresy, it is not enough to clean oneself. One must be
pronounced clean by the priests. Under the New Testament to
return to the Faithful, Catholics must present themselves before
the Local Bishop, that is the Local Ordinary or Diocesan Bishop
as he is sometimes known, in order to return to the faithful.
This is the practice in the case of adult converts who were
validly baptized outside of the Church. However, to return to,
or enter the clerical state, only the Pope can pronounce a person
clean and free from the irregularity.
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A Modern Heresy
42
a private person. His public acts, such as Encyclicals, are
protected. However, he might be able to say something
heretical in a sermon, or in a private conversation, or a private
letter. Both schools of thought admit that a Pope has never
committed an act of heresy,
heresy, even as a private person.
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Conclusion
Schism, heresy,
heresy, or apostasy removes Catholics from the
Church by their very word or deed. There is no need of any
declaration on the part of the Church. This person loses all
authority in the Catholic Church period. And I say to you:
“Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of
Man also confess before the angels of God. But he that shall
deny Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.” 86
Saint Cyril comments on these verses: “Now they who deny are
first indeed those who in time of persecution renounce the faith.
Besides these, there are heretical teachers also, and their
disciples.”87
86 Luke 12:8-9
87 Catena Aurea, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Page: 435
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Chapter 4
Passion of the Mystical Body of Christ
It is said that the Catholic Church, as the Mystical Body
of Christ, will suffer a Passion similar to what Jesus suffered in
His physical Body. There will be a time of intense persecution,
the worst in history.88 Scripture speaks of Antichrist,
Antichrist, who will
come at some time in history. Saint John Eudes states: “pray
especially for those who will have to suffer the persecution of
Antichrist at the end of the world, for it will be the most cruel
and horrible of all persecutions,”89 he tells us. But, he gives us
hope: “All the holy Fathers agree that after the death of
Antichrist the whole world will be converted.” 90 There will be a
time of intense persecution followed by a universal conversion.
Are we in these times? If not, I do not want to see times
worse than these. However, even the Roman Catechism has
apocalyptic references: “proportioned to the circumstances of
the times in which we live, when men endure not sound
doctrine.”91 Timothy 2:4 refers to the times of this persecution.
Verse three is directly quoted by the Roman Catechism.
Catechism. One
other thing should be noted. Saint Pius X in his first Encyclical 92
stated: “So extreme is the general perversion that there is room
to fear…that the Son of Perdition, of whom the Apostle speaks,
has already arrived on Earth.”93 The perversion is far worse
today than in 1903 when Saint Pius X wrote these words. If he is
right, then the Son of Perdition who is commonly held to be
Antichrist is 120 years old, or has already come and gone.
88 Mark 13:19
89 The Life And The Kingdom Of Jesus In Christian Souls, Saint John
Eudes, Page: 97
90 The Admirable Heart of Mary, Page: 319
91 Catechism of the Council of Trent, Page: 51
92 E Supremi Apostolatus, 4 October 1903
93 II Thessalonians 3:3. Antichrist is known by various names. Here
Saint Paul calls him the man of sin and the Son of Perdition. Apocalypse 13
and parts of the book of Daniel also refer to Antichrist.
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A Recurring Crisis
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the law. They reached the conclusion that they should proceed
with the consecration of the bishop for the good of the faithful.
The need for a pastor in the diocese superseded the need for
papal permission. This was certainly impossible to obtain.94 The
cardinals were at the root of many of the crises in the Papacy
because they were slow to act and even fought against the
conclave law.
The cardinals were to bring the Church to another crisis.
They elected a pope, but claimed coercion. The cardinals
proceeded to leave Rome and proceeded to elect another pope.
This is called the Western Schism. Some sided with the second
election while others sided with the first election. Eventually,
cardinals appointed by claimants gathered in a council. They
elected a third claimant to the papacy. This set both claims
aside under the principle: “a “a doubtful pope is no pope”
pope”.
Before continuing, let us note that none of the claimants were
heretics. The claimants were all Catholics.
Saint Antonine of Florence stated:
94 This does not provide any precedent for our time because none of
the Traditionalist bishops consecrated have been consecrated to fill any
vacant diocese. Therefore, they have no authority, and are not pastors in the
Church.
95 Studies in Church History, Volume 2, Page: 530
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reach a conclusion as to which one of the two, (and eventually
there were three papal claimants) was Pope, and then submit in
obedience. Lay people followed their pastor, who followed his
local Ordinary. The Ordinary made a decision based upon the
laws of the Church at that time, and the opinions ventured by
theologians and canonists. Note well everyone submitted to one
of the claimants, because they realized it was necessary to have
a living Pope and be in submission to him.
However, there had to be an end to the crisis. There
cannot be three claimants to the papacy. However, this has to
be handled properly. The first attempt at ending the crisis, the
Council of Pisa, produced the third claimant to the papacy. It
did not deal with the other two claimants, but merely set them
aside. However, the Council of Constance first dealt with all of
the claimants, then proceeded to fill the vacancy. The line
coming from Pisa, which was now represented by John XXIII,96
convened Constance. This Council proceeded to set him aside.
He reluctantly acquiesced. Gregory XII, descending from Urban
VI, resigned in favor of a new election to be held at Constance.
The final line was set aside as invalid because it occurred
subsequent to Urban VI. This being done, the cardinals from all
three claimants, and twenty-five others assembled and elected
Pope Martin V.
Pope Benedict XIV says: “today it is evident that Urban
VI, and his successors were legitimate Pontiffs.”97 This
validates the tradition that the first in time is the first in
right.
right. However, this theory was already on solid ground at the
time of the Western Schism. As Honorious II lay dying, a few
cardinals were very concerned over the machinations of Peter
de Leone. And so, as soon as Honorious died, all six of these
cardinals assembled. They immediately elected a Pope who took
the name of Innocent II. In fact, it took longer to convince him
to accept election than it did to elect him. After Innocent II
96 Not to be confused with Angelo Roncalli, who also took the name
John XXIII in 1958.
97 Studies In Church History, Page: 539
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accepted the election, they left town. Peter de Leone gathered
the other cardinals and had himself elected pope by them. He
took the name of Anacletus II. History, however, has always
accepted Innocent II as the true pope. Peter de Leone’s
successor resigned in favor of Pope Innocent II. This confirms
what Saint Alphonsus said later: “It “It matters little if in past
centuries a given Pontiff was elected in an illegitimate fashion,
or took possession of the pontificate by means of fraud: it
suffices that he was subsequently accepted as Pope by the entire
Church, because from this done, he becomes a true pontiff .”98
It should be remembered that the Church by accepting a
Pope into her official list of Popes has declared by this insertion
that this is a dogmatic fact, and therefore, cannot be challenged
by Catholics. It is a dogmatic fact, for instance, that Pope
Innocent II was the true Pope, despite the fact that Anacletus II
was elected by the majority of Cardinals. By inserting Innocent
II into her official list of Popes, the Church has declared that the
Pope first elected is the true Pope, because Innocent II was
elected first by six Cardinals. Later Pope Benedict XIV would
apply this same principle to declare that Pope Urban VI and his
successors were the true Popes at the time of the Western
Schism.
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Antipopes
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The Crisis Begins
99 These reports were first circulated in the early 1990’s, and have even
spawned a book.
100 True, an action is not considered free if it is forced, but there is no
precedent for a pope elect. One either accepts or rejects election. For
instance, a man was questioned whether he accepted election or not. He
replied: If it is God’s will. The Cardinal merely repeated the question because
acceptance must be clear and certain.
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Angelo Roncalli
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remove one from the Catholic Church. The cardinals in 1958
should have been aware of this. This was not an isolated
incident, but one given here to demonstrate the thinking of this
heresiarch. In a conclave,
conclave, the electors vow to vote for the man
they considered most qualified. Cardinals, especially, should
know that heretics are not qualified at all!105
The enactments coming out of Rome during his reign
should have also given bishops pause to consider. There is not
space here to consider everything Roncalli did while claiming to
be Pope. However, he did order the insertion of Saint Joseph
into the Canon of the Mass in 1962. The Canon of the Mass had
not been touched for over a millennium. This should have
given priests and bishops pause to consider, especially in light of
an action by Pope Pius XII shortly before his death. On June 2,
1957, Pope Pius XII extended certain Canons of the Oriental Code
of Canon Law to the Latin Church; including Canon 1, paragraph
2: “Patriarchs, Archbishops and other Ordinaries should
zealously care for the faithful observance of their rite, nor are
they to permit or to tolerate any change in the rite.” Some may
argue that the Pope is like the proverbial 800 pound gorilla.106
The Pope can change the non-essential parts of the Mass and
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Sacraments.107 They can claim that the Pope was doing just this.
However, this should have caused some concern.
What should have awakened all Catholics is the
Encyclical, Pacem in Terris.
Terris. This Encyclical restated many
heresies previously condemned by the Church. This should
have caused all, especially bishops, who are required to keep
heresy out of their dioceses, to look into matters. However,
Pacem in Terris was met with praise, not questions.
At this point, let us reach some conclusions. Canon Law
states that if a college elects one unfit to hold an office, the
electors disqualify themselves by that very act. By electing a
heretic, the cardinals108 all joined implicitly in his heresy.
heresy. Thus,
ceasing to be cardinals.109 True, it would have taken time for the
bishops to find out what had happened, but there were things
coming from Rome that started almost from the beginning of
Roncalli’s usurpation of the papacy. And all should have become
II.110 Since the cardinals had resigned, the
obvious at Vatican II.
1963 conclave could not have been valid.111 Also, since Roncalli
107 The Pope is not bound by Church Law, and is its author.
Theoretically, he can change non-essential rites. However, this would be a
novelty that Popes have fought for centuries. The 1983 Code of Canon Law
states that the Pope writes the liturgy, apparently indicating he can change
anything he wishes. Essential or non-essential.
108 And this includes all the participants, because by remaining silent,
they consented to the election when Roncalli came on to the balcony. True,
they may have had to wait a day or two until they could flee Rome, but they
were responsibility bound to flee Rome and announce to the world that
Roncalli was an antipope!
109 Canon 188, paragraph 4 states that those who publicly abandon the
Faith resign from all offices within the Church, and the Church accepts their
resignation without any need of further declaration. By presenting a man as
Pope and knowing he was not, they publicly abandoned the Faith.
110 This will be discussed later. We can presume a priest or bishop
became a material schismatic the day he inserted John XXIII’s name in the
Canon, and especially the first time he prayed publicly for the antipope
because they were ignorant of the true facts. We can assume ignorance
because this hadn’t become obvious to them.
111 Also, Roncalli had appointed so many Cardinals. It was impossible to
obtain the required two thirds plus one vote, without having votes from
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was not pope, we can dismiss Vatican II because it was called by
an antipope.112
invalid Cardinals. It has also been demonstrated from Montini’s own writings
that he was also a heretic prior to his election. It is interesting to note that
the early claims for Siri indicated he was elected for the first time in 1963.
Only after Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century? was
published in 1990 was there proof that this conclave was invalid. Then there
were claims he had been elected in 1958.
112 This would be true even if he was an antipope for some other reason.
Although, an antipope called Constance, it was only considered valid after
Pope Gregory XII convoked it, and resigned in favor of a new election there.
Several decrees prior to that point were subsequently approved by Pope
Martin V, while others were rejected by the same Pope.
113 A Practical Commentary On The Code Of Canon Law, Volume 1,
Canon 222, Page: 99
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Chapter 5
Vatican II
We can dismiss Vatican II as an heretical council, just like
we dismiss the Synod of Pistoia.114 However, since many of the
bishops appear to have been unaware of the true situation when
they arrived in Rome for Vatican II, II, we should consider a few
points of this Council, as it is time to set aside some of the
misconceptions. In several decrees preparing for Vatican II, II, it is
115
called: “Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican.” Those
who claim that Vatican II was merely a pastoral council, and not
an Ecumenical Council (considered by John XXIII, Paul VI, and
the bishops participating to be on a par with Trent, the 1869-70
Vatican Council,
Council, and the other Ecumenical Councils) are
absolutely wrong. The intention was to define Catholic doctrine
in an apparently infallible manner. A pastoral council is
unheard of in the history of the Church. True, in the past,
particular councils have been called to resolve certain issues, or
to declare the facts, as Pope Innocent II did in his time.
However, this was called as a Universal and Ecumenical Council.
Therefore, if a Pope had called it, it would have defined doctrine.
However, we have already seen that Angelo Roncalli was not
Pope, but a heretical antipope. Therefore, Vatican II was not
Catholic.
It is interesting to note that in his memoirs, Milestones,
Milestones,
Joseph Ratzinger commented:
114 This was held by the Jansenists to define their doctrines. It was
condemned in the Bull Auctorem Fidei, DZ 1501ff. It is interesting to note
that many of the heresies condemned in Auctorem Fidei have risen again.
115 Canon Law Digest, Page: 239 & 243
This Council was first announced on January 25, 1959. “We institute,
announce, and convoke for the forthcoming year 1962 the Ecumenical and
Universal Council, which will be held in the Vatican Basilica,…Given at Rome
at Saint Peter’s, December 25, feast of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1961,
fourth year of Our Pontificate, I John, Bishop of the Catholic Church.” (From
Documents of Vatican II, Pages: 708-709. Montini as Antipope Paul VI would
sign all the documents: “I Paul, Bishop of the Catholic Church.”).
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“For believers, it was a remarkable phenomenon
that their bishops seemed to show a different face
in Rome from the one they wore at home.
Shepherds who had been considered strict
conservatives suddenly appeared to be spokesmen
for progressivism.”116
116 www.losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/2000/0400cr.htm
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The First Heretical Document
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Vatican II teaches:
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has become public in their diocese, when they ask for absolution
from excommunication.124 The bishops at Vatican II had a book
with them called Henry Denzinger’s Enchiridion Symbolorum.
Symbolorum.
This book contains many infallibly true decrees from the
Church, the popes, and from Councils approved by the popes.125
Further, these bishops had taken the Antimodernist Oath on
four occasions.126 They should have read Pascendi on several
occasions to remind themselves of the heresy of Modernism
these bishops were bound to fight with all of their might.
Let us read from the Decree on the Liturgy of Vatican II:
II:
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piety...”127
127 Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,
Page: 26
128 Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,
Page: 25
129 The Canon Law Digest, volume 5, Page: 7 by motuproprio dated June
2, 1957.
130 “I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's message to Lucia of Fatima.
This persistence of Mary about dangers which menace the Church is a divine
warning against the suicide of altering the faith in her history, her theology,
and her soul...I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the
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the most significant omission is that of Saint Peter’s Chair at
Rome on January 18th. Was Roncalli telling us in an
underhanded way that he had usurped, and was attempting to
destroy this chair? The most significant trend is established by
a supplementary decree on amending particular calendars to
Instructum.131 “Let it be a general
conform with Rubricarum Instructum.
principle that a Saint or Mystery is to have but one feast.” 132
And further on a whole list of feasts is ordered expunged (i.e.
removed) from such calendars, including many of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.133 Also notable is a specific mention of Saint
Philomena.
Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her
ornaments, and make her feel remorse for her historical past.” (Pie XII
Devant L'Histoire. Page: 52)
131 The Canon Law Digest, Page: 136
132 Instruction for the Revision of Particular Calendars and the Propers
of Offices and Masses According to the Code of Rubrics, Sacred Congregation
of Rites, 14 February 1961, Paragraph 11, The Canon Law Digest, Page: 136
133 Instruction for the Revision of Particular Calendars and the Propers
of Offices and Masses According to the Code of Rubrics, Sacred Congregation
of Rites, 14 February 1961, Paragraph 34, The Canon Law Digest, Page: 136
134 Pascendi condemned this proposition of the Modernists.
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in a loud voice.”135 No this is not from Vatican II,
II, but from the
Jansenist Synod of Pistoia. Although, Vatican II decrees:
And further:
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reformed liturgy, we will see that all three requirements138 of
the heretical Jansenists have been met.
Ecumenism, which would become prominent later on in
Vatican II is to be seen in the last part of this decree on the
proposal of a universal calendar. This would place Easter on a
fixed Sunday of the year.139
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pontificals from their office. However, Vatican II is preparing to
reserve pontificals to bishops and abbots alone. This is to
further the new doctrine: that authority in the Church is
conferred by episcopal consecration and abbatial blessing, not
by Apostolic appointment. This false doctrine was extended
when Antipope Paul VI decreed that a man does not receive his
authority as Pope until he is consecrated bishop. This denies
almost two millennia of tradition to the contrary.142 This was
further extended to all bishops in the Vatican II Church’s Code
of Canon Law issued in 1983. This revised law does not grant a
man authority as a diocesan bishop until he has been
consecrated bishop, although an apostolic appointment is also
required.143
Let us consider one final quote from the Decree on the
Liturgy:
Liturgy: “For the liturgy is made up of unchangeable elements
divinely instituted, and of elements subject to change.”
142 When Jesus appointed Peter, he was not yet ordained. It was nearly
a millennium until the man elected Pope was bishop prior to his election.
The coronation originated from the consecration of the Pope as Bishop. The
last man before Vatican II to be elected Pope, who was not already a Bishop,
was Pope Gregory XVI in the early 19th century.
143 I saw part of a consecration of bishops by Karol Wojtyla. They did
not even receive the customary zucchetto as a bishop until after the laying
on of hands by Wojtyla. Confirming this new doctrine.
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What Are the Consequences of This?
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Catholic Faith. The hierarchy conspired with Giovanni Baptiste
Montini, beginning the deception of the elect foretold in Sacred
Scripture.147 The only exceptions are those bishops who were
not present at Vatican II and have not given subsequent consent
to any of its heretical decrees or pledged obedience to any of the
antipopes reigning for the past 52 years.
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What of Their Progeny?
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Is Allah God?
Vatican II states:
153 Footnote from the original decree of Vatican II. Cf Saint Gregory VII,
letter XXI to Anzir (Nacir), King of Mauritania (Pl. 148, col. 450f.)
154 Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,
Page: 740
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three religions worship the same God? Let us consider two
people, who are monotheists, but worship different gods. There
are three possibilities. The first person worships the true God,
while the second does not. The second person worships the true
God, while the first does not. Finally, both could be worshiping
false gods. It is impossible for two people to worship different
gods and both worship the true God.
Let us apply this principle to the statement above. By
stating that Moslems worship the one true God, Vatican II is
stating one of two things. Either they are stating that by
worshiping a different god, Vatican II does not worship the one
true God, or they are stating that the Islamic god, Allah is the
one true God. Vatican II states that Islam rejects the Divinity of
our Lord Jesus Christ, yet attempts to minimize this. This raises
the question, “Who is the god of Vatican II?”
II?”
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Are the New Rites of the Sacraments Valid?
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Through the holy anointing Through this holy anointing
and His most tender mercy, may the Lord in his love and
may the Lord forgive you in mercy help you with the grace
whatever you have committed of the Holy Spirit. May the
by the sense of (sight, hearing, Lord who frees you from sin
etc.).157 save you and raise you up.158
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consecration of Bishops is indeed taken from the Eastern Rite
ceremony of installation of a Patriarch. He concluded it is
invalid, because the man being installed has already been
consecrated a bishop previously. In the Catholic Rite, a man is
consecrated bishop by three bishops, who all impose their hands
and recite the form of consecration with the intention of
consecrating. In the event the principle consecrator would not
be a valid bishop or have the proper intention, the other two
would supply. In the New Rite only the principle consecrator
recites the form, while all of the bishops present impose their
hands silently.
161 Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,
Page: 271
162 The Apocalypse of St. John, Fr. E. Sylvester Berry, Page: 138
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indicates that Antichrist and his prophet will
introduce ceremonies to imitate the Sacraments of
the Church.”
Church.”
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The Novus Ordo Missae
163 www.fatimainquiry.blogspot.com/
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have been ordained in an Ordination Rite that is not Catholic
and thus are not priests. Further, the bishop that ordained them
may not be a valid bishop.
Antipope Paul VI, in his decree Missale Romanum164 gives
the consecration form to use. Over the bread: “Take this, all of
you, and eat it; this is my body which will be given up for you.”
Over the wine: “Take this, all of you, and drink from it; this is
the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting
covenant. It will be shed for you and for all men so that sins
may be forgiven.
forgiven. Do this in memory of me.” The words, “The
mystery of faith,” spoken by the priest are to be taken out of the
context of the words spoken by our Lord, and used instead to
introduce an acclamation by the faithful.
Before continuing, the official Latin text at the Vatican
website165 contains pro multis,
multis, the official translation into
Italian, and at the same website can also be found per tutti
all.166 This indicates that when they say pro
which means: for all.
multis in Latin, they intend, for all,all, despite the fact of using
different words. This perverse intention alone is heretical and
invalid.
We should expand. In 1970 questions were sent to Rome
on this substantial change in many vernacular translations.167
Rome answered with a Notitiae (Number 50) 168 in January of
1970:
164 Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,
Page: 139
165 www.vatican.va
166 Unlike many other documents, there is not an official English
translation at this website. The others on the internet revert to Latin for the
actual form, although attendance at a Novus Ordo service will instantly
indicate which form is truly in use.
167 This substantial change occurs in English, German, Italian, French
and Spanish. However, this author has recently learned, that Polish retains
for many, being an exact translation of the Latin pro multis.
168 The complete text of the Notitiae is reproduced at the end of this
book, as well as the Catholic teaching from the Roman Catechism.
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“In some vernacular versions the words of the
formula for the consecration of the wine pro
multis'are
multis'are translated in the following way: in
English for all men;
men; in Spanish por todos and in
Italian per tutti.
tutti. Is there a good reason, and if
there is, what is it, for deciding on such a
variation? Rome answered: The above variation is
fully justified: a) According to exegetes, the
Aramaic word which in Latin is translated pro
multis,
multis, means pro omnibus:
omnibus: the multitude for
whom Christ died is unbounded, which is the same
as saying: Christ died for all.”
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then asked: “And when he says Mass in Latin, what does he
say?” The Cardinal replied: “pro multis”, which means “for
many.” The priest then told the Cardinal that until Paul VI
could figure it out, he was returning to the Tridentine Mass he
was certain was valid.
And let us consider another point. Let us say that the
Catholic Church has been wrong for almost two millennia in
reporting Jesus’ words as contained in the Gospels.170 When the
Protestants revolted in the Sixteenth Century, why didn’t they
discover this and call us to task for this? In fact, why haven’t
they corrected their Bibles to this very day, when one of their
own has discovered this Great Mistake?
Mistake? Why did Paul VI
personally approve the New American Bible for use by members
of his church, which contains for many in both Gospel texts? He
gave this approval on September 18, 1970, shortly after the two
notices above. Since such things come across his desk, wouldn’t
he have some make sure the bible conforms to his new doctrine?
There are many unanswered questions here. It is better to
believe that the original reports from the Apostles, preserved
unchanged for two millennia, not only by Catholics, but also by
non-Catholics, are correct. In fact, the New Latin Vulgate on the
Vatican website also contains pro multis in the pertinent
passages.
Another notable change is to be found in even the Latin,
that is the memorial acclamation ordered by Missale Romanum.
“Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.” Wait
a minute. Isn’t Christ supposed to have come onto the very altar
at the consecration? By reciting these words, the priest and
people deny this. The priest has this denial in mind prior to the
very mass171 itself. Therefore, his intention cannot be valid. The
addition of this memorial acclamation invalidates the whole
service if nothing else does, and many other things do.
Therefore, we must conclude that celebrating the Novus
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Ordo Missae is a heretical act, as well as not being a valid
Mass. It is heretical to celebrate a Sacrament with an invalid
rite. This disdains the rites of the Church.
The result of this is that any priest or bishop who
celebrated the Novus Ordo Missae became a heretic ipso facto,172
(if he wasn’t one already), and incurred all of the same
consequences enumerated for the bishops above.
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Surely This Cannot Be True
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known as the “Orthodox Eastern Church,” in which
the patriarchate of Constantinople possessed a
certain precedence. The only Orientals retaining
communion with Rome were the Byzantine Greeks
in Italy, and the Maronites in Syria. As a result of
the Greco-Latin break, the East was cut off from
the guidance and protection of the papacy, and
from the developing Christianity of the West.
Latin Christianity was deprived of all those rich
contributions which might have come from the
Orientals and the Russians.”175
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times.”176
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But My Priest Never Said the Novus Ordo
178 This church has usurped the name of Catholic and has not given
itself a name. However, many have given it various names from Montinian
church to bastard church. All of which seem quite appropriate.
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Conclusion
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Are Catholics Catholic?
Above we see that the second largest denomination in
the United States are lapsed Catholics. That is those who were
baptized into the Catholic Church or into the Vatican II sect,
which claims the name of Catholic. These people, if asked, call
themselves Catholic, but are they really. Is it sufficient to claim a
name to actually be something? Let us look at the statistics and
then draw the proper conclusions. First of all 68 million people
claim to be practicing Catholics, that is they enter a church
building on a regular basis. Some of these are Chreasters, that is
they show up for Christmas and Easter in a church building.
Now the Commandment of the Church requires a Catholic to
assist at Mass on all Holydays of Obligation, which includes all
Sundays and several other major Feast Days. And so these are
not truly practicing Catholics.
Let us review the statistics reported above in the
Introduction.
Introduction. 88% believe birth control is acceptable and 66%
see nothing wrong with per-marital sex. Therefore at most only
12% of those who claim to be Catholic actually are, for to believe
birth-control is permitted is an act of heresy and we have seen
that heretics are no longer Catholics. Almost 50% think there is
nothing wrong with homosexual practices, while half reject the
infallibility of of the Pope. 31% of the abortions are performed
on women, who claim to be Catholic, but are not really. And we
can see that few who claim the name of Catholic are truly
catholic, believing all that Jesus teaches through His holy
Church.
Let us look to Washington DC. Six of the nine Supreme
Court Justices claim to be Catholic, and yet Roe versus Wade has
not been overturned. The current Secretary of Health and
Human Services (Kathleen Sebelius) is nominally Catholic, and
yet pro-abortion. In fact, the Vice President (Joe Biden) is
likewise a pro-abortion nominal Catholic. How many nominal
Catholics are pro-abortion?
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Is Jesus Really Present?
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Church. They might be able to save their soul, but material
heretics are not Catholic. The solution is to learn everything the
Catholic Church teaches and accept it on the authority of
Almighty God, Who teaches it.
If the faithful of the Vatican II sect do not believe the
Catholic Faith do their priests and bishops? Obviously the
priests and bishops are not teaching the Catholic Faith
sufficiently to end this departure from these truths. Again,
there are probably statistics on how many priests believe in the
Real Presence. Can a priest who does not believe in
transsubstantion validly consecrate, if he uses the correct
matter and form in the Indult Mass?
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The Pedophile Crisis
182 This is the Novus Ordo heretical sect under the current Benedict
XVI.
183 The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by
Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, commonly known as the
John Jay Report, is a 2004 report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Paul reported, when we lose the Catholic Faith, loss of morals is
not far behind.
Let us look at how the Catholic Church deals with
Pedophilia as opposed to the Church that was born at Vatican II.
II.
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Saint Pius V went further:
187 www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n009rp_HomosexualPriests.htm
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
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of the gifts He makes nor of the calls He issues. But
the plan of salvation also includes those who
acknowledge the Creator. In the first place
amongst these there are the Mohammedans, who,
professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along
with us adore the one and merciful God, who on
the last day will judge mankind. Nor is God far
distant from those who in shadows and images
seek the unknown God, for it is He who gives to all
men life and breath and all things, and as Saviour
wills that all men be saved. Those also can attain to
salvation who through no fault of their own do not
know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet
sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by
their deeds to do His will as it is known to them
through the dictates of conscience.”
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What Does the Catholic Church Teach on Salvation?
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as the Holy Office determined in the case of Fr. Leonard Feeney.
193
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has not the guilt of deliberate sin. But, the
Catholic dogma that no one can be saved outside
the Catholic Church is well-known; and also that
those who are obstinate toward the authority and
definitions of the same Church, and who
persistently separate themselves from the unity of
the Church, and from the Roman Pontiff, the
successor of Peter, to whom 'the guardianship of
the vine has been entrusted by the Savior,' cannot
obtain eternal salvation.”196
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especially if we cannot go to Holy Communion? And those who
cannot be baptized with water must desire this Baptism and do
all in their power to prepare for reception of the Sacrament.
Saint Ambrose says: “I lost him whom I was to
regenerate” (i.e. Baptize) “but he did not lose the grace he
prayed for.”198 If Baptism of water was absolutely necessary,
Jesus would have demonstrated by having Bishop John the
Evangelist who was present baptize the Good Thief. The Church
would immediately baptize catechumens and then instruct them
in the Faith, lest some disaster take them from this life and
straight into Hell. The fact that the Church does not do this is
sufficient proof of Baptism of Desire for Saint Thomas Aquinas
often uses the practice of the Church as a proof of some sacred
truth. Fr. Coppens explains this simply:
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Chapter 6
A Prophetic Overview
“So extreme is the general perversion that there is room
to fear…that the Son of Perdition, of whom the Apostle speaks,
has already arrived on Earth.”201 Pope Saint Pius X wrote this in
his first Encyclical in 1903.
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according to some reports, some are speculating that we are
about to enter into these two chapters of the Apocalypse.
Apocalypse. After
detailing many disasters in the Apocalypse,
Apocalypse, we are told:
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to come to the knowledge of the truth.”209
“Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last
times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,
speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their
conscience seared. Forbidding to marry, to abstain
from meats, which God hath created to be received
with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that
have known the truth.”210
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effort on the Church. We wish to know more about our lover.
Therefore, we must spend time learning more about the Church.
Can we ever be totally satisfied? Here on Earth it is not possible.
For our total satisfaction can only be obtained in Heaven, but we
can have a foretaste of these joys in meditating upon the
sublime truths of the Holy Catholic Faith.
Let us take this as a warning to know, love, and serve God
as the basic catechism advises. And first of all, we must know
God by studying about Him from the Catechism as discussed in
the first chapter. Only by learning about God and His plan of
salvation for us can we love Him. When we love God with our
whole heart, soul, mind, body, and strength, then we will serve
Him as we ought.212
Saint John Eudes reminds us:
212 Deuteronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, and Luke 10:27
213 The Admirable Heart of Mary, Page: 319
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The Worst Time Ever
Notice that both Gospels state that this will be the worst
time in history, but both Gospels say: neither shall be, indicating
that better times will come after these great trials. I recommend
reading all three Gospel accounts in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and
Luke 19.
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Antichrist
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Antichrist is considered in several sections of Sacred
Scripture.221 Here let us consider just one of the things Antichrist
does. And it was magnified even to their prince of the strength:
and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down
the place of his sanctuary. And strength was given him against
the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast
down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.”222
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The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Will Cease Entirely For Some Time
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Therefore, we must conclude that at sometime in history
the Mass will cease to be celebrated.
Antichrist takes away the Sacrifice of the Mass because of
the sins of those who claim the name of Catholic, but do lie. 228
“And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice,
because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and
he shall do and shall prosper.”229 Is the cause of the cessation of
the Sacrifice of the Mass, our failure to learn the truths of the
Faith? For Sacred Scripture says: “and truth shall be cast
down…”
“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile
the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual
sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto
desolation.”230 Notice that the continual sacrifice is taken away
so that the abomination of desolation can be put in its place.
Based upon all of this, many identify Giovanni Baptiste Montini
as Antipope Paul VI, The Antichrist,
Antichrist, since he replaced the
Sacrifice of the Mass with the Novus Ordo Missae.
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Objections
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whom is Antichrist proper. Could this beast from the abyss be
the second beast of Apocalypse 13:11-18? If so, then the two
witnesses will soon appear, as will this second beast. This
second beast will possibly canonize Antipope Paul VI as a saint
of the Novus Ordo Church, thus canonizing Vatican II and the
New Rites of the Sacraments. And all we have been discussing
above.
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Aren’t You Speculating?
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Conclusion
239 II Thessalonians 3
240 Matthew 24:24
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And Another Beast Rose
In Apocalypse,
Apocalypse, the latter part of the 13th chapter is
devoted to a second beast, who is not Antichrist,
Antichrist, but apparently
a successor. Just who will be this beast? With the death of John
Paul II the Great Deceiver, it is certain that he was not this beast.
It appears likely that Joseph Ratzinger also is not this beast,
although he continues the policies of his four perfidious
predecessors. True, recently, he has taken a conservative turn,
putting away the Jansenist Cross instituted by Antipope Paul VI,
and carried by Antipopes John Paul I and II. He has also put
away his radical pallium in favor of a more conservative one.
This alone is an innovation, as an Archbishop receives a pallium
with his office, which he keeps until death. Of course, why
shouldn’t these men depart from tradition in small things, since
they have departed from the Divine and Catholic Faith?
Even the carrying of the cross in place of a crosier is a
departure from two millennia of tradition. Peter left his staff on
a visit outside of Rome and never carried one afterwards. In
light of this, the Pope does not carry a staff or crosier, but
processes with nothing in his hands. Tradition holds that the
crosier is a sign of authority, but of limited authority, which is
why a bishop carries it in his own diocese, but nowhere else.
The Pope, whose jurisdiction is unlimited, does not carry the
crozier. In fact, there is much to the symbolism of this new
church founded by Roncalli and Montini, which continues today
under Fr. Ratzinger.
Yes, Ratzinger was consecrated bishop in the New Rite of
Ordination, which is substantially different from the Catholic
Rite of Ordination. Therefore Ratzinger is not a Catholic Bishop
or even a non-Catholic Bishop. Ironically, by the laws of his own
church, he is not pope of his own church. Antipope Paul VI
established the Papal Election Law of the Vatican II Church.241 In
this law, a man does not become Pope, until he is consecrated
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Bishop. The 1983 Code of Canon Law confirms this. Finally
Antipope John Paul II the Great Deceiver promulgated his own
election law.242 While it is indeed a doctrine of faith that the
power of the Supreme Pontiff derives directly from Christ,
whose earthly Vicar he is, it is also certain that this supreme
power in the Church is granted to him “by means of lawful
election accepted by him, together with episcopal
consecration.”243 This is a substantial change to almost two
millennia of tradition as stated in the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
“The Roman Pontiff legitimately elected obtains, from the
moment he accepts election, the full power of supreme
jurisdiction by divine right.”244 Since Joseph Ratzinger is not a
valid Bishop, by the laws of his own Church, he can in no way be
Pope! It should be noted that the tradition of the Church, which
is of divine law that the Pope receives authority the moment he
accepts election cannot be changed by the Church, because
Divine Law cannot be changed.
The Prophet Isaias of these times says: “And
“And they that
remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall
easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.” Henry
Cardinal Manning also reported that the Great Apostasy must
necessarily come at some time in history. And this Great
Apostasy,
Apostasy, according to Saint Nicholas of Flue, will devastate the
Church so much that:
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low-will become so perverted.”245
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Chapter 7
Reaction to the Changes
Latin's gone, peace is too,
Singin' and shoutin' from every pew,
Altar's turned 'round, priest is too;
Commentator's yellin', “page twenty-two.”
Communion rails goin', stand up straight!
Kneelin'; suddenly went outta date.
Processions are formin' in every aisle,
Salvation's organized single file.
Rosary's
Rosary's out, psalms are in.
Hardly ever hear a word against sin.
Listen to the lector, hear how he reads.
Please stop rattlin' them rosary beads.
Padre's lookin' puzzled, doesn't know his part;
Used to know the whole deal in Latin by heart.
I hope all the changes are just about done,
That they don't drop Bingo before I've won.247
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Also, the Prayers at the foot of the altar had been shortened.
Soon the vernacular began to creep into the readings at Mass.
There is a story about cooking a frog. Drop a frog into
boiling water and he will jump out. Place the frog in cool water,
and then raise the heat slowly, he will stay in and cook. The
Enemy knew that there would be a reaction to the institution of
the Novus Ordo. This is the reason why the liturgy was slowly
brought into the vernacular, and modified, until one day the
Novus Ordo was instituted in its place. This was the final change.
Another name for this process is gradualism, first used by the
Socialists and Communists.
The devil hates the Mass. Many began to believe that the
Devil was gaining the upper hand when Kumbayah replaced the
Kyrie, when a table replaced the altar, and when the Mass was
replaced with a meal. The Devil knew that there would be a
reaction to the implementation of the Novus Ordo Missae. Some
simply would not accept this in place of the Latin Mass.
In 1970, Brothers Francis Schuckardt and Dennis
Chicoine began going around the country speaking to groups
about the Novus Ordo Missae. They spoke against the Novus
Ordo. They concluded by saying to their audiences that anyone
who went to a Novus Ordo service after hearing their speech
would commit mortal sin. Soon they found a priest to join with
them. They also found an Old-Catholic bishop. They had the
priest reconcile the Old-Catholic bishop with the Church. 249 This
old-Catholic bishop ordained Schuckardt to the priesthood, and
consecrated him bishop. Br. Dennis was also ordained. Thus,
the Congregation of Mary Immaculate was born, also known as
CMRI.250 This organization worked in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
the CMRI.
CMRI was one step ahead of the Society of Saint Pius X in
249 Remember that this is reserved to the Local Ordinary, and further
only the Pope can restore an old-Catholic bishop to exercise of the
priesthood. This is only done after a complete seminary course to make sure
they know what the Catholic Faith teaches.
250 The foundation of an organization like this is reserved to the Local
Ordinary of the place where it is founded. Also, each Ordinary must give
permission for such an organization to move into his diocese.
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obtaining a vacant seminary in Spokane, Washington in the late
‘70’s.
However, the CMRI was not what many people wanted.
People wanted priests that had been ordained in the Catholic
Church. Many departed from the Novus Ordo to minister to
these people in the early ‘70’s. One of the first not to celebrate
the Novus Ordo was Fr. James Dunphy. He went coast to coast
and border to border in the United States. He simply told people
to reject newer things, and that there were no real answers to
the problems. He did encourage spirituality, but soon he was
grounded by his superiors. Fr. James Dunphy stayed home in
Saint Louis. This is where he remains to this day. Other priests
left the Novus Ordo and provided various forms of the Latin
Mass to Catholics throughout the world. However, these were
seen as a dead end street, as some day, they must all die. No,
there had to be a long term solution.
On Christmas Eve, 1971, a conversation started in Econe,
Switzerland between Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Fr.
Guerard des Lauriers about whether it was better to use the
Latin Mass, or the Novus Ordo. Fr. Guerard des Lauriers, who is
said to have written the Ottaviani Intervention,
Intervention, asked:
“Monseigneur, it is a pity that, while maintaining Tradition, you
Mass?”251 Thus,
have been celebrating something called a New Mass?”
the Apostles of Jesus and Mary became the center of the
Traditionalist Movement.252 Lefebvre was to cement his position
when he declared the Novus Ordo a bastard rite.253 Here was a
bishop, ordained and consecrated in the Catholic Church
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standing up against the Novus Ordo. Lefebvre proceeded to
found seminaries and priories throughout the world to serve the
Traditionalists.254 Lefebvre promised to provide solid
requests of Traditionalists.
well trained priests to serve the needs of Traditionalists.
Traditionalists.
Lefebvre decided to hold to the position that Paul VI and
then John Paul II were valid Popes, although they permitted
many things to happen which were unacceptable. Lefebvre
claimed that Vatican II was merely a pastoral council.
Therefore, it must be interpreted in the light of tradition.
“The heresy which is now being born will become the
most dangerous of all; the exaggeration of the respect due to the
infallibility.”255 Fr. Le
Pope and the illegitimate extension of his infallibility.”
Floch was head of the French Seminary in Rome when Lefebvre
was a seminarian there. Lefebvre applied this principle to
Vatican II and its spirit. Lefebvre declared that none of these
things were infallible. In fact, he went so far as to declare that
Vatican II was only a pastoral council, and therefore never
defined anything infallibly. And so, Catholics could happily
maintain Paul VI as their Pope while disobeying his wish and
hope that we accept the Novus Ordo Missae and the
accompanying new Sacramental Rites, and the New Religion
they represent. The lines were drawn when Paul VI suspended
Lefebvre. Lefebvre declared that he must continue to defend
tradition, hence the term Traditionalist. The term Traditionalist
has been applied to all who reject the Novus Ordo, and accept
the Latin Mass in some form.
The Society of Saint Pius X founded by Lefebvre was not
the only place to find the Traditionalist Mass.256 In the early to
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mid 1970’s, many priests departed from the Novus Ordo in order
to serve the many Traditionalists throughout the world. A few
priests joined with Lefebvre in his Society, but many more
remained independent. These priests simply set up a chapel, or
chapels, and served them. A de facto 257 emergency was
implicitly declared and these priests ministered as if they had
full approval by the Church to do so. For the young men
wanting to be priests, there was only one route: Lefebvre.
Lefebvre refused to ordain for other than his own Society and a
few sympathetic upshot monasteries in Europe.
With Lefebvre’s continual insistence that Paul VI was
Pope, and then, John Paul I and II, people began to wonder. How
could a true Pope give us a bastard rite of the mass? Thus,
increasingly, priests and people began to reject Paul VI’s claim
to the papacy. This included a number of Lefebvre’s own
followers.258 But what are these priests and people to do for
priests in the future?
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Theories on the Papacy
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Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc
261 In Vietnamese, the family name comes before one’s given name.
Catholics add a Baptismal name at the front.
262 There is a great deal of circumstantial evidence to link Lefebvre with
Palmar de Troya at this time.
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sedevacantists. They have rightfully followed Archbishop Ngo-
Dihn Thuc in declaring that John Paul II is a usurper of the
papacy. However, these two groups do not have unity, even
among their own ranks. They are divided and subdivided.
It should be noted that no Bishop can be legitimately
consecrated without a mandate from the Pope, and that all
Bishops involved are excommunicated by the Law of the Church
without any need of further declaration.
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The Society of Saint Pius X Splits
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The Society Splits Again
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The Indult Mass
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Meanwhile…
264 This is the theory spoken of above. John Paul II is only materially
pope, but not formally pope. This is a return to the original, the preceding
section being all new in light of the Notitiae mentioned earlier.
265 Musey stated in the banquet afterwards: This conditional
reordination was a mere formality. This places his intention in doubt.
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Jurisdiction
266 Guidelines For Going Outside the Church for Mass and Confession,
Page: 19
267 The Smoke of Satan, Pages: 101-102. The Society of Saint Pius X has
made a similar assertion in a media brochure.
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the Church. Only a pope can permit exceptions or declare on
the lawfulness of their use in extraordinary cases.
What many do not realize is that for the valid absolution
of sins in the Sacrament of Confession, the priest requires not
only the power of Holy Orders, but also the power of jurisdiction
over the penitent. This power is possessed by Divine Law by the
Pope over the whole Church and the Bishops over their diocese.
Church Law extends this power to Pastors over their parishes.
All other priests receive their jurisdiction by delegation by the
Pope or the Bishop of the Diocese in which they are to hear
Confessions. Church Law also delegates certain priests the
necessary jurisdiction as part of their office.
Those who are in good faith among the Orthodox are
validly absolved in Confession by a special grant of jurisdiction
from several Popes. If a priest validly absolves, his authority
comes from Jesus Christ through the Pope in an ordinary or
extraordinary manner. By the same principle it can be
considered that the Popes will also grant such jurisdiction to
those who in good faith present them to priests who do not
possess such jurisdiction. Thus the Confessions heard by
Traditionalists, Old Catholic and others as well as the Orthodox
can be presumed to be valid, if the priest also possesses Holy
Orders by a special grant from the Roman Pontiffs for the
salvation of souls.
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Priest Co-Consecrators
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Home Alone
269 A whole book could be written on this. A chapter of a book has been
written on this. The Smoke Of Satan by Michael W. Cuneo.
270 This is a reference to Fr. Leonard Goffine’s Ecclesiastical Year, which
gives explanations of the Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays and many feast
days. This is now in reprint as The Church’s Year.
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The Church Comfortable
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we meet in our life. One of the saints said that everyone we
come in contact with should be better off for having known us.
This means for a moment or for a lifetime.
By defining that a person can be saved in the practice of
any religion whatsoever, the Vatican II Church eliminated the
need for conversions, pretending all along that the need for
conversion was desirable. Yes, the Vatican II Church will accept
converts. But the Vatican II Church is not zealous in obtaining
them. They believe all men ultimately will be saved.
One would think that the Traditionalists would be
zealous fighters for converts. Yet, the Traditionalists are just
about as zealous as the Vatican II church. They have found their
comfortable niche where they obtain Mass on Sunday, eat fish
on Friday, etc. They observe the externals of Catholicism as
their ancestors did in the first half of the twentieth century,
completely ignoring the Popes as their ancestors did. For
Traditionalists,
Traditionalists, Catholicism consists of a Latin Mass, the Rosary,
Rosary,
and the Scapular.
Scapular . However, the Sabbatine Privilege is too much
effort for them. They content themselves with wearing the
scapular.
scapular. They also get some Traditionalist priest to commute
the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary to their daily Rosary.
Rosary.
Finally, the home alone group. This group rejects both
the Vatican II Church and the Traditionalists.
Traditionalists. They content
themselves with leaving off the illegitimate Latin Masses of the
Traditionalists,
Traditionalists, but they retain the Rosary and the Scapular.
Scapular.
Speak to any of these groups of a crusade to spread
Catholicism throughout the world and do you know what you
will find instead? A crusade against your call for a crusade!
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Catholic Action
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his way shall save his soul from death and shall
cover a multitude of sins.”277
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“Since it is a fact that in these days adults need
instruction no less than the young, all pastors and
those having the care of souls shall explain the
catechism to the people in a plain and simple style
adapted to the intelligence of their hearers. This shall
be carried out on all holy days of obligation 281, at such
time as is most convenient for the people, but not
during the same hour when the children are instructed,
and this instruction must be in addition to the usual
homily on the Gospel which is delivered at the
parochial Mass on Sundays and holy days. The
catechetical instruction shall be based on the
Catechism of the Council of Trent; and the matter is to
be divided in such a way that in the space of four or five
years, treatment will be given to the Apostles' Creed,
the Sacraments, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's
Prayer and the Precepts of the Church.”282
281 The holydays of obligation are all Sundays, as well as certain major
feast days, which vary by country. Please see your Catechism for more
information
282 Acerbo nimis, Pope Saint Pius X, Paragraph 24
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Chapter 8
What Is Most Important:
The Mass or the Faith?
“It is the Mass that matters.”
matters.” This motto was inspired
by the Protestants,
Protestants, who attempted to destroy the Mass. Some
have reasoned that if a Mass is valid, then it is pleasing to God.
The Roman Catechism states: “Whoever will eat the Lamb
outside of this house is profane: whoever is not in the Ark of
Noah shall perish in the flood.”283
At the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Reformers
knew well that by destroying the Mass they could separate souls
from the Church. As Adrian Fortescue wrote in the Catholic
Encyclopedia: “The words of the Reformers, 'It 'It is the Mass that
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matters'
matters ' was true.” Fortescue explained that all King Henry
VIII needed to do was outlaw the Mass; “a general denial of the
whole system of Catholic dogma was unnecessary.”285 (Unaware
it was a Protestant slogan, Catholics used this phrase in the early
days following the abolition of the Tridentine.) The Catholics
emblazoned those words on the banner of their opposition: “It “It is
the Mass that matters.”
matters.” But while Fortescue observed that “the
Mass is the central feature of the Catholic religion,” he said
something else even more important. This was something
overlooked by those early champions of the Tridentine Mass
who were eager to preserve the liturgy.
“As union with Rome is the bond between Catholics, so is
our common share in this, the most venerable rite in
Christendom, the witness and safeguard of that bond.”286 The
Mass, then, is the external expression of our union with Rome,
our obedience to and reverence for the papacy. By itself, it is
NOT the bond that guarantees unity, only its safeguard. This is
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the teaching of Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis,
Corporis, where the
Pope stated: “By means of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, Christ Our
Lord willed to give to the faithful a striking manifestation of our
union among ourselves and with our Divine Head…The
Sacrament of the Eucharist is itself a striking and wonderful
figure of the unity of the Church…”287 When Montini abolished
the true Mass, he effectively announced that the safeguard of
that unity was no longer needed.
The Reformers and those evil men working behind the
scenes to destroy the Church learned a valuable lesson. They
reversed the order necessary to accomplish their ultimate goal.
Destroying the Mass alone was not the answer, although,
certainly it was the first step in their graduated plan to
eventually overthrow the Holy See. It is important to remember
that irregularities in the liturgy cropped up worldwide long
before Pope Pius XII issued Mediator Dei,Dei, (November 30, 1947).
When the problem continued, Pope Pius XII extended Canon 1,
paragraph 2 of the Oriental Code of Canon Law to the Universal
Church. That law states: “Patriarchs, Archbishops and other
Ordinaries should zealously care for the faithful protection and
the accurate observance of their rite, nor are they to permit or
to tolerate any change in the rite.”288 This should be seen in its
true light by those so zealous to preserve the Mass. Without
Canon Law and the power of the Holy See to interpret it, add to
or subtract from it, the Mass is vulnerable to attack and
perversion. Those wishing to sidestep Canon Law in other
matters need to realize that without these laws the integrity of
the Church cannot be preserved. The revision of the Code of
Canon Law by Wojtyla as Antipope John Paul II the Great
Deceiver in 1983 was scarcely a coincidence.
Only the Pope can protect the Mass; the Mass by itself
cannot constitute or represent the unbroken totality of Church
unity. The papacy was the guarantor of the existence of the
Holy Sacrifice from the beginning. The papacy’s (apparent)
287 Mystici Corporis, Pope Pius XII, Paragrah 82
288 Canon Law Digest, Volume 5, Page: 7
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cessation was only an indicator of the Church's (apparent)
demise.289 Pope Saint Pius X gave evidence of this essential
connection in his encyclical, Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
Teaching against the errors of vital permanence and the
collective conscience, he sternly reminded Catholics that “the
triple authority in the Church (is): disciplinary, dogmatic, and
liturgical.” While the Modernists taught that the Church is
obliged to join the State in adopting “democratic forms of
procedure,” Pope Saint Pius X defined as “mad (those) who
think that the sense of liberty now flourishing,” could ever
cause the Church to change Her God-given form of government
or teaching. The Church, image of the Trinity Itself cannot
change what God has ordained. What the faithful saw was
exactly the opposite of what they think they perceived. The
authority Montini arrogated did not exist: it derived from a
diabolic source. Antipope Paul VI, as Pope Leo XIII predicted in
his long version of the Saint Michael's Prayer, was “the
abominable impiety” in the Holy Place. Antipope Paul VI
pretended to be the voice of God. He revealed his true identity
in abolishing the Latin Tridentine Mass. Montini was not pope
— he was the antithesis of all that was holy.
The Devil hates the Papacy. Jesus founded His Church
upon a Rock (Petrus): “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter;
and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell
shall not prevail against it.”290 The Devil knows that the only
way to destroy the Church is to destroy the Papacy.291
“For the mystery of iniquity already worketh, only that
he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the
way.”292 Let us see what this means. Concerning this quote from
Saint Paul, Fr. Berry writes: “The words of Saint Paul to the
289 We know that the Church cannot cease to exist, but there will be an
unprecedented crisis in history, when it can appear to have ceased to exist to
most of the world.
290 Matthew 16:18
291 It is infallible that the Church cannot be destroyed, but it can be
severely crippled.
292 II Thessalonians 2:7
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Thessalonians may be a reference to the papacy as the obstacle
Antichrist.”293 Let us apply this to our situation.
to the coming of Antichrist.”
By attempting to elect the heretic Angelo Roncalli as pope in
October 1958, the cardinals gave us an antipope instead of giving
us a pope.
What solution was pursued to end the confusion of the
Western Schism? First, we had one pope. Then, the cardinals
said they were coerced. They left Rome and elected a second
claimant. The Council of Pisa deposed the claimant from each of
the two lines and elected a third. This is beyond the authority of
a Council. Finally, the Council of Constance deposed Antipope
John XXIII who had called it. Pope Gregory XII resigned in favor
of a new election. Then, the Council deposed the final
claimant.294 This being done, the Papacy was certainly vacant.
The Council proceeded to elect Pope Martin V.
In our time it can be certainly demonstrated that the
papacy became vacant on October 9, 1958. The apparent
elections of 1958, 1963, 1978 and 2005 are also certainly invalid.
Each man apparently elected in all five cases was a heretic prior
to his election. In the cases of the 1963 and 1978 elections there
are other irregularities. The solution to the crisis is to accept or
elect a pope who can set all else back in proper order.295
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Chapter 9
The Solution?
“Indeed we declare, say, pronounce, and define
that it is altogether necessary to salvation for
every human creature to be subject to the Roman
Pontiff.”296
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Pope Gregory XVII?
297 One lived in Palmar de Troya, Spain and was ordained and
consecrated by Archbishop Ngo-Dihn Thuc. The other in St. Jovite, Canada.
298 A man is considered a pope-elect, the moment he receives the
required votes until he expresses his acceptance or rejection of the Papal
Election.
299 If Siri was Pope, then he would know these men were Antipopes.
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of a Pope, and God grants the Pope authority the moment he is
elected, no matter how irregular the election may have been.
Recall that all that is required for a man to be validly elected
Pope is that he be a reasonable Catholic man. That is he must be
baptized, have the use of reason and be a member of the
Catholic Church, therefore heretics, apostates and schismatics
schismatics
cannot become Pope.
The Second Council of Lyons states: “How grave are the
losses resulting from a prolonged vacancy, and how full of
dangers it is to the Roman Church, is shown by prudent
consideration of the past.”302
The Catholic Church is “the assembly of believers in
Christ, under the obedience to the successors of Saint Peter.”303
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Chapter 10
Mission of the Catholic Church
“As the Father has sent Me, I also send you”,304 Jesus said
to the Apostles. Saint Paul asks,
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to forgive sins? Sacred Scripture does not tell us. Who sent
Thomas? Either Jesus gave him authority directly or more like
Peter as the Vicar of Jesus Christ transmitted this authority
himself.
Msgr. Charles Journet states:
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signifies ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
jurisdiction, though it was
given by Christ Himself to the other Apostles, was
not, however, given to any of them singly, as to
Saint Peter but in common and collectively with
Peter, who was also with the others when Christ
said, 'Whatsoever you shall bind on Earth,' etc.,
that all may understand that Bishops, the
successors of the Apostles, can do nothing except
in unity with Peter and with the successors of
Peter”309
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discovered.”312
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In fact, although we know there was a Pope during the
Western Schism, the scandal of the schism opened the door for
the doctrines, which led a century later to the Protestant Revolt.
Father Edmund James O'Reilly, wrote: “...not that an
interregnum covering the whole period”315 (of the Western
Schism) “would have been impossible or inconsistent with the
promises of Christ, for this is by no means manifest.” If the
confusion of several claimants to the Papacy over forty years
can cause such confusion, consider a vacancy with an antipope
only!
The Catholic Church is one and we read earlier in the
Roman Catechism:
Catechism: “That this visible head is necessary to
establish and preserve unity in the Church is the unanimous
accord of the Fathers…”316 A living, breathing Pope is necessary
at the head of the Apostolic College in order to insure unity, as
Pope Leo XIII stated: “But the Episcopal order is rightly judged
to be in communion with Peter, as Christ commanded, if it be
subject to and obeys Peter; otherwise it necessarily becomes a
lawless and disorderly crowd.”317 Bishops who are not in visible
union with a living Pope become a disorderly crowd and are
blown about by every wind of doctrine and thus are not truly
Apostolic, for Apostolicity requires three things, doctrine and
mission, to which are attached the Order of Bishop. The Office
of Bishop cannot be possessed without union with the Pope, who
alone has the keys of doctrine and government.
The key of government is essential to good order in the
Catholic Church, and by divine institution, the Church is a
monarchy established upon the Bishop of Rome, who is also
Vicar of Jesus Christ.318 The Pope by divine institution is
315 “This schism was only material, not formal; for though there was
great practical difficulty in recognizing the rightful claimant, the principle of
obedience to the legitimate pontiff was not denied.” (A Systematic Study Of
The Catholic Religion, Page: 76)
316 Catechism of the Council of Trent, Page: 74
317 Satis Cognitum, Pope Leo XIII, Paragraph 15
318 The Bishop of Rome is the Pope, and the Pope is Bishop of Rome,
even if he never physically sets foot in Rome itself, as the theologians and
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commissioned by Jesus to feed the lambs and the sheep. 319 Pope
Benedict XIV states: “The care of both the lambs of the Lord’s
flock (who are the people scattered through the entire world)
and of the sheep (the bishops who act as tender parents of the
lambs) is entrusted to the Pope.”320 Cardinals Manning says:
history prove.
319 John 21:15-16
320 Ubi Primum, Pope Benedict XI, 3 December 1740
321 The Pastoral Office, Page: 81
322 Apocalypse 3:7 & Isaias 22:22
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thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. And
whatsoever thou shalt bind upon Earth, it shall be
bound also in Heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on Earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven.”323
The keys were given only to Peter and not to the rest, so
the rest of the clergy, Bishops, priests and other clerics must
receive their key directly or indirectly from the Pope. The Pope
regulates the manner of electing or appointing Bishops and
under the current law directly appoints the Bishops. Even when
Bishops were elected, they could not assume their office until
their appointment was confirmed by the Pope. The current law
provides that a man receives the Office of Bishop,
Bishop, when he has
been appointed and presents the letters of appointment to the
officials of the diocese, even before he has been consecrated to
the Order of Bishop. The keys of doctrine and government are
handed on to him for his diocese by the Pope, which entitles him
to receive the Order of Bishop.
We have seen how Bishops are sent and become
Apostolic, how is the Pope sent? The Pope is sent by election,
and the moment a man accepts election as Pope, he receives the
keys of doctrine and government with the right to receive the
Order of Priest and of Bishop, if he does not previously possess
them. Note well that the Papacy is not handed on by the laying
on of hands, nor is the Office of Bishop.
Bishop. This is the transmission
of the Order of Bishop not the Office of Bishop.
Bishop. These are two
distinct things, the Order and Office of Bishop.
Bishop. All who hold the
Office of Bishop should also possess the Order of Bishop, but in
history some men have held the Office without the Order. What
has happened is that Traditionalist men who wish to reign over
their own private jurisdiction have confused the Order and
Office of Bishop,
Bishop, holding that both are conferred by the laying
on of hands. The principle is that there should be one shepherd
over each diocese, that is one Bishop. If there are several
Bishops in the same diocese, all are subject to the Bishop or
323 Matthew 16:18-19
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Shepherd of the diocese, just as that Bishop is subject to the
Pope. All is in an orderly hierarchy, which depends for its unity
and Catholicity upon a single head to rule the Church, which is
the Pope, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the invisible Head of the
Church.
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would be valid and thus the man elected Pope would truly be
Pope.
The Catholic Church is a perfect society as Pope Leo XIII
Cognitum.326 As a prefect society, the Church
states in Satis Cognitum.
always has the means of providing herself with a head. The
State is also a perfect society, which is why the government
always has a means of providing itself with the necessary
officers to govern, even in an emergency. Perfect societies have
certain abilities under the Natural Law, which are given by
Almighty God so they can discharge their responsibilities, for all
authority comes from Almighty God. If people intervene in any
manner, it is to designate the person whom God will grant the
authority to, thus the Pope does not receive his authority from
the people who elect him, but from Almighty God. All the
electors do is designate the person God grants the authority to
as we pray in the Church: “O God, the Pastor and Ruler of all the
faithful, look favorably upon Thy servant N, Whom Thou hast
been pleased to appoint as shepherd of Thy Church...”327
Saint Anthony Mary Claret says: “He who is not with
Peter is not with the Church, and he who leaves the Ark will
perish in the time of the flood.” Pope Leo XIII stated in Satis
Cognitum:
Cognitum:
326 Satis Cognitum, Pope Leo XIII, “For this reason we find it called in
Holy Writ by names indicating a perfect society.”
327 Saint Pius X Daily Missal, Page: 931
328 Satis Cognitum, Pope Leo XIII, June 29, 1896
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Habemus Papam
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The solution to the current Church crisis was undertaken
by a handful of Catholics in July 1990. Despite my strong desire
to the contrary, I was elected Pope and chose the name Michael
on July 16, 1990.
“For many are called but few chosen.”333 Actually, many
were called. The book, Will the Catholic Church Survive the
Twentieth Century? was sent to sede vacantists throughout the
world at no little effort. This includes all of the Thuc-line
Bishops and all sede vacantist chapels, which would include
most of the sede vacantists priests. In fact, prior to its
publication, much effort was put forth to encourage sede
vacantists to end the vacancy in the papacy as the only solution
to our problems. In 1989, and early 1990, some showed interest.
Then they all began to make excuses why they did not want a
papal election now. When, may we ask, would be a good time?
The papacy had been vacant for three decades already. The
second longest interregnum was ended with force.334 The
cardinals had assembled. Instead of electing a pope they were
making merry. The laity after over two years became frustrated
with the cardinals. The laity boarded up the doors and windows.
The laity cut the cardinals' rations to bread and water. When
this did not work, the laity removed the roof. Soon the cardinals
came in out of the rain. We can see what three decades of delay
has wrought! Vatican II did not commence until five years after
the vacancy began. The Novus Ordo was not instituted until the
second decade of the vacancy. The vacancy has seen many
other peripheral scandals. One of the many scandals being well
publicized is the pedophile scandal. These scandals, serious as
they are, pale in comparison to the heresies which those
claiming to be Catholic happily believe. Above the Second
Council of Lyons told us how dangerous a prolonged vacancy is
in the Papacy.
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mother, but she usually bears a very ugly
daughter; Hatred. Saint John (the Baptist)
experienced that speaking the truth very often
arouses hatred and enmity against the speaker. Let
us learn from him to speak the truth always, when
responsibility requires it, even if it brings upon us
the greatest misfortunes, for, if with Saint John we
patiently bear persecution, with Saint John we
shall become martyrs for truth.”335
335 Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holydays,
and Festivals throughout the Ecclesiastical Year to which are added the Lives
of Many Saints, Pages: 23-24
336 The Prophets And Our Times, Page: 200
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Chapter 11
An Urgent Appeal
On the day of judgment, Jesus will come to the place
where you have just died according to Saint John Eudes. He will
ask you what you did with the information you just read above.
Divine Providence has placed this book in your hands, and
Almighty God desires you to do something with it. If you agree,
then your course is clear, join with Jesus Christ and His vicar on
Earth in the Ark of Salvation and carry forward. If you disagree,
then you have a responsibility to prove where the reasoning
above contradicts the Divine and Catholic Faith. Jesus says: “He
that is not with me is against Me.”337 Now many will read this
out of curiosity and stay in their easy chair and do nothing.
These want to be members of the Church Comfortable. To these,
Jesus said: “He who gathereth not with Me, scattereth.”338 On the
Day of Judgment (Dies Irae)339 those who agree will more likely
be saved, and even those who disagree and do something about
it have a chance to be saved, but the broadminded and
indifferent have no chance of salvation. In Apocalypse we are
warned: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I
would thou wert cold or hot. But because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my
mouth.”340
We must ask ourselves why God placed this book in our
hands now and what He expects us to do about it. This book will
raise up two classes of warriors. Those who fight with Jesus for
the exaltation of the Catholic Church and those who fight
against the Catholic Church, which army will you join?
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More Information
In order to join with the Catholic Church, Pope Michael
requires all to be baptized and submit proof of Baptism to his
office in exile at:
Vatican In Exile
Box 74
Delia, KS 66418-9792
USA
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Professions of Faith
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the authority of the Roman Pontiff, that when he shall decide a
matter it is forever closed. I accept the laws of the Church as the
Church interprets them and reject any interpretation that
contradicts the interpretation of the Church. I submit fully to
Pope Michael I, Successor of Saint Peter.
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Explanation of the Profession of Faith Prescribed by
Pope Michael
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Profession of Faith of Trent
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Lord, and that they are necessary for the salvation of the human
race, although it is not necessary for each individual to receive
them all. I acknowledge that the seven Sacraments are: Baptism,
Baptism,
Confirmation,
Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction,
Unction, Holy
Orders, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of
the seven, Baptism,
Baptism, Confirmation,
Confirmation, and Holy Orders cannot be
repeated without committing a sacrilege. I also accept and
acknowledge the customary and approved rites of the Catholic
Church in the solemn administration of these Sacraments. I
embrace and accept each and every article on original sin and
justification declared and defined in the most holy Council of
Trent.”349
“I likewise profess that in the Mass a true, proper and
propitiatory sacrifice is offered to God on behalf of the living
and the dead, and that the Body and Blood together with the
soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is truly, really, and
substantially present in the most holy sacrament of the
Eucharist, and that there is a change of the whole substance of
the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine
into Blood; and this change the Catholic Church calls
transubstantiation. I also profess that the whole and entire
Christ and a true sacrament is received under each separate
species.”350
“I firmly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the
souls detained there are helped by the prayers of the faithful. I
likewise hold that the saints reigning together with Christ
should be honored and invoked, that they offer prayers to God
on our behalf, and that their relics should be venerated. I firmly
assert that images of Christ, of the Mother of God ever Virgin,
and of the other saints should be owned and kept, and that due
honor and veneration should be given to them. I affirm that the
power of indulgences was left in the keeping of the Church by
Christ, and that the use of indulgences is very beneficial to
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Christians.” 351
“I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Roman
Church as the mother and teacher of all churches; and I promise
and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff, vicar of Christ
and successor of Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.”352
“I unhesitatingly accept and profess all the doctrines
(especially those concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff
and his infallible teaching authority), handed down, defined and
explained by the sacred canons and the ecumenical councils and
especially those of this most holy Council of Trent (and by the
ecumenical Vatican Council).
Council). And at the same time I condemn,
reject, and anathematize everything that is contrary to those
propositions, and all heresies without exception that have been
condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the Church. I,
__________, promise, vow, and swear that, with God's help, I
shall most constantly hold and profess this true Catholic faith,
outside which no one can be saved and which I now freely
profess and truly hold. With the help of God, I shall profess it
whole and unblemished to my dying breath; and, To the best of
my ability, I shall see to it that my subjects or those entrusted to
me by virtue of my office hold it, teach it, and preach it. So help
me God and His holy Gospel.”353
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Oath Against the Errors of Modernism
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the inclination of the morally educated will, but a real assent of
the intellect to the truth received from outside through the ear,
whereby we believe that the things said, testified and revealed
by the personal God, our Creator and Lord, are true, on account
of the authority of God, who is supremely truthful.
I also submit myself with due reverence, and
wholeheartedly join in all condemnations, declarations and
prescriptions contained in the encyclical Pascendi and in the
decree Lamentabili,
Lamentabili, mainly those concerning the so-called
history of dogmas.
Likewise I reprove the error of those who affirm that the
faith proposed by the Church can be repugnant to history, and
that the Catholic dogmas, in the way they are understood now,
cannot accord with the truer origins of the Christian religion. I
also condemn and reject the opinion of those who say that the
more learned Christian has a two-fold personality, one of the
believer and the other of the historian, as if it would be lawful
for the historian to uphold views which are in contradiction
with the faith of the believer, or to lay down propositions from
which it would follow that the dogmas are false or doubtful, as
long as these dogmas were not directly denied. I likewise
reprove the method of judging and interpreting Holy Scripture
which consists in ignoring the tradition of the Church, the
analogy of faith and the rulings of the Apostolic See, following
the opinions of rationalists, and not only unlawfully but
recklessly upholding the critique of the text as the only and
supreme rule.
Besides, I reject the opinion of those who maintain that
whoever teaches theological history, or writes about these
matters, has to set aside beforehand any preconceived opinion
regarding the supernatural origin of Catholic tradition, as well
as the divine promise of a help for the perpetual preservation of
each one of the revealed truths; and that, besides, the writings
of each of the Fathers should be interpreted only by the
principles of science, leaving aside all sacred authority, and with
the freedom of judgment wherewith any secular monument is
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usually studied.
Lastly, I profess myself in everything totally averse to the
error whereby modernists hold that there is nothing divine in
sacred tradition, or, what is much worse, that there is, but in a
pantheistic sense; so that nothing remains there but the bare
and simple fact to be equated to the common facts of history,
namely, some men who through their work, skill and ingenuity,
continue in subsequent ages the school started by Christ and his
apostles. Therefore I most firmly retain the faith of the Fathers,
and will retain it up to the last gasp of my life, regarding the
unwavering charisma of the truth, which exists, has existed and
will always exist in the succession of bishops from the Apostles;
not so that what is maintained is what may appear better or
more suitably adapted to the culture of each age, but so that the
absolute and unchangeable truth preached by the Apostles from
the beginning may never be believed or understood otherwise.
All these things I pledge myself to keep faithfully,
integrally and sincerely, and to watch over them without fail,
never moving away from them whether in teaching or in any
way by word or in writing. Thus do I promise, thus do I swear, so
help me God, etc.
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Appendices
The following documents are provided to support the
information above, because they are not readily available or the
version readily available has deficiencies. All are referred to
above and the references can be found in the Index at the end of
this work.
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Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio
The Bull of Pope Paul IV Against Heretics
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from the fold; lest we should seem like dumb dogs unwilling to
bark and be compared to bad husbandmen and mercenaries.
§2. Having had mature deliberation with our venerable
brethren the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, by their
advice and unanimous assent, approve and renew, by our
Apostolic authority, all and singular sentences, censures and
penalties of excommunication, suspension, and interdict,
privation, and every other such sentence made by every one of
the Roman Pontiffs our predecessors, and held and received as
such by their Extravagants, or ordained by the sacred councils
received by the Church of God, or by the decrees and statutes of
the holy Fathers, and Apostolic Canons, constitutions and
ordinances against heretics and Schismatics,
Schismatics, and ordain that
they shall be perpetually observed, and out to be, and shall be
renewed in all their freshness if they have fallen into disuse.
Also (we decree) that all persons whatsoever who shall be found
or confess or be convicted as guilty of having deviated from the
Catholic faith, or fallen into any heresy,
heresy, or to have incurred,
executed or committed any schism, or who (which God of his
mercy forbid) shall in future wander from the faith, fall into
heresy,
heresy, or incur the guilt of schism, or shall be found or confess
or be convicted to have done so, of whatever state, degree,
order, condition and preeminence he may be, even if he shall be
distinguished by Episcopal, Archepiscopal, Patriarchal,
Primatial, or any other greater dignities of the Church, or the
Cardinalitial or Legatine authority, or by any worldly dignity as
those of Count, baron, Marquis, Duke, King, or Emperor, all and
every of these we will and decree shall incur the aforesaid
sentences, censures and pains.
§3 And, furthermore, considering that it is meet that
those who do not abstain from such evils from the love of virtue,
should be deterred from them by the fear of punishment, and
that Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals, Legates, Counts, etc., Kings
and Emperors, who ought to teach and be a good example to
others that they may be retained in the Catholic faith, sin more
grievously than others inasmuch as they not only lose
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themselves, but draw down with them innumerable peoples
confided to their care and government into perdition and the pit
of destruction, by the same advice and assent and by this
constitution of perpetual validity, in hatred of so great a crime,
than which none can be greater in the Church of God or more
pernicious, in the plenitude of our power, we sanction, decree,
declare, and define that while all the aforesaid sentences,
censures, etc. shall remain in their force and efficacy, and be
carried out in their result, all and singular Bishops, etc…Dukes,
Kings and Emperors who hitherto shall be found, confess or be
convicted of deviating from the faith, of falling into heresy or of
incurring, exciting or committing a schism…since in this they
are the more inexcusable than others, beyond the sentences,
censures and penalties aforesaid, shall ipso facto without any
process of law or proof of fact, be deprived of their orders,
cathedrals, churches, cardinalitial and legatine honors…and of
their dignities as Counts, Barons, Marquises, Dukes, Kings and
Emperors, altogether and absolutely, and shall be in future held
to be disqualified and incapable, and shall be deemed as relapsed
and condemned in everything and by all means, even if they
shall have previously publicly abjured their heresy nor shall
they be ever restored to their previous state, or redintegrated or
rehabilated in their bishoprics, etc…Duchies, Kingdoms, and
Empires. Nay further they shall be left to the will of the secular
power to be punished with due severity; unless, in the case of
worthy proofs of a true repentance being found in them and the
fruits thereof, through the benignity and clemency of this See, it
may see fit to relegate them to some monastery or other place of
regular monks, to carry on a perpetual penance in the bread of
sorrow and water of affliction; and they shall be held, treated
and reputed by all of every condition as relapsed persons, and as
such shall be avoided and deprived of all human consolations.
§4 And all who claim the rights of patronage and of
nominating fit persons for cathedral, metropolitical and
patriarchal churches or other ecclesiastical benefices vacant by
reason of the privation aforesaid (in order that such churches
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may not be exposed to disadvantage from a prolonged vacancy
but may be redeemed from the slavery of heretics, and granted
to fit persons who may faithfully lead the people in the paths of
righteousness) shall be bound to present to such churches, etc.,
other fit persons within the period assigned by law or by
concordats or compacts entered into with our said See, either by
ourselves or by the Roman Pontiff at the time existing, in
respect of such presentation; otherwise, such time having
elapsed, the full and free disposition of the said benefices shall
devolve to us or to the said Roman Pontiff in full right.
§5 And further, those who shall in any way knowingly
presume to receive, defend, favor, or give credit to persons thus
taken, confessed, or convicted, or to propagate their doctrines,
shall incur the sentence of excommunication ipso facto, and
shall be accounted infamous, nor shall they be admitted by
voice, or person, writings, representatives, or proctors to public
or private offices or councils, synods, general or provincial
Councils, nor to the Conclave of Cardinals, nor any congregation
of the faithful, nor to the election of anyone, nor to give
evidence; they shall be unable to make a will or to inherit under
a will, nor shall any be compelled to respond to them in regard
to any matter of business. But if perchance they should happen
to be judges, their sentences shall be null and void, nor shall any
causes be brought to their hearing; if they should be advocates,
their advocacy shall not be admitted; if writers, the documents
drawn up by them shall be of none effect or authority. And
furthermore, the clergy shall be deprived ipso facto of all and
singular churches, dignities and offices ecclesiastical, however
they may be qualified for them, if they are obtained in any form
from such persons; and both they and the laity, however
qualified and endowed with any of the said dignities whatever,
shall be deprived ipso facto of the kingdoms, dukedoms,
dominions, feuds; and temporal goods possessed by them; and
their kingdoms, dukedoms, dominions, feuds, and all their goods
whatsoever shall be confiscated, and shall become the right and
property of those who shall first occupy them, provided they
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remain in the sincere faith and unity of the Holy Roman Church,
and in the obedience of ourselves, and of our canonical
appointed successors.
§6 We add moreover that if at any time it shall appear
that any Bishop even if he assert for himself the rank of
Archbishop, Patriarch, Primate, or Cardinal of the aforesaid
Roman Church, or legate, or even Roman Pontiff before his
promotion or assumption into the Cardinalate or
Pontificate, shall have deviated from the Catholic faith or
have fallen into any heresy,heresy, or incurred, excited or
committed any schism, his promotion or assumption even
made in full concord and with the unanimous consent of all
the Cardinals, shall be null, abrogated, and void, nor shall
be called or become valid even by the reception of the grace
of consecration nor the subsequent possession of
government and administration, nor even by the
enthronization or adoration of the elected person as Roman
Pontiff or the universal obedience rendered to him for how
long a period soever. Nor shall he be held legitimate in any
form, nor be deemed capable of giving or be held to have given
any authority of administration in things spiritual or temporal
to any person promoted to bishoprics, etc., or assumed to the
Cardinalate or to the Roman Pontificate. But all and everything
said, done, acted and administered by persons thus chosen and
all things resulting therefrom shall be without force, and no
firmness or legal right shall be assigned to them; and those who
are thus promoted and assumed shall without any authoritative
declaration be deprived of every dignity, place, honor, title,
office and power.
§7 And it shall be lawful for all who are thus promoted
and assumed, if they have not deviated from the faith, nor
become heretics, nor incurred, excited, nor committed a schism,
and to their dependents, both secular and regular, clergy and
laity, and even to the Cardinals, who have been present at the
election of such Pontiff who has previously deviated from the
faith or become heretical or schismatical,
schismatical, or have otherwise
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consented to his election and given him obedience and
adoration, and are bound to such promoted persons by homage
or oath or caution…to recede with immunity from the obedience
and devotion to those thus promoted or assumed, and to avoid
them as ethnics, publicans and heresiarchs those who are
released from such obedience remaining nevertheless bound to
give fidelity and obedience to the future Bishops, Archbishops,
Patriarchs, Primates, and Cardinals, and to the Roman Pontiff
canonically elected. And for the greater confusion of those thus
(unlawfully) promoted and assumed, should they wish to
continue their government and administration, it shall be lawful
to invoke the secular arm against them, and those who
withdraw from their obedience by reason of the circumstances
already described, shall not be liable to any punishment by
censure or otherwise, as rending the seamless robe of Christ.
§8 And this notwithstanding all constitutions and
ordinances Apostolic, privileges, indults and letters Apostolic…
even given motu proprio, Ex certa scientia, and in the plenitude
of Apostolic power; or granted consistorially or in any other
form whatever; though they may have been approved and
renewed many times over, and incorporated in the body of the
law. Notwithstanding also any capitulars of the conclave
however ratified by oath or Apostolic confirmation,
confirmation, and sworn
to by ourselves. All the above constitutions by these presents,
(assuming the contents to be here expressed and inserted word
for word) we ratify in all points, except only in this instance, in
which we expressly and specially derogate from them, and in all
things whatever which are not contrary to this exception.
§9 And that this letter may become known to all whom it
concerns, we will that it, or a copy of it subscribed by the hand
of a notary public, and sealed by some dignitary of the Church,
(to which copy we will that full credit shall be given,) shall be
published and affixed on the doors of the Basilica of the Prince
of the Apostles in the City, and of the Apostolic Chancery, and at
the entrance of the Campo di Fiora, by some of our Cursors, and
that the affixing such copy and the proof of it being so affixed,
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shall suffice and be held as a solemn and legal publication, and
that none other shall be required or expected.
§10 Let it therefore be legal for no one to infringe or
rashly to attempt to contravene this instrument of our
approbation, innovation, sanction, statute, derogation, will and
decree. If however anyone shall presume to make such attempt,
let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God,
and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Given at Rome, at Saint Peter's, in the year of our Lord's
incarnation, 1558, on the 15th of the Kalends of March (February
14th), in the fourth year of our Pontificate.
(Signed) BARENGUS
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Insauratio Liturgica
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Catechism of the Council of Trent
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January 1970 Notice From Rome
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May 1970 Notice from Rome
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major is set up between the universality of Adam's sin and the
universality of Christ's grace: Therefore, just as sin came into
the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so
death spread to all because all have sinned (after the insertion of
verses 13 and 14, the comparison continues) But the free gift is
not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one
man's trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the
free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for
the many. Let us note: all those of the first part become the
many (with an article) of the second part. Just as sin affects all,
or rather much more, so also grace is destined for all.
Mark 10:45 = Matthew 20:28 has Jesus' words: “the Son of
Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a
ransom for many.” That for many ambiguous in itself, in fact is
to be understood as for all, all, proven by what we read in 1
Timothy 2:6: “Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all.”
But even if we didn't have this authoritative
interpretation, that for many' nonetheless should certainly be
understood as for all because the coming of Jesus (“He came in
order to give...”) is explicitly carried out for the purpose which
can abundantly be shown to have as its object the whole world,
i.e. the human race as a whole.
John 1:29: “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world!”
John 3:16,17: “For God so loved the world that he gave his
only Son, so that everyone who believes in him...may have
eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to
condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved
through him.”
1 John 2:2: “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and
not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”
1 John 4:14: “And we have seen and do testify that the
Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.”
1 Timothy 4:10: “...We have our hope set on the living
God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who
believe.”
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These texts, however, have the Eucharist itself in view:
John 6:33: “For the bread of God is that which comes
down from Heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:51: “The bread that I will give for the life of the
world is my flesh.”
Given all this, it can indeed rightly be asked, not so much
what the words pro multis in the consecration mean, but rather
given all this evidence, why pro omnibus is not explicitly said.
In response, it seems that
1) in the primitive Palestinian Church, considering both
their soteriology and their Semitic mind set, there was no
misunderstanding that had to be avoided by employing the
formula pro omnibus.
omnibus. They could freely keep the traditional
pro multis because those Christians sensed and marveled at the
beauty of that original formula pro multis.
multis.
2) pro multis seems to have been used by Jesus himself,
because evoking the memory of Chapter 53 of Isaiah about the
Servant of Yahweh who sacrifices himself, it is suggested that
Jesus would fulfill what was predicted about the Servant of
Yahweh. The main text is Isaiah 53:11b-12: “The righteous one,
my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their
iniquities. Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured
out himself to death...; yet he bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.”
Therefore the formula pro multis instead of pro
omnibus in our texts (Mark 10:45 = Matthew 20:28; Mark 14:24 =
Matthew 26:28) seems to be due to the desired allusion to the
Servant of Yahweh whose work Jesus carried out by his death.
This brings us now to another question: Why therefore in
our liturgical version this venerable original pro multis should
yield to the phrase pro omnibus?
omnibus? I respond: because of a certain
accidental but true inconvenience: the phrase for many -- as it
is said -- in our minds (not forewarned) excludes that
universality of the redemptive work which for the Semitic mind
could be and certainly was connoted in that phrase because of
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the theological context. However, the allusion to the theology of
the Servant of Yahweh, however eloquent for the ancients,
among us is clear only to the experts.
But if on the other hand it is said that the phrase for all
also has its own inconvenience, because for some it might
suggest that all will actually be saved, the danger of such an
erroneous understanding is estimated to hardly exist among
Catholics.
Besides, the change which the words of the consecration
underwent was not unique nor the first. For the traditional Latin
text already combines the Lucan text pro vobis with the phrase
of Mark and Matthew pro multis.
multis. And that is not the first
change. For already the liturgy of the early Church (Mark-
Matthew) seems to have adjusted the saying over the chalice to
the formula pronounced over the bread. For originally that
formula of the chalice according to Paul (1 Corinthians 11:25)
and Luke (22:20) was: “This cup that is poured out for you is the
new covenant in my blood.” -- a formula which was excellent
perhaps in depth, but not really in clarity.
It is clear how the Church of the Apostles was not
interested in preserving the very voice of the Lord even in the
words of the consecration, certainly cited for the first time as
such by Jesus himself.
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Monseigneur, We Do Not Want This Peace
By Fr. Guerard des Lauriers O.P.
180
to establish fidelity to Tradition on a Mass which was innovated
in opposition to Tradition?” The incident was very vehement
and, moreover, quickly closed. On that night of 24-25th
December 1971 at the Midnight Mass, to the great joy of
everyone, you returned to the rite promulgated by Saint Pius V.
Maundy Thursday
(signed) Guerard des Lauriers O.P.
12th April 1979
for a group of the faithful who cling to tradition.
In memoriam, Maundy Thursday 3rd April 1969.
the date of the promulgation of the Novus Ordo.
(Translator).
181
Declaration of Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc
182
forbade wandering priests to say mass, unless first proving
themselves faithful and gave as its reasoning the reverence
owed to the Mass.)
3. Adorabili Eucharisti of Pius VII; Decree for the
Armenians, Council of Florence.355
4. Missale Romanum of Pius V; De defectibus formal
(found in the Missale Romanum.)
5. Auctorem Fidei of Pius VI;356 Lamentabili of Pius X;
Pascendi Domenici Gregis of Pius X.357
6. Quanta Cura of Pius IX;358 Unam Sanctam,
Sanctam, of Boniface
VIII.359
7. Canon 1322.360
8. Cum Ex Apostolatus of Paul IV; Code of Canon Law,
Canon 188, No. 4.
9. Pontificale Romanum; De Consecratione Electi in
Episcopum;
Episcopum ; “Forma Juramenti” et “Examen.“
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Index
Allah as god of Vatican II Church................................................
Church................................................70, 70, 92
Antichrist.........................
Antichrist.........................10,10, 45, 73p., 97, 99p., 102pp., 122, 137, 150
Apocalypse......................................
Apocalypse ......................................73,
73, 97p., 100, 106p., 110, 154, 184
Apocatastasis..................................................................................
Apocatastasis..................................................................................91, 91, 93
apostasy.............................................................................
apostasy.............................................................................30,
30, 40, 44, 108
Apostasy.............................................................................
Apostasy.............................................................................35p.,
35p., 109, 111
Apostolicity.........................................................................................
Apostolicity.........................................................................................146146
Appendices..........................................................................................
Appendices..........................................................................................165 165
Baltimore Catechism...................................................................
Catechism...................................................................31, 31, 187
baptism.................................................................................................
baptism.................................................................................................159
159
Baptism..................................................................
Baptism..................................................................71,71, 93p., 96, 155, 160
Catholic Action...................................................................................
Action...................................................................................131 131
CMRI..........................................................................................
CMRI..........................................................................................114p.,
114p., 124
communion of Saints.........................................................................
Saints.........................................................................156156
Communion of Saints........................................................................
Saints........................................................................129129
conclave..............................................................
conclave..............................................................46p.,
46p., 51, 53p., 139, 171
Conclave....................................................
Conclave....................................................46,46, 110, 138, 140, 151p., 169
confirmation.......................................................................................
confirmation.......................................................................................171 171
Confirmation........................................................................
Confirmation........................................................................71, 71, 160, 182
Council of Trent...
Trent...11pp.,11pp., 28, 33, 56, 73, 75, 81, 93, 133, 155, 159pp.,
174p., 182, 185p.
Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio..............................................
Officio..............................................33p.,33p., 38, 166
de Sales, Saint Francis...............................................................
Francis...............................................................104, 104, 186
des Lauriers, Bishop Guerard...........................
Guerard...........................115, 115, 118p., 138, 180p.
Dolan, Bishop Daniel..........................................................................
Daniel..........................................................................125 125
Emmerich, Anna Catherine......................................................
Catherine......................................................104, 104, 188
Extreme Unction..................................................................
Unction..................................................................72, 72, 160, 182
Feeney, Fr. Leonard..............................................................................
Leonard..............................................................................94 94
Gregory XVII.......................................................................................
XVII.......................................................................................139139
heresy....
heresy....10,
10, 21p., 30p., 33p., 38pp., 52, 54, 59p., 81p., 85p., 94, 102,
116, 156, 158, 167p., 170
Heresy..............................................................................................
Heresy..............................................................................................37,
37, 42
home alone..........................................................................................
alone..........................................................................................130
130
Home Alone.........................................................................................
Alone.........................................................................................128128
190
infallibility......................................
infallibility......................................5,5, 17, 20p., 25, 42, 82, 85, 116, 144
Infallibility..........................................................................
Infallibility..........................................................................17,17, 19, 21, 27
insauratio Liturgica...........................................................................
Liturgica...........................................................................173 173
Insauratio Liturgica...........................................................................
Liturgica...........................................................................173 173
It is the Mass that matters................................................................
matters................................................................134 134
jurisdiction...................................
jurisdiction...................................24, 24, 30, 64, 110p., 125, 144, 148, 166
Jurisdiction..........................................................................................
Jurisdiction..........................................................................................125 125
Le Floch..........................................................................................
Floch..........................................................................................21,
21, 116
Lefebvre, Archbishop Marcel... Marcel...66, 66, 72, 115pp., 121p., 124, 127, 139,
180, 185
Ligouri, Saint Alphonsus....................................................
Alphonsus....................................................49, 49, 104, 185
Lyons, Council of................................................................
of................................................................141,
141, 149, 152
magisterium..............................................................................
magisterium..............................................................................21, 21, 23, 27
Magisterium..................................................................................
Magisterium ..................................................................................20,
20, 162
Manning, Henry Edward Cardinal........ Cardinal........97, 97, 104, 111, 143p., 147, 187
Mass of John XXIII..............................................................................
XXIII ..............................................................................123
123
Mass, Indult...........................................................................
Indult...........................................................................87,87, 123, 171
Mass, Novus Ordo. Ordo . 66, 68, 75, 77pp., 83, 86, 88, 105, 113pp., 122pp.,
139, 152, 181
Mass, Tridentine....................................................
Tridentine....................................................61, 61, 78, 123, 134, 136
Mediator Dei........................................................................................
Dei........................................................................................135135
Mendez, Bishop Alfred................................................................
Alfred................................................................66, 66, 124
Meyer, Bishop Antonio de Castro.....................................
Castro.....................................66, 66, 122, 127
Modernism........................................................
Modernism........................................................59pp., 59pp., 82, 155, 162, 182
modernists...........................................................................................
modernists...........................................................................................164 164
Modernists........................................................................
Modernists........................................................................36, 36, 58, 62, 136
Montini, John the Baptist..........
Baptist..........58p., 58p., 67, 105p., 110, 123, 135p., 187
Ngo-Dihn, Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc....... Thuc.......66, 66, 119p.,
122, 124, 127, 138, 182
Notitiae.......................................................................
Notitiae.......................................................................76p.,
76p., 123, 173, 176
Office of Bishop..........................................................................
Bishop..........................................................................146, 146, 148
Pascendi..................................................................
Pascendi..................................................................36,36, 60, 136, 163, 183
Pedophile Crisis........................................................................
Crisis........................................................................5, 5, 88, 152
Pope Alexander VII........................................................................
VII........................................................................10,10, 42
Pope Benedict XIV.............................................
XIV .............................................22,
22, 48p., 140, 147, 158
Pope Clement XIII........................................................................
XIII........................................................................11, 11, 188
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Pope Gregory XII..................................................................
XII..................................................................48,48, 137, 140
Pope Leo XIII.......................................................................
XIII.......................................................................136,
136, 146, 150
Pope Michael...............................................................................
Michael...............................................................................151, 151, 184
Pope Pius XII......................................
XII......................................27,27, 30, 32, 35, 51, 53, 61, 72, 135
Pope Saint Gregory VII......................................................................
VII......................................................................186
186
Pope Urban VI...........................................................................
VI...........................................................................48p.,
48p., 140
Priests as co-consecrators in Episcopal Consecration................
Consecration................127 127
Protestants..............................................................
Protestants..............................................................52, 52, 78, 134, 145, 182
Quo Primum..........................................................................
Primum..........................................................................61, 61, 113, 182
Ratzinger, Joseph.........................................
Joseph.........................................56, 56, 83, 88, 110p., 123, 187
Roman Catechism..................................
Catechism..................................12p., 12p., 15, 28, 45, 134, 146, 175
Roncalli, Angelo.................................
Angelo.................................51pp.,51pp., 59, 62, 110, 123, 137, 188
rosary....................................................................................................
rosary....................................................................................................113
113
Rosary............................................................................
Rosary ............................................................................22,
22, 113, 128, 130
Rubricarum Instructum..........................................................
Instructum..........................................................61p., 61p., 121
sacramental bishop............................................................................
bishop ............................................................................125
125
Sacrosanctum Concilium....................................................................
Concilium....................................................................59 59
scapular................................................................................................
scapular ................................................................................................130
130
Scapular.......................................................................................
Scapular.......................................................................................128,128, 130
schismatic........................................
schismatic........................................31, 31, 37, 40, 47, 68, 81, 83, 141, 170
Schismatic.....................................................................................
Schismatic.....................................................................................32, 32, 167
Schmitz, Old Catholic Bishop Georg.......................................
Georg.......................................122, 122, 127
Schuckardt, Bishop Francis......................................................
Francis......................................................114, 114, 124
Siri, Joseph............................................................................
Joseph............................................................................51, 51, 139, 166
Society of Saint Pius V..............................................................
V..............................................................121,
121, 124
Society of Saint Pius X..............................................
X..............................................114,
114, 116, 121, 123
Steiner, Maria.....................................................................................
Maria.....................................................................................153 153
Traditionalists................................................
Traditionalists................................................116p., 116p., 119, 125, 128, 130
Trinchard, Paul...........................................................................
Paul...........................................................................125,125, 188
Vatican Council.................
Council.................21p., 21p., 26, 31, 37, 56, 73, 151, 161, 173, 186
Vatican II.....
II.....54pp.,
54pp., 58pp., 62pp., 67, 69p., 73, 82pp., 91p., 110, 116,
118, 129p., 139, 145, 149, 152, 184
Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century?...... Century?......140, 140,
152, 184
Wojtyla, Karol.............................................................
Karol.............................................................121, 121, 123, 135, 189
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