Don’t give in to the temptation to abandon writing. You are doing a great service to God and His Church and so the Liar is attacking you. Consecrate yourself and your work to Our Lady. You are doing tremendous good. We need clear voices like yours.
An excellent post. I like how you incorporated Vatican II documents, using the good and true from that Council in a way I think God intends us to do. We can’t ignore the fact that it’s an ecumenical council, and we can choose to focus on the unchanging doctrines it restated rather than hyper-fixating on all the bad in it.
In my studies and experience, the conciliar church changed the definition of infallible to mean free from error. What people think when they hear "papal infallibility" now is not what the Vatican Council meant when they attached the criteria for it in 1870. When a pope speaks "ex cathedra", it is considered "extraordinary", and thus is undertaken to define a matter of Dogma to make it necessary for belief and irreformable. It was already presumed that what he taught was free from error.
Such was the case with the notoriously bad popes. All of the ones you cited were noted by theologians to have stellar "bullaria", or bodies of teaching. Sure, they were moral reprobates, but they taught the Catholic Faith, even to their own condemnation.
Refine your treatment of Pastor Aeturnus: the Pope is "infallible" when speaking ex cathedra, not simply preserved from error. There is a difference. Infallible means the doctrine is 1) "of Divine and Catholic Faith", 2) necessary for belief, 3) irreformable, and 4) true and free from any error.
It has been taught that the Pope is free from error in his authentic Magisterium in that what he teaches is safe to believe and will not lead souls to Hell. To believe otherwise (that popes can teach dangerous error and lead souls to Hell, as long as it is not "ex cathedra") first has been explicitly condemned by the Church, and secondly would mean the proximate rule of faith (the Pope) could lead souls to Hell, and thus the Church would have defected and the Gates of Hell prevailed.
Don’t give in to the temptation to abandon writing. You are doing a great service to God and His Church and so the Liar is attacking you. Consecrate yourself and your work to Our Lady. You are doing tremendous good. We need clear voices like yours.
An excellent post. I like how you incorporated Vatican II documents, using the good and true from that Council in a way I think God intends us to do. We can’t ignore the fact that it’s an ecumenical council, and we can choose to focus on the unchanging doctrines it restated rather than hyper-fixating on all the bad in it.
In my studies and experience, the conciliar church changed the definition of infallible to mean free from error. What people think when they hear "papal infallibility" now is not what the Vatican Council meant when they attached the criteria for it in 1870. When a pope speaks "ex cathedra", it is considered "extraordinary", and thus is undertaken to define a matter of Dogma to make it necessary for belief and irreformable. It was already presumed that what he taught was free from error.
Such was the case with the notoriously bad popes. All of the ones you cited were noted by theologians to have stellar "bullaria", or bodies of teaching. Sure, they were moral reprobates, but they taught the Catholic Faith, even to their own condemnation.
Refine your treatment of Pastor Aeturnus: the Pope is "infallible" when speaking ex cathedra, not simply preserved from error. There is a difference. Infallible means the doctrine is 1) "of Divine and Catholic Faith", 2) necessary for belief, 3) irreformable, and 4) true and free from any error.
It has been taught that the Pope is free from error in his authentic Magisterium in that what he teaches is safe to believe and will not lead souls to Hell. To believe otherwise (that popes can teach dangerous error and lead souls to Hell, as long as it is not "ex cathedra") first has been explicitly condemned by the Church, and secondly would mean the proximate rule of faith (the Pope) could lead souls to Hell, and thus the Church would have defected and the Gates of Hell prevailed.
Thank you.
"Why are you seeking the living among the dead?"
We will have something for you today or tomorrow.
Don't drink the Vatican II Council Kool Aid! Sedevacantism is God's answer!
Excellent teaching. Thank you.
Keep writing!
Semper Fortis Amigo!