THE grotesque and sacrilegious idea that disobedience to the papacy can legitimize the reenactment of the solemn rituals of the Catholic Church was on full display last week in Ecône, France, where the renegade Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) — started by the charlatan Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre in 1970, after he had officially endorsed Vatican II and thereby fell from office — “consecrated” new bishops.
The alleged consecrations, which are neither valid or licit, have created a whirlwind of controversy, most of it based on false principles.
On the one side, is the head of the Vatican II Church, “Pope” Leo XIV, who embraces every heresy of Modernism condemned by true popes of the Catholic Church.
Despite his false position, Bob Prevost is correct that no one can consecrate bishops without the approval of the papacy. He is correct on principle in his “excommunication” of followers of the SSPX.
But he possesses no authority of his own. He is just a simple layman pontificating to the wind.
On the other side are the leaders of the SSPX, whom have also lost their office in the Catholic Church due to heresy and schism and who would be considered anathema by their namesake, the Holy Pontiff Pius X, despite his blazing condemnations of Modernism. These men are correct that Vatican II was not a council of the Catholic Church, but a synthesis of all heresies. They are incorrect, however, in their hypocritical and illogical recognition of the Conciliar “Popes” and hierarchy. A heretic cannot, by canon law and the constant teachings of the Magisterium, hold any office in the Church.
And so we have mass confusion, with the gullible swept into schism by the Lefebvrists, as well as by equally schismatic “sedevacantist” sects that have the audacity to simulate “consecrations” of their own “bishops” outside the authority of the Church, deceiving “the elect” as was foretold by Scripture for this the Great Tribulation. These sects openly deceive their followers, telling them it is not possible to practice the Faith without donning a lace veil or tie and entering a schismatic chapel with no legitimacy whatsoever. They never educate them about the teachings of the Council of Trent regarding Spirtual Communion and Perfect Contrition, the sacraments by desire which when sought licitly can confer more grace than the actual sacraments of the Holy Eucharist and Confession, which we do not have at this time.
“Having no one to confer the episcopate upon them, they assume the title of Bishop by their own authority. In the Psalms, the Holy Spirit describes these men as sitting on the throne of pestilence; they are pestilences and plagues to the faith, deceivers with serpent’s tongue, skillful corrupters of the truth, who spit deadly poison from their venomous fangs; whose speech spreads like a cancer; whose preaching injects a fatal virus into the hearts and breasts of all.”
— The Unity of the Catholic Church, Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
“What kind of infernal whisper directed Lefebvre to even think such blasphemy? What kind of hypnosis still afflicts his legion of followers today? If Montini was the Pope, as Lefebvre always believed, then the Novus Ordo is valid, the Montinian Rite of Ordination is valid, and the entire heretical council is dogmatic. And Montini was the Antichrist!
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As Pro Deo asserts, “Traditionalist” Catholicism only has the appearance of traditionalism.
It is held together by pride, gullibility, ignorance, and the virtue of obedience carried to an “obsessive-compulsive” extreme.
Faithful Catholics all over the world, though few in number, as was also foretold, are adhering to the Faith in the wilderness and the desert of these times, without resorting to the falsehoods of either Modernism or Traditionalism. We have a pope who rules over us, morally but not physically. He is Pope Pius XII, whose sacred legacy lives on. The Catholic Church is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic for all time and not a whirling, chaotic confusion of warring sects and congregationalist “parishes,” each adopting its own distinct spirit of rebellion.
The papacy is perpetual and we owe it absolute obedience. For without Peter, the Vicar of Christ on earth, we are nothing, nada, cooked.
Without St. Peter, who represents Christ Himself, and his lawful successors, who lasted in a continuous line of legitimate kings for almost 2,000 years by a miracle of the Holy Ghost, we would not have the Bible! (Take that, you rebellious Protestants!)
Without St. Peter, we would never have had any altars or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
Without St. Peter, no one would be calling himself a Christian today!
Without St. Peter, we would never have had the greatest civilization that ever existed, a civilization animated by charity and the pursuit of holiness, not the pursuit of material values at all costs. (Take that, you neo-pagans who think you can somehow resurrect European civilization with Odin and Thor!)
Peter is King. Peter is the immoveable center. Peter is the rock.
Without Peter, we are nothing. Outside the authority of Peter, we have no salvation. And with him we have everything. He is ever with us, ever leading us, until the glorious Second Coming of Christ. It is Peter’s holiness and, above all, his eminent humility — a humility that was on display in his deluge of self-condemning tears after he publicly denied our Lord, that we must ever keep as the standard before us. Peter was humble enough to admit his mistakes. Traditionalists, despite their seeming adherence to externals, oh-so-lack this humility. Theirs is a movement of pride and stubborn refusal to delve beneath appearances. Mitres and vestments are all it takes to deceive them.
“We declare, we say, we define, and we pronounce that submission to the Roman Pontiff is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature.”
— Bull Unam Sanctam, Pope Boniface VIII
“Whoever is not found within this ark of Noah will perish when the flood reigns: whoever does not gather with Peter, scatters; he is not of Christ, he is of the Antichrist.”
—- Saint Jerome, Epistle to Damas
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