Consecration Day for the SSPX

Essential reading – given the probability of imminent excommunications of the bishops, and possibility of excommunications of EVERYONE ELSE:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/can-heretics-excommunicate-foundational

Bishop de Galarreta just recited the essential form for episcopal consecration.

Now the anointing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxwMtHGbR2w

'Something is dying with this new religion' – newly consecrated Mgr Goldade recognises what fair-weather friends denied

A number of former 'SSPX sympathisers' signalled their break-up from the SSPX, with denials of the 'new religion'.

But he names it:
https://www.wmreview.org/p/goldade-new-religion

Cardinal Fernández spotted earlier this morning

EXCOMMUNICATED – Vatican declares SSPX bishops and priests 'schismatics' and excommunicated, threatens laity

Some analysis of how this differs from 1988 (it may surprise you...) and other points:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/excommunicated-vatican-declares-sspx

After the 1988 excommunications, the District Superiors of the SSPX wrote the following in an Open Letter to Card. Gantin:

“[W]e have never wished to belong to that system which styles itself the ‘Conciliar Church,’ and which defines itself by the Novus Ordo Missæ, by indifferentist ecumenism, and by the secularisation of the whole of society.

“Yes, we have no part — nullam partem habemus — with the pantheon of religions of Assisi; our own excommunication by a decree of your Eminence or of another dicastery would be only the irrefutable proof of this.

“We would ask for nothing better than to be declared ex communione from the adulterous spirit which has blown through the Church for twenty-five years, excluded from the impious communion with unbelievers.”

And:

“To be therefore publicly associated with the sanction which strikes the six Catholic bishops, defenders of the faith in its integrity and totality, would be for us a mark of honour and a sign of orthodoxy before the faithful.

“For these faithful indeed have a strict right to know that the priests to whom they turn do not belong to the communion of a counterfeit Church”

https://www.wmreview.org/p/open-letter-superiors-sspx

Heretics REALLY can't excommunicate: More clarifications in light of SSPX excommunications

Some clarifications about a principle which seems 'too good to be true' – but is true, nonetheless.

https://www.wmreview.org/p/heretics-really-cant-excommunicate

STOP PRESS: SSPX Superior General responds to excommunications

Fr Davide Pagliarani has responded to the sanctions levelled against the SSPX.

https://www.wmreview.org/p/stop-press-sspx-superior-general

Abp. Lefebvre and the 'heretics can't excommunicate' argument

Just before the 1988 episcopal consecrations, Archbishop Lefebvre himself presented the argument which we have been proposing this week:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/abp-lefebvre-and-the-heretics-cant

It is a SCRUPLE to be concerned about censures from those whose teaching one openly states is heretical.

If there really is a problem with Fiducia Supplicans, Amoris Laetitia, the Abu Dhabi declaration, and all the rest of it, then one has no business scrupling over censures from those responsible for them. Such scruples contradict the clear light given to us by the Church.

- Can heretics excommunicate? Foundational canonical text says they cannot

- ‘Audivimus’, ‘Achatius’ and Causa XXIV: Heretics Excommunicating Catholics

- Church teaching says you can’t be excommunicated by a heretic

- Heretics REALLY can’t excommunicate: More clarifications in light of SSPX excommunications

- Abp. Lefebvre and the 'heretics can't excommunicate' argument

The good Lord wishes us to live in the light of reason, enlightened by faith and the teaching of the Church. It is not fitting for Christians to allow their lives to be governed by scruples and contradictory fears.

Tell your friends:

"Heretics, excommunicates, and those who preach heresy, are unable to excommunicate, or to declare automatic excommunications, or to condemn others as schismatics."

Deo gratias.

Proposal:

The limits of “The Truce of God” applied to online discourse.

Augusta Theodosia Drane (Mother Francis Raphael), biographer of Ss Dominic and Catherine, wrote:

"If the Church failed in putting an end to war, she did her best to mitigate its atrocities. By the Truce of God she did actually set limits to the violence of the age.

"Under this title was understood the law by which her councils forbade all men under the severest spiritual censures to carry on any hostilities public or private during certain specified seasons.

"These were, generally speaking,

• In every week from Wednesday evening to Monday morning
• From the beginning of Advent to the octave of the Epiphany, from the first day of Lent to the octave of Easter
• From the Rogation Days to the octave of Pentecost.

"A number of holy days differing in different parts were likewise included in the Truce, and during all these times it was forbidden not only to fight, but to lay waste lands and carry off cattle."

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Positively, that means online fighting would only be permitted:

• From Monday morning until Wednesday evening
• Epiphanytide, Eastertide and the time after Pentecost, excluding the Octaves
• On days that aren’t high feast days.

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Drane continues:

“Special officers with an armed force at their command were appointed to guard the observance of this sacred law, the infraction of which was regarded as an offence of the deepest dye, and those found bold enough to violate its prescriptions were held in universal reprobation."

This would be very positive too.

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Drane concludes:

“Nothing, perhaps, is more extraordinary or more admirable in history than the fact that such a law should not only be promulgated throughout Christendom, but that on the whole it should have been observed, and it speaks volumes as to the beneficent influence exercised by religion in those wild and troublous times.”

If this was the case, people might be able to say, even amidst disputes: "See how they love one another."

https://www.wmreview.org/p/why-the-kingship-of-christ-i

Mgr Guérard des Lauriers on SSPX excommunications

Shortly before his death in 1988, the French Dominican bishop reflected on the rumoured episcopal consecrations, which Archbishop Lefebvre conferred soon after.

Here is a survey of his comments:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/mgr-guerard-des-lauriers-on-sspx

False Prophets – Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Our Lord's warning requires his faithful to discern true teachers from false ones:

https://www.fathercoleridge.org/p/false-prophets-seventh-sunday-after

'Bread from their hands': Private revelation and Catholics today

Fr Reid Hennick sets out the proper place of private revelations in the life of Catholics:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/bread-from-their-hands-private-revelation

"For we must never forget that whoever holds obedience to the Apostolic See in contempt incurs the crime of idolatry..."

Pope St Gregory VII, 31 May 1076.

(Non enim a corde nostro debet excidere, quod qui Apostolicae Sedi obedire contemnit, scelus idololatriae incurrit...)

https://archive.org/details/bullarumdiplomat02cath_0/page/n111/mode/1up

Integrity Magazine Interview: No Pope since Vatican II? The 'Extended Vacancy' of the Chair of St Peter

In this interview with Stephen Kokx from Integrity, we discussed 'abductive logic', and an extended vacancy as the best explanation for the crisis in the Church.

https://www.wmreview.org/p/integrity-magazine-interview-no-pope

The Passion and the Eclipse

Following on from his article comparing the crisis in the Church with the Passion of Christ, Peregrinus now compares it with the eclipse that took place while Our Lord was on the Cross:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/the-passion-and-the-eclipse

The weekend read:

What's the best explanation for the crisis in the Church?

Abductive reasoning shows us that an extended vacancy is the explanation that best fits the facts of the last sixty years or so.

In fact, it is the only explanation that fits those facts:

https://www.wmreview.org/p/spotless-and-unsullied-iii

The most difficult parable of all? – Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Why on earth does Christ hold up a worldly trickster in this parable?

https://www.fathercoleridge.org/p/the-most-difficult-parable-of-all

The Church’s teaching on suicide: Everything you need to know

What does the Catholic Church teach about suicide – and why?

(Resources for people who need help within.)
https://www.wmreview.org/p/the-churchs-teaching-on-suicide-everything