If there were no Mass to attend, would you attend
a Hindu service to fulfill your Sunday obligation?
If you say, “I’m a Catholic and in union with Catholics throughout time, believing
the same doctrines and attending the same Mass passed down through Tradition,”
you certainly are not a “Conciliar Catholic.” Conciliars accept the
Council’s changes (Vatican II) and the Novus Ordo Missae (New Order
Mass.) How have others responded to the changes? The following descriptions of
positions and societies are intended as an overview to generally define the
terms used in this publication.
Conciliar Church or New Church
There are several terms that are used to describe those who accept the new
mass. The most common is “Conciliar.” Each term focuses on a particular trait of that new religion. Conciliar Church focuses on the council that
established the changes: Vatican II. New Church focuses on the departure from the historical Catholic Church
(and the remnant Church of today.) Novus Ordo Church focuses
on the new mass instituted by Paul 6 in 1969.
FSSP
Within the broad class of “Traditionalists” are those who attend “Indult”
Masses, and those of societies (that despite their disdain, have signed
agreements acknowledging the New Mass as valid and licit) like the Fraternal
Society of St. Peter (FSSP).
SSPX
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) acknowledge Vatican II popes as valid in
some sense, while railing against their un-Catholic acts and beliefs. In a
recent interview, [with John Grasmeier, Angelqueen.org, 10/05] SSPX
Bishop Richard Williamson said, “The SSPX exists only for Tradition. What is
important is not that Catholics should feel warm about the SSPX, but that they
should believe what the Catholic Church has always believed, and that they
should understand – not an easy thing to understand! – how that belief excludes
any acceptance of the new humanistic religion included and promoted in the new
rite of Mass of Paul VI, and in the 16 Decrees of the Second Vatican Council.”
In answer to another question he adds: “Neo-modernist Rome in particular
creates rumors of three of the four being ready to be nice to ‘Rome’, while
only one (who shall remain nameless) insists upon being nasty to ‘Rome’. To all
friends of the SSPX, I am happy to say that there is no such division as ‘Rome’
wants to believe, or create. All four bishops believe in Catholicism, and
disbelieve in ‘Rome’s’ Conciliarism, ie. the new globalist religion that burst
onto the Catholic Church with Vatican II.”
Sedevacantism
Sede vacante
(Latin for vacant
see) is the term used between the death of one pope and the election of
another, or interregnum. “Sedevacantist” is used now to designate people who
believe that no pope has been validly elected. Most sedevacantists regard Pope
Pius XII as the last reigning pope.
Like most traditionalists, sedevacantists reject the changes of the Second
Vatican Council (1962-1965). Sedevacantists reject the council in part because
of its teachings on religious liberty and ecumenism, which contradict the
traditional teaching of the Church as Christ’s one true religion. In addition,
they reject the New Mass. Sedevacantists cite doctors of the Church, who insist
that a valid pope cannot promulgate heresy, since a heretic is not a Catholic.
Further, Pope Paul IV’s 1559 Bull Cum ex apostolatus officio stipulates
that a heretic cannot be elected Pope. This bull qualifies under the Vatican I
definition of dogma. In addition, Canon 188.4 of the pre-Conciliar (1917) Code
of Canon Law provides that a cleric who publicly defects from the Catholic
faith automatically loses any office that he holds in the Church.
Is Benedict a good man; is he as holy as leaders of other religions? These
questions are extraneous to the sedevacantist position.
Important incidentals bearing on their conclusions: Paul VI refused to wear
the papal tiara, selling the symbol of papal authority; John Paul I, John Paul
II, and Benedict XVI abandoned the papal coronation; and all four men declined
to take the papal oath.
A number of priests under Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (founder of SSPX)
embraced the sedevacantist position including those now known as the Society of
St. Pius V (SSPV.) Priests of various societies including the Congregation of
Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI, Superior General, Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas)
and independent priests alike hold
the sedevacante position. A list of known sedevacantist bishops includes many
throughout the U.S., Canada, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Bolivia, and South
Africa, and priests more widely spread.
Conclavists or Post-Sedevacantists are those who have attempted to elect a
pope who would be valid. There have been numerous very doubtful elections
resulting from the desperate hope to fill the vacant See. One such “conclave”
elected Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher as Pius XIII in Montana.
Mysticalists are men who claim to be pope. Moreover, they claim they were not elected, but
were appointed through some supernatural figure. An incomplete list includes:
The late Clemente Domingues y Gomez in Seville as Gregory XVII; Julius Tischler
as Peter II in Germany; Maurice Archieri as Peter II, France; Aime Baudet aka
“Peter II”, Brussels, Belgium; Peter Henry Bubois aka "Peter II",
Canada, etc.
Sirists claim that Giuseppe Cardinal Siri was elected pope in the Conclave of 1958
and in the Conclave of 1963 taking the name Pope Gregory XVII, but was forced
under duress to resign. Counter to this
position are the facts that show Cardinal Siri in full cooperation with the
Modernist Church.
Home-Aloners reject the validity of traditional Catholic
priests and bishops except those ordained by bishops of Pope Pius XII, and therefore
practice all possible aspects of their Faith at “home alone” especially relying
on the Rosary. (Of course there are
other Catholics who would attend Masses of at least one of the traditional
societies, but have none available. These also are home-aloners.)
Feeneyists or Nulla Salists: Believe “extra
ecclesiam nulla salis” (EENS, outside the Church no salvation) but reject
baptism of desire. Proponents accept the heretical teachings of Fr. Leonard
Feeney, S.J., M.I.C.M. Rejection of BOD
and the heresy of Americanism, are distinguishing marks, which, they claim
(despite evidense to the contrary,) indicate the only Faithful Catholics.
Western Orthodoxy is a movement of Catholics disaffected by the
“Vatican II Reforms” that have abandoned Catholicism for Greek Orthodoxy, or
other eastern religions.
Continuing Anglicanism- Catholics and Anglicans combining
together against the growing modernism in their churches.
For more
info/sources:
wikipedia.com
sedevacantist.com
traditionalmass.org
dailycatholic.org
wandea.org.pl/sedevacacntism.html
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