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09/13/2014
Infallibility is only lent to the Pope
From God through Church – else, he can be a “dope.”
Infallibility is only lent to the Pope
From God through Church – else, he can be a “dope.”
If Catholic churchmen gravely err, we may
Declare, if we are right, how far they stray.
The loss of objective truth in depth explains
The Church’s sedevac and liberal pains.
Tradition is of Popes the measuring-rod
Because it came at first only from God.
If four conditions are not all in play.
The Popes can err in what they teach or say.
The problem of sedevacantism is the problem of the modern world & too much consideration of man, too little consideration of God.
The Church’s infallible Ordinary Magisterium is to the Pope’s infallible Extraordinary Magisterium as dog is to tail, and not as tail is to dog.
Five sedevacantist arguments are answered in such a way as to suggest that none of them are binding. “In things doubtful, liberty.”
A still more detailed analysis of paragraph #7 of the Doctrinal Declaration of one year ago uncovers a terrible cunning with words.
The seventh paragraph of the Newsociety’s Doctrinal Declaration of last April equals the “hermeneutic of continuity,” which is balderdash!
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.