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CHAP TER III

Con clu sion to Book II

The ad her ents of the nom i nally Cath o lic but ma te ri ally he ret i cal Conciliar Church do not wish to see any cri sis, any state of ne ces sityin the Church, be cause that would im pose on their dead ened con -sciences the un pleas ant task of re nounc ing their sin ful ad her ence tothe Novus Ordo and their he ret i cal at tach ment to the doc trinal nov el -ties of Vat i can II.60 With the blind ers stu di ously kept in place, Fr.Achacoso ex presses his agree ment with the po si tion that theso-called case of ne ces sity has been in ten tion ally fab ri cated byMons. Lefebvre in or der to main tain an at ti tude of di vi sion withinthe Cath o lic Church. Fr. Achacoso ma li ciously imag ines that Arch -bishop Lefebvres state ment, We have deemed it our duty to op pose the spirit of Vat i can II and the re forms in spired by it ..., is an ex plic -itly stated re jec tion of pa pal au thor ity, thus dis play ing the hard nessof heart so typ i cal of the hard-core Conciliar her e tic.

It is the po si tion of the Tra di tion al ists to whole heart edly ad here tothe tra di tional teach ing and lit urgy of the Cath o lic Church as the Cath -o lic Faith de mands to up hold the unity of the Church by pre serv ingthe bonds of the unity of faith, the unity of sac ra ments and the unity ofec cle si as ti cal gov er nance that have been un der mined by the Coun ciland its re forms. This can only be ac com plished by dis obe di ence to theun law ful Conciliar and post-conciliar doc trinal and li tur gi cal re forms. Such dis obe di ence can not be con sid ered sin ful since, as Car di nalNewman ex plains, If a man is sin cerely con vinced that what his su -pe rior com mands is dis pleas ing to God, he is not bound to obey.61

The his tory of the Church, ex plains Fa ther Fernando Areas Rifan,gives sev eral ex am ples of saints who, in or der to re main faith ful,have re sisted Church au thor i ties who were wrong. Thus St.Godefroy of Amiens, St. Hughes of Grenoble and Guy of Vienne

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(who later be came Pope Calixtus II), wrote to Pope Pascal II whowas wa ver ing con cern ing the in ves ti tures: If what we ab so lutelydo not be lieve, you would choose an other way and would Godfor bid re fuse to con firm the de ci sions of our pa ter nity, you wouldforce us away from obey ing you (Bouix, Tract. de Papa, t. II, p.650).62

The whited sepulchres that con sti tute the ma jor ity of theConciliar hi er ar chy sim ply do not wish to aban don their new re li -gion, or even ad mit that it is a new re li gion.63 This is why they do notsee any state of ne ces sity in the Church. Like the Lu ther ans and An -gli cans, the hier archs of the Conciliar Church see no need to re turnto Cath o lic Tra di tion. They be lieve in re li gious lib erty, they be lievein Ecu me nism, they be lieve that one can be saved by an other re li gion they do not be lieve in the Old Re li gion into which most of themwere bap tised be fore the Coun cil. They have lost the Faith.

Let them con sider the so ber warn ing of St. John Chrysostom:

I do not speak rashly, but as I feel and think. I do notthink that many bish ops are saved, but that those whoper ish are far more nu mer ous. The rea son is that theof fice re quires a great soul. For there are many thingsto make a priest swerve from rec ti tude, and he re quiresgreat vig i lance on ev ery side.

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NOTES TO BOOK II1. James A. Coriden, Thomas J. Green, Don ald E. Heintschel; THE CODE OF

CANON LAW, A Text and Com men tary, Com mis sioned by THE CANONLAW SO CI ETY OF AMER ICA, p. 548.

2. It is dif fi cult to de ter mine pre cisely when an in di vid ual or group is guilty ofapos tasy, her esy, or schism ac cord ing to law ... In any event, ju rid i cal cer taintyabout the ex is tence and imputability of such of fences pre sup poses a care ful in -quiry into the per ti nent facts. Ibid, p. 920.

3. Fe lix Cappello, Summa Iuris Canonici, Vol. II, Pars II, Ca put II, Articulus II deexcommunicationibus speciali modo reservatis Ap. Sedi. p. 193.

4. Ibid., p. 193.5. Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum, Rome, Gre go rian Univ. 1937, Vol. II, p. 398.6. The Tridentine Pro fes sion of Faith sol emnly is sued by Pope Pius IV in 1564,

states:I most stead fastly ad mit and em brace Ap os tolic and Ec cle si as ti cal

Tra di tions and all other ob ser vances and con sti tu tions of the said Church...

I also re ceive and ad mit the re ceived and ap proved rites of the Cath o -lic Church used in the sol emn ad min is tra tion of the ... sac ra ments.

7. De Fide, disp. IX, sect. 1, n. 15.8. Cappello, op. cit., p. 193 inobedientia rem ipsam prceptam, non autem im -

pe rium sive auctoritatem respiceret.9. Dominicus Prmmer, Manuale Theologi Moralis, vol. II, p. 457; St. Thomas,

Summa Theol., II - II, q. 104, a. 5, q. 105, a. 2.10. Schismatici non solum sunt Grci non-uniti, Veteres Catholici, sed etiam illi

baptizati, qui pertinaciter recu sant obdientiam Romano Pontifici in quan tumest ca put Ecclesi ... (Prmmer, Vol. III, p. 364) and sim i larlyRegatillo-Zalba: Schisma, negatio subiectionis Romano Pontifici ut capitisup remo Ecclesi Christi ... Theologiae Moralis Summa, vol. III, p. 946.

11. ... schisma autem per se opponitur unitati ecclesiastic caritatis. Et ideo sicutfi des et caritas sunt divers virtutes, quamvis quicumque caret fide, careatcaritate; ita etiam schisma et hrisis sunt diversa vitia...et hoc est quod S.Hieronymus dicit: Inter schisma et hresim hoc interesse arbitror, quodhresis perversum dogma habet, schisma ab Ecclesia separat. St.Thomas, Summa Theol., II-II, q. 12, a. 1 ad 3.

12. Coriden, et al., op. cit. p. 128.13. Ibid., p. 129.14 It is not the con se cra tion of a bishop which cre ates the schism ... even if it is a

grave faux pas against the dis ci pline of the Church; what makes the schism afact, is to give the bishop an ap os tolic mis sion.

For this usur pa tion of the pow ers of the Sov er eign Pon tiff proves that onehas cre ated a par al lel Church. (Ques tion de Droit ou de confiance, LHommeNou veau, 17 Feb. 1988.)

15. La Repubblica, Oc to ber 7, 1988.16. Ibid.17. Omnes a christiana fide apostatae et omnes et singuli haeretici aut schismatici

... Yincurrunt ipso facto excommunicationem. (CIC 1917, c. 2314, 1, 1.)

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18. Episcopus aliquem consecrans in Episcopum, episcopi vel, locoEpiscoporum, presbyteri assistentes, et qui consecrationem recepit sineapostolico mandato con tra presciptum can. 953, ipso iure suspensi sunt, donecSedes Apostolica eos dispensaverit. (can. 2370)

19. In the above-cited in ter view given by Car di nal Castillo Lara, His Em i nencepointed out that schism is a crime against the unity of the Church, whereas an -other sec tion of the Code deals with the of fence of un author ised epis co pal con -se cra tion.

20. Fur ther more, one must bear in mind that it per tains to the very es sence of a lawor ju rid i cal act that those sub ject to the rul ing must be clearly spec i fied. Theref er ence to the Schism does not make any such clear spec i fi ca tion, but onlyspeaks of the move ment of Arch bishop Lefebvre, and hence is de fec tive inwhat re gards the very es sence of a ju rid i cal act. The o retically con sid ered, if the Pope had ac tu ally made a rul ing, the ref er ence to the schis matic act in theafore men tioned Motu Proprio men tion ing by name the six bish ops in volved inthe un author ised epis co pal con se cra tions, in ac cord with the prin ci ple odiosasunt restringenda, ac cord ing to which the strict est and nar row est lit eral ap pli -ca tion must be made, the ref er ences to schism would not le git i mately be able tobe ap plied to any one be yond the six bish ops named therein. Hence, the Law ofthe Church would not al low the at tri bu tion of the term schism in this par tic u -lar ref er ence to ex tend be yond the six bish ops named in the doc u ment. (Canon18: Laws which es tab lish a pen alty or re strict the free ex er cise of rights orwhich con tain an ex cep tion to the law are sub ject to a strict in ter pre ta tion.)

21. cf. Vat i can Coun cil I, Dog matic Con sti tu tion Dei Filius, 3 (DB 1792); Vat i canCoun cil II, Dog matic Con sti tu tion Lu men Gentium, 25; Code of Canon Law,cann. 749, 750.

22. Car di nal Castillo Lara, in La Repubblica, Oct. 7, 1988.23. T.C.G. Glover, Schism and Arch bishop Lefebvre.24. Count Neri Capponi is a re cently re tired pro fes sor of Canon Law and a canon

law yer ac cred ited to ar gue cases be fore the Sa cred Ro man Rota.25. Church Law, Jar gon Free; An In ter view with Count Neri Capponi, in The Latin

Mass Mag a zine, May-June, 1993.26. Schismatici non solum sunt Graeci non-uniti, Veteres Catholici, sed etiam illi

baptizati, qui pertinaciter recu sant oboedientiam Romano Pontifici in quan tum est ca put Ecclesiae ... (Prmmer, Vol. III, p. 364) and sim i larlyRegatillo-Zalba: Schisma, negatio subiectionis Romano Pontifici ut capitisup remo Ecclesi Christi ... Theologiae Moralis Summa, vol. III, p. 946.

27. Let ter of the Ap os tolic Pro-Nuncio Mons. Cacciavillan com mu ni cat ing the rul -ing of the Holy Of fice (June 28, 1993).

28. Permanentia vel publica sect adhsio, etsi sine adscriptione; ostendendofactis vel se ad sectam pertinere vel illam sibi placere; v. gr., conventibus sectinterveniendo, eius doctrinam vel statuta defendendo, sectam promovendo.(Regatillo-Zalba, Theologiae Moralis Summa, vol. III, p. 947.)

29. Ed ward Car di nal Cassidy, Pres i dent of the Pon tif i cal Coun cil for the Pro mo -tion of Chris tian Unity, in an of fi cial let ter (Prot. N. 2336/94) dated May 3rd,1994, de clared: I would point out at once that the Di rec tory on Ecu me nism isnot con cerned with the So ci ety of St. Pius X. The sit u a tion of the mem bers ofthis So ci ety is an in ter nal mat ter of the Cath o lic Church. The So ci ety is notan other Church or Ecclesial Com mu nity in the mean ing used in the Di rec -

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tory.30. This is the ex pres sion used by Paul VI in his gen eral au di ence of No vem ber 19,

1969. It is a clear ad mis sion that the Novus Ordo lit urgy is some thing more than a mere re vi sion of the Ro man Rite of Mass.

31. Since the Nor ma tive mass, now re in tro duced and im posed as the NovusOrdo Missae, was in sub stance re jected by the Synod of Bishops, was neversub mit ted to the col le gial judge ment of the Epis co pal con fer ences, and sincethe peo ple least of all in mis sion lands have never asked for any re form ofthe Holy Mass what so ever, one fails to com pre hend the mo tives be hind thenew leg is la tion which over throws a tra di tion un changed in the Church sincethe Fourth and Fifth cen tu ries, as the Ap os tolic Con sti tu tion it self ac knowl -edges. As no pop u lar de mand ex ists to sup port this re form, it ap pears de void ofany log i cal grounds to jus tify it and make it ac cept able to the Cath o lic peo ple.(from the Crit i cal Study pre sented to Pope Paul VI by Car di nals Ottaviani andBacci)

32. Canon 28 ... un less it makes ex press men tion of cen te nary or im me mo rialcus toms, a law does not re voke them, nor does a uni ver sal law re voke par tic u -lar cus toms.

33. Coun cil of Trent, Ses sion VII, Canon XIII.34. Pope St. Ste phen I (254-257): Let them in no vate in noth ing, but keep the tra di -

tions.35. Let all ev ery where adopt and ob serve what has been handed down by the Holy

Ro man Church, the Mother and Teacher of the other churches, and let Massesnot be sung or read ac cord ing to any other for mula than that of this Mis sal pub -lished by Us.

36. Si quis dixerit, receptos et approbatos Ecclesi catholic ritus in sollemnisacramentorum administratione adhiberi consuetos aut contemni, aut sinepeccato a ministris pro libito ommitti, aut in novos alios per quemcumqueecclesiarum pastorem mutari posse: anath ema sit. Ses sion VII Canon XIII.

If any one shall say that the re ceived and ap proved rites of the Cath o licChurch ac cus tomed to be used in the sol emn ad min is tra tion of the sac ra mentsmay be dis dained or omit ted by the min is ter with out sin and at plea sure, or maybe changed to other new ones by any pas tor of the churches whom so ever: lethim be anath ema.

37. Pope Paul VI, Nov. 19, 1969.38. The Ca non i cal Sta tus of the Lay Faith ful As so ci ated with the Late Arch bishop

Mar cel Lefebvre and the So ci ety of St. Pius X: Are They Ex com mu ni cated asSchis matics? The por tion of this work which I have quoted was pub lished inthe Fall 1995 is sue of The Latin Mass.

39. The Latin Mass, May-June 1993, Church Law, Jar gon-Free.40. Fe lix Cappello, Summa Iuris Canonici, Vol. II, Pars II, Ca put II, Articulus II de

excommunicationibus speciali modo reservatis Ap. Sedi. p. 193.41. Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum, Rome, Gre go rian Univ. 1937, Vol. II, p. 398.42. cf. H. Noldin, De Censuris, 1940, pp. 55-56: Qui non renuens quidem subesse

capiti Ecclesi Romano Pontifici aliquid legitime praecipienti vel prohibenti,pertinaciter non obtemperet, schismaticus non est neque huic pnaeobnoxius.

43. Bouscaren and Ellis, quoted by M. Davies in his de bate with E.M. Jones.44. Cappello, op. cit., p. 193 inobedientia rem ipsam prceptam, non autem

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im pe rium sive auctoritatem respiceret.45. P. Matthus Conte a Coronata O.F.M., Institutiones Iuris Canonici ad usum

utriusque cleri et scholarum, vol. 4 De Delictis et Poenis, Tu rin and Rome,1955, p. 301. (quoted by G. Murray)

46. Schisma intelligitur perfectum et completum, quo quis renuit obedientiam S.Pontifici, non autem sim plex inobedientia nec contemptus legis particularis,nec rebellio adversus episcopum. Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach O.P.,Summa Theologiae Moralis, Vol. I, p. 598.

47. Quoted by M. Davies.48. St. Thomas, Summa Theol., II-II, q. 39, a. 1: ... peccatum schismatis proprie est

speciale peccatum ex eo quod intendit se ab unitate separare quam caritas facit... Et ideo proprie schismatici dicuntur qui propria sponte et intentione se abunitate Ecclesiae separant ...

49. Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach O.P., Ibid., p. 598.50. Alphonse Borras, Les Sanc tions dans LEglise, Paris 1990. p. 163. (quoted by G.

Murray)

51. talis inobedientia secum qu infert veram repudiationem Primatus Romani actum schismaticum efficit Ecclesia Dei [3].

52. Diekamp, Theologiae Dogmaticae Manuale, Vol. I, p. 72.53. Pesch, Praelectiones Dogmaticae, Vol. I, p. 315.54. Merkelbach, Op. cit., Vol. I, p. 601.55. 1) We have deemed it our duty to op pose the spirit of Vat i can II and the re -

forms in spired by it ...2) We feel that it is ab so lutely nec es sary to have ec cle si as ti cal au thor i ties

who share our con cerns and help to pro tect us against the spirit of Vat i can II ...3) Since our re quests have been re fused con sid er ation ... we be lieve it

pref er a ble to await a more pro pi tious time for Romes re turn to Tra di tion ...This is why we our selves will pro vide the means to con tinue the work whichProv i dence has en trusted to us ...

4) We shall con tinue to pray that the Rome of to day, in fested by mod ern -ism, will again be come Cath o lic Rome ...

56. Arch bishop Mar cel Lefebvre, An Open Let ter to Con fused Cath o lics, p. 186.57. Cir cu lar Let ter No. 8/93, Prot. No. 741/93, Dec. 8, 1993.58. obedienti opponitur 1. per excessum servilitas seu obdientia indiscreta,

quae scil. etiam in illicitis obtemperat ... [Dominicus Prmmer, ManualeTheologiae Moralis, vol. II, p. 457.]

59. De Romano Pontifici, II, 29.60. It is pre cisely be cause the tra di tional rite of Mass ex plic itly pro fesses a faith

that is rad i cally op posed to the doc trinal nov el ties of Vat i can II, that Mod ern istRome re mains so ob sti nate in its schismatical sup pres sion of the TridentineMass and in its he ret i cal at tach ment to the Novus Ordo. The Conciliar Churchis an Ec u men i cal Church. Fa ther Drmann ob serves:

The new ec u men i cal ori en ta tion is an ab so lute nov elty in the his tory ofthe Cath o lic Church and rep re sents an un de ni able break with pre-conciliardoc trine and prac tice. (p. 96)

The con cept of an ec u men i cal Church, which is gath ered around Christin a fuzzy plu ral ism of Churches and Church com mu ni ties who find in Christ their fun da men tal, though im per fect unity, sol emnly pleads ig no rance of the

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dogma of the vis i bil ity of Christs Church, which is a his tor i cal re al ity in vir tueof the Cath o lic faith (unitas fidei) and in the unity of the com mu nion of theCath o lic Church (unitas communitatis, i.e. hi er ar chi cal and li tur gi cal unity).

The new def i ni tion of the Churchs na ture by the Sec ond Vat i can Coun cil isa new dogma of the new Church, the Conciliar Church. (Karol Wojtyla,[Sign of Con tra dic tion], p. 28.) ... the Church is the sac ra ment of unity of allman kind. (Lu men Gentium 1,1) (p. 79)

The dec la ra tion Nos tra tate lays the theo log i cal foun da tion for the pathof in ter re li gious di a logue, which is the aim in view. The main idea is: thatwhich is com mon to all men leads to unity among all men. In the area of re li -gion, the motto runs: what is com mon to all re li gions leads to unity among allre li gions. Trans lated that means a one-world re li gion. (p. 145)

Thus it is only log i cal if the ec u men i cal ef forts are di rected to wards the for -mu la tion of Eucharistic lit ur gies which all Chris tians can pray to gether. Thenthe re jec tion of the Mass of St. Pius V is fully un der stand able, since the ritewas so de cid edly Cath o lic! (p. 231) cf. Fr. Johannes Drmann, Pope JohnPaul IIs Theo log i cal Jour ney to the Prayer Meet ing of Re li gions in Assisi, II/I.

61. cf. Mi chael Davies, Ap o lo gia Pro Mar cel Lefebvre, vol. I, p. 415.62. Re flec tions Con cern ing the Con se cra tions, in The An ge lus, July, 1988, p. 43.63. This new re li gion is what count less bish ops and priests all over the world, and

nearly all of the most in flu en tial theo lo gians, are pre tend ing is the Cath o licFaith as re newed by the Sec ond Vat i can Coun cil. Philip Trower, TheChurch Learned and the Re volt of the Scholars, p. 53.

... the his tor i cal turn ing point, of fi cially in tro duced into the Church sincethe Coun cil: There is pub lic talk of a new re li gion, (Eugen Biser,Glaubenswende [Freiburg i. Br. 1987]) and not only of man i fest in no va tions inthe ol ogy and lit urgy. This his tor i cal turn ing point was in the mak ing amongtheo lo gians long be fore Vat i can II, and was no where given more of fi cial sta tus, as the new re li gion of the Conciliar Church, than in Assisi un der the Popeslead er ship ...

Fr. Johannes Drmann, Pope John Paul IIs Theo log i cal Jour ney to thePrayer Meet ing of Re li gions in Assisi, II/I, An ge lus Press, 1996, p. 6-7.

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