{"id":7566,"date":"2016-04-15T06:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:48:08","slug":"the-sspx-and-full-communion-with-francischurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=7566","title":{"rendered":"The SSPX and Full Communion with FrancisChurch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bishop Fellay is in the news this week because he’s met with Francis and continues to receive open arms and to be treated as part of the Church without the distance to which he’s grown accustomed.\u00a0 People marvel at this from a Pope who is such a liberal.\u00a0 What does swinging nuChurch Francis have to do with those stuffy, staunch, old-world separatists?<\/p>\n

Despite the new warmth, the persistently honest leader of this virtuous group of priests has responded to the FrancisOutreach by telling him his massive exhortation brought him tears.\u00a0 He said it’s like a beautiful sinking boat with a hole in the bottom dug by the Pope.\u00a0 God bless the Bishop, and I agree about it being a ship with a hole in it, though I’ve read many snippets and none of them seemed beautiful.<\/p>\n

Still, I’m afraid for Fellay as are others, and we have good reason.<\/p>\n

The SSPX group rejects the Paul VI replacement Mass and the errors in Vatican II.\u00a0 They do not support Benedict’s hermeneutic of continuity, seeing it as an impossible blanketing-over.\u00a0 Are there unCatholic messages in Vatican II?\u00a0 Yes there are.\u00a0 That Council in the end presented some new ideas which contradicted Church teaching and tradition.\u00a0 It was not convened to put forth new doctrine and no new doctrine was affirmed decisively by a Pope.\u00a0 It was ‘pastoral’ only.\u00a0 Nevertheless it has predictably spread much trouble because people take it as doctrine, especially liberals.\u00a0 Benedict recognized the break.\u00a0 He said we’re just reading things out of context and blamed the media.<\/p>\n

This has been the SSPX case when pressed by Rome to return to full communion.\u00a0 But now, in FrancisChurch, no problem!\u00a0 Here’s why this is happening.<\/p>\n

Pope’s JPII and Benedict were there at Vatican II and supported it, but they weren’t its drivers.\u00a0 Those behind Vatican II ultimately were radicals, men who did not hold the Faith and were interested in disabling it, replacing it.\u00a0 Francis is of the same mind as those men who made it necessary for the SSPX to take their stand.\u00a0 He’s not a hermeneutic of continuity guy, Francis.\u00a0 He’s all about rupture.<\/p>\n

The SSPX leadership truly seems to think Francis is simply employing his method of openness, dialogue and boosting peripheries.\u00a0 This is naive.\u00a0 Liberals only tout those corrosive platitudes as strategy.\u00a0 Radicals don’t dialogue with the Truth, only with evil and error.\u00a0 Faithful Catholics will always be a periphery to liberals, the more peripheral the better.\u00a0 Francis has no interest in promoting the growth and reception of the SSPX, so what does he want?\u00a0 There are two things.<\/p>\n

Satan can create nothing.\u00a0 He doesn’t have ultimate power over things. He can only find ‘hope’ in destruction.\u00a0 In a sense he’s a parasite because he needs a host, a victim.\u00a0 In the same way liberals would be powerless if they couldn’t hitch their wagons to good things that decent people have built.\u00a0 They have to occupy and corrupt under the pretense of stewardship and good will.\u00a0 They have to become judges, professors, actors, and scientists.\u00a0 This is what they’ve done to our Church.<\/p>\n

Today we have Francis, a man without Faith.\u00a0 He is completely in line with the philosophical school behind the sixties program that skewered the Church.\u00a0 Now he’s arrived to institutionalize the leftist replacement.\u00a0 The irony is, however, that if he can’t convince people that he’s Catholic, he’ll lose his leverage.\u00a0 He has to maintain the facade so that Catholics follow his deadly leadership.\u00a0 He, more than John Paul or Benedict, knows he needs the SSPX.<\/p>\n

Just like the LA Times understands Amoris Laetitia better than Ignatius Press, Francis knows that the SSPX is Catholic more than John Paul and Benedict did.\u00a0 Winners have an awareness and respect for their opponents.\u00a0He recognizes them as the sort of people they eliminated fifty years ago.\u00a0 He knows their beliefs have an ancient power, that they grow if not checked.\u00a0\u00a0 Nevertheless Francis needs them desperately to come and make him seem Catholic, to legitimize him<\/em> with their ‘union.’<\/p>\n

That is the first reason.\u00a0 The second reason, of course, is that he wants to ruin them.\u00a0 Ruin is what happens when you ‘unite’ with a predator.\u00a0 He can’t install his FrancisChurch with them around shining their light on it.\u00a0 The SSPX must be integrated, then hollowed out.<\/p>\n

How is Francis the liaison to broker this union?\u00a0 A Protestant is entirely incapable of performing any of the functions a pope must perform.\u00a0 Is this not true?\u00a0 Does it matter that he’s extended his approval for SSPX to hear Confessions when he’s also recommended absolving a silent penitent just for showing up?\u00a0 Do you think Oscar Romero was saintly?\u00a0 Was Paul VI blessed?\u00a0 Why for God’s sake?\u00a0 How low are we going to go in our criteria?\u00a0 We’re mass-producing.\u00a0 Before you know it Heaven will have this sprawling encampment full of FrancisSaints.\u00a0 Would you bet your soul on a new FrancisAnnulment?<\/p>\n

What will they do someday with the thousand pages of formal FrancisTeaching and those plane interviews?\u00a0 What will they say about the Catholic defenders and excusers when they’re dead?\u00a0 What will Francis have to do before some of you admit he’s not Catholic?\u00a0 Show me the line.<\/p>\n

I hear so much about embracing the true pope, receiving his teachings with profound respect, and the work of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 This is all cowardly and presumptuous.\u00a0 Deal with it!\u00a0 We have a heretic in the papacy and, in the absence of anyone exercising their faithful duty to condemn him for it or remove him, he will go on wrecking the Church and doing everything to kill it.<\/p>\n

And it won’t take long.\u00a0 This isn’t like General Motors.\u00a0 Francis isn’t a wrong-headed CEO making K-cars or PT Cruisers.\u00a0 In the Church you either build up or destroy, you gather or scatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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