Heresy of the Week
By
Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B.
Introductory Note: * A Heretic is a baptized person
who rejects an authoritative teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. A schismatic is a person who refuses communion
with a true Pope or refuses communion with true Catholics. An apostate is a person who rejects the
Christian faith completely. All
heretics, schismatics and apostates sever themselves
from the Catholic Church automatically (Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943). Therefore, if one is a heretic he is not a
Catholic (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum,
June 29, 1896). And most heretics
convince themselves that they are not denying any dogma when they actually
are. The Heresy of the Week changes every
Friday. (All emphasis, such as bolding,
underlining, and italicization is not necessarily that of the quoted author.)
For this Week
(11/25/05):
The Debate is Over; False Traditionalists lose: Paul VI ends a very popular and significant
false traditionalist myth, as well as refuting recent declarations by Ferrara
and Matt
Chris
Ferrara is at it again. One might think
that after being refuted so many times he might remain silent. No, he just keeps spewing his falsehoods; and
so we will keep refuting them. This week
Ferrara repeats a myth very near and dear to the hearts of the false
traditionalists: the idea that Paul VI never forbade the use of the Old Mass,
and never made the New Mass obligatory.
Chris Ferrara, The
Remnant, “A Challenge to the Sedevacantist
Enterprise,” Nov. 15, 2005, p. 11: “As already mentioned, even Vatican officials, including the 1984 cardinalate
commission, have conceded that the traditional Mass was never actually
abolished de jure by the promulgation
of the New Mass, and that priests have always been free to continue using
the preconciliar Missal… In essence, Paul VI
merely created a new rite alongside the old rite, leaving the old intact and
never actually forbidding its continued use.”
Well,
let’s quote Paul VI himself to explode and destroy this falsehood. I don’t believe that until today we’ve ever
gotten around to quoting this very important speech on our website. It’s a quotation that Bro. Michael came
across in his detailed study of Paul VI’s
writings. You will probably never
see it quoted in The Remnant, Catholic Family News, etc., since it is
devastating to their FALSE TRADITIONALIST ENTERPRISE. Here it is (brace yourselves false
traditionalists):
Paul VI, Address, May 24, 1976: “And the fact is all the more serious in that
the opposition of which we are speaking is not only encouraged by some priests,
but is lead by a prelate, Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre,
who nevertheless still has our respect.
“ It is so painful to take
note of this: but how can we not see in such an attitude – whatever may be
these people’s intentions – the placing of
themselves outside obedience and communion with the Successor of Peter and
therefore outside the Church? For this, unfortunately, is the logical
consequence, when, that is, it is held as preferable to disobey with the
pretext of preserving one’s faith intact, and of working in one’s way for the
preservation of the Catholic Church, while at the same time refusing to give
her effective obedience. And this is
said openly. It is even affirmed that the Second
Vatican Council is not binding: that the faith
would also be in danger because of the reforms and post-conciliar
directives, that one has the duty to disobey in order to preserve certain
traditions. What traditions? It is for this group, not the Pope, not the
College of Bishops, not the Ecumenical Council, to decide which among the
innumerable traditions must be considered as the norm of faith! As you see, Venerable Brothers, such an
attitude sets itself up as a judge of that divine will which placed Peter and
his lawful successors at the head of the Church to confirm the brethren in the
faith, and to feed the universal flock, and which established him as the
guarantor and custodian of the deposit of faith…
“The
adoption of the new Ordo Missae
is certainly not left to the free choice of priests or faithful. The instruction of 14 June 1971 has provided
for, with authorization of the Ordinary, the celebration of the Mass in the old
form only by aged and infirm priests, who offer the divine Sacrifice sine populo
[without people]. The
new Ordo was promulgated to take the place of the
old, after mature deliberation, following upon the requests of the Second
Vatican Council. In no different way did our holy
predecessor Pius V make obligatory the Missal reformed under his
authority, following the Council of Trent…
“We have called the
attention of Archbishop Lefebvre to the seriousness of his behavior, the
irregularity of his principal present initiatives, the inconsistency and often
falsity of the doctrinal positions on which he bases this behavior and these
initiatives, and the damage that accrues to the entire Church because of them.”
(L’Osservatore Romano, June 3, 1976, p. 2.)
There
you have it. Paul VI himself directly
refutes Chris Ferrara and the false traditionalists on their two main
contentions. Paul VI declares that it is
“certainly not” the “free
choice” of priests or faithful to not adopt the New Ordo
Missae. He also
denounces their assertion that the Second Vatican Council is not binding, and
he indicates that the logical consequence of the position of Lefebvre, which
rejects the New Mass and Vatican II, and operates independently of the
hierarchy it recognizes, is to place him outside the Church.
It’s
time for everyone to wake up and realize that the Vatican II sect is a
counterfeit sect from head to toe, and there is no way to salvage it or its antipopes.
Conveniently,
this refutes another UTTERLY RIDICULOUS and dishonest assertion that Michael
Matt just made in a recent article for The
Remnant. In an article entitled
“SSPX Not in Schism – Rome Has Spoken,” Michael Matt quotes “Cardinal” Castrillon Hoyos, President of
the Ecclesia Dei Commission. Matt quotes
Castrillon Hoyos who
recently asserted that the position of the SSPX is not a “formal schism,” and
that the “Mass of Saint Pius V has never been abolished.” Based on this “proof,” Matt concludes:
“[the SSPX
is not in schism… and] …Pope Paul VI never actually abrogated the Tridentine Mass! It’s still there just as it always
has been, and the “option” called the Novus Ordo Missae is just that—an option, which Catholics are free to
reject. End of story! Traditionalists win! We don’t pretend to know why Cardinal
Castrillón elected to make these statements which are
now part of the permanent record, but, clearly, the debate is over.” (The Remnant, Nov. 30, 2005)
Does
anyone fail to see that this statement is utterly absurd, dishonest and
illogical?
Does
anyone really believe that if Castrillon Hoyos had said the SSPX is
in schism The Remnant would have
published an article stating “SSPX is
in Schism – Rome has Spoken!”? Of course not. “Rome has Spoken” for Matt when he likes what
a particular Roman “prelate” has said.
He likes Castrillon Hoyos’s
statement because he thinks that it allows his schismatic buddies, the Bishops
of the SSPX, off the hook.
To
illustrate Matt’s hypocrisy, remember
that Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) stated that Protestants
and Eastern Schismatics are not heretics. He stated this while holding a position
much higher than Castrillon. So, will Michael Matt admit that “Rome has Spoken”: Protestants are not heretics; end of debate! Of course not, and
this just shows his inconsistency and dishonesty.
Does
everyone get it now? Rome only speaks
when Castrillon Hoyos
speaks, and then only when Castrillon says what Matt
likes to hear about Lefebvre or the Traditional Mass. Rome doesn’t speak when Paul VI (his “Pope”!)
says:
Paul
VI: “The adoption of the new Ordo Missae is certainly not left to the free choice of priests
or faithful. The instruction of 14
June 1971 has provided for, with authorization of the Ordinary, the celebration
of the Mass in the old form only by aged and infirm priests, who offer the
divine Sacrifice sine popolo
[without people]. The new Ordo was
promulgated to take the place of the old, after mature deliberation, following
upon the requests of the Second Vatican Council.”
And
Rome certainly doesn’t speak when Benedict XVI says that Protestants are not
heretics; no… not at all. A statement
from a Vatican prelate only constitutes Rome speaking when it tickles Matt’s
ears, and justifies the schismatic position of his friends (the leaders of the
SSPX), who operate a world-wide apostolate outside of communion with the
hierarchy they recognize, while rejecting its official teaching and solemn “canonizations,”
just to name a few.
So,
in conclusion: the debate is over, and
the false traditionalists lose. The statement from Paul VI utterly refutes
the recent declarations of both Ferrara and Matt (on Lefebvre, Vatican II, and
the New Mass) in one fell swoop. The
New Mass is the binding liturgy of the Vatican II sect. Vatican II is the binding teaching of the
Vatican II sect. If they are false, as
they certainly are, then the claims to the Papacy by the men who imposed them
(the Vatican II antipopes) are just as false.
There is no way around this fact.
All of this shows us again the inconsistency of the false traditionalist
position, which attempts to remain united with the false Church and its
manifestly heretical non-Catholic antipopes.
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