Sunday, July 29, 2012

APPEAL TO BISHOP MULLER TO ACCEPT VATICAN COUNCIL II

We must appeal to Bishop Gerhard Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican (CDF) to please accept Vatican Council II and so end the tension with the Society of St.Pius X ( SSPX).

There must be an interpretation of Vatican Council II with reference texts, in accord with Tradition and without irrational theories. There cannot be a Vatican Council II which claims the dead are visible and saved in invincible ignorance or a good conscience .Neither can there be a Council which throws away a centuries old teaching which Pope Pius XII called ‘the dogma’, the ‘infallible’ teaching  (Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949).

This is the Vatican Council II unfortunately of Bishop Gerhard Muller and Archbishop Di Noia who are rejecting the Vatican Council II of the SSPX , which according to the SSPX communique (July 19) is traditional, in accord with the ‘uninterrupted magisterium’, without novelties and reaffirming the dogma outside the church no salvation.

The ‘uninterrupted magisterium’ is different from the present day magisterium of Bishop Muller and the Vatican Curia which teaches errors like 1) Jews do not have to convert (this is contrary to the Bible especially the Gospel of John) and that 2) we can see people dead in Heaven who are now on earth and are exceptions to the dogma on salvation. This is irrational. This has not been the teaching of the ‘constant magisterium’.Neither is it the teaching of Vatican Council II interpreted traditionally -interpreted according to the SSPX .

The SSPX has accepted Vatican Council II in accord with Tradition and has rejected the liberal version

The SSPX has accepted Vatican Council II in accord with the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam (1) in harmony with Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II. They have endorsed Vatican Council II according to Sacred Tradition. They can also cite reference texts for their doctrinal position from Vatican Council II.

They have rejected, as in the past, the liberal version of Vatican Council (2) whose adherents cannot cite any texts to support their interpretation which is a break, a rupture with tradition and other magisterial documents.

The SSPX is finally in a position to point out to their adversaries that there can be only interpretation of the Council which can be supported by tradition.In this one interpretation AG 7 supports the dogma on exclusive salvation and LG 16 and LG 8 etc are not known exceptions to the dogma.

The SSPX has stated clearly that they affirm ‘ faith in the Roman Catholic Church, the only Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation and no possibility of finding the means that lead to it’.

There is no salvation outside the Church (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441, Vatican Council II (AG 7) etc) and that outside the Church there is even ‘no possibility of finding the means that lead to it’ i.e those saved in invincible ignorance , a good conscience are accepted as possibilities known only to God and not possibilities which contradict the dogma on salvation.Since these possibilities are not explicit for us. They are unknown to us humans.

As for the liberal interpretation of Vatican Council II which is a rupture from the past the SSPX rejects ‘ all the novelties of the Second Vatican Council that remain tainted with errors’ e.g theology of religions etc which are opposed by Vatican Council II (AG 7).

They accept the Council and ‘the Society can only continue to abide by the statements and teachings of the 'constant magisteriumof the Church;’ which is in agreement with the Council in accord with Tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. The SSPX ‘ finds its guide in this uninterrupted Magisterium which, by its act of teaching, transmits the revealed deposit in perfect harmony with all that the whole Church has always believed, in every place’ and which is in agreement with Vatican Council II.-Lionel Andrades

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This is why its seems to us opportune to reaffirm our faith in the Roman Catholic Church, the only Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation and no possibility of finding the means that lead to it; in its monarchical constitution, willed by Our Lord, which means that the supreme power of governance over the whole Church belongs to the pope alone, the Vicar of Christ on earth; in the universal kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the creator of the natural and supernatural order, to whom every human being and all society must submit. -SSPX Communique July 19,2012 (emphasis added)

2.
As for all the novelties of the Second Vatican Council that remain tainted with errors, and as for the reforms that have resulted from them, the Society can only continue to abide by the statements and teachings of the constant Magisterium of the Church; it finds its guide in this uninterrupted Magisterium which, by its act of teaching, transmits the revealed deposit in perfect harmony with all that the whole Church has always believed, in every place. -SSPX Communique July 19, 2012