There are good priests on the faculty of the seminary Pontifical
Maria Mater Ecclesia, Rome of the Legion of Christ. I have good memories of
being there. Also the present batch of students would also be sincere like
those at the time when I was there 20 years back ( 2002-2003).The Spirituality
and prayers at this seminary were excellent and this could be a positive aspect
for a young man who has a religious vocation. Also the priests today on the faculty, include some whom I know personally. They were compassionate and helpful. They were good pastors. Most of the priests of some 20 years back are not there and I have good memories.
OUT OF STEP WITH THE PATRISTIC PERIOD
But now for over 20 years the Legion of Christ is still teaching the
bad theology, which comes from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
and the popes.They use the common False Premise to interpret Magisterial
Documents ( Creeds and Catechism). The faculty would call it 'being in step with
the Church' or following the bishops.
But it is not being in step with the Magisterium of
the Catholic Church of the Patristic period or the time of the missionaries in the 16th
century. There is a big rupture created with the New Theology which is based upon the False Premise and is approved by the political Left in
Italy.
I remember a good priest-formator at that time, Fr.Pierre;
he had a natural way of explaining things and was fluent in many languages. He
was sincere but he had to follow the heretical theology.
MANDATUM TO TEACH BAD THEOLOGY
This was handed over to him by Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
He had no other choice if he wanted to remain a priest there at that time.The mandatum to teach theology is only given to a priest who will use the False Premise to interpret Church Documents.
So he today like the present faculty would interpret
Vatican Council II with the False and not Rational Premise and then create
alleged practical exceptions for the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX, the Athanasius
Creed and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).
They will change the understanding of the Nicene and
Apostles Creed. This is official and public as in other seminaries in Rome.
The faculty will promote this official modernism also in 2023.
But to reject the Creeds practically and in public,
by changing their original understanding, is a mortal sin of faith. In this
condition the good priests on the facility offer Holy Mass in the vernacular.
Is the Holy Mass of a priest in public mortal sin
valid? Yes for the faithful at Mass. But not affirming the traditional and
original interpretation of the Creeds is grave matter for the priest. He also
trains seminarians to do the same.
They will one day offer Holy Mass in their countries in this condition.
The public sin was the norm for the faculty members when I
was there. Three of those priests of some 20 years back are on the faculty today (2022).
The common error was the norm for the priest-librarian at that
time, a former seminarian of PIMME, who had placed in the library, all the
books written by Fr. Hans Kung sj. He told me that they were following
instructions( probably from the Vatican).
FR.KUNG MADE THE COMMON MISTAKE
Fr. Hans Kung interpreted Vatican Council II with the
Fake and not Rational Premise, as did Fr. John Courtney Murray sj, Fr.Karl
Rahner sj, and the American Jesuits. So in this way Kung created artificial ‘practical
exceptions’ for the dogma on the Infallibility of the Pope ex cathedra. Since
with the False Premise, the dogma EENS was contradicted and made obsolete. With EENS out of the way, with alleged practical exceptions, it has been asked
over the last 50 years or more, "Why should there be the proclamation of the
Social Reign of Christ the King in all politics, when Vatican Council II says
there is known salvation outside the Church ?" and ' Why should there be traditional
mission', asked Pope Benedict himself, a few years back(Avvenire). He said that with Vatican
Council II (interpreted with the False Premise) there was 'a development of
doctrine'.He meant calculated hermeneutic of discontinuity.
Kung, like the faculty at PIMME did not know that there
were two interpretations of Vatican Council II, one rational and the other
irrational.
The irrational version with the Fake Premise is not
corrected by the CDF for political reasons. It is followed by the popes and the
religious organizations.
This was not known to my Spiritual Director Fr. Andrez
Martinez L.C, a good priest, charismatic and enthusiastic. It was not known to
the seminarians at PIMME and the Rector Fr. Juan Manual Duennas l.c. Neither was
it known to Fr. Scott Hernandes, Fr. Michael Ryan l.c and Fr. Edward McNamara
L.C.
So young men even today, if they want to become a
priest would be told to reject the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS according
to Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston and pretend that there are physically visible
cases today of non Catholics saved
outside the Catholic Church with the baptism of desire and in invincible
ignorance.
I could not do this.
Since the priests could not affirm the dogma EENS I asked my bishop
if I could be dispensed with a spiritual director. He agreed.
FR.WILLIAMS NOW AT BREITBART NEWS, IN ROME
Fr. Ryan was a compassionate Irish priest and a big
help for me in many ways but the New Theology was being enforced by the Legion
of Christ at the seminary and their university, the University Pontifical
Regina Apostolorum (UPRA).The Dean of Theology at UPRA was Fr. Thomas Williams
l.c. He is now a married lay man and still interprets Vatican Council II with
the False Premise at Breitbart News in Rome. Another American priest, like
Williams, who was active in the media, and was married by Cardinal Dolan in New
York, was the Vice Rector at UPRA. The founder of the community was still alive
at that time.
They had their religious formation with the liberal
moral and faith theology of those times.
They were teaching it to the students at UPRA.Fr. Cory
Myers, who, I am told, is one of the assistant diocesan priests for an auxiliary bishop in
Chicago, USA today, was an American seminarian when I was there at PIMME. Cory would
follow the liberal moral theology which rejected mortal sin.Since it was
assumed that we could never judge the internal intent and motivation of a
person in sin and so there really was no mortal sin. This reasoning would be
condemned by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical on morals, Veritatis Splendor.Immodesty in clothes in general is a mortal sin, I would say. Cory would say it is not. The three conditions of mortal sin were never met, for him. The rejection of the dogma EENS is a mortal sin, I would say. Cory and the faculty could say it is not since EENS is contradicted by Vatican Council II( interpreted irrationally).
This was the liberal formation in faith and morals at
that time, in Rome’s Catholic and secular universities.
In spite of these limitations the faculty was
generally conservative. They opposed homosexual unions and abortions. They were
strongly pro-life. There was the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in a strong
way there.
Pastorally they were good priests. They had set a
good example for the seminarians at PIMME and students at UPRA.
WARRIORS FOR CHRIST
I always had an admiration for the Legion of Christ
seminarians, who would live in an adjacent building in the seminary, and with
whom I would meet and study in class at UPRA. They were edifying. They were
warriors for Christ. They were dedicated,intelligent and organised.They are priests today all
over the world and they must value their religious formation in Rome.
In spite of the suffering, with bad theology, and
faculty and students not wanting to affirm the politically incorrect Catholic
faith, over all, it was a good experience being there.
-Lionel Andrades
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