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Pius XII, Excommunication, and Traditional Catholic Bishops
Rev. Anthony Cekada Controversialists have sometimes invoked a 1951 decree and a 1958 encyclical of Pius XII against various traditional Catholic bishops, including those consecrated by Abp. P.M. Ngo-dinh-Thuc. The two documents excommunicated certain Chinese bishops whose consecrations the Red Chinese government had arranged in order to set up a stooge hierarchy in China…
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Abp. Thuc: A Brief Defense
Most. Rev. Daniel L. Dolan NOTE: The following comments are excerpts from a conference Bishop Dolan originally delivered in French at the École Saint-Joseph, Serre-Nerpol, Isère (France), October 17, 1999. The bishop addressed various false accusations the Society of St. Pius X had spread against him in France, including the accusation that his episcopal…
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Consecration certificate written in Abp. Thuc’s own hand
Archbishop Thuc Translation of handwritten certificate issued by Archbishop Thuc “We, Peter Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc, Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia, give notice of the following to all: on the 17th day of the month of October, in the year 1981, we conferred the episcopal rank of the Catholic Church on Father Moses Carmona Rivera, with…
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Bp. Williamson on the validity of Bp. Dolan’s consecration
Most Rev. Richard Williamson Transcript of Bp. Williamson’s letter: 10-21-93 Dear Mr. Padula, Thank you for this letter, as [well as] for the booklet by Fr. Cekada on the Thuc Consecrations, which I had seen. I think that Fr. Cekada’s arguments are good, such that I agree with him and not with Fr.…
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Letter to Bishop Bernard Fellay
Rev. Robert L. NevilleA young priest outlines his reasons for the SSPX Superior General. Your Excellency: Since the departure of several priests to the Society of St. John, I have been thinking more seriously about certain things which were never really clear in my mind. Lately I have been thinking about authority and infallibility,…
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Letter to Ten-Year-Olds Who Just Want to Be Confirmed
Rev. Anthony Cekada INTRODUCTORY NOTE: In the 1980s, the District Superior of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in the U.S., Fr. François Laisney, laid down the rule that if a child coming from a chapel operated by ex-SSPX clergy wished to wished to receive confirmation, the child would have to sign a lengthy…
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Una Cum: Mass ‘in Union with our Pope’?
Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn Naming the post-Vatican II “popes’ in the Canon of the Mass. ————— Introduction In the many discussions which have taken place over the past fifteen years about the vacancy of the papal see since the time of the Vatican II “popes,” there has always been a “bottom line” which occurs…
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Bp. Williamson’s Mentevacantist Error
Rev. Anthony Cekada Ratzinger a heretic? No, just a sick mind. The Most Rev. Richard N. Williamson, Rector of the Society of St. Pius X’s seminary in La Reja, Argentina, is, by general agreement, a colorful character. In an August 2006 interview with Stephen Heiner, later published in the SSPX publication The Angelus, His…
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An Objection to Sedevacantism: Paul VI as ‘Patriarch of the West’
Rev. Anthony Cekada Q. I have seen you contend in an article that the obvious evil of the Novus Ordo on one hand, and the Church’s infallibility in her universal disciplinary laws on the other, seen together, point toward a juridical loss of office on the part of the Paul VI and his successors. This,…
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Is Sedevacantism ‘Pope-Sifting’?
Rev. Anthony Cekada In early 1995 I published Traditionalists, Infallibility and the Pope, a short, non-polemical booklet setting forth the case for sedevacantism.[1] An explanation of the term “sedevacantism” may be in order. Traditional Catholics have tried to explain in various ways how the errors and evils of the officially-sanctioned Vatican II changes could…