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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…
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Faith or Apostolic Authority: Which Comes First?
Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn An answer to an objection against sedevacantism. objection: Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II are legitimately elected Popes. They are in possession of apostolic succession and of apostolic authority to teach, rule, and sanctify the Church. The teaching of Vatican II, as well as the reforms promulgated…
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The Dissent of Faith
Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn Whether the papacy or non-papacy of John Paul II is a matter of opinion. Question: How do you reconcile the individual conscience of the Catholic with the necessity of holding that John Paul II is not the Pope? Are you not raising to the level of dogma something that is…
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Did Bellarmine Condemn Sedevacantism?
Rev. Anthony Cekada In debates among traditional Catholics regarding the legitimacy of the post-Conciliar popes, the following quote from St. Robert Bellarmine has been repeatedly recycled: Just as it is licit to resist the Pontiff who attacks the body, so also is it licit to resist him who attacks souls or destroys the civil order…
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Have I Rejected the Pope?
Rev. Anthony Cekada Note: In his column in an April 1992 Remnant, Michael Davies reprinted a favorable review of my recent study, The Problems with the Prayers of the Modern Mass (Rockford IL: TAN Books 1991). The editor of The Remnant, Walter Matt, appended his own commentary to the review, and stated that I have…
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Canon 188.4 or Where is the Church
Most Rev. Daniel L. Dolan, B.F. Dryden Defection from the faith and loss of office. Preface It was as an aid to my own preaching that three essays were written in the spring of 1979, explaining ,respectively, loss of office under Canon 188.4, the history and present meaning of the term anathema, and the Novus…