It is quite baffling
that many people still think that Novus Ordo/Vatican II religion is indeed the
Catholic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ and they ask me to stop ‘attacking the
church’ and submit to Francis as pope! Oh Come on! To submit to a false
religion and an agent of the Devil is IMPOSSIBLE is I wish to save my soul!
Whenever I get this
call, I feel so sad and angry at a go! Sad that normal people are yet to
discover the Catholic truths and angry that people are willfully allowing
themselves to be manipulated by the Devil and his agents!
Now the great Bishop
Sanborn, one of the few remaining true catholic bishops, was also invited to
return to Novus Ordo religion!
His friend invited him
to come back to the ‘church’ and submit to Francis.
Bishop Sanborn has
given a worth-reading response to this friend and we wonder what that friend
will feel now. Bishop Sanborn’s response is called Ecclesiastical Materialism!
Ecclesiastical
Materialism
Introduction: From
the title, one might expect that I would be writing about avarice among the
clergy. I am not addressing that at all, however.
Recently I received
from an old friend, who is a Novus Ordo conservative, a note in which he
invited me to come back “to Rome — and the true Church — outside of which there
is no salvation.”
His invitation,
although made with all good intentions, nevertheless prompted me to write this
response. What he means is that I should give up my repudiation of Vatican II
and its subsequent reforms, submit to the local bishop, and be somehow
“regularized” within the structures of the Novus Ordo.
First response. My
first response is the following. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that there
is one true Church of Christ, and only one, which is the Roman Catholic Church.
The Novus Ordo teaches that the Church of Christ merely “subsists in” the
Catholic Church. (Lumen Gentium) The Roman Catholic Church teaches that outside
of the Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation. The Novus Ordo teaches that
outside the Roman Catholic Church there is salvation, namely that
non-Catholic religions are means of salvation. (Decree on Ecumenism, Catechesi
Tradendæ of John Paul II) The Roman Catholic Church condemns religious
liberty. The Novus Ordo teaches religious liberty. (Decree on Religious Liberty)
The Roman Catholic Church condemns the idea that the college of bishops has
supreme jurisdiction over the whole Church. The Novus Ordo teaches this
condemned doctrine, known as collegiality. (Lumen Gentium) The Roman Catholic
Church condemns adultery and fornication in all cases. The Novus Ordo teaches
that these are morally acceptable in certain cases. (Amoris Lætitia) The Roman
Catholic Church condemns as a mortal sin of sacrilege the giving the Holy
Eucharist to non- Catholics. The Novus Ordo approves of it. (1983 Code of Canon
Law) The Roman Catholic Church condemns the use of birth control devices as
mortally sinful and intrinsically evil. The Novus Ordo permits birth control
devices for prostitutes. (Ratzinger, “Benedict XVI,” in a published
interview)
What I have responded
above is only a smattering of the myriad dogmatic, moral, liturgical, and
disciplinary contradictions between the Roman Catholic Church and what we call
the Novus Ordo. We could provide the endless list of heresies and blasphemies
of Bergoglio. But these things are well known.
The four marks of the
Church.
I will add to this first response the four marks of the Church.
(1) The Roman Catholic Church is one in faith, that is, in order to be
Catholic all must profess the same dogmatic and moral teachings which are
taught by the Roman Catholic Church. The Novus Ordo has no unity of faith, and
as we have seen, has no continuity with the Catholic past in any of the
essential aspects of the Church’s unity. (2) The Roman Catholic Church is
catholic, that is, universal, since it preaches a single doctrine to the whole
world. Since the Novus Ordo lacks unity in doctrine, and lacks continuity with
the Church’s past in matters of doctrine, it cannot have the mark of
catholicity. For catholicity presupposes unity. (3) The Roman Catholic Church
is holy. The Novus Ordo is unholy, because it condones evil disciplines,
preaches condemned doctrines and heresies, leads people into error and sin, and
promotes the evil New Mass, promotes abominable ecumenical acts with
non-Catholic religions, and condones sacrilegious liturgical practices. (4) The
Roman Catholic Church is apostolic. The Novus Ordo has abandoned apostolic
doctrine and discipline, and teaches and does what is contrary to this sacred
apostolic deposit.
Come back to what? My
friend’s invitation makes it sound as if the Catholic religion is intact in the
institutions he wants me to embrace. It is as if it is the year 1950, and that
I have wandered off into schism because of my pride. If this were true, I would
return immediately.
But there is an elephant in the room. The elephant is this:
The Novus Ordo is innovation, is heresy, is alien to the religion revealed by
God and taught by the Roman Catholic Church. It is as much a break with the
past as the heresy of Martin Luther was.
What is different, however, between
Martin Luther and the Novus Ordo? There is this significant difference: Martin
Luther was excommunicated and subsequently founded his own church. The
Novus Ordites have never been excommunicated, and have never founded their own
church. This difference is the key to understanding the present problems in the
Catholic Church.
Ecclesiastical
materialism. Now I will explain ecclesiastical materialism. The Roman
Catholic Church has a visible aspect and an invisible aspect. What is visible
is the external profession of faith, the administration of the sacraments, and
the visible government. What is invisible is the grace and assistance of the
Holy Ghost which infuses the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, the authority
to govern, and the indelible character on the soul in Baptism, Confirmation,
and Holy Orders. The Holy Ghost, furthermore, assists the Church by an
invisible influence in its promulgation of doctrine, morals, liturgy, and
discipline, in such a way that these things are free from error. It is this
invisible assistance which guarantees the infallibility and indefectibility of
the Church.
All of these qualities
are invisible, but are nonetheless what make the Catholic Church the one, true
Church of Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation. These invisible
qualities have made the Catholic Church for two thousand years the unchanging,
permanent, always consistent and coherent institution of divine truth in a
sinful, ignorant, and ever-fluctuating world.
Even the administration
of the sacraments has an external and internal aspect. The external aspect is
the visible rite itself. The internal aspect is the validity of the sacrament,
whereby it confers the grace it signifies. It is therefore possible that the
external rite be observed and administered, even though, through some internal
and invisible defect, the sacrament is not valid.
In our discussion here,
we are saying that what is left of the authority of the Church in the Novus
Ordo is merely the material or visible aspect of authority,
that is, persons designated to receive authority. What is lacking to them is
the divine authority, and the divine assistance which necessarily
accompanies it.
Body and soul. Just
as the soul is the life of the body, so it is authority which gives life, so to
speak, to the person who is designated to be pope or bishop. It is to say that
a mere election or appointment is not sufficient. The authority must come to
him from Christ, the Invisible Head of the Church, in order that he be a true
pope or a true bishop. This authority is transferred only on condition that the
designated person have the intention of promoting the objective and proper ends
of the institution over which he is placed. It is for this reason that
the president-elect of the United States does not obtain power in November when
he is merely elected, but in January when he is inaugurated, and only on
condition of swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States. He must
swear that he intends to lead the country to its objective and proper ends.
Were he to fail to so swear, he would fail to obtain the power, and would
remain a president-elect, a president only materially, until such time as the
Congress removed the election from him.
What has happened to
the Church since 1958. What we are facing in the Novus Ordo is this:
Modernists, by remaining secretive for decades, managed to obtain by the normal
and legal process of appointment and designation, a position in the Church to
which authority is normally connected. So John XXIII was elected pope in 1958.
By a defect, however, the authority, which is invisible and which is
given by Christ the Head of the Church, was never transferred to John XXIII and
his successors. What was this defect? It is that they intended to pervert
the Church, and to lead it in a direction contrary to its nature and purpose
given to it by God. In a word, they wanted to transform the structures and
institutions of the Roman Catholic Church into a huge vehicle of their
Modernism. This evil intention is what has blocked the flow of authority
from Christ into them. Without this authority they remain non-popes, false
popes. The bishops who have embraced this perversion of Catholicism are also
false bishops for the same reason.
That the authority of
Christ and the assistance of the Holy Ghost are lacking can be seen from the
Hiroshima effect of Vatican II. The Novus Ordo religion — essentially Modernism
— has wrecked all of the institutions of the Catholic Church. What is left is
only a lifeless shell of these institutions. There are the same physical
buildings. There are the same institutions of government. There is still a
functioning Vatican. There is still a diocesan bishop. There is still a
chancery. There are pastors appointed.
There are functioning parishes. There
are rectors of seminaries, the few that are left.
What we are seeing
here, however, is merely a carcass of the Church’s authority. It is something
like a dead whale which has washed up on the shore. These institutions, both
the buildings and the government, constitute, from a purely material and
visible point a view, a continuity with the past. Internally and invisibly,
however, they are full of doctrinal, moral, liturgical, and disciplinary
corruption. The stench of death rises from them, that is, the stench of heresy
and all of its effects. Everything is infected with gangrene: the Mass, the
rites of the sacraments, the catechism, doctrine, morals, attitudes. We see the
effects of this infection, as well, in the emptying of the seminaries, convents
and religious houses of all kinds, in the breathtaking decline of religious
belief and practice, especially among the young, in the nauseating and
disgusting conduct of the clergy, even to the point of sodomitic orgies in the
Vatican, enhanced with both drugs and liquor, which recently took place, and
was reported in the major newspapers, e.g., the London Times.
The Novus Ordo popes,
consequently, are mere “cadavers” of real popes, inasmuch as they sit in the
chair of Peter, wear the uniform of a pope, but have no power from Christ to
teach, rule and sanctify in His name.
My second response. My
second response, therefore, is that the Novus Ordo conservatives are ecclesiastical
materialists. They can see only the continuity of lifeless institutions from
pre- to post- Vatican II, and from that they conclude that salvation consists
in adhering to these lifeless institutions. They see only the material side of
the Church, its visible side, and turn a blind eye to the absence of the
invisibles of the Church, especially the assistance of the Holy Ghost in
keeping the Church free from error and defection.
The Novus Ordo religion
is one big error and defection. The fact that error and defection can be found
in it is an infallible sign that the invisible assistance of the Holy Ghost is
not with the Modernist “popes” and “bishops.” They have no authority to rule,
no matter if they are maintaining the buildings and governmental institutions
of the Church.
An analogy. To
illustrate my point, I will make an analogy to a hijacked airplane. Imagine a
scene in which terrorists, who have come through the ranks of the airline as
uniformed, licensed, and authorized pilots, one day show their true colors by
announcing that the airplane will be flown into the side of a building. They
slit the throats of anyone who tries to stop them.
From the outside, the
plane is flying as normal. Inside there is chaos, terror, and horror.
The Novus Ordo
conservative could be compared to the passenger who would say: “For as long as
we are still flying, and the pilots are authorized and uniformed pilots, and
the airline logo is still on the plane, there is nothing to fear.”
The sedevacantists are
those who have done something to stop the evil pilots, and who have had the
common sense to declare that if the pilots intend the ruination of the aircraft
and its passengers, they do not have the authority to pilot the plane. These
sedevacantists are considered “extreme” and “misled” by the passengers who are
consoled — indeed blinded — by the purely external signs of the normal
functioning of the plane. These are the Novus Ordo conservatives.
A carcass of authority. The
Novus Ordo conservative looks merely at the carcass of authority and
government, which is really the only thing left intact since Vatican II, and
from it concludes to the identity of the pre- and post-Vatican II religion. He
fails to understand that if the invisible qualities of the Church do not vivify
the visible institutions of the Church, then these institutions are dead in the
practical order.
The Catholic Church, as
the Church founded by Christ and assisted by the Spirit of Truth, always
retains these institutions of the papacy and episcopacy and her faithful are
always attached to them. Therefore in this present hijacking of these
institutions, the Church does not lose her power to teach, to rule, and to
sanctify, for these pertain to her divine constitution. Just as the solution to
the hijacked airline is to wrest the control of the aircraft from those who
would pervert its function and destination, so the solution for the Church is
to wrest control of these sacred institutions from the
Modernists so that once again
the government of the Church may function normally.
In order to wrest
control, however, it is first necessary to identify the hijacker and to
proclaim what is common sense: that he who intends the destruction of the
aircraft and its passengers does not have the authority to pilot the
aircraft. Likewise the Modernist, though sitting in a papal or episcopal
throne, does not have the authority to pilot the Church.
The worst thing anyone
could do in such a case is to reassure Catholics that because we find these
Modernists sitting in the papal throne or episcopal throne, then for that
reason they must have the authority to rule the Church. It is as absurd as to
say that because the hijacking pilots are seated in the cockpit, they have the
authority to pilot the plane and we must obey them.
The Novus Ordo
conservative, in remaining loyal to the Modernist “authorities,” stymies and
paralyzes a proper and efficacious reaction to the problem in the Church. He
invites everyone to rally to the Modernists, and to spurn and condemn the
sedevacantists as schismatics. If the four Novus Ordo cardinals who presented
the Dubiato Francis had the courage to declare him a non-pope, for reason
of heresy, the Catholic Church would be on the road to recovery. Instead, they
were careful to tell Francis that they were not sedevacantists. Cardinal Burke,
one of the Dubia cardinals, stated in an interview in December that
if Francis were a public heretic, he would no longer be the pope.
Leave Rome? Who has
left Rome? It is not to leave Rome, the one true Church, to be faithful to
Catholic doctrine, liturgy and discipline. It is not to leave Rome to denounce
as Modernism, the worst heresy to assail the Church according to Saint Pius X,
the aberrations of Vatican II in doctrine, liturgy, and discipline. It is not
to leave Rome to declare that those who deviate from the true faith cannot rule
the Catholic Church.
It is to leave Rome,
however, to embrace the new religion of Vatican II, and to associate with the
authority of Christ those who have devastated, in a matter of fifty-nine
years, counting from 1958, the magnificent Catholic Church, built up for
centuries by true popes and bishops with the assistance of the Spirit of Truth.
For Rome is the Church, and the Church is the Faith.
All of these
discussions always revert to a single question: Do the reforms of Vatican II
constitute a new religion, different from the Catholic religion? If they do,
then the position of the sedevacantists is correct. For it is impossible that
the Church, assisted by the Holy Ghost, could promulgate to the whole world a
false religion. If, on the other hand, they do not constitute a new religion,
if indeed there is continuity of true doctrine, liturgy and discipline, then
the sedevacantist is wrong and the Novus Ordo conservative is right. So it is
pointless to talk about anything else unless this single burning question is
answered.
Presented
by Malachy Mary Igwilo, Feast of Finding the Body of St. Stephen, 3rd
August 2017
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