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Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals - https://t.co/FlyFlrF6Up He should read the Old Testament sometime....

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Anthony, the situation on the right is NOT what's actually happening right now.

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Just released! TRADCAST EXPRESS 227: The SSPX and the 'Legitimate' Exercise of the Papacy - https://t.co/0wQ5Z3qdGW Turns out the Lefebvrists tinkered a little bit with the Catholic teaching on the Papacy....

[Fr. Gabriel Lavery @FrLavery]

@AmericanReform_ is hardly different than a Feeneyite fundamentally. Both attempt to twist the magisterium of the Church to support their own errors while in fact ignoring the actual magisterium of the Church. AR's ideas are contradicted by Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, and Pope XII.

Pius IX donated an engraved stone for the Washington monument.

Leo XIII said in his 1895 encyclical to the US Hierarchy:
"Nor, perchance did the fact which We now recall take place without some design of divine Providence. Precisely at the epoch when the American colonies, having, with Catholic aid, achieved liberty and independence, coalesced into a constitutional Republic the ecclesiastical hierarchy was happily established amongst you; and at the very time when the popular suffrage placed the great Washington at the helm of the Republic, the first bishop was set by apostolic authority over the American Church. The well-known friendship and familiar intercourse which subsisted between these two men seems to be an evidence that the United States ought to be conjoined in concord and amity with the Catholic Church."

Pius XII said in his 1939 encyclical to the US Hierarchy:
"When Pope Pius VI gave you your first Bishop in the person of the American John Carroll and set him over the See of Baltimore, small and of slight importance was the Catholic population of your land. At that time, too, the condition of the United States was so perilous that its structure and its very political unity were threatened by grave crisis. Because of the long and exhausting war the public treasury was burdened with debt, industry languished and the citizenry wearied by misfortunes was split into contending parties. This ruinous and critical state of affairs was put aright by the celebrated George Washington, famed for his courage and keen intelligence. He was a close friend of the Bishop of Baltimore. Thus the Father of His Country and the pioneer pastor of the Church in that land so dear to Us, bound together by the ties of friendship and clasping, so to speak, each the other's hand, form a picture for their descendants, a lesson to all future generations, and a proof that reverence for the Faith of Christ is a holy and established principle of the American people, seeing that it is the foundation of morality and decency, consequently the source of prosperity and progress."

AR is anything but submissive to these acts of the Vicars of Christ, because he really only seeks his own ideas. His shameful defense of slavery recently by cherry-picking quotations while ignoring others which make absolutely clear the Church's condemnation of slavery is another case in point. It's a shame that some Catholics are falling for this false intellectualism.

He follows the Thesis Cassiciacum. What else would you expect?

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"Oceans do not divide people; they connect them" - and other profound words from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on the occasion of 'Sea Sunday' - https://t.co/tQpsJNlh5e The message is entitled "Beyond Cargo and Commerce: The Human Face of the Sea".

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A sedevacantist response to George Weigel's train wreck article on the SSPX - https://t.co/ONeOKtyNd5

[Matthew Joseph @matthew_sede]

From Novus Ordo Watch:
https://t.co/rUVn5GJQhJ

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Kennedy Hall prefers to go by Cardinal Torquemada rather than Pope Pius XII: "…the Sovereign Pontiff alone enjoys the right to recognize and establish any practice touching the worship of God, to introduce and approve new rites, as also to modify those he judges to require modification" (Encyclical Mediator Dei, n. 58).

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@ReformedToRome @TLM_Ryan @johnkloess That's interesting considering the men you claim they are schismatic against promote Martin Luther https://t.co/p6wyupwPnd

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@InfoMdia When a true pope excommunicates someone, they don't excommunicate you from a false Church...

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@BigModernism https://t.co/fG5FL8iQB7

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@BigModernism Paul VI said it was part of the universal ordinary magisterium, and also that it was binding. https://t.co/RcZVSZdq7k

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@NovusOrdoWatch @tlarosa9 @kennedyhall Also https://t.co/RcZVSZdq7k

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Pope Leo XIII: “'A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, a garden enclosed, a spring sealed up'; these things, according to the teaching of the Holy Fathers, are preached in the Sacred Scriptures about the Catholic Church, the Immaculate Bride of Christ, so that she may be distinguished from the sects of infidels and heretics, and that men may know whom they ought to follow and whom to flee in the matter of eternal salvation.” (Apostolic Letter Hortus Conclusus, n. 1) https://t.co/1xy8sGUBSq Doesn't sound like the Vatican II Church, does it?

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Pope Pius IX vs. Patriarch Audu: Full Text of Encyclical ‘Quae in Patriarchatu’ in Exclusive English Translation - https://t.co/H923MVgFVf This is the first time the encyclical has been made available online in English in its entirety. It is relevant to the SSPX consecrations.

[The WM Review @TheWMReview]

Some people object to the idea of "heresy by omission" – and this objection is especially mounted by defenders of the Novus Ordo rites and the documents of Vatican II.

Fr Raffaele Pierotti OP was Master of the Sacred Palace and papal theologian under Pope Leo XIII. In 1896, the Pope assigned him the task of summarising the papers of the Papal Commission on the question of Anglican Orders. The "painstakingly fair summary" in his "Votum and Report" was essentially the final step before Pope Leo XIII issued Apostolicae Curae.

Some defenders of the validity of the Anglican rite had argued that the Anglican rite only conveyed error by omission, and that therefore a Catholic form used in such a rite would retain its Catholic meaning (and thus, they would argue, be sufficient for validity).

Here is what Fr Pierotti made of this argument:

"I must now add a few words about the replies given to this question by the defenders of validity or doubtful validity. Gasparri replied that in the new ritual heresies are not expressed positively but only negatively, and therefore the heretical doctrine of the compilers is not clearly expressed in it.

"To this I reply that there are sins both of commission and of omission, and that in order to call a rite heretical, it is not necessary that heresy be positively professed in it, when the Catholic dogma has been removed from it, nor does it follow that the dogma has to be denied.

"For example, to render the form of Baptism invalid, it is not necessary that there be in it an explicit denial of the existence or divinity of the Holy Spirit; it would be enough to omit the mention of this third divine Person, precisely in the way that the compilers of the Ordinal have acted in omitting the mention of the order or the power that is being conferred.

"By this they have said clearly enough that they do not believe in the existence of the Sacrament of Orders."

In other words, it is possible to profess heresy "negatively" by omission, as well as "positively".

This has implications for the documents of Vatican II – as @FrDesposito is arguing in thread from which the quote tweet is taken – as well as for the Novus Ordo rites themselves.

Defenders of both claim that they do not contain positive expressions of error or heresy – but even if this was conceded, the fact that the documents were composed and the rites were mutilated in order to please the world and non-Catholics is sufficient to convey the belief of those who framed them.

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With thanks to the friend who drew our attention to this document, which is found in Anglican Orders: The Documents in the Debate, p 254-5, ed. Christopher Hill & Edward Yarnold SJ, Canterbury Press, 1997, (n. 54 of the Votum and Report of Fr Pierotti)

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Damian Thompson takes this attitude because he thinks that the Faith can be had in elements: Fewer heresies are better than more, and a gorgeous vestment here can make up for a blasphemy over there. Hence he thinks Leo is better than Francis. But that's not how it works.

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Pope St. Pius X: "Do not let yourselves be deceived by the subtle declarations of others who do not cease to pretend that they wish to be with the Church, to love the Church, to fight for her so that she will not lose the masses, to work for the Church so that she will come to understand the times and so to win back the people and attach them to herself. Judge these men according to their works. If they maltreat and despise the ministers of the Church and even the Pope; if they try by every means to minimize their authority, to evade their direction, and to disregard their counsels; if they do not fear to raise the standard of rebellion, what Church are these men speaking about?" (Address Con Vera Soddisfazione, May 10, 1909) https://t.co/f7SEdvZ5st

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And yet the principle, as enunciated, is false because life is not the highest good and there are instances when life ought not to be defended but taken, such as the state administering the death penalty after a fair trial and lawful conviction.

[Holy Angels @HolyAngels93]

@sincead33 @iam_shwa Only in a nominal sense.