Archive for May, 2011

Benedict XVI promotes the rights of all religions?

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Benedict XVI’s May 16, 2011 Address to Latin-rite Indian bishops: “The Christian life in such societies always demands honesty and sincerity about one’s own beliefs, and respect for those of one’s neighbor… as Indian Christians strive to live in peace and harmony with their neighbours of other beliefs, your prudent leadership will be crucial in the civil and moral task of working to safeguard the fundamental human rights of freedom of religion and freedom of worship. As you know, these rights are based upon the common dignity of all human beings and are recognized throughout the concert of nations. The Catholic Church strives to promote these rights for all religions throughout the world. I encourage you, therefore, to work patiently to establish the common ground necessary for the harmonious enjoyment of these basic rights in your communities. Even if he encounters opposition, the Christian’s own charity and forbearance should serve to convince others of the rightness of religious tolerance, from which the followers of all religions stand to gain.”

It is without question that we post comments from conciliar popes which are problematic in light of the truth and the teachings of the Church. The so-called rights for all religions don’t exist. It is a make-believe fantasy which masks itself with the colorful manifestation of peace and tolerance, that which is for the common good of people and society.

Such fantasy or deception is an insanity as taught by previous popes.

“completion of thy ministry” equivalent to “ministry of the High Priesthood”

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

It is often argued that the new rite of ordination of bishop lacks the essential idea to constitute the making of a bishop, but when we read the whole prayer of ordination in usage since 1968, we see that is not the case.

Here’s why.

A recent commentary by a person suggests to us that: “the sedevacantist thesis will fall, (not that the Conciliar popes will not be condemned or Vatican II cannot be revoked), but sedevacantism is a matter of private judgment that is fallible, because it’s based on non-credible sources. But you know what, if I had lived during the Borgia papacy and witnessed the corruption of Rome and in the hierarchy, I would have been a sedevacantist too.
 
Believe me, it pains me to see what has happened since the 60’s and I really believe either we are heading toward the final end or there will be a restoration, but not the one envisioned by sedevacantist.
 
My concern with this is to show that Paul VI could have been mistaken on the essential form for the new rite of episcopal ordination. A sedevacantist told me distinctively that he agrees that the latter part of the whole form of the new rite of ordination of bishop would constitute as an equivalent for the order of bishop (the ministry of the high priesthood), when it says “Serving you night and day, may he fulfill before you without reproach the ministry of the High Priesthood;”. This has been the particular translation used for many dioceses since the change by Paul VI. BUT, he [the sedevacantist] says that it is not what Paul VI has declared as the essential form, the bare minimum. Ridiculous.

That is without a doubt the same equivalent of “fulfill in thy priest the completion of thy ministry… raiment of all glory”. Notice “raiment of all glory” is a literary abstraction.
 
And we are told that the whole rite of the traditional form is necessary. I agree, and so is the whole of the new rite.
 
I believe one day, the new pope, or anyone who will ascend will make the necessary correction from what was believed by Paul VI to what I have shown as the essential form (bare minimum) for validity. When you look at the whole of the new rite of prayer of ordination of bishop, it’s very beautiful and clear. The essential form cited by Paul VI would have endowed (implicitly) the power in context with the preceding prayer request for the “power flowing from the horn of priestly grace” which is the literal translation of the source of the fullness of the priesthood. The form of Paul VI gives explicitly the idea of the source of power, so the latter part would have confirmed it.”